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Thanks, Phil

Oh ! You mean one of these guys !

The Borg lost ! Resistance is not futile ! My next aircraft will be a somewhat smaller model than what is anticipated. That is until I can figure out where to display the other two behemoths everyone wants to see built. Some years back I was invited by a close friend who was career US Coast Guard, first as an Enlisted then as a Warrant Officer, to his Change of Command ceremony during which he assumed command of Coast Guard station Sandy Hook NJ. Attending his Change of Command ceremony were members of Air Station Atlantic City who decided to just fly over for the ceremony in one of their Dolphin helicopters. As they approached the beach to land the pilot executed a series of hold and hover maneuvers as the Dolphin descended, roughly at about 10-20 foot intervals; I was able to snap some photos each time he hovered. He is retired now after a 30 plus year in the Coast Guard. Those photos follow: On approach Hover 1 Hover 2 Hover 3 Hover 4 - couple of feet to go Touch down And Watching him descend and hold a hover was quite impressive. And now on to the build The obligatory box and contents and instructions On examining the contents it is a well made kit, like the other Trumpeter kits I've assembled, namely the 1:350 scale ships. The next update may take a while as I need to order some paints for this model. Stay turned !

Ah, but Jean-luc defeated the Borg ! Heh heh heh !

Both models finished are 2 ft in length, OC, takes a lot of bench space, even more to paint it....... have to do some thinking on this. That's why they are stll in my un-built stash.

Or a "skunk works" YF-12 Interceptor ?

What breed is it, Denis? Face looks like my Corgi's face - see my avatar picture

Hahahaha ! Knew you would take the bait, Lou ! Actually there are only 4 un-built aircraft kits in the stash, all 1:48 scale, and 2 of the 4 are huge. It's not the -C130 cargo, Lou, but rather the Lockheed AC-130A Hercules Gunship. But then I do have veto power . Patience my friend !

You guys are seriuosly tempting me to drag out the Testors 1:48 scale AC-130 Gunship kit from my stash. I got it decades ago shortly after I built the Testors 1:48 scale C-130 Cargo plane, measure 25 inches long with wingspan of about 37 inches, give or take. Was going to build both until I realized I had no place to display it. The Borg are calling

Glad you liked it, Lou.

Thanks Kevin

Thanks

Thanks Craig and Denis

Thanks, Edward. Yea it was done over a span of years. I might add that all of the painting with the exception of the HumVee and USMC amphibian, were done with a Badger airbrush and Floquil's military color paints; the soft edge camo was done freehand without masking. The two exception were brush painted with Vallejo and Tamiya paints. Haven't done any airbrushing in decades, not sure how steady my hand would be now. Have to do some practicing and relearn the skill.

I second Denis' comment! Nice !

Ok, Lou, Edward, EGilman - part II of the Armor collection Modern US Abrams M1, Bradley M2 IFV (2 variants), HumVee, Sgt York Air Defense British Chiefton German WII and Modern German Mardar (I think) APC And that Gentleman concludes the collection - at least for now - probably order some more kits in future.

Me too

I found the Tamiya brand to have some really fine detail and they fit together without a lot of gaps or flash to remove. And they were not too expensive, at least here in the States. All the models I have shown are Tamiya.

Yea, one of our parks covers 2,000 acres with probably hundreds of miles of isolated trails but the citidiots decided to fill up the one or two common lawns with hoards of people and no physical distancing, ditto some of the trails. Luckily there are a few trails known only to locals that can be used.

We don't have any of those type restrictions up here. I can go out in my yard or even take a walk with admiral in neighborhood. Hell the streets in my neighborhood are deserted, only 1 or 2 people out walking.. Btw those last photos are from last year already loaded onto PC. I can still go out for groceries, doctors, post office, even parks, except the idiots descended on 2 state parks in throngs and now they are closed, spoiling it for the rest of us. I may be in NY STATE but not NY City Metro area. I'm over 100 miles from Manhattan island.

Oh cool ! Another one to add to collection!

Wait ! There is more ! Remember you requested this !

Yea, last November-December when we had our 1st snow, long before the plaque arrived.

This one was documented in a Build Log here a while back USMC LVTP7A1 in winter camo before I added the decals

Thanks. I will get the other armor photographed tomorrow if the weather is good and the sun is out. Best to take outside and photograph in shade of house under clear sky as I did above