Clunkmeister

Those were THE way to get around in the 40’s! Even the Japanese ran off their own copies of the C-47. The only major nation that didn’t use them was Germany, because of course they had their similarly capable Junkers 52. Some VERY good airliners came from the 30s to be pressed into military Service! And both the DC-3 and the Junkers 52 are still out there, making money in revenue service to this very day!

Looking great, Martin! I’m looking forward to see what you do with the obviously different engines and cowls

Thanks. It’s certainly ugly enough and I think, a decent base to start from. It’ll get uglier after I go at it with some variations.

I really like their stuff, and have built a few of their kits. The key to them is being able to remove the wings for transport. I’m a sucker for oddball aircraft, as in models of inconvenient in my favorite scale, unpopular or workaday unremarkable aircraft with little to know sex appeal. So, the subjects HPH produce are very exciting for me. Not only that, but they make easily the nicest MiG-15 kit out there, plus an L-29 and an L-39, two of those popular two seat military trainers ever produced. There’s barely an aviation event today that doesn’t feature at least one L-39. Nobody else even attempts that gorgeous machine I built the big HK Lanc, and even though it pales in size compared to this, being able to pull the wings off for transport makes it palatable. Even so, my “big” ones only come out a couple times per year, either to show or display around friends. But, given all that, due to the setup of my home and my liking off “off the wall” subjects, I’d take a stab at building this, assuming I had a couple thousand extra $$$ just laying around 😵‍💫 I’m wondering if 1/35 might have been a better scale for this, as it was mostly used as an airlifted for the Army.

Amazing work, Tim! I wish I had even 1/4 of your patience. The metal tail looks great against the wood fuselage.

I like the brown because I expect it’s a touch lighter than the factory Curtiss RAF approximation, but close enough that it may fade to similar. Comments? Gaz, your eyes are better than mine. Same with Martin..

Been picking away at color mixes, and to my eyes, I’ve found a pretty convincing grey and I think I nailed the brown. That brown has khaki, field grey, hull red and white in it. A mishmash of whatever to make something convincing to my eyes. Brown from before compared to now. I expect it’ll come to life after some patchwork and washes.

What were those Canadian WW2 Chevrolet scout vehicles they used. Those were cool as well. I was thinking maybe of the Staghound? I know Ford made some cool light trucks as well, as well as White with their M3A1 scout car. You’d run in to them in farmyards all over Western Canada and the Western States. Even the odd Kübelwagen and Kettenrad. Farmers bought them by the thousands as they were surplussed after the war.

I’d say it’ll be a go later in the year. This is a GREAT theme. Even the S-Boot would fit in. It was a scout and recon platform.

Well, it was meant as a joke, but this COULD be out next GB. Meanwhile, once my floatplane is done, I might need to do a schnellboot.

This might get some participation. 😀

Yeah I was messing around with a brown mix last night and I may try a bit on an old 109 wing I have, just to see. Peter, like you, I left the flaps UP. You really never see one of these parked with the flaps down, although the cooling gills are almost always open when parked for a short time. Makes sense.

Thought so too, but to me, it looks ok for unfaded, freshly applied brown. We’ll screw with it more. Waking up in the morning and looking, and yeah, way too dark

Might be just the reason I need to visit Auckland.

I’d love some opinions on the brown. To me, it almost looks like an actual RAF dark earth tone, which it isn’t supposed to quite be.

Not to go off topic, but I’d say an EMP is one of the most serious threats facing modern technology. They occur naturally as well (solar flares). Microprocessors will fry given a large enough pulse. Old time systems should still work, as in vacuum tubes, etc. Automobiles with the old breaker point ignition will still function, but new stuff, it’ll just coast to a stop. Not sure if modern airliners are shielded or not, but military equipment most definitely is. No toaster, blender, air conditioning, beer coolers, nothing, because the computer controlled power grid would be down. But FINALLY, we’ll be free of those incessant cellphones!!!

And I made it home., so back to the regular grind.

Hmmm,…. Similar to Peter’s recommended mix. I wouldn’t mind lightening the upper colors to some extent to show some sun fading, but apparently the paint behind the quarter glass didn’t weather as badly.

Peter, I saw them, yes, and decided not to use them. Yet. We’ll see.

Well, it fits. The only thing I did differently is to push away the temptation I had to build the nose first (OK the nose looks way cool and it was hard), and carefully double check the alignment of everything ahead of time. It fits, but it’s extremely snug. The gap may be a bit excessive on the one side as well. This will be permanently attached, not removable.

Yes, apparently several over the past few years. Those videos of drone swarms is insane, plus they’re being used by both sides with deadly success in Ukraine. You’d think a drone would be easily jammed. Just disrupt its signal. Or hit it with a directed EMP. Regarding EMP, the days of the P-51, Corsair, Spitfire, 109, F-86, Hunter and similar may not be over yet. EMP is no friend to modern microprocessors. With just one burst, it could be 1935 all over again.

Thanks Chris. I haven’t done a lot of bubbletop Mustangs at all. My interest is with the Allison powered versions along with the B. Highly underrepresented…. I never knew that about BBD, but it makes sense. Zotz stuff are also great, no complaints whatsoever from me.

It’s just taped together so the alignment won’t be n issue

Picking away at this slowly. Taking Rob’s lead and doing some minor improvements that help a lot

So far, so good. I mocked up the nose, and it fit. Glued it, and it STILL fit!