mhorina

You are doing a great job,it looks very good. Can you tell me what you used for the battery cable. It looks likre its some stranded material. Thanks.
 
     Mike Horina

And here I thought of taking the Revell wing and putting it on the Tamiya fuselage. Only to save not having to spend days preparing the Tamiya wing. Nothing to fill on the Revell wing. Right? Might try adding early Revell P-51 interior parts to the later mark Tamiya interior also. Just some thoughts.
 
     Mike Horina

Why did Revell do this? Why the vent on the lower forward portside for the battery location on late mark Mustangs? That shouldn't be on a -5 P-51. 
     Mike Horina

Looks like you could use the solid pour stalk as a way to get the bottom flattened before mounting on the kit landing gear.
 
   Mike Horina

John,
   Your model looks great. I'm glad I was able to help with your build.
 
         Mike

John,
  Your welcome.  Glad I was able to help. Hope to see more of this build.
          Mike

Correcting the K-4 Belly
       by Vincent Kermorgant
This is on Hyperscale dated 2004
   
   Try this shortcut  http://www.clubhyper.com/reference/k4bellyvk_1.htm
 
          Mike Horina

Just received the Gray Matter fishtail exhausts for the Hasegawa P-40 kits. They were mastered by Derek Bradshaw and are much improved over the kits fishtailed exhausts in that they have a actual opening at the exhaust end as opposed to being closed and very thin. They are individual stacks and replace Hasegawa sprue 'U'. Bought off E-Bay and got them in 8  days UK to IL USA   HTH
 
     Mike Horina

Mike (phantom)
  I appreciate your invite, but I have to differ. One of ours is on the IPMS board and can't make our Saturday dinner because they wanted him to attend the IPMS dinner.  He being a long time club member a few of us decided we would go with him for dinner on Friday. While I am the last of the founding fathers of the club, which now meets twice a month instead of every week I for various reasons can't attend as many meetings as I once did. The reservations for both of our dinners have been made already. While I would like to know many of the LSPs better, I have to be with those, some of whom, while not in the club since its beginning, I am grateful for those who have kept the club I helped to become an IPMS club together for more than 45 years. Thank you for the invitation ,I appreciate it.
 
    Mike Horina

Mike, join us on Friday night. I am sure you will have a great time and get to know us better.
 
Mike

Hello,
    I will be attending the convention also, arriving on Wednesday. I will be having dinner Friday and Saturday evening with my club members, Chicago Sprue Stretchers. My club members will have a club display table. Alas only 48th scale. If any of you were at the IPMS covention 2 years ago in Columbus we had a display table there of 48th scale US bombers over Europe.Hopefully some LSP folks will stop by to take a look.  I'll be looking for and hoping to seeing/meeting some of you there. 
 
     Mike Horina

l think that they are for recognition lights on the P-40N, which did not have the light under the starboard wing fairing.
 
            Mike Horina

Some times I wonder !. Juggernut says he has both the D and M kits but doesn't mention that in the M kit there is a sprue K that has the parts needed to change the looks of the motor.  All 'oyoy5' needs to do is look at all the information posted in this thread. Check the sprue page of the kit that Dave Williams posted a shortcut to. Carefully look at and try and understand the nice art work Juggernut posted.
  I'm amazed since joining here how much information is passed on these pages just to help another member. Everyone here should be proud of the  information that is passed here to help in one way or another to all members. Thank you all.
    Mike Horina

Some times I wonder !. Juggernut says he has both the D and M kits but doesn't mention that in the M kit there is a sprue K that has the parts needed to change the looks of the motor.  All 'oyoy5' needs to do is look at all the information posted in this thread. Check the sprue page of the kit that Dave Williams posted a shortcut to. Carefully look at and try and understand the nice art work Juggernut posted.
  I'm amazed since joining here how much information is passed on these pages just to help another member. Everyone here should be proud of the  information that is passed here to help in one way or another to all members. Thank you all.
    Mike Horina

Some times I wonder !. Juggernut says he has both the D and M kits but doesn't mention that in the M kit there is a sprue K that has the parts needed to change the looks of the motor.  All 'oyoy5' needs to do is look at all the information posted in this thread. Check the sprue page of the kit that Dave Williams posted a shortcut to. Carefully look at and try and understand the nice art work Juggernut posted.
  I'm amazed since joining here how much information is passed on these pages just to help another member. Everyone here should be proud of the  information that is passed here to help in one way or another to all members. Thank you all.
    Mike Horina

Danny,
   Nice work, I hope you will continue. I would like to ask, have you looked at the upper wing parts? Does the wing spar image still show on the wing top surface? It was a problem on the 1st release of this kit and required some work to eliminate them. When you get that far it would be great if you could let us know if they are still there and if you tried to even the surface and if you fixed that area. Also I hope you know about the cowl, engine alignment problem, ease fix if your aware of the problem.Here is something about gluing the wings together from 2008 The fit is not the best but as a earlier poster said do not cement the top and bottom wings together at the flap location. I did this on my build and it proved to be helpful. It still was not the best but it did help      Really like what you've done with the cockpit.
   Mike Horina

Nice to see LSP won. Congratulations to everyone.
 
        Mike Horina

Hey Mike, PM me I have what you need
 
Dick

Just posted a help wanted on the traders board. My Trump P-47 sliding canopy cracked while I was masking it. Piece is still connected but I was wondering what would be a way of at least keeping it together. Tried ebay but the person selling Trump sprues does not have the needed sprue. All and any suggestions welcomed. TIA
   Mike Horina

My apologies to all who looked in. Seems I had more then enough to consume on Christmas eve. My wife had put it in my presents because she had signed for it. When I told her what I was up to, she reminded me that I got it at the party. That's what happens when a 74 year old grandpa gets to drink with 3 legal and 1 almost legal grandchildren at a Christmas party. Found it among some other presents I had recieved. Thanks to all that answered my post.
 
   Mike Horina

I will never be able to afford a B-17F kit, much less having space for it. Nor the SB2C.
 
But I have four Tamiya -51D's built and on display, and would buy at least that many P-51B's if they ever come to fruition.
 
Like some others here, I am 68 and modeling time is slowly eroding as time passes and hands become stiff and eye sight deteriorates.

Give it a go - it is worth it!
 
I find a clear bench - some relaxing music - no distractions - and a small glass of wine/beer can help 
 
Iain

2 in diameter
 
lenght tips to L.Edge
19 3/16 inches
13 3/8 inches
7 3/8 inches
1 5/8 inches

Just received my Yak-3 kit ordered on 9/2/16. Cost 67.36 total with shipping to IL. As concerned the fabric surfaces, prime the areas, remove primer from frames  that should be all the work needed if that. Photos seen else where showed exaggerated depth of fabric surface.  But I don't believe it should be a problem. Of coarse that's my opinion, yours may vary.
      
       Mike Horina

Just received my Yak-3 kit ordered on 9/2/16. Cost 67.36 total with shipping to IL. As concerned the fabric surfaces, prime the areas, remove primer from frames  that should be all the work needed if that. Photos seen else where showed exaggerated depth of fabric surface.  But I don't believe it should be a problem. Of coarse that's my opinion, yours may vary.
      
       Mike Horina