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I can’t start until I finish my two kits for the Nats. After then, it’s go time.

I now have all but the top of the bottom wing decaled, I am actually surprised how close I was to finishing it before it got shelved, one the wings are done, it’s just final assembly. I only need to paint the the guns and tires.

I had been away from the bench on vacation for almost 2 weeks, but back to working on the hound. I put MR Sufacer 500 around all the windows, now waiting for it to dry up.

I actually only made it to one shop, apponaug hobby, in Warwick RI. Around for a long time, but they specialized in trains, about 30% was dedicated to plastic.

could it be a wire connected to this antenna behind the cockpit?

Could it be a long line antenna exit? WHere they are reeled in and out, the US SAR aircraft had some that reeled out, like on the Kingfisher.

same thing happened to me with the 1/24 hellcat, waited to the morning, and they were all gone. Now im trying to find one in stock somewhere.

Looking great! I have never seen you so motivated to finish a kit, is this going to Chattanooga?

Nigel, you will know what this means. Check out the cardboard over the tail antenna, hope this helps with the Hellcat.

Looks like a P-47 tank?

Did you buy direct from Grey Matter? I bought my P-40 parts directly from Grey matter on eBay and they were good quality. I have seen a lot of pirate resin parts selling on eBay lately, I even bought some which turned out to be useable, but were not originals. try contacting grey matter direct, if they are theirs and not pirated, maybe they will replace them for you, or maybe just sell you the two parts you need.

Had to be a low speed stall just at rooftop, it could not have hit the house with too much energy.

I think Mike s going to beat you!

Ernie, Nigel has a build started on you tube, he has also found some short shots in the cockpit, for his, the left sidewall bracing and some tubes are short shot that he had to fix. I’m guessing that when I get back from vacation, the one I ordered will also have some issues. Hopefully they will be minor.

I am on vacation with my family this week, and have 5 days in RI, looking to see if there are any “can’t miss” hobby shops around? Edit: I mean within 100 miles from Providence (staying away from NY/NJ area).

nice picture with the rotors turning.

Finally took the plunge and glued the windows in, made a few goofs that I need to polish out, but it time to start filling.

I’m having trouble remembering, but all the paints were Wingnut recommended Tamiya, the metallics were Vallejo Metal colors. I think the brass was VM gold, but i thought it looked like unpolished brass.

Thanks, but i have to give credit to Wingnut. Everything as painted as instructions show, I did zero research other than the instruction book. If you follow the book, it works.

June 16, 2019. So that was where time ran out, wife got a new job opportunity in Nashville, and we started to pack, the little Fokker got packed up and shelved. Since I was fairly close to finishing, I wanted to resurrect this little guy and get it all buttoned up, and take it to Chattanooga. Most of the painting was done, just needed to finish the lozenge decals and slap it all together. Also, a special thanks to Mike (serian01) for getting me the Proper Plane Axial prop for this project!

Feb 23, 2018 I forced myself to start the Lozenge decals tonight. I have been avoiding these for a month now. Decals are not my friends, but I bit the bullet and figured, I have backup wingnutdecals if I screw this up. In the end, these were not too bad, I trimmed them all up with a knife, then started dipping. I quickly learned not to use decal set, because hey won't slide with it. I'll start the bottom wing tomorrow night, and work the edges with micro sol on the top wing.

Jan 20, 2018 I made some time to get the blue down on this littl Fokker. It ended up a little darker than I wanted, but other wise ok. Unfortunately I got some blue overspray on both sides of the cockpit at the bottom, I will have to touch that up.

Jan 14, 2018 I have been working away doing lots of tedious work on this little Fokker, mostly assembling and fitting panels and misc parts, closing up the fuselage, wings, etc. nothing really to take pictures of, yesterday I laid down the initial paint. I have to say that this being an early Wingnut kit, I had a lot more flash and seam lines than the Snipe I built. The fit was also more fiddly, the many panels in the cowl area don't fit perfectly, I had to do a bunch of sanding and trimming. Most of the fit issues i don't think were my own doing, but related to the options on the engine. The front 200hp air pump was not even close, I had to trim the upper cowl corners square, and the rear water valve also contacted the cowls. I went back and double checked the fit of the framing, but everything seemed to be in the right location, so I believe that just having all the separate engine support tubing pieces just led to tolerances stacking up. This kit was definitely not the perfect click fit that the other Wingnut kit I built. However, now that I am past that, I know what to look out for in future builds, and I would have built the font framework in a different order next time. I will have to mask and paint the blue next. Masking the engine and cockpit was challenging, but I ended up finding a way. I left the upper cockpit cowl separate as they were clearly separate pieces on the real aircraft, so no filling was required. I laid down many coats of my custom yellow mix, in all it took about 5-6 coats to finally turn opaque. In hindsight I probably should have primed everything in Stynylrez White first, but having never tried Tamiya yellow over gray before, I didn't know. The color is a custom mix of Tamiya gloss yellow with about 30% flat white mixed in. As a base for the Aviattic Lozenge decals, I spayed a 50/50 mix of Tamiya gloss white and deck tan. This is my mix for linen I used on the Snipe lower wings.

Dec 31, 2019. Engine is built and painted, with weathering. I added spark leads using gray braided fishing line.

Dec 27, 2017 It was detail and assembly time for the cockpit. I added control rods and rigging, the rigging was fine ez-line and I used .015 music wire for the throttle and spark advance rods. Next was assembling with a little weathering. Finally this nightmare of tubing for the engine bearers...I never held my breath so long. At one point I broke the lower piece and had to glue tiny tubes back together.