Clunkmeister

You too can experience this amazing scenery. It simply requires the purchase of a ticket with your friendly neighborhood British Airlines seller.

Same here. That Lancer is just COOL. Both cars share the same body shell and roofline, but the front and rear end treatment are totally different. The Super D500 with its Hemi is a real tire scorcher. You haven’t lived until you hear a Big Block Mopar inhaling through 8 battle carburetion. Hearing that dual quad “ring” is music to a gearhead’s ears. Twin striped of rubber for 300 ft, and then sit back, hang on, and shut up. Talk about one serious rapid transit system.

Well, it LOOKS like a 58…. The 58 has the quad headlights, they were still illegal in 57

I really want that Dodge. That Plymouth can be quickly sold, but she wants them together. I’ve owned a few 57-58 Plymouth Furies, and I’ll tell you this: they are GREAT road cars with a decent set od radials and disc brakes. They have that Chrysler torsion bar front suspension, and they are fast and corner better than any full size car from back then. Back then, you couldn’t GIVE these gas guzzlers away. Literally nobody wanted them, and time wasn’t friendly to them. The Dodge is the same underneath, but has the more crazy trim. And both cars only come up to my chin. They are low for a 50s car. What’s wild is if you park the Plymouth next to a 57 Chevy, suddenly that Chevy looks totally archaic. Plenty of misinformation out there about these. With torsion bars, built low, big block Chrysler V8s with dual quad carbs, there’s nothing to hate. Plus, paint the Dodge red, and in a few years, Joy could be just like the “Little old Lady from Pasadena”. 😂 Out on a Saturday night after baking cookies, and shutting down Mustang GTs, Vettes, Jags, and Ferraris with her Super Stock Dodge.

Thanks. The good new is, that only about a half inch width of panel lines need rescribing after all this, and NO raised detail or access panels. So the damage kept to a minimum. The kit is really not for anyone who doesn’t like filling gaps.

At it again with old piles of junk. Offered a 58 Dodge Regal Lancer and 58 Plymouth Fury today by a long time customer, and I’m sorely tempted. The price is really decent, and even though I haven’t seen it in public in years, I’ve spent many hours doing service work on it in the lady’s garage. Her husband and her bought two cars together in 1958: the 58 Regal Lancer, and a 58 Fury. The Regal has a special order Chrysler 354 hemisherical V8, what they call an “Super D-500”, and the Fury has a 350 big block wedge V8, what was called a “Golden Commando”. WTH with the goofy names. The 58 Ford retractable has a “Police Interceptor” V8, which is a bit more normal sounding, although the only thing it intercepts real well are speeding tickets. Both drink premium through 8 barrels of Carter WCFB, both have Torqueflite push button automatics, and both are rare as his teeth, almost showroom perfect but ugly as sin. To give you an idea, Ford sold 12 times as many hardtop coupes as Dodge, and 10 times as many as Plymouth. They weren’t popular new, and just looking at them shows why. They’re hideous to look at, and Joy immediately says she’ll never be seen in either one without a paper bag over her head. Because they’re in the lady’s garage, here are some stock pics. The Dodge is black with a white roof, and the Fury is identical to that one: eggshell white, gold anodized trim, and manure brown interior. Of the two, I much prefer the Dodge The Fury just seems messed up. Both run like scalded tail cats and each might get about 12 mpg at best when your foot’s on the floor. And if I want one, I gotta take ‘em both yikes My Fords’ll revolt!

And here we go again. The other wing this time.

Thanks Carl. Did you have similar issues with gap? Nothing horrible, I’m just spoiled after the A-20

The horizontal tail has similar gap issues, and there was a slight issue with the tail gunner’s hood. Again, a bit of evergreen fixes all. Nothing outrageous here, just some sanding and a wedge fill piece on the port side. The hood overhung the top edge on the port side by about 1/16”. No biggie,.. literally 5 minutes work, and it’ll be another hour to smooth, rescribe and polish. No big deal, and easily handled by everyone here. On other sites, some folks would lose their collective minds over this.

