Citadelgrad

Ipad user here. First you need to find a photohosting site that plays well with the forum. I use imageshack, there are others that will work. Host the photo and then copy the url from there unto the post using “insert image from URL” button at the bottom right of the posting box. that works for me.

I started my first LSP as an adult and finished it about 4 years later. .25 at present is my record.

This is my approach as well. I've only built a few LSPs, but there is nothing worse than finding that some AM that is wanted is no longer around.

I'm a piker and a newbie. I was going to say no repeats, which is technically almost true, but I find I do have 2 FW190 F8s and old and new tool Revell, a hase Dora, and two (?) Ta 152s, a C and an H 0. Well, there's a 48th scale 190, too, but I won that in a raffle, so. ...

That's my experience, above. The first time I tried them I was amazed, absolutely looked painted on. The second time, and I think it was because the water was too cold, it was a disaster. Then with warm water, it worked but I lost my confidence.

I try to balance between accuracy and my limited abilities. When I built my Gabreski P 47, I spent a lot of time figuring out what the drop tank plumbing was supposed to look like, and was pretty happy with the result. I also added corrugated to the floor because when I started, that was the info I had. Win some, lose some. I try to build things that really existed, and try to make my model look, to my eye, like the real thing, but the draw for me is the mental distraction that a good hobby provides. That's why I do this. When I was young and inpatient, it was a race. N9w I spend years on and off working on a large kit.

My dad's all time favorite AC, B47E, and he got to fly a bunch of types.

Injection molded B 57 Cranberry. I don't build a lot of jets, but I would make an exception. Love the lines, the fighter style cockpit, and the SEA camo.

I noticed, for me at least, that the transfers seem VERY temperamental about temperature. I used some with warm water and it was a dream. When I had issues of them disintegrating, the water was cold. I warmed the water and all was good. That said, I have trouble trusting them now.

F-107 had the same hairy setup. Yikes.

Special Categories - Lightning Deals - Sprue Brothers Models LLC No affiliation, and I just picked up a Ju87 G here with aftermarket for a song, so I am not buying one.

I think they are fine. If you want, send me your address and I will mail a couple to you to check out. Or I can photograph them better for you.

I had a set of "Ace of Spades" decals made for a tank I was working on for a veteran. I sent them a blurry pdf of an unobtainable decal sheet in the wrong scale. I can't remember how much is was but after trying to find them everywhere I was happy to pay. I got a bit of silvering, but that was my fault. They lay down on a gloss very well, but the tank was 3d printed and I could not get a suitable surface. Very responsive and didn't take long to get them.

Rubbing hands like a villain....EXCELLENT, John! I have the H-) in my stash, and the KLP, now, I will get to watch another build before I tackle mine.

I am just going to say wow.

Dang, Mike, that is terrible but I am glad you have your humor intact.

It was forearm when I typed it. I think spellcheck decided I was wrong. I will edit. Perhaps my own forearm was malfunctioning.

I hate to nit pick, but that forearm to the right is WAY out of scale. It's your diorama, but I don't see how that's going to work. The flesh tones are actually quite good, but that might be 1/35 scale.

Excellent! Ill be watching with interest, Mike.

Thats a sharp looking Mossie, Mike. Well done!

Just a guess, but i noticed reading the subtitles for Godzilla Minus One that they referred to the shinden and planes in general as “jet fighters” more than once. Maybe its a word that doesnt translate perfectly.

I recently did Col. Gabreski's last P 47, and I decided that the field applied camoflage would have covered everything other than the National Insignia and squadron markings and serial number.

Good eye, sir! From wikipedia article on King Nine will not return": The bomber aircraft used in this episode was a North American Aviation B-25C-10NA 42-32354, which still exists in storage with Aero Trader, Borrego Springs, California.[

Flashback alert: When I was a kid, like 7 or 8, Yeager lived near us at Norton AFB in on base housing. My dad told me he was kind of an a-hole, the AF didn't know what to do with him, so he walked around a lot without his nametag on and berated anyone who didn't recognize him. Anyway, he asked my dad, who was a Col. at the time, if he could put some stuff in our garage. My dad said sure to the pioneering Brigadier General. Well, he came over to the house to get something when my dad was naturally hard at work, so my mom answered the door. She saw a guy with green overalls on, and had called base maintenance about the dishwasher, so she first reminded him he was supposed to come to the side door, not the front door, and then pointed at the dishwasher and said there it is. To his credit he dutifully pulled the dishwasher out from the counter and looked at the innards, then told my mom he would need to send another guy who was more familiar with dishwasher repair. I think my dad was ribbed about that interaction.

Hey! I worked at Mcdonnell Douglas way back one summer in law school. Eye opening for sure. I worked the civilian side, but the military line was making C 17s right there next to us. i still have the lucite paperweight i got when our MRP team figured a way to safe something like $7 million a year.