Clunkmeister

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We love to play down here. That’s my nephew on my C1A1 SLR, then with an early PAS-4 active IR, my daughter in law on one of my P-08s, and I’m running an 1858 Remington Army percussion cap pistol. The Cake Decorator is an early GM produced Guide Lamp with a very early mechanical cocking mechanism. The early M16A1 is Vietnam era. The MP40 is a sweet little machine but it really doesn’t like handloads at all.

308 Win works, although the pressures are slightly different, the dimensions are the same. Come on down, we have a few. If you get to Hurst on a Bell Course, I can pick you up and we can rock and roll. Trudeau just declared them prohibited in Canada. I guess they’re too scary looking.

Chris, I’ve seen your work in person. If you have as many problems as you let on, you sure recover well. Same as me, I suppose. 🤣 John, on the other hand, is a machine.

My kinda guy. 🤣 gotta keep the stash defended. Sterling and MP40 are much cheaper to run. The Sterling munches everything. The MP40 hates handloads.

Rest In Peace, Mr, Johnson! Your aircraft commander’s story is an interesting read as well.

I do not have an FN49 and sold my G43. Silly decisions that will hopefully soon be rectified

I’m going to need to remove the top skin it appears. It’s slightly misaligned. So a bit of desoldering will be involved

I’m an FN FAL and variant fanatic. That right there is a 1963 Canadian Army issue FN C1A1 with a Canadian Army Leitz sniper scope. The scope is insanely hard to find, it comes with its own carrying tube as well. It slips off the receiver on a special top cover, and the factory iron sights are left untouched. I have three other C1 variants, plus a C2 heavy barrel squad automatic rifle with the forward hand grip extendable as a bipod. Plus an actual EX1 Canadian Army trials rifle, and a genuine T48 US Army trials rifle. It’s a lifetime worth of sweet talking and collecting. Plus a Sterling Mk. lV 🤣 We like to play silly games in Texas. The only AR variant I own is an M16A1, and it’s forever being loaned out to museums. I’ve thought about a CETME, but they just didn’t much light my fire. I ran a few mags through a G.3 a few years back at a local MG shoot we attend, and it was “OK”, but 7.62 NATO on fast forward is all but uncontrollable. Just a noisemaker to me. The C2 is great, as it has the bipod and even with that and the heavy barrel, you’ve got to keep it down the short 3-4 round bursts to keep from cooking the barrel. An MG42 it’s not… A buddy has an old Guide Lamp built early grease gun. Between that, my Sterling, and another buddy’s MP40, we chew through a ton of cheap pistol reloads. Joy gets SO uptight when I go out and build 1500 of 9mm rounds for the Sterling, and it’s all gone in an afternoon. At least it’s cheaper than the 45 for the grease gun. But the grandkids absolutely love range days when we take the chatterboxes out to play.

One almost down, 11 more to go. Need to do some aligning and final adjusting yet, but these are mighty tedious

And not one single comment on the SLR in the corner. 🤣

And we seem to have an Unfinished Air Force here in this room…. All very worthy models in their own right.

Then, I finally gave it up and installed the Resin2Detail stick, pilot seat, and headrest into the Resin2Detail cockpit.

Also, got some rocket stubs and bomb racks on under the wings

I’ve been taking my sweet assed time on this one, checking, double checking, and triple checking everything before committing to any glue. another one of my concerns has been the little fairing to the fin where the turtle deck retracts. JohnB and several other builders had issues with the fit of the small glass piece, but when using the open gunner’s position kit, that little clear part fits perfectly.

It’s HUGE! But it looks a bit rough in places, where even the panel lines got scaled up along with everything else. That crash dio is super impressive as well.

Amazing work on a beautiful kit.

Awesome build of a very unique subject. We sure never see the DFW 2 seaters get built. Odd, that one. Hmmmm

A nice change from your usual WW1 subjects, Dave! Very nice build and I always love a good NMF.

Nice clean work, John! Such a beautiful aircraft.

Unfreakingbelieveable and outflippin’standing work, Gary. This is one of your best builds yet, and you’ve had some amazing ones! This is simply flawless work. The crew and chair make the scene, my friend. I really, really need to put this on our FB page.

LOL @Rob. Not sure what I meant with the “we”, other than it sounds better than “I”. My builds tend to be group efforts with Martin doing a ton of research, and everyone here providing more and technical support, so I do consider these builds as group efforts.

Finally, I couldn’t resist trying on the resin HPH hood pieces, and like I had said a few months ago, they fit perfectly and are a HUGE improvement over the IM parts. I used the resin windscreen and the resin gunner’s hood. The fixture glass is a kit part, as is the front cockpit hood. Im starting to feel good about this build, now. Slowly, I’m getting past the caution areas mapped out by previous builders, and finding answers to new issues. I’m happy -ish right now.

And we lost some paint on the radios, so back we go with the detail brush

I built up the dinghy container according to the instructions. I realize it’s much simplified, but I have ZERO information on how they stored the dinghy, etc. So, being that it’s all but hidden under the turtledeck, I simply painted it green and formed some wet paper towel into a “folded dinghy” cylindrical form, and shoved it in. Then, I hit the visible area with faded olive drab followed by a khaki wash. Probably not all that prototypical, but it’s a semi literate guess at what’s in there. At least it’s not an empty tube now. The dinghy container fit well, but I had to tweak the front mount a bit to allow it to rest square to the fuselage.