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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.
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On 11/21/2020 at 3:43 PM, R Palimaka said:
This is going to be a wonderful tribute, regardless of the different aircraft type, and I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with it. The Lancaster is such a magnificent aircraft, and we are lucky here in Ontario to have a flying example within a few hours drive. The sight of her taking off is breathtaking...and that sound! It always moves me to see how silent the crowds get when she goes to power to take off. I'm not in Hamilton as often with COVID, but I work with the Museum and will be there a couple times over the next month. If I can help let me know.
Richard
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. -
On 1/6/2021 at 9:01 AM, chuck540z3 said:
Thank you very much guys! A few model supply items that might be of interest:
- I just ordered 30 bottles of MRP paint, but MRP out of Slovakia won't ship directly to Canada any more. This may be due to our stupid Canada Post service not allowing the mailing of solvents and other paints as "Non Mailable Matter", with no regard to volume and actual risk of a few small bottles of paint. HobbyWorld-USA thankfully will, so they may not have got the memo.
Having said that, I can get paint deliveries from SE Asia all day long, probably because they don't care about stupid Canada Post rules.
- HobbyWorld is out of New Hampshire and I got my paint order in about 2 weeks by USPS mail. Pretty darn good.
- UMM-USA (excellent hobby store) is out of Illinois somewhere and ship through Chicago, which is the black hole of the USPS these days. My last shipment took 6 weeks and my current two shipments (Rosie the Riveter and HGW decal rivets) still sit in a Chicago warehouse somewhere doing nothing after 5 weeks- so far. Pretty darn bad, so try to avoid the Chicago area if you're in a hurry for anything from the USPS. This is not a dump on the USPS in general, especially during this horrible pandemic, but some areas are much worse than others for deliveries.
Cheers,
Chuck
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!
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On 11/23/2020 at 4:39 AM, easixpedro said:
Check out the National Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola. They’ve been restoring one and have copious pics of the Salmon primer they uncovered. Believe it was one recovered from Lake Michigan.
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.
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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.
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3 minutes ago, Finn said:
As mentioned earlier the gun didn't start getting installed until 1974 and it took awhile before they all got them put in. At that time there were at least 4 CF-104 squadrons so it took some time.
Speaking of war stories, back in 1985 a US base in Germany was having an exercise, and as per standard procedures other squadrons would practice airfield attacks on the base. A CF-104 was doing just that and after he dropped his simulated bombs on the base he shoved his throttle as far as it could, unfortunately he had a finger sticking out enough that he hit the Emergency Jettison button and blew off his tip tanks. The tanks hit a HAS, caught fire and burnt a truck that was parked beside it, since an air attack was taking place everyone was under shelter so no causalities, except for the truck.
Jari
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.
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13 minutes ago, aircommando130 said:
Aaaaaaaaaah yes....beer and women....now I know where all my money went when I was younger!
Cheers and Happy New Year! Ron
Yes, what fun. Except for that apology parade, it was a hot summer day and I was hung over.
Happy New Year!
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1 hour ago, chuck540z3 said:
Thanks guys!
Hi Gary!
Although I'm not sure of the year, this jet does not have the gun.
What is this "wing dilemma" and rings that you speak of? Sounds like I need to learn something new to me.
Cheers,
Chuck
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
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On 12/22/2020 at 8:58 PM, Finn said:
also when you get to the weathering stage, there was a panel that was opened to access fueling controls:
Jari
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.
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On 12/17/2020 at 3:34 PM, chuck540z3 said:
As I learn more and more about F-104's and CF-104's specifically, one of the funny ironies of the Canadian version is that they didn't have the nasty gun early on until ~ 1974. We Canadians are more civilized than that. Instead, they used the ammo and gun area to store extra fuel so that it could, among other bombing missions, drop a Nuke and have enough gas to crash somewhere safely past the blast area. Ahhh, the good 'ol Cold War days.
Since I digress from modeling, here's another distant memory that is still vivid in my mind. When I was a kid, maybe about about 10 or so in the mid 60's, my Dad took me to the local airshow which was at the old Calgary Airport called McCall Field. In those days the flying displays were very close to the crowd and I remember having a CF-101 Voodoo and CF-104 Starfighter do head to head flypasts a low level right in front of us. I recall looking left and right and seeing the small specks that were these jets in the distance and not hearing anything but a distant roar, then suddenly they had crisscrossed right in front of us in silence, with the load roar coming a few seconds after they had. WOW! It was such a rush, especially when you're only a little kid. It now surprises me that I'm finally making my first CF-104 56 years later. Maybe a Voodoo one day as well? I don't think they make a 1/32 version other than vacuuform, which is a pity.
