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  1. Most if not all of the B-25s that were converted to strafers had paint on some or all of the clear nose panels. I'm wondering what might have been painted on Nasty Nancy on the Zotz sheet. I'm going to wander the 'net and see what I can find but I thought I would ask here first.

    I found the answer for Nasty Nancy. Clear panels were not painted over.

  2. Just a heads up....

    I built this kit when it first came out, about 11 years ago. I had it out of the display case recently and found that the rubbery tires and the plastic wheels were reacting with each other. In my dim memory I believe that I had sprayed the wheels with glosscoat for decaling but I don't think I sprayed the actual rims where the tires sit. I would suggest some lacquer or acrylic should be sprayed all over the wheel rims before mounting the tires.

  3. Mawz

    thanks do you know what the bars mean above or below the last letter??

    A squadron would sometimes end up with two aircraft with the same letter marking, in which case they would add a bar to the markings to differentiate between the two.

  4. That controversy was replaced by the Great Great Wall P-61 Kurfuffle. Now that that one has died down, we'll have to wait for the next Epic Kit Uberfail for some entertainment. I'm sure somebody will find a "fatal flaw" in the forthcoming Revell PV-1.

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    Well that's already begun. It's obvious that they screwed up the PV-1 prop blades. It's gotta be true.... I read it on HS :rolleyes:

  5. Through 1965 the Ford Gt40s wore the American racing colors of white and blue. In 1966 Ford chose to paint their GT40s with their available factory colors as used on Ford assembly lines. The #2 at LeMans was black with silver stripes. Bruce McLaren painted a silver fern leaf and the letters N. Z. on the right front fender in honor of his home country of New Zealand.

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    Dan Gurney's car at Sebring was Guards blue with white stripes and many people assume that was a LeMans scheme. There was a GT40 at LeMans in Guards blue and white stripes but it was the Andretti/Bianchi car.......

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    Poor pics I know, I really need to reshoot these.

  6. Working from my sometimes erratic memory.......

    Jodie Peeler; airliners and cars and a seminar presenter at the Atlanta Nats in '05

    Mandie; aircraft builder from right here at ARC

    Shannon DiMaulo; terrific builder of street rods and hot rods

    Jackie Cheyenne; an excellent builder of factory stock cars, even though wheelchair bound

    Su Moran; able assistant to Allan Buttrick's Airfix building and now branching off into model railroad style structures

    Janet Hein; top quality modeler of almost anything and a regular attendee of midwest contests

    Danielle Lang; aircraft modeler from the antipodes and poster on HS and Aussiemodeler

    It's been my observation that women are very good at detail work and if they try this hobby and enjoy it they can become top modelers.

  7. I came back for a review since I have the new 1:32 Tamiya P-51D on preorder. In my perfect world the new kit would have been released with no panel lines where the lines were filled and a drawing on the instructions where to scribe them if the modeler would prefer to model the kit in post-war configuration.....oh well <_<

    I imagine that I'll be seeing a lot of polished wood grained floors and contrasting painted gun bay covers too, but I know how I'll be doing mine.

  8. I've received 3 emails so far that reference some fictitious response to an ARC topic. Many misspellings and a hotlink that looks like it has nothing to do with ARC have kept me deleting the messages whenever I see one. It's a bit annoying and potentially harmful so you guys watch out for these.

  9. Our Miniature Dachshund Dulcinea standing gaurd keeping those ill tempered attack squirrels at bay.

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    Our son has 2 mini Dachshunds, a long-hair just like Dulcinea and a classic red short-hair. Minnie ths short-hair has two confirmed squirrel kills so far. She's not a distance runner but is extremely quick when a squirrel gets too close!

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