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  1. ccoyle
    Spanish Nationalist now has her landing gear. No skid yet -- they tend to break off easily, so that will be one of the last bits.
  2. ccoyle
    The kits are not widely known in the modeling world, but the owner is a member here (username: *Hans*), as is one of the guys that works for the US distributor, Clare Hess (username: catopower). You might try directing some questions to them. Cheers!
  3. ccoyle
    No one needs to apologize for their results. We don't hand out 'pass' or 'fail' marks! I, for one, always tip my hat to scratch-builders, especially if they have pulled off a difficult first project. Cheers!
  4. ccoyle
    Antique tractors and engines are still a big deal in the more rural, agrarian parts of the U.S. The town I grew up in has an annual rodeo, and antique tractors are featured every year.
  5. ccoyle
    There's a Hobby Lobby just a few minutes from my house, so I'll have to look out for it next time I'm there. One of the reasons I like pre-WWII aircraft is that they typically have windscreens rather than enclosed cockpits; it minimizes the paper-to-plastic hassle. Cop-out? Maybe -- I also happen to really like that time period. 😋 EDIT: Just glanced over at my display case -- every airplane in it had a first flight before 1 Sep 1939.
  6. ccoyle
    Looking very nice -- beautiful wood and very tidy work.
  7. ccoyle
    I am always on the lookout for the 'perfect' card modeling glue -- haven't found it yet. I use a lot of good ol' wood glue. The stuff in the tube is contact cement, which is good for large surfaces. The clear Tacky Glue is a recent addition; it sets slower than wood glue and dries clear, but I don't find that it bonds as well as wood glue. One thing that I suck at is making canopies, and a big part of the problem is finding a glue that will bond paper to acetate without fogging the plastic. I had hoped that the clear Tacky Glue would do this task well, but it doesn't -- you can tack the paper and plastic together, but they will easily peel apart. The search continues!
  8. ccoyle
    Wings, struts, and empennages all done.
  9. ccoyle
    Great work so far! I note that in your upside-down photos, the hull displays right-side up, so it all evens out. Cheers!
  10. ccoyle
    Your experiment turned out quite nice!
  11. ccoyle
    Great job, Greg! As usual, your weathering makes the subject really come to life.
  12. ccoyle
    How can a gun barrel not be included in a kit? Seems like kind of an important part for any warship model. 🤔
  13. ccoyle
    Thanks, Paul. Just wanted to make sure that folks knew this up front.
  14. ccoyle
    I assume that any prospective builder will need to purchase the practicum separately?
  15. ccoyle
    Wire wrapped in paper.
  16. ccoyle
    Sad epilogue ... I recently discovered that this kit is not new -- it is a repaint of a kit first published in 2005. Only the livery is new; the design and diagrams are the same. I actually knew that the 2005 kit was not a good one, but I didn't know that this version was a repaint. Had I known this, of course, I wouldn't have bought this kit. Now I'll just have to wait until Halinski or Kartonowa Kolekcja produce a P-36 kit.
  17. ccoyle
    I honed my early skills on some trout models that used to be available for free on a Japanese site. Very nice models and pretty realistic-looking. Sadly, I don't think the site is up anymore.
  18. ccoyle
    Unlike wooden ship models in their large boxes, card models do sorta lend themselves to hoarding, um, I mean "collecting."
  19. ccoyle
    From time to time I feel it necessary to prove that this build isn't dead. Slow, but not dead. Spanish Nationalist now has its wing mounted. Try as I might, I can't make myself sit and do all the struts at one go -- it's deathly boring. So it's a few here, a few there ... it'll be done eventually. Got all the exhaust pipes done, too, so yeah -- progress. 😆 And I just now noticed that not a single exhaust pipe is visible in the photo. 🤔
  20. ccoyle
    I just tagged your build log -- can't believe I had to type in "I Love Kit" for the manufacturer! 😜
  21. ccoyle
    Welcome! Since you are in LA, be sure to check out the Ship Modelers Association of Fullerton. It's a good group. https://www.shipmodelersassociation.org/index.html Cheers!
  22. ccoyle
    When I was a kid, Cal Fire (known as the CDF back in those days) used to operate one of these as an airtanker from the local airport. BTW, there is a YouTuber by the name of maxsmodels who has done a series of short histories of these old model kit manufacturers, e.g. Revell, Aurora, Monogram, et al. Fun stuff for those of us old enough to remember paying $0.25 for a model kit down at the local Sprouse-Reitz drugstore.
  23. ccoyle
    Ah, thanks -- you flatter me! I'm not trying to be overly-humble when I say this, but I am truly only a card modeler of middling ability. Some guys do work that really defies belief, such as this Bf 109 F-4 done by Rustem Rezyapov from a Halinski kit: Hard? Yes and no. The basic skills are really quite simple, e.g. cut, fold, and glue. But as in any medium, picking up the more nuanced skills that separate the masters from the masses takes a lot of practice. Thanks again for the comments!
  24. ccoyle
    Lots of good choices out there from Vanguard Models, Master Korabel, MarisStella, probably a few others I'm forgetting at the moment.
  25. ccoyle
    Here ya go, Joe.

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