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  1. CDW
    Following this interesting subject
  2. CDW
    I like it! Something different is the spice of life.
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    In the mid sixties my dad was a local politician. The general in command at MacDill AFB offered to take dad up in an F4C. Dad turned down the offer because of his fear of flying. It was the only thing I ever knew dad to fear. He earned that fear on a commercial flight over the Gulf of Mexico when flying from Tampa to Mississippi. The plane flew through a violent storm, was struck by lightning, lost an engine, pitched up and down violently. Made an emergency landing in the panhandle for repairs before the flight could resume. On board the flight was the entire University of Tampa football team and coaching staff along with my dad. Dad vowed to never fly again after that episode. 😄
  4. CDW
    Beautiful model Andrew
  5. CDW
    Something came in the mail today from Poland, it’s the 1:33 GPM F-4E Phantom II card kit with the laser cut frames, a vac canopy and 3D resin printed wheels. Looks like a beautiful kit. Instructions and diagrams appear very well done. Delivered via Polish Priority Mail all for a grand total of $35 USD (175 PLN). Seems like a bargain to me. Kit contains fourteen A4 size color parts pages and four A4 instructions/diagrams pages. Construction appears very straight forward and easy to comprehend on first glance. Time will tell. 😀
  6. CDW
    This is a kit you print out yourself on an inkjet or similar printer?
  7. CDW
    Preparing for the third fuselage skin, I have it taped in place to see what kind of shaping is needed for the skin. Behind the cockpit is a raised headrest. The top of the skin needs to conform to the headrest then taper down toward the rudder/vertical stabilizer. Trouble is, no formers are designed as part of the kit to help give shape to this area. When looking at the skin from the rear, a large area is raised above the inner skins all the way back to the vertical stab. Something doesn’t look right to me. But maybe is is right, just don’t know until more skin pieces are added. Insufficient working drawings to give me hints of a proper fit here.
  8. CDW
    I agree about repetition. I also wonder about the design of this particular kit. Something tells me this one is not based on a CAD design. I am sure there are modelers who could build this kit better than I, but I am in no position to make a silk purse from a sows ear at this stage. Looking ahead at the cowl, I see seven or more parts on the printed page that probably make up the finished cowl, but the plans show just one single part number, not two not three and sure as heck not seven.
  9. CDW
    I put on the first two skins on the outer fuselage after putting on the inner ones. The fuselage outer skins go on in seven pieces. There is no way in heck I am going to get seamless joins. I used acrylic putty on the first join then touched it up with a silver sharpie marker. Not perfect by any stretch but it will have to do. Not going to be too much you can see inside that cockpit when it’s all said and done.
  10. CDW
    They remind me of the Classic Airframe and Special Hobby kits from that era. Nice, limited run kits. Do you have the PCM Spitfire Mk IX?
  11. CDW
    I think I was buying PCM kits in the late 90’s or maybe early 2000’s. I bought a few but never built one. They came out with stuff no one else did. Glad to see you are building this one. Mine are long gone, traded away for something else.
  12. CDW
    51st reunion of my old football team last night. Lots of laughter, sharing memories, and the type of interaction only a group of old athlete buddies can have.
  13. CDW
    This guy right here has helped steer me towards Halinski card kits. As his first card model, he did a very respectable job on this Halinski P-51D Mustang kit. I very much like the way the kit build sequence went down and at how detailed it all was. Beautiful model. I have a few on order now, although not the P-51D. My First Cardboard Model (Halinski P-51D Mustang) (sympatico.ca)
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    Thanks EG, but I might easily mess this one up. After paying a grand total of $16 for this kit including shipping and sales tax, I am not stressing at all if a blunder happens here or there, or even if I need to throw it in the bin. It's a learning experience and there is a lot I am not sure about. It's going to be quite a while before I can turn out a great piece of work in this medium, not the least of which is learning which company/designer produces the most accurate kits. Not to be too critical, but there is a lot about this kit that seems less than optimal IMO, but hey, since it's my first I could be WAY off base.
  15. CDW
    Thanks Chris. Mine are crossed too. I can’t tell yet but should know soon.
  16. CDW
    Interesting tank. Now I want to read up on its service record. Glad to see you doing this Alan.
  17. CDW
    The kit plans call for structural wire bracing along the sides and top of the fuselage. Since the top can not be seen once the inner skins are in place, decided to include it only on the sides. The kit instrument panel needed some trimming relocating and cutting to fit. Fuselage formers were added and now it’s ready for the inner skins.
  18. CDW
    Outstanding! I’ll be following along. Love the F.2B. Excellent choice. Where did you acquire your kit and frames?
  19. CDW
    Everything looks excellent. Your attention to a working crew bring life to the model. Details are extraordinary here. Looking forward to following your future projects.
  20. CDW
    Thanks for the encouraging words. I feel all thumbs on this, but it's something new. I am beginning to see where a few new tools could come in handy, like a small dapping set. Also, I need to work out a tool similar to something I used when doing auto body work. It's used to create an offset lip where new sheet metal can be welded on to old sheet metal so as not to cause a raised edge. Maybe that's an adaptation of the dapping tool, although they are round on the ends?
  21. CDW
    Thanks to EG, got the throttle assembly sorted out and installed. Almost ready to put on the inner skins, then the outer skins will follow. Going to find out soon what building the engine is going to be like. Quite a few small pieces per cylinder.
  22. CDW
    Thanks Jav
  23. CDW
    Great reference photo there AJ. Full color too, makes it all the better. Love your model paint and finish. The enamel laid down very smooth.
  24. CDW
    What a menacing-looking bomb, that Fritz X. A fitting photograph for your model. Until you presented this thread, I never knew how she met her end.
  25. CDW
    That makes sense but it wasn’t intuitive to me. Thanks for pointing it out. Maybe once I’ve seen this sort of thing a time or two it will become more obvious. Two sets of eyeballs are better than one.

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