simon417

I’m just on vacation back on Jan 5. I’ll be in touch with the winners of my prizes and also with the donator of theorize I won!! Thanks Simon

I'll donate the following as two separate prizes. True Details - Hawker Hunter F.6 cockpit set (monogram) - 32453 Avionix - 1/32 F-100 Super Sabre Cockpit set (trumpeter) - BLC32045 Thanks! Simon

Hiya! Put me down as a recipient and a donor. I'll dig something up asap. Thanks! Simon

I'll donate the following as single lot. All 1/32 scale Zotz - Misawa - JASDF pre 50th Anniversary (ztz32023) decals Hobby Decal - F4 Phantom II black panel numbers stencils - Dry Transfer TwoBobs - AIM7E-2/M (32-028) decals Thanks! Simon

Add me as a recipient please. I'll dig something up for donation as well. Thanks! Simon

I'm bit late to the party here but if it's good with everyone (admins etc) , I'm good with sending the kit over to Coogrfan. Simon

I'll add to the donation pile with this. Thanks! Simon

Put me down as a participant please. I'll dig around and find something to donate as well. Thanks! Simon

Thanks for adding me to the list. I have the following for donation to the raffle (as a single item) Yahu- 1:32 F4U-1A Instrument Panel (YMA 3216) BarraducaCals - F4U-1 Corsair Cockpit Stencils and Placards Thanks! Simon

Count me in too please! I'll dig through the stash to come up with a prize as well. Thanks for doing this again this year!! Simon

Thanks for all the kind words everyone. The EagleCals set I used stated that the 86 Corsair was used for publicity photos but never actually flown by Boyington. The figure is the Ultracast Pappy Boyington figure, so that's historically accurate. Thanks again.

Finally got this one finished and also tried my hand at building a base. AK Real Colours Eagle Cals Barracuda Wheels Barracuda Cockpit stencils Ultracast Pappy Boyington AK Terrains Palm Tree - from Ebay seller in Thailand It's a great kit. I have another in the pile for a later date. Thanks for looking. Simon

Thanks Kev, I had forgotten how to embed images using Google Photos... got it sorted now. Thanks BiggTim

UPDATE NUMBER 3 The Christmas break was not very productive for me. I think I got a couple of hours on the bench on Dec 30. The new year has been good so far build wise and we just had a week and a bit of -30 Celsius weather here in Calgary, so some nice progress has been made. Wing root / main spar coming together. Tail Wheel Oil Coolers in Main Landing Gear Wheel wells Wing Root Flaps Gear Door Covers Wing Root attached, engine on. Pappy Looking Happy Front Canopy on. Wings Almost Completed and ready to be installed. Once the wings are on... it's time to paint. I'll leave the wheels, gear, gear doors, all the little bits of glass on the wings off until main painting is done. I'll be following along the lines of the other builds going on. Black basing (a'la Doogs), silver, zinc chromate, blue (with chipping along the way). Then a combination of Maketars masks and Eagle Cals. Thanks for looking.

I'm with Thunnus on this. I'm really liking them. I'm using them for my Corsair. They shoot very nicely, similar to Tamiya, and clean up easily as well. I'm using an. Iwate HP-CS - Ecplipse using the AK Real Colour Thinner.

Amazing work!! 20 in a year!! Well done sir, well done. Happy New Year!

I'll donate at PCM FW 190a-1/2/3 kit. (PCM 32011)

Add me as an entrant please. I'll see what have that I can add as a donor shortly. Thanks for all work in running this again this year!

Thanks for all the kind words everyone. The Tamiya kit is a work of art (IMHO) and I'm doing my best to do it justice. It's great when a kit is so good fit and engineering wise that you devote your energy and efforts into the paint and weathering as opposed to filling, sanding and fighting to get it fit. Thanks again, I'll have more updates soon.

UPDATE TIME A bit of progress from the last couple of weeks. Fuselage buttoned up. Pappy looking happy. Engine parts ready to go First step of exhaust painting Engine Assembly Engine dirtying (that's a word) Exhaustifications - Step 1 I'll play with the setting on my phone to try and get the brightness down on the next set of photos and hold my phone horizontally. Thanks for looking.

This will be my first WIP. It's the superb Tamiya kit, that we all know about. My neighbour is big Corsair fan (he's an RC plane guy), so I'm building him a Boyington markings version (as close I can make it). I'll be using the following AM. Barracuda - Cockpit Stencils Yahu - Instrument Panel Barracuda - Plain tread wheels EagleCals - EC 161 - F4U-1 Corsairs RB - seatbelts Maketar masks - for the primary insignia (maybe) Ultracast - Boyington pilot figure I'll be using AK Real Colours for main exterior and interior colours. Tamiya for everything else. AK, MIG and oils for the weathering items. Here's the progress so far. Yahu IPs are awesome! Stencils on. They are very very small. Not a huge fan of the RB belts. They're very stiff. Pappy waiting for some more paint Got my head but lost my arm. Cockpit complete. I've been following the paint instruction in the kit, so that's why the head rest is black and the oxygen bottle is silver. I'll be buttoning up the fuselage next and then onto the engine. All the pics are from my Iphone 8 and are hosted with the high quality option (not the original size) on Google Photos. Thanks for looking!

That's a lot of Luftwaffles.

+4 on the RB saws I got mine from Ultracast in Canada - https://www.ultracast.ca/Modelling-Tools-s/1051.htm

Fantastic build Guy! Top notch!

Jager, they have the VR bombing raid in Nanton as well. It was incredibly well done. If you go, as Jager says, it's a must do!