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jonwinn

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  1. I got a good deal on this so I will build it warts and all. I am leaving it as is a J model not a T that's now in use. Here is my start. I have the seats built and most of the interior painted.
  2. I bought a scribe, Trumpeter and don't like it. I have scribed many times but at work on metal fabrications in a machine shop. I used a scribe that looks similar to an ice awl and blued the metal with Dykem blueing ink. I did that for maybe 30 years and this ain't quite the same. So I went on line and found a You Tube scribing tutorial done by FSM. It showed the types of scribes, saws, sewing needles and straight edges. I got a sewing needle from my wife and chucked it in one of my pin vises. Before that I bought a roll of Dymo label tape. Things are much better, I may try the Trumpeter scribe
  3. See my comment above and---My Testors SAC bomber tan was tacky 5 years after I sprayed it, mine was rattle can. I think I cured that once by dull coating it. I miss Testors but then again I don't miss Testors. I use to go to a car model site and a lot of guys there used dehydrators to "cure" the paint. I am happy I found Tamiya lacquer rattle cans. Dries in 5 minutes not years!
  4. Looks nice Ray. I have a dozen or so on that same shelf either awaiting paint of final assembly. Then I go and buy more.....go figure.
  5. Tails are on and the layout for the chines. I am using my Italeri kit as a "template" for the chines layout.
  6. Moving along good, canopy on, launch pylon on and flame holders painted up.
  7. Speaking of Italeri I am doing an Italeri 1/72 SR-71A along side the Hasegawa M-21.
  8. Yes, I think shorter tail cone? Some things will and some won't get done. I will do a better one when the M-21 kit comes out. I promise! LOL
  9. I have the old 1/72 Hasegawa and am going to try to make it look similar to an M-21. the mother ship for the D-21 drone. I am not going overboard on accuracey, I basically want to sand the chines from roughly the launch control officers area to the nose tip, just enough to make it look thinner and more pointed. I think the D-21 drone is not totally accurate, I believe it was a D-21 and the kit depicts a D-21B. I have about 3 of them, Revell, Italeri and Hasegawa's, none look right but I can't find real good images of the one used on the M-21. I have some work done and did a test fit of the fus
  10. I know that, learned that 60 years ago when I started modeling. I do go against the grain at times, I had the dark blue but not the light blue. I already have scolded myself umpteen times but guess what? I do not listen to me so why would I listen to you!!! LOL Or as Popeye says-I yam whats I yam.
  11. Thank you, that is most helpful, like the scheme you did and the figures. After I finish the USCG version I am considering a "black ops" HH-60K of some sort.
  12. Hello-I live a few miles from Clearwater-St Pete Coast Guard Station and these and the C-130s are constantly buzzing my house. I got the itch to do a Jayhawk and the HobbyBoss kit looks interesting. Is it pretty accurate and a decent build? My last helicopter was a UH-60A Deserthawk by Italeri, not a bad build but the cockpit glass was a "challenge".
  13. The engines are on and need some puttied seams sanded before I finish with the rest of the parts
  14. My DSLR also came up with this odd color, I tried different modes and one came up as this odd but interesting color.
  15. The inboard engine nacelles are installed.
  16. Fuselage all closed up and gaps puttied up.
  17. Thanks, the interior fits nicely into the fuselage, so far.
  18. Ready to install cockpit into fuselage.
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