Clunkmeister

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!

Peter, one other thing: I’m not smart enough to read the supplied corrections list included in the kit, so many of the surprises were avoidable for me. 😂

You can always go back and build it later. All the parts for an independent display are there. Plus, it’s a unique version of the Allison with that massive reduction gearbox and the itty bitty little single stage supercharger.

Not a mistake on your part, I was going the same way until I happened to remember the Eagle sets I had. I haven’t looked at the roundels size, but I do think they missed the mark on colors of the shark mouth on a couple of the birds. Jerry Crandall’s research is highly regarded, so I’ll take his word for it over some Government appointed Communist worker’s take on it. One thing I will definitely do is build up that engine and super detail it for display beside the model.

And your post on that during your build is why I left literally ALL of that junk out of my build. I am, by nature, a lazy SOB, so why go through all that effort for naught? Over engineered for sure. The elevator hinges made me chuckle a bit. PE? Really? That is an accident waiting to happen. Reminds me of Tamiya’s efforts to hinge everything on their 1/32 builds. If left to their own devices, made for an airplane that looked like the controls were unhooked. They finally wised up on their Corsair.

Peter, I’m following your build thread closely for mine. I read what you wrote on colors, and it makes sense. Your research on it all seems to be exactly how I’d interpret it as well. An interesting point is that Jerry Crandall at Eagle Editions also stated that the blue on the topside Chinese roundels faded very quickly in the harsh Chinese climate, but the lower ones stayed relatively clean and fresh. So yes, faded on top, but fresh underneath. But then you ask yourself: “Self, why aren’t the fuselage roundels following suit”? They’re in the sun as well….

One thing I will say about this kit is that I absolutely love the plastic used. It reminds me of WNW plastic, which was the best plastic I’ve ever experienced in kits. It bonds well, is soft without being greasy, and is flexible enough to be bent without disastrous results. I wonder if this Company didn’t do some of Wingnuts molding? This plastic is the exact opposite of Hasegawa’s hard as a rock plastic.

I hope th nose fits well, as I certainly don’t want to lose the nose Gun access panels hinge detail. That’s a prominent feature of there Tomahawks.

Chris, I used the clamps simply to keep the wing snugged up as far as it would go while the glue dried after I walked away for a bit. That fit seems to be critical and I want to see if I can avoid the issue Peter had with the nose fit. Peter says it was a mistake earlier in his build that caused it, and hopefully through blind luck I can avoid a similar fate. Descriptions of the paint fade from people who were there makes me want to try taking Peter’s mix, and then lightening it slightly followed by some weathering. The accounts back then said that the brown quickly faded to a sand tone and the green faded to spinach. As in British Sand and Spinach. Then use the faded Chinese roundels. You and Peter are 100% correct in that most people build clean AVG Tomahawks, while in practice, they’d be all beat up.

Great to see this! There seems to have been a black hole in Canadian armor builds between the WW2 Fireflies all up until the big Leo 2A6s in Asscrackistan. This Centurion is nice to see. Canada got much use out of theirs until the Germans brought them new Cats.

It was a short lived 1/32 resin kitmaker here in the 80s. They did a nice P-40C. Had a lot of white metal castings… I’m NOT a P-40 fan, although I should be. It was like the Hurricane; used and produced from start to finish of the war, and like several pilots said, was quite competent, and quite deadly with a skilled pilot, but always left you wishing you had a little bit more airplane to fight with. The Russians sure didn’t care for them, much preferring the P-39 for their style of fighting.

GusMac got the JetMads Viggen, the lucky sod. I hope to see it built here on LSM.

Good! We try to spice it up every year, and have a good time doing so. It’s a work in progress, but it’ll only get better.

So a million dollar missile to drop a plastic Chinese balloon? You think the gun might have been a bit less messy? No matter, the Chinese won BIG with this one as our people in charge dithered and wrung their hands for days on end while they sat there, wondering what to do. This could have been easily dropped over the Aleutians. The US looks positively stupid and weak, here.

Clamping power!

So far, the fit has been phenomenal. Better than Tamiya, as far as I can see.