Nacelles have plenty of gaps underneath, but nothing that a quick attack of the Evergreen strip monster won’t fix

And it continues…. The nose halves fit poorly. The nose was expected to be posed open. Much work needed yet

A teeny tiny bit of progress this weekend. So the biggest thing was to blank off the turret opening, and then Cyprus in a hole for an astrodome. The H didn’t have an astrodome, I expect the top turret was expected to serve as such. No astrodome was included in the kit, so I sourced a B-24 clear Sprue from eBay. Perfect!

Notice the totally armored cockpit? Including the lower half of the pilot’s windshield. A steel plate right across the front.

A mix of G’s and H’s. If they did it right, the make a low pass with everything firing, three abreast, and GTFO. That often meant total surprise and a 100% return rate.

A mix of G’s and H’s. If they did it right, the make a low pass with everything firing, three abreast, and GTFO. That often meant total surprise and a 100% return rate.

Yes, the power turrets were only removed after the threat of enemy air attack fell to nothing. Most kept waist and tail guns for that purpose. Unless you intend on doing yours with the waist windows removed, don’t worry about super detailing that area inside. You’ll literally see nothing. The kit isn’t anywhere near as refined as the A-20, but it’s still quite buildable.

Speaking of forward firing guns, there are plenty of Japanese fighters that fell to the 8 nose guns of these. They’d blunder around in front, and one good squirt from those 8 guns would literally obliterate an A6M. Poof, gone. I can only imagine.

Rob, there was no astrodome. The B-25 didn’t use them. They instead used the top turret as an astrodome, and when the turret was removed, some units, not all, cobbled a simple bubble in. The top turrets were removed late in the war, as were all non forward firing fixed guns to save weight and add fuel. The engines and cowls aren’t horrible, IF you use the kit parts. Instead, I replaced the gearboxes with AMS Resin (now owned and operated by BiggTim) castings and corrected propeller blades. They are a complicated subassembly though and you have to be careful. The engine cowls are the only tricky part of the build. If you build OOB, the rest of the kit falls together. Very little detail in the main fuselage, but with the waist glass in place, you can’t see anything inside anyway. Just remember, I’m building a modified version of the H. Plenty of Marine add ons and changes. If you build mostly OOB, you can easily build one and finish in time. Grab some 3D panel decals, corrected props, and resin wheels, and go for it! I recommend the kit as they really look the part when complete.

The engines were unholy, black hearted devices that had me mumbling to myself again and again. Despite paying special attention to what went where, the cowl panels struck me as being designed and drawn by the love child of Dr. Strangelove and Helen Keller. THIS is after half an hour of rough smoothing. Polishing and rescribing to follow.

A search for something to use as a suitable astrodome was unsuccessful, so a B-24 clear Sprue was sourced from eBay and the B-24 astrodome was liberated from the spare sprue. It falls to reason that because the B-24 was well used by all Services in the PTO, replacement astrodomes were in stock at depots and some enterprising Gunny may have facilitate some 5 finger discounts followed by some semi unofficial midnight logistics operations.

It ain’t a very pretty looking kite, is it? All business. Making the nose fit was, ummmm,.. interesting. Sup piece it to say that this time tomorrow I’ll be under the hood and plenty of bright lights doing some rescribing.

I did one nacelle so far, thanks. It looks like they were VERY lightly scribed. The hinge covers look to be there as well.

Excellent, Carl! Thank You!! That's a HUGE miss. Not hard to fix, but if you assumed the design was finalized when places into production,. you'd have no clue about it. I take it the door is only on one side of the nacelle? Hard to believe I've never finished this kit. It really is a glorious thing, although those engines kicked my butt.

Carl, I missed seeing any posts on that and don't recall what was missing or wrong. Do you have any references on that? HK sure has come a long way since the B-25, back from when the design originally went into production.

Looking GREAT, Scott! It’s hard to believe that the old 111 served in military service well into the 1960s with a few Nations. It was certainly a solid design, if not all that aesthetically appealing.