ccoyle
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Another of my favorite lines from the same film: "You see, in this world there's two kinds of people, my friend: those with loaded guns and those who dig. You dig." -
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https://www.answer.pl/en/planes/4637-j-20-re2000.html https://www.answer.pl/en/planes/4701-harvard-iib.html
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Ouch! Glad to see you were able to return to modeling!
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No. If they were, I probably would have already bought them, cuz WAK has the best shipping rates in the business. No, sadly, they are both published by MSModel.
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That's not the same kit, Keith. Thanks for looking, though! EDIT: I'm not terribly enamored of the Italian Eastern Front camo scheme depicted on the Orel kit. I think it looks kinda garish. Moreover, the graphics and level of detail don't look that great, either. I've never built one of Orel's aircraft kits, but I've never been impressed by any of the finished examples I've seen.
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So, while I'm sitting here killing some time, allow me to share one of the Great Criminal Enterprises in the world of card modeling. Shown below is a screen capture of my shopping cart from an actual publisher/vendor in Poland, who shall go nameless. Pay special attention to the shipping charge. How many models do you think are in my shopping cart? Two. Yes, that is the shipping cost to get two kits (plus frames, wheels, and canopies) shipped from Poland. Which is a shame, because I'm really quite interested in these two particular models (a Swedish J-20, i.e. Reggiane 2000, and a North American Harvard IIB). But I'm not $72.24 interested. Sadly, these two kits are not available at the sites I usually buy from. Card models -- it pays to shop.
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This came up in my Facebook memories today. It's a Yak-3 built from an Orlik kit. It's one of the very first kits I built with laser-cut formers. A friend of mine back in California has this model.
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. . . then you still have to wait for it to arrive from Poland. 😉 I already have the new parts cut out.
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We can easily splice the two parts together, if that's fine by you.
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Absolutely! Since the basic model is finished, we'll mark it done -- and congratulations!
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Should we wait for those before marking this build as finished?
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Yes, this is how I had to build all my models back in the days before I discovered laser-cut parts! Happily, pulpboard is far gentler on #11 blades than chipboard (shudder). I was fortunate to have such a large surplus piece of it on hand.
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You could, if A.) you were willing to pay for a new set, B.) the replacement set were also the wrong thickness, and C.) you were willing to wait two weeks or so for the new set to arrive. No, thanks!
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Bit of a hiccup on the Salmson. The sheet of laser-cut parts for the wings was cut from the wrong thickness of card -- only 0.5 mm instead of 1.0 mm. I suspect the sheet containing the fuselage bulkheads was likewise cut from the wrong thickness, but thickness was less critical for those parts. Anyways, I assembled one wing frame, hoping I could make the thinner parts work, but the resulting structure is very flimsy. So, I made the painful decision to ditch the laser-cut parts and use the printed kit parts after laminating them to some leftover 1.0 mm pulpboard. This means I will now need to cut out 28 parts for the wing frames. Also, because the frame pieces are so narrow in the vertical dimension, cutting out the notches where the parts intersect greatly weakens the pulpboard at that point, so I need to stiffen all of the cut-out parts with thin CA. Depending on how motivated I am, this task may take a few days.
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Interesting video of a Salmson being readied for flight. I can plainly see some elements that the kit designer got wrong. 😑
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Empennage is done. I can't give this kit high marks for number and quality of diagrams, not for sufficiency of internal structure. I had to muddle through the former and scratch-build some of the latter, but it turned out okay, I think.
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Close-up photography is the enemy of being satisfied with a job well done -- it highlights a wealth of tiny mistakes that no one will notice at normal viewing distances. I have to remind myself of this fact all the time.
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I remember reading a long time ago that some very early paper models have survived surprisingly long times in museums. As for my models, they will probably survive until I die, but after that all bets are off!
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Added the pilot's headrest and windscreens. The kit provide neither interior frames nor glazing templates for the latter; I made photocopies and used those as templates.
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