BradG

*laughs in Australian*....mate our heat out cut off for cricket is 104F, or 40C. 98F is just a good day to win the toss and bat.

You'll be lucky to get enough useable bits for one. You'll find the tubular frame and probably the wings, the articles say they were stripped and I imagine that included the engine and pretty much anything the Russians would find useful. "Broken apart" probably means smashed to pieces with a bulldozer. Honestly I've seen and heard of so many of these "recoveries" over the years, it all starts with people being enthusiastic about the find and thoughts of rebuilding aircraft etc etc only to end with a bunch of twisted, corroding metal being dug out of a hole and dumped in or on some poor museum who then, after all the enthusiasm and back slapping dies out, quietly dumps it back in a hole because it wasn't worth recovering in the first place.

Are you STABLE? STash, Acquired, Beyond, Life, Expectancy.

That's interesting, I didn't know that. I guess every bit of armour you can get is a good thing!

Super work. Did you miss taking off a canopy mask or was the forward port quarter panel painted over?

For a new kit this presented a few challenges when being built. OOB, just the addition of a couple of RBF tags on the seeker head covers on the weapons.

Sadly I hear these stories a lot. We all do in my group. I'm sorry man, that's women for you. The more I hear of these kinds of things, the more it confirms that life long batchelorhood is the only way to go. Go your own way my friend.

Bought some large scale armour as an early birthday present to myself.

I really hope someone revisits a large scale Mk 22/24 Spitfire.

It's telling that you don't see many of these uber kits actually built. I see even fewer when going to model comps, but there are no end of Tamiya and Hasegawa LSPs that are without all the open panels. I'm sure these kits sell well, but they seem to just sit in many people's stash forever.

I was looking at getting this kit, but looking at your thread I'm kinda glad I didn't as it was in excess of 200 dollars down here. That said you are doing a nice job on it.

I was going with 'Moister than an Oyster' but whichever.

Just to add the other perspective, I built one straight from the box and though it looked pretty good. I hardly notice the main issue which are the cannon bulges on the nose when she was in my cabinet.

Does the CAF have another Fortress project or will the simply look to rebuild Texas Raiders?

That's looking pretty sharp mate.

I looked at the NTSB report this morning, it seems as though the airshow was running the aircraft past the crowd in two lines; the slower aircraft on a line that ran parallel from the crowd at 500ft distance, while the faster aircraft were inside this at a 1000ft line. It appears that the Air Boss, on the fatal pass, called for the faster aircraft, namely the 3 ship formation of 2 Mustangs and the P-63, to fall into a line astern formation, cross in front of the slower aircraft and pass the crowd on the 500ft line. At the same time the slower aircraft were cleared to follow the 1000ft line. You can see this in the film of the accident when the two mustangs pass in front of the Fortress. I don't know if this was in the plans of the airshow or not, but it seem that crossing the two flight plans, combined with the fact the P-63 would have lost sight of the Fortress in the left hand turn while probably assuming he was clear to follow the 500ft line, has caused this accident. I feel that there may be some lawsuits resulting from this accident.

Dropped into the LHS on the way to cricket on a whim yesterday and happen to find original MPC/AMT boxings of the Tie Interceptor and A Wing fighter. For $30 each they came home with me.

I've found that Humbrol metal coat 27002 polished aluminum is almost bullet proof when applied over gloss black and it looks great. Dead easy to airbrush and very forgiving if you make a mistake.

I will keep and eye out for them. We did get some re released star wars kits down here in Australia, including the ATAT walker and a few others. I really should pick up the big revell ATAT though.

I managed to find myself the old Return of the Jedi boxing MPC 1/50 X Wing. I had built one as a kid and was looking for it again. On the hunt now for others I missed as a kid like the Star Destroyer, walkers, tie fighters and Y wing.

Is this going ahead? I will dig out my Verlinden 1/35 midget submarine if so.

Everyone at my funeral gets a taser, last man standing can have all my shit.

I've seen a couple of model stashes sold off. One was a bloke who passed with 5000 models and around 3000 books. He said in his will that his family was to hold a swap and sell and sell things off to the local modelling community. The family made quite a bit of money in cash and everything was sold within 2 hours. Was a hell of a morning I tell ya. The other was just this year, one of dad's friends passed away and his son asked for my help in selling off the models he had. We made him several thousand dollars over one weekend model show. The museum dad is with also receives a lot of donations from people who don't know what to do with things. Hundreds of books turn up each month because of this. Most of them get sold, however I'm sure much more just goes straight to the tip.

Last time I looked there was 2 out my way at the LHS for 150 each. Models and Hobbies 4U if anyone wanted them.