Cheers,
Chuck
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.
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On 12/6/2020 at 2:34 PM, aircommando130 said:
I remember the 104 had sharp leading edges...had covers that went over them so you wouldn't lose an ear!
Cheers...Ron
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On 12/5/2020 at 7:33 PM, chuck540z3 said:
Exactly, although I'm not so sure about the magic part.
Had these decal rivets not worked, at least for me, it would have been many hours of adding sunken rivets right now while I'm currently cleaning up the fuselage halves. Lots of issues there, which I will soon show. Now it's many hours of adding slightly raised rivets much later in the build after some paint. I know, some of you out there still think raised rivets are stupid on this particular jet. Keep in mind that my pics above are SUPER close. To my naked eye, I can't see that the rivets are raised at all, which is exactly what they should look like.
Cheers,
Chuck
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.
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On 12/19/2020 at 5:10 PM, Mark P said:
Jennings, I am of the opinion that the HK gear for the 48th scale B-17 as provided depicts the oleos in full extension. This makes the stance for the plane incorrect on the ground. I can't say the same for the 32nd scale kit as I dont have it. I welcome other opinions as I could be wrong.
Mark Proulx
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.
- Dpgsbody55 and esarmstrong
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Obviously this drone is a favorite of mine, well done!
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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.
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On 6/21/2019 at 8:26 PM, steinerman said:
Thanks for the comments, but no, I'm not going to oil can the sides. I'm not even going to emulate the hull plating. I tried to scribe the plates but it turned out to be a total disaster, so I puttied it over, sanded my goofs down and repainted. I figured that with all the detail above deck, nobody would notice the hull anyway, and so far I'm right!
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.
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On 9/4/2020 at 2:25 AM, mozart said:
No I don’t Mike! I noticed that yesterday and could only find the T11 reference like you.
Feb 1954: "Several Q.F.Is from Oakington have visited the Squadron to fly with pilots converting onto the Vampire T11, which has replaced the Meteor 7." Jul 59: Last entry of Vampire T.11 hours.
Regarding Vampire WA432:
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de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB Mk 5Owner/operator: 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron Royal Air Force (603 (City of Edinburgh) Sqn RAF) Registration: WA432 C/n / msn: EEP42276 Fatalities: Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 Other fatalities: 0 Aircraft damage: Written off (damaged beyond repair) Location: Rushie Cleugh Gulley, Fennie Law, Gifford, East Lothian - 
United Kingdom
Phase: En route Nature: Military Departure airport: RAF Turnhouse, Edinburgh, East Lothian Destination airport: Narrative:
de Havilland DH.100 Vampire FB Mk.5 WA432: Delivered 4/7/51. RAF Service career was with 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron, RAF only.
Written off (destroyed) 17/4/55: Destroyed in a CFIT (Controlled Flight Into Terrain) when flew into a hillside in cloud and conditions of poor visibility, while on a low-level navigation exercise at Rushie Cleugh Gulley, Fennie Law, Gifford, Lammermuir Hills, 10 miles south of Haddington, East Lothian. Pilot killed
Crew of Vampire WA432:
Flying Officer Samuel Milne RAF (pilot, aged 22, Service Number 2686168) - killed on active service 17/4/55
Substantial pieces of wreckage were still present at the crash site as recently as 5 May 2018 (see link #8). The continued presence of the wreckage is possibly due to the crash site being at the bottom of a difficult to access steep gulley, and the wreckage being heavily overgrown with bracken and weeds.There's the answer Mike:
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.
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On 10/10/2020 at 2:29 PM, LSP_K2 said:
Interesting. I've seen the kill marks arranged two completely different ways. Perhaps two near identical Corsairs?
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!
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5 hours ago, firefly7 said:
Whoa, just got notification that the Felixtow has been shipped to me. How they transferred it to the warehouse so fast is beyond me. Oustanding service from this company. Ordered 4 hours ago.
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.
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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.
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On 7/22/2020 at 8:38 AM, dodgem37 said:
So, what do your A.F. buddies say about you flying NAVY?
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.
- Pete Fleischmann and mpk
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Worked on loaded jets in Canada during G-8 in Kananaskis, first time I ever did that non-wartime.
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SBD-5 of the Royal New Zealand Air Force - Trumpeter 1/32
in Ready for Inspection
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Finest SBD build ever!