P-38 guy

I hope you find some. I bought the 1/48 and 1/32 sets when I saw them. Mike

I saw your post on Brit Modeller but I don't have an account there. There are these if you can find them. Mike

Thank you! I needed new decals for my XB-70. Mike

Super nice as always! Mike

Great job as always. Mike

You can't go in but can drive around and see in from different areas. We did that plus the bus tour and air show in 2000. One of the scrap dealers had an area set up with stuff for sale that your run of the mill aviation collector might want. I picked up a couple of things but that was 23 years ago. Not sure if they are still around. Guy there tried to sell me an Arkansas ANG F-4 Phantom forward fuselage that was complete for $15K. Newly divorced, child support equaled no money for fun stuff like that.😑 Pima is a great museum. Mike

I just got the point of test fitting the cockpit and don't have a problem. There are groves top and bottom that match the lips on the cockpit sides and it lines right up in those and does not move. Maybe double check your alignment again. Mike

Best pic I could find of the wings is in here. https://www.projectrecover.org/national-air-and-space-museum-b-26-bomber/ To me it looks like 5. At least on the bottom. Mike

I got mine a few days ago. Just the regular version. Going to do one of the East German machines. I noticed the back of the instructions show other releases. 8510 Mig-17F Shenyang J-5, Vietnam, China, North Korea 8514 is the premium 8509 Mig-17F Lim-5, Poland, Cuba, Angola 8513 is the premium. I am going to start this and set aside my current build that has lost some interest for me the past couple of weeks of inaction. Mike

Sweet pic's as always! I helped work on that F-86 when It was stuck in Zanesville with a bad ground connection back in July of 2020. Was supposed to be in the mass fly over of Washing DC. They needed to make a patch and didn't have anything in the hanger so I got a scrap piece of F-105 I had and they used it to make the patch. Something I'll never forget. Paul beat up the field a couple of times when he left. That's me in the gray shirt. Mike

Sweet pic's. I have not had the chance to see seaplanes in action. Mike

Thanks for the heads up. I just ordered one of the regular versions. Mike

Nice job and what a super way to have them displayed! Mike

Another beautiful photography job! Mike

Wow nice job. Looks like you had a blast! Mike

Sweet! Mike

Nice shots! Glad to see you back at it. Mike

Nice job and welcome! Mike

Set 48109 is on ebay right now if anyone was curious. Not mine. https://www.ebay.com/itm/144801590495?hash=item21b6d8ecdf:g:j7QAAOSwabRjatBj&amdata=enc%3AAQAHAAAAoCXDr%2FDZcjNCyWGR%2FkEttHgrW9yh1HQhxF45OL2A%2FxIffPfoyBnNIvS1UemgtJ4S4OAzsGk%2B%2FzlsLdA5jT3LY8%2FdJ%2B%2FYWn2OoJO3rLSSmfDEt5F5rAiphYp6gbL2%2B7WjDEQQHgxV7T404vRoqDlYMBaV540eUnTj0oJIYjJThUdxxI%2FbZ%2B85M3g%2BobRCA8MudEcpqgB2zaxN%2BlUPT7JhuYY%3D|tkp%3ABk9SR5Lvvb-NYQ Mike

"80 DAYS" was one of my first B-24 nose art pictures I had collected but it was the later J model. After doing research I found there was also the earlier D model. Years later a collector I had met online and become friends with was thinning out his collection to focus on WWI. Come to find out he had a grouping from a crew member of "80 DAYS" including painted flight jacket. The story he shared with me about the name was that during their travel overseas they had problems with the aircraft and it ended up taking them 80 days to get there. Unfortunately I was unemployed at t

That's nice. Wish someone would do decals for "80 DAYS". Mike

My plan to help with that is to build an L shaped workbench so I can just swing around and work on a different build. Plan is one side for planes and the other for everything else so hopefully it mixes thing up enough that I don't get burned out again. Mike

Those early P-38 that ended up in NA were flown over so no tape. Mike

That's a bummer. Hope yours gets there soon. Mike

The ones I ordered from Tower Hobbies arrived today. Happy B-day to me. So I now have all 4 I had on order. Mike