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  1. Canute
    Very interesting experiments in NMF aircraft. I'm in.
  2. Canute
    Sign me up! A very cool vintage racer.
  3. Canute
    Another option is Mt Albert Scale Lumber on the Fast Tracks webite, here at: https://handlaidtrack.com/shop/?v=7516fd43adaa&wpf_filter_cat_list_0=2902
  4. Canute
    Tamiya makes good primers in rattle cans/spray bombs. I believe they're lacquer based. Tamiya have figured out how to make good spray nozzles. I'd use the Fine gray primer under both yellow and red. As a heads up, they make 2 different grays. A gray and a fine gray. The fine will show blemishes, the plain gray is more of a filling primer. Choose accordingly.
  5. Canute
    She's a beautiful beast, Rob. Your finish is spectacular. Superb! 👍
  6. Canute
    Hmm, Russian C rats on the bottom, ice cream on top? 😁 The snow and ice look really good, Craig. I can remember winters in various places I've been with gear looking like that.
  7. Canute
    Nicely done, Glen. 👍 I really liked your blending of a historical event and some barnyard animals.
  8. Canute
    Good looking instrument panel, Chris. As to the front of the seat, I'll buy your logic.The F-4 had an indent on the front of the seat kit, which was what we sat on. In front of that was the lower ejection handle. The top of the stick was higher, like yours is, so there wasn't any interference. The lower handle was the one of choice, but for takeoffs, the upper was easier to yank on, since the stick was in the way for the lower. Confused yet? We got a lot of practice in the sims and with the ejection seat trainer.😄
  9. Canute
    Yves, very nice progress. That yellow resin casting may have been done with Alumilite, which cures to that yellow shade. It has a distinct odor. Cast in hand held molds. You can buy kits to make your own parts using your home brew molds. I'm with EG. They were painted to preserve the parts. But some wise man said, it's your railroad. 😁
  10. Canute
    They're like Special Airframes now with multi sources of styrene, resin and PE..👍
  11. Canute
    Doing a nice job with the added details. 👍
  12. Canute
    Progressing nicely Craig. 👍 The crews had to be pretty short/small to shoehorn 4 bodies into that beast. 6 footers need not apply.
  13. Canute
    Yves, excellent work building up those white metal trucks. Using hot glue? I'll file that away in my tool bag, thank you. You might try a yardstick to spike down the first rail of your test/display track. Keep it straight. Adding the second track the same way you've already demonstrated. Thankfully you aren't doing a curved section. A bit harder to get a totally smooth curve.
  14. Canute
    That's a "cozy" crew compartment. Your work is excellent. 👍
  15. Canute
    I'll be tagging along, too. We had a French unit at Bitburg, Germany, that provided some anti aircraft protection. They augmented a US Army HAWK missile unit there. Saturday nights got multi lingual in downtown Bitburg.
  16. Canute
    I'm following, too, Yves. I have an HO version, but the tender wrapper in in cardstock, where yours is brass.
  17. Canute
    Chris, I'm in, too. The radial was favored because if it took hits, they lost cylinders, but could still keep running and flying. Look at the Grummans, Corsairs and Zeros in the Pacific. In line engines are liquid cooled, so a hit meant lost coolant and dead engine.
  18. Canute
    Your fans are waiting with bated breath, Chris. 😁
  19. Canute
    Different mix of the plastic used. Was the kit a later reissue? Their later plastic blend may have been different than the original Revell plastic. That rubbery plastic seems to me that you should use substitutes for those parts.
  20. Canute
    Good stuff, EG. Curtiss was a busy man. He worked with Dr. Alexander Graham Bell up in Baddeck, NS on some of the Doctor's forays in aviation. Baddeck is akin to Kitty Hawk for our Canadian folks.
  21. Canute
    Obviously not a good candidate for a busy diorama. The model includes everything, including a kitchen sink. It's very busy. 👍😄
  22. Canute
    Was it Chanute who turned a houseboat into a catapult launch rail for hos powered effort?
  23. Canute
    Nicely done, Chris. A great example of how good card modeling is. 👍
  24. Canute
    This is a master build, Chris. Hard to believe it's card. 👍
  25. Canute
    I'd just respray with dull red paint.

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