ScottsGT

I do remember reading about the C-47 everyone bailed out of during WWII. OK, call me embarrassed. It never dawned on me I was looking at a Super Hornet unit Smitty’s post above. I went back and looked at the pics and was like Oh $h!t!! Look at those square intakes. It just didn’t register the first time I looked at them.

I think the rest of the plane would be a little worse.

Infinity is HpH. It’s their new lineup of IM kits.

John, which one did you get? The fiberglass and resin kit or IM? Is Greg a vendor?

I see 1 very slightly visible panel line and maybe 4 rivets. Whomever built that needs to learn to scribe and preshade properly. Great pics! Saving them for my build one day. Apparently that shade of blue is straight out of a can of Krylon, and I have it on my bench to decant when time it right.

I sent a message via the “Order now” link. Makes no sense with the color options and the video is of a guy installing aftermarket headlights into a Jeep. Looks like website is still under construction.

Apparently available for pre-order now at $89. But hard to muddle through the website that is not in English. http://infinitymodels.cz/# Anyone know if any USA distributors will carry these? Didn’t Ernie have an inside dealer to HpH kits we could order from?

Cool. I just finished gluing it in with epoxy. I did bump it up to .6 oz.

I’m about to close up the fuselage of my Blue Angels Skyhawk, but before I do I have to add nose weight. According to the instructions is says “Add 5.5 .oz of lead to the nose”. I went and bought a small pocket scale and started adding lead until it hit 5.5 .oz. There is no way in hell this thing needs 5.5 .oz of lead. That is a huge pile of lead. I honestly don’t think it would all fit up front anyway. I even taped everything together and set it up on the landing gear. I’m thinking 5.5 grams, or maybe .5 .oz? I set it up on the bench and put a tiny piece of lead on the tip of the nose and it brought it back down in place. At this point I’d just like to know what the real number is supposed to be.

He’s really busy with Grand kids lately. But shoot him an email. hairold@frontier.com I just got a few things made up and shipped to me last week and more on the way right now.

Well, I did add to the stash with the Roden Stearman I bought on eBay last night.

So that clean bench post got me motivated yesterday. I was out of paint drawer space, so I took the top drawer and cleaned it all out. About 90% was junk I simply tossed out. This space on top was a horizontal crap collector I cleaned off. The toolbox on top facing the other direction is my box dedicated to gun cleaning and maintenance, so I keep it facing the other way to keep it accessible because I needed the crap collection area. So I grabbed some scrap wood laying around and made up this shelf Made a run to my local Harbor Freight and picked up these storage organizers and screwed them into the shelf. Re-organized all my stuff to keep as I tossed the rest. Of course I started looking at old projects in need of attention. I picked this one up and now I cannot find the pilot. So I started cleaning more but never could find the little guy, so back on the shelf of doom it went. This one only needed a final spray of semi flat finish to put in the display case. I can not take it off the list. With cleanup done, and one off the shelf of doom, time to break out a new kit. I actually started on it last week waiting on paint to dry on the Skyraider.

And I’ve ordered one off eBay. It’s coming from the Ukraine. Probably not in the states yet.

LOL! I wish. Wife is home today to enforce the honey-do list. Heavy rain coming tomorrow and Monday, so I gotta hit the yard hard today. But after that bench photo posted above, I’m motivated to do a little re-org of my tools and paint. I’m completely out of drawer space in my paint storage box, and now it’s time to clean out the box and make more room for the necessities. My next project is my Blue Angels A-4, and I’m waiting on my intakes from Harold to get ramped up.

I think within a week I could make this bench look normal.

Thanks! I thought it would be a 6 month project. Turned out it was only 5 weeks.

Done! No longer on the bench. And one of Harolds great prop corrections.

Been waiting for years for this one! At a minimum, two kits. Depending on aftermarket for Super Stearman’s, maybe 6. I want to build the Red Baron Pizza squadron.

Today was decal day. Tomorrow I start making it look old. But it’s so pretty right now!

The wait is over! My stamped Form 4 showed up last Monday. Had a ball out at my friends farm ringing steel plates at 100 yards. And very quietly too, I may add.

Got that beer belly look now!

My 6 rolls of Tamiya tape arrived yesterday. Wife intercepted the package from the mailman. I got the stink eye.

I made a run to Hobby Lobby last week to only find they had quit carrying the Tamiya tape. I did grab a roll of their brand and another bottle of Tamiya thin cement and a few cans of Tamiya primer. Came home and ordered Tamiya tape with Sprue Brothers along with some sanding sticks and various paints. Unfortunately, either I didn’t see it, or they don’t carry it, but I missed the 40mm wide masking tape. SO today I ordered 6 rolls from Tower Hobbies. I think I’m good for a while.

This is the AD-5W guppy.

Now we’re hearing August return. So today I got some Gull Gray applied!