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When I served in the RCAF in my Twin Otter days we had a hard landing on the ice, we bent and buckled the ski’s, and the rigging was torn. This was in the Arctic in the middle of no where. We knew we could take-off, but we could not retract the skis to make a wheels landing at the base (CFS Alert). We landing on the gravel runway with our bent and buckled skis. That was quite the adventure. Although we didn’t have sparks or fire like you did.

Me too, I have a 2020, it is my second Tacoma.

I fought something like this with Chrysler with their own arbitration process and successfully won, it was a very easy process. There are laws protecting you for reasonable durability and when a warranty expires. One day out of warranty, the dealership should have no difficulty honoring the warranty.

The five were registered: C-GMUS (Ross personally requested this registration). He’d always joked it stood for Grady’s Mustang. C-CXUO C-GXUQ C-GXUR C-GXUP The Edmonton Journal published a photo of all five of them over the Edmonton skyline in 1977 on the front page of the paper. EDIT- Found a sixth : C-GGXR I know two arrived crated so that may be the reason only five were seen initially. I also have a few magazine articles on the purchase and the flights to Canada. I need to read them again. EDIT #2 - the five airworthy Mustangs were swapped for five T-33s. The sixth Mustang was not shipped as airworthy.

Yes, I have had them since they were released.

Actually five were brought up. And yes Arny was the documented owner for the first year of the Mustang that Ross owned but I believe the funding was always in place from Ross. One was tied up in a divorce fight for many years.

Hi Ray, Nice review, I have two 1/48 sets and one 1/32 set on the way. I had a personal attachment to the Bolivian FAB 923, I know the owner who purchased it in 1977. I did some work on it, including upgrades in the avionics. For the most part he did keep it stock. Correct on the two seats not being the same, I had many flights in the back. That seat folded up. I have cockpit pictures in my collection somewhere. I can scan and send them to you, once I find them, if you would like to add them to your article. Instrument panel was gray too. She still flies to this day, Ross sold her in 1997 for $2.5 million and the new owner restored her to WWII specs, for a period of time she flew as American Beauty, she is now Loui IV (N151MC). Ross flew her as “What’s Up Doc” with Bugs Bunny nose art (C-GMUS).

I should add, Turbo Mustang is next and nearly complete from what I understand. Details are on their Facebook page.

I had a personal connection to one of these aircraft when it was owned by a local person in the Edmonton area. I am happy to see this set is now released and combined with Draw Decals What's Up Doc decals I can model the aircraft I was fortunate to fly in. His aircraft is also depicted on the conversion decals. Link I've ordered on 1/32 set and two 1/48 scale sets!

Nice rescue, I have a 1/48 Hasegawa Hornet I started the year I started working on real Hornets (1999). I recently pulled it out to finish it and it was roughly at the same stage as yours (painting). Kind of funny, when I look back at pictures of my model room it is always in the background somewhere. Your build has provided me inspiration to get it done.

Model Master paints were dropped from production over a year ago, there is no longer a supply.

You can still be in the incubation phase and test negative, which is why they need you to quarantine for two weeks.

The same builder put that p on Britmodeler about 3-4 weeks ago.

Most it says is very early 2021 or later.

How the hell did he do that? Cool!

Wow, your best build yet. Although the 104 was my favorite jet, so I may be biased.

It’s the different curing time between paints, simple as that.

Not sure how you could see this, eBay blocks us from viewing who is bidding now. I used to see this all the time and people were obviously using second accounts to pump-up bids. There is a way to kind of verify what you say, you can view the number of feedback a bidder has. You can match bids to that variable, but bidder user IDs are not visible. The upsetting thing about this change is ebay obviously did this to protect the schill bidders.

I got a 1/32 Tamiya Zero for $25.00, I thought that was a deal.

I have pictures of RESCUE on the Bombay doors if this project goes forward.

Wow, looks awesome! And as for the rivets, they are a visual representation of something that it there, most the time I can’t tell if they are raised, recessed, or flush.

I was shocked they missed that.

And here I was looking at the first picture of the gear trying to figure out how it was backwards, then I scroll down and see Chuck edited the image I was staring at. I stared at it for some time.

Correct, the 104 used engine bleed air to lower landing speeds. This hot air was forced through bleed valves in the wings over the top rear surface of the wing towards the trailing edge flaps. This increased air flow reduced air pressure on the top of the wing and increased lift. This heat eroded the bare aluminum surface of the wings and therefore the top of the wings were finished in a hard epoxy finish (gloss white) to protect the wing. The bottom of the wing (painted gray) did not need this treatment as the heat was not directed over that surface. The system was called the boundary layer control system. Subsequent paint schemes still required the epoxy treatment with a durable paint coat (by that time paint quality had improved and a high gloss was not needed). Great looking build Chuck! You continue to amaze!

We could have split the shipping had I known!