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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!

Probably shipped it directly from their store, just so you know, I had your exact kit in my grubby little hands and put it back on the shelf a few weeks ago, they were selling for $550 Cdn on eBay at the time, which was $300 Cdn more.

I discovered them in Edmonton about three weeks ago, I bought the Sopwith Camel for $120 Cdn, I was tempted to buy them all as they were selling for double on eBay and in US dollars.

Probably give him a harder time for forgetting to put the wheels down. Just kidding Pete..............you know what life in the Airforce was like, never a dull moment when given the opportunity to have fun.

Worked on loaded jets in Canada during G-8 in Kananaskis, first time I ever did that non-wartime.

Wow, love them all, really like the Hornet landing on the carrier. But love them all.

Awesome, I was finally able to find some of these decals from Canuck models, they were hard to find given David is out of business now. My first fighter jet ride was in a CF-104, love the jet.

Nope, they haven’t been around since. They never researched their P-40. They did promise a FAA Corsair release, but I suspect that is like the F-16D release that we will never see.

I knew about the Spit at least a year in advance, the Mustang & Corsair about six months. The Mossie was the worst kept secret. I had friends at Vintage Wings who tipped me off, all four aircraft were researched there. So was the Mustang.

Beautiful build!!!!

Awesome work! Love the open panels.