FurmanCock
Grand Poohbah
Nice, where is the place of honor in your house that it will reside?
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Building some plastic models during the offseason
- Thread starter kingofnerf
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Added it to the Nerf Royal Museum yesterday.
I binge-bought $50 worth of diecast on the top shelf at the Toys-R-Us store at Columbiana a few years before it closed. Being a lifelong bachelor, it was the first and only time I ever went to a Toys-R-Us store.
I binge-bought $50 worth of diecast on the top shelf at the Toys-R-Us store at Columbiana a few years before it closed. Being a lifelong bachelor, it was the first and only time I ever went to a Toys-R-Us store.
FurmanCock
Grand Poohbah
Very nice. It looks like you will soon need to invest in another display cabinet.
Started on a 1/48 Navy F8F Bearcat to take my mind off of a bad baseball season.
Finally was able to resume the build. The decals could be a little thicker (had a couple fold under and had to fix them with a toothpick and little cussin') and the landing gear is kinda tricky.
Got the ordnance hung.
I'm usually do WW2 aircraft with no hung ordnance. It's hard to do it without screwing up the paint, but you just have to be patient.
I'm usually do WW2 aircraft with no hung ordnance. It's hard to do it without screwing up the paint, but you just have to be patient.
FurmanCock
Grand Poohbah
Interesting, what's the timeline on "hung ordnance" on U.S. aircraft? I would have thought it was available for WW2, but that's me without any specific knowledge. So WW2 was all bomb bays? Were winged missiles early '50s?
Both Allied and Axis planes were firing rockets in the last year or so of WWII.
Model kits were toys for me back in the day and you can't have imaginary dogfights against Japs and Jerries with rockets under the wing. LOL
Got her finished. Shown in the colors of the VF-61 Jolly Rogers onboard the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42) circa 1949.
It looks black, but it's actually just a very dark blue.
It looks black, but it's actually just a very dark blue.
Started a 1/72nd scale DeHavilland Tiger Moth Royal Navy flight trainer. Decided to use the included RAF flight crew and that took my old eyes a few extra days. Rattle-canned Tamiya TS-17 Gloss Aluminum over gray primer. Just need to glue the fuselage halves, shoot the silver on the fuselage, and spray yellow on the tail and nose sections. Need to be careful when cutting the uprights, horizontal stabilizer struts, and landing gear struts.
Got her done. Leading into WW2, the Brits pressed a couple hundred aging Tiger Moths into service as flight trainers. They continued to use them into the 1950s as primary flight trainers. Tiger Moths have also been used in films like "The Great Waldo Pepper" over the years.
Two daring young men in their flying machine. Me-109 killers in training.
Two daring young men in their flying machine. Me-109 killers in training.
Nice work!Got her done. Leading into WW2, the Brits pressed a couple hundred aging Tiger Moths into service as flight trainers. They continued to use them into the 1950s as primary flight trainers. Tiger Moths have also been used in films like "The Great Waldo Pepper" over the years.
Two daring young men in their flying machine. Me-109 killers in training.