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Reading on other sites I hear anyone who made a CC payment to squadron have been having the transaction just disappear from their transactions. Which is odd but is the same as a refund. Squadron was my regular source of plastic until they changed their business practice and started selling at inflated prices.

Nice work Chuck!

NZ and Australia have people who listen, good to see you are doing so well there. I have family in Australia, they are so lucky. I had a chance to move to Australia when the RAAF raided the CAF in the early 90s. I chickened out but roughly 30 of my squadron mates made the move.

I too have been busier due to Covid. Looking at these builds has given me joy and relaxation. Although lately I’ve returned to my 1/32 Tamiya Corsair build.

You’ll have me as a customer when you release this. I have a box full of SBD goodies waiting for your rivets before I get started on my kit.

Finest SBD build ever!

Mouth dropping build, again Scooby approves of Scooby. This is one of three aircraft that carried Scooby, I have all three on my build list.

Beautiful work, enjoying the build. I saved an obit that was in the papers about 5-6 years ago if a crew member of this exact Lancaster that you are building.

I was lucky to fly in her, myself and a squadron mate charged her batteries when she visited our base for an airshow. He slipped and fell bringing the batteries back from the battery shop. He cracked his skull pretty good. I benefited by getting a thank-you flight during the flypast in the airshow.

Artscale in the Czeck Republic will ship MRP to Canada. I spoke to the owner of MRP, he is looking for a Canadian distributor, I may have found him one. I ordered from Hobbyworld recently, it was very slow and he shorted me two bottles last order. I tried to contact him but he didn’t return any of my emails. Unfortunate as he was fast and a good communicator in previous dealings. Spruebrothers ship to Canada even though the site says they don’t. I know others who have used them in the Toronto area but I don’t know how they accomplish it. Awesome work on the avionics bay!

As Jenning’s stated, where the salmon was exposed to the elements, it had a final coat of the exterior color. The only exposed areas that showed visible salmon on that Corsair was the tail wheel area. The main gear wells had a final coat of light gray. It has lots of salmon, but all in the interior. Sadly the museum is leaving the main gear bays in salmon despite finding it with light gray as the top coat.

Fantastic work Chuck. If you aren’t happy with the handrails you can send me your cockpit and I’ll send you the one from my kit. I only worked on the 104 during OJT, I never had the type course. And my flight in the 104 was a case of me being at the right place at the right time and I had my High Altitude Indoctrination course.

Were you around for the parade I mentioned? He changed the RCR crest on their memorial to an RCAF crest. It took awhile before anyone noticed the change. I wasn’t involved, he kept it quiet from everyone.

Yes, what fun. Except for that apology parade, it was a hot summer day and I was hung over. Happy New Year!

Sorry Chuck, I’m reading through this in chronological order, getting caught up due to my absence from visiting this site. After I posted this a few pages later I realized you already decided to go gunless. In regards to the wing comment, I was reading you weren’t sure how you were going to deal with the flush rivets. To describe them better they were more like a rod stamped into the wing, sanded flush and filled with putty. They were not indentations. The best way to describe how they looked visually is they looked like stamped circles. And Hasegawa has an excellent tool that stamps these circles. But reading on I think you solved what you are going to do. They were definitely visually noticeable, I’ve read a lot of people say they weren’t. This is the tool: https://www.largescaleplanes.com/reviews/review.php?rid=875

That is my buddy Gene fueling this 104 in Baden. We were in air cadets, air reserves, and the regular force together. I went out and had beers with him before Covid hit. We were still in high school when this picture was taken, I joined the air reserves when I was 17 in grade 11. Our summer OJT was in Germany working on the 104. A lot of fun for a 17 year old just learning about girls and beer. Our presence permitted guys stationed in Germany to go on leave. This particular summer Gene pulled a serious prank on the RCR infantry regiment. I don’t think it was ever discovered that Gene was the person who carried it out. The prank resulted in the entire Airforce contingent (Lahr and Baden) holding a parade to apologize to the army. Recently we were discussing this event on our squadron Facebook page. One of our Aerospace Engineers at the time, who is now a Alberta Court of Queens Judge, stated due to the statute of limitations we can now discuss Gene’s involvement.

My flight instructor was a former 104 driver. He had some incredible stories about the nuke days in Europe, like you say, after the nuke was dropped on target he’d turn for home until he ran out of gas. It was a one way trip. I was lucky to get one flight in a 104 before they retired. And like you say, they were amazing at airshows. You had to be on your toes to see them coming, if not you only looked to the trailing sound after the jet had already passed.

I know a few people who were scalped working on them.

Chuck, great to see you doing a CF-104, I loved the jet. By 1979 your jet would have had a gun, as Jari pointed out. In regards to the wing dilemma, Hasegawa Tri-tool makes a donut ring stamper. I love it, it actually stamps a ring. I can get you the part number if needed.

Does Eduards brass gear for the HK B-17 also have full extension on the oleo? My prediction is Tamiya announcing a 1/32 Hurricane.

Obviously this drone is a favorite of mine, well done!

Very impressive build, I love the techniques you revealed here and your display case. I have the 1/200 Hood which I have not started yet. I have invested the same as you into it. I have an attachment to both the Missouri and the Hood. I first toured the Missouri in Bremerton, Washington, since then I have visited her several times in Hawaii. My uncle was the curator that had her transferred to Pearl Harbor. He requested the move and signed the documents accepting her in Hawaii. The family connection to the Hood is my mother's cousin, Boy First Class Eddie Holmes, was killed on her at the young age of 17 years-old. The mother had never let his memory fade, now that mom is gone that is my responsibility.

There is still a dent on the side of the Missouri from where a Kamikaze kit it. There are photo's of the hit too as it occurred.

My dad was with 603 Squadron when they were flying the Vampire, they had one Spit left at the time as the CO was a BoB vet and fought to keep it in strength.

Compared to the publicity photo this looks the way the kill markings were arranged. I doubt there were two identical Corsairs because this Corsair wasn’t a 214 aircraft and was only dressed up for the publicity photo when Boyington was between tours. Beautiful build!