Clunkmeister

She’s starting to look like a big, ugly Curtiss. Nothing surprising so far other than the greenhouse, and we found a simple workaround for that

The Italieri kit is DEFINITELY a C model, because it has the thicker greenhouse framing. Anyone wanting to do an earlier version will need to thin those frames a bit.

Cutting these is required to use the accessory resin parts.

So, now let’s revisit this. Back at the bench for the first time in over a month. Here’s where we’re at right now.

Thanks Kevin. Appreciated, a lot!

Reply to the Piasecki H-21 kit. It’s 1/48 but a nice looking kit and quite large. I’ve read horror stories about the greenhouse bubble not fitting, but mine does. This’ll be a neat build.

There were very few He-100’s built, I recall. If I remember right, it had evaporative cooling in the wing skins, which made it a fine racer, but an unworkable warplane. One single .22 caliber bullet, or even a pellet gun to the wing skins would put the thing out of service. Not exactly what I would call smart thinking. But as a go-fast airplane, it was something else. There is literally NO information on the cockpit layout whatsoever. Nothing, nada, zilch. So anything you do, within reason, is quite acceptable. As far as SH kits go, I much prefer them in 1/32 compared to 1/48. Much more room to maneuver and work on it. In deciding if I want to build a SH kit, I simply tape the airframe together first. If it fits nicely, I proceed. If the main parts don’t fit, I pass until I’m in that frame of mind. Interior parts can be engineered to fit a great fitting airframe (think Helldiver), but having to fix the big stuff before even looking at the details just plain sux.

No picture, but a new to me Italieri 1/48 H-21

I know nussink, I hear nussink, I see nussink.

And if Rob started building sooner, but taking pics and all, ready to tactically post them then, nobody would be the wiser. 🤣

OK, we’ll push it back to Jan 1. Not optimal for everyone, but hey, I can’t tell if you start building ahead of time or not, as long as pictures are taken, etc.. LOL

Which is what I’m thinking. Seemed like a good idea at the time…

That’s how we ended up with of all things, a 57 Chevy hardtop. I thought I’d spontaneously combust having that ugly thing at my home, but we literally saved a 100 point restoration from being cut up into a homogenized typical resto mod. Once we found a suitable lover of original cars, we sent it on to them… 5.0 is cool, but this “LS in everything” garbage is crazy. There’s aaa shop that wants to do it to our 55 Sunliner. They say if I spend 100K, they’ll build a car from it that I can sell for 250K. Well, I don’t want to sell, I don’t have 100K to piss away, and instead, I told them to piss off. But that’s how it’s going. In 20 years it’ll be kids converting them to electric or rubber band power.

Lemme know..

You’re lucky. I had the same thing, and went and spent the money on a root canal. 4 years later,… massive toothache. Out it comes, in goes the bone graft and then the implant. The Quack talked me out of the implant the first go-round. But apparently he left just enough behind to fester over 4 years. 🤬

I have absolutely no family members who even the slightest interest in any of our collection of anything. We have maybe 350 kits now, mostly all high end kits: WNW, Tamiya, HKM, ZM, some KH, and tons of resin. Most all 1/32. Then 1/200 ships and several Vanguard Models wooden ship kits. Vanguard is the best out there, by far. Plus a pretty decent gun collection, 3 1940s and early 50s jukeboxes, and 5 1950s Ford cars. Smitty, Martin, and Harv will see to Joy dealing with the kits, I’m sure, they know my wishes, one of my shooting buddies is crazy about historical weapons the same as I, and the cars? I assume I’ll have done my best and after me the game is lost and they’ll be all gutted out by professional make a money shops to turn them into auctioned off lowered Resto-Mods with Chevy LS engines, huge chrome wheels, massive stereos, and airbags. That’ll break my heart more than just about anything.

Ya know, at least we’re building models! I won’t move it, it’s a build, and that’s good enough for me. My only sci fi being a 1/48 Eagle Transporter, I might need to give it a try

That looks GREAT! Nice job whipping it into shape!

I have two of these. On one, the fuselage is so badly warped it doesn’t know if it’s coming or going. I MIGHT try a pot of hot water to see if it has a memory, but it might remember it was once primordial soup

Well executed and FLAWLESS as usual!

It’s 12 separate pieces, and 7 more for the rear bumper. It’ll cost 5K to rechrome, but being that I bought the car for 200 bucks, I’d say I can justify it. 🤣

Carl, hundreds of people walked right on by this thing and threw up their noses at it. They have absolutely no VISION! I literally spent less money than a month’s worth of lattes on this thing. It’s INSANE.