Clunkmeister

Or like this?

My only question is: will it end like this?

I’m hoping that Martin’s work here may give us some ideas to at least juice it up a bit. I still have my stalled HK BOAC kite sitting on the SOD. Martin’s fearless, so let’s see what happens…

Yeah it’s barely the second time I nuked a topic, but on with life, I say.

That flying boat is amazing! I’ve seen that kit around, but never looked close. I’d love to build one in its originally intended Lufthansa colors. It sure has a low aspect ratio wing, much like the Sunderland and Sterling. What’s amazing is that several survived the war and were all scuttled or broken up. There were even a couple in the US, and despite the Smithsonian’s desire to have one of everything, they never picked one up for preservation. Did I hear right that there was one in low oxygen water around Norway that allowed it to remain pretty much perfectly preserved?

It arrived!!

I let it run a couple days, and that's it. IF you want to talk politics, please use PM or any other instant messenger service. Let's keep it off the forum. Thank You, Ernie

Has anyone ever built this kit? I looked at it last night, and the moldings don’t look too bad. I’m just not used to the super tiny parts and lack of detail that seems to exist in 72 scale.

A close friend gave me this and asked me to build his Dad’s plane, so once I’m done my present builds, I’ll knock this out, assuming I can locate a suitable Elektron Microscope suitable for viewing the subject

Yes, I see that. Crazy! I did pop a seam on the turtledeck, so fixed it along with a skim of brushed on Mr. Surfacer 500, I’ll let it cure overnight, the touch up that area tomorrow. I put some oils on paper towels to sit overnight, and will do some staining as well….

That brown has become almost white-tan in places. And the background of the cartoon tiger has always been gotten wrong by decal makers. It is inevitably portrayed in black, where in fact, after application, a varnish was applied over top, which discolored the surface and turned it dark.

Thanks, Gazz. I’m a bit out of my comfort zone with a hard edge camo and all, but hopefully I won’t bork it up

I’ll look closely at those gaps, but I have a feeling I’ll be closing them up. And I knocked an exhaust stack out of alignment cool.

That was a big mystery when it came to WNW that made me scratch my head. CSM gave us almost every single variation of the basic Nieuport XVll, so they did us all good. The G.lll is one nice kit as well, and it’s on my list of kits to build. I’d like to see the N.Xl Bébé as well, along with covering the entire SPAD line, including 2 seaters. Maybe then a Voisin bathtub would be in the works as well? WNW missed some obvious candidates as well, as they totally missed the Be.2’s, Vickers Short and Longhorns, Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter, and the universal DH.4.

It surprised me as well. But it makes sense when you look at the fact that this group was in existence for barely a year, and they used up or destroyed almost every single one of the original 100 aircraft they were issued from Camco. Plus a bunch of E’s they received in 1942. They were almost like a Flying Circus, hopping from base to base, staying just out of range of the Japanese advance. My next one I build will have to have the engine open.

This one snuck up on me. Maybe someone here announced it already, and if so, I apologize, but ooooh, this looks nice. Copper State Models is, to me, for all intents an purposes, Wingnut Wings quality.

Thanks, Peter. Some of the seams on the model are in prototypical places, and I’m taking a different approach and leaving some of them, along with toning down others. I have an idea that if I can pull it off, it’ll add to the “hard usage” look I’m aiming for. If I miss the mark, I’ll just have a decent display case model. There are a couple areas on the cowl attach area and the ammo box access panels in front of the windscreen, where, to me, a tinny bit of imperfection will be better for my goals. Same with the wing fillets where they meet the cowl. That’s a high traffic area and I’m hoping a bit of disorder there might add to it. I may be sniffing too much glue here. We’ll soon find out. I also purposely banged up the ammo box hatches on the underside of the wing as well, and left the small hinged panels on the top of the wing slightly proud in a spot or two. I’m hoping I’ll be able to pull off a bashed in and slammed shut look. If it don’t work, on with the Evergreen.

I’m like Hubert, thinking that while the P-40 dio is incredibly creative, and the technical accomplishment is truly astounding, but personally, my experience gets dimmed when I think analytically about what I’m seeing. An AVY P-40 in the ocean, with little to no ditching damage, blah blah blah. My mind just refuses to compute. But I still admire the amazing creativity needed to create this.

Constructive comments?

Here are the mixes I found. Note that to me, the grey is way off, more like traditional RAF “Sky” than was used by US builders of RAF aircraft. DuPont 71-009: brown. 4: XF49. 4: XF2 1: XF65 1: XF9 DuPont 71-013: green 9: XF65 3: XF61 3: XF2 DuPont 71-021: grey. 3: XF20 2: XF12 1: XF2 These got me to what I consider is VERY close Y’all need to play around more after that because obviously they are all too dark, and the grey bottom is way too, well, Sky

Mixed up a bottle of green, and have it a very small test squirt. I think we nailed the basic colors. I found these mixes on an archived post on the Britmodeler Forum, and gave them a try. As mixed, they were close, but still too dark for my liking, so I played with them a bit more and am happy where we are here. There is room to lighten up the mixes somewhat and then completely trash the surfaces in high traffic areas. Quite honestly, I never realized that the AVG birds, especially the first 100 machines, were so incredibly hammered. These colors are quite a bit lighter than the recommended mix, so there’s room to play.

I think I need to go look at my 1/48 civilian Ju-52 in my stash. The old Gooney Bird needs some competition…

Something you usually see way, way overdone on models is the gun residue. But these birds really look like hammered shit. Plus major lead deposits from the exhaust. Just WOW! Also notice all have their flaps UP when parked. Much like Spitfires, Hurricanes, and DC-3s.

Some serious wear and tear in some brutal operating conditions and in just a few short weeks or months.

The Lisunov sure had a different look to it’s engine cowls and nacelles…. Like you, art in, I find the history to be seriously interesting