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  1. 17 hours ago, AFammo65 said:

    If you don't have any luck finding a Caracal or Experts Choice set of decals for a 101 FS, Mass ANG F-106A/B aircraft, I have a 48th Scale Bare Metal Decal set (#48-6) designed for the Monogram kit you can have.  The set includes an extensive collection of numbers so you can make any of one of seven aircraft assigned to the Squadron (including F-106B tail numbers).  The only glitch is that portion of the harpoon on the wing tanks between "Cape" and "Cod" is blue instead of black (a little dab of paint should easily remedy).  Let me know if you would like the set. 

     

    Jim MacGregory

    Sure, I’ll take them Jim. Pm me with the amount plus shipping. I’ve got Venmo, Zelle and PayPal 

  2. You’ll be fine. Getting a bit on your hands once isn’t a big deal. Honestly, you’ll probably get into worse chemicals in the future if you stay in this industry.
    That being said, you clearly want to minimize your exposure by wearing nitrile gloves and eye protection.  There’s enough hazards out there already without you upping the ante.

    I’m actually disappointed that your coworkers didn’t give you a heads up about it beforehand or at the least toss you a pair of gloves.

  3. To expand a bit on the already mentioned enjoyable parts of prebuilding.
    Having run out of display space I began building kits for coworkers a few years ago.  Being an airline worker and surrounded by fellow airplane nerds, there was always someone who had a really cool story about a particular aircraft they had flown or worked on somewhere along their aviation journey.

    Sometimes the subject was simple with tons of available kits, detail sets and available decals for the exact aircraft. Sometimes it was obscure and challenging finding kits and accessories requiring custom designed decals. 

    For instance, last year I built a B-24H for a coworker whose grandfather was a ball turret gunner. It turns out that while researching the aircraft I found that his grandfathers crew completed their tour and headed stateside after handing the plane off to the next crew. On its next mission It was shot up badly by Me-109’s over Germany but the commander managed to make it back to England allowing the crew to bail before crashing. The pilot never made it out. There’s now a street named in his memory near where he died.
    I usually don’t build WWII so it gave me a reason to really dive into a subject I probably wouldn’t have otherwise but I’m grateful I did.

  4. @pminerI’m also becoming concerned since I’m down to my last few ounces of “Pledge with Future Shine”.  I’ve used it as a gloss coat for decals, as a setting solution and of course dipping canopies since being introduced to it in the early 2000’s here on ARC.

    While researching possible replacements I came across this post which demonstrates clearly that the formula has changed with each iteration, and not for the better.

    So maybe it’s time to finally put Future out to pasture once and for all……..

    On 3/27/2021 at 12:15 AM, RichardL said:

     

    I believe MY2014 was still a good model year for Future.  Finally have some extra time to test four different versions.

     

    future_bottles.jpg

     

    From left to right:  Original Future 1993, Original Future 2000, Pledge with Future Shine 2008, Pledge Revive It 2021.

     

    I got four plastic spoons sprayed with two coats of Tamiya XF-1 Flat Black, let dry for 24 hours, then sprayed with three coats of Future straight from each bottle:  light first coat, wait 5 minutes, medium second coat, wait 5 minutes, wet final coat.  All sprayed from the same day.

     

    spoons_01.jpg

     

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    • The original Future from 1993 gives the smoothest finish and the best gloss, even only after two coats.
    • The Future from 2000 is roughly the same as the original.
    • Pledge with Future Shine from 2008 shows some degradation as it is not as glossy as the the two original, but not too bad.
    • The current Pledge Revive It is noticeably thicker than the others, so I had to bump up my air pressure by 2 psi to spray it straight from the bottle.  It dries patchy in a few spots to a more satin finish.  The finish is not as smooth as the other three.

     

  5. I was poking around the inter webs last night and I came across a thread about the old “Eric Fuchs Hobbies” shops that were scattered across New England in the 60’s through 80’s. It really got the nostalgia juices flowing.
    I remember driving with my parents to the Fox Run mall in Newington NH and spending hours looking through the rows of models and paints. I was hooked on the hobby, I swear I spent every penny of my paper route money at that place every week thereafter!

    As a bonus, we’d drive past Pease AFB heading up route 16 just so I could see the B-52D and KC-97 gate guards.

    Really great memories.
    So I was wondering how others first joined the hobby and what hobby shops really set the hook?

  6. 43 minutes ago, Dutch said:

    Right! Maybe "Pterodactyl Courier" in the Strategic Scheme with light blue outline/titles and subdued badges on one sheet followed by "Eternal Guardian" in Gunship Gray scheme with light gray outline/titles and black outline badges.  That way, If someone wanted to build the earlier version of "Eternal Guardian" they could purchase both sheets and substitute the previous Loring markings from "Pterodactyl Courier."  I like it. 

    This is the way

  7. On 7/9/2018 at 6:38 AM, Hooker169 said:

    Jy4rwr.jpgHkn2g7.jpgA co-worker supplied me with a reproduction of his nose art at Loring. B-52G 58-0241 "Pterodactyl Courier".

    The 42nd BW was tasked during the cold war with the maritime warfare mission and were armed with Harpoon missiles.

     

    58-0241 Pterodactyl Courier.jpg

    Here’s a post from a while ago. The artist who painted the actual nose art presented this print to him on his retirement. Hopefully this helps

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