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  1. Awesome. My favorite US plane. I crawled around a couple at Beale a few years ('12-'13) back. Took a bunch of random pics if you are looking for something. Cheers, Dave
  2. Agreed. I haven't had any issue getting stuff to the States through eBay and Russia Post. Dave
  3. Had an absolutely unbreakable case of modeler's block for the last month. Finally sat down at the bench again tonight. Pretty boring stuff, but a breakthrough nonetheless. Hopefully something picture-worthy soon. Cheers, Dave
  4. You found the museum before I found this thread. I enjoyed the museum when I visited on an alert one time. I have some pictures from my visit buried somewhere. Some that may or may not have been from the flightline too :) Cheers, Dave
  5. Comet did a TV Dalek and a movie Dalek a long time ago as well as a 1st and 2nd Doctor (Hartnell & Troughton). I am lucky enough to have a TV Dalek and a Troughton kit. They occasionally come up on eBay at crazy prices. Dave
  6. Exciting. Can't wait to see what it is. Great looking IP. Cheers, Dave
  7. Yeah, my mini-Dremel is having a field day. Cheers, Dave
  8. Some more progress. I have the wings together now. Just need to clean up the seams and then sand off the raised detail and re-scribe. After the center sections were cut out, then I glued the leading edge pieces together and the trailing edge pieces together. This picture shows the four pieces combined into two. You can also see how I cut the section out along one panel line on the bottom and a different one on the top at a different angle. My hope was to make the mated wing a little bit stronger. I also added in some scrap plastic to give a ledge for support so it wasn't simply a butt joint.
  9. So the main wheel wells are in place, and I am just cleaning up all the gaps. I had also made all the cuts on the wings, so that each wing is currently in SIX pieces. Hopefully I can get a good push tomorrow and get the aft end of the fuselage attached to the center section. I want to also try to get the wings each back into a single piece. Cheers, Dave
  10. That looks sweet. Nice build. I'm going to have to go do some research now to learn more. Cheers, Dave
  11. Well, since others are doing a great job showing the pitfalls and extra love needed on the ICM kit, I'll leave mine in the stash for a bit and go old school... As some of you know this isn't the first time I am tackling this kit, so hopefully it won't take the 2428 days of The Indian Foxbat I have all of the homemade resin replacements for the cockpit, exhausts, wheel wells, etc. that I used last time all ready to go. There will be some differences with this one, but I won't tell you what version until later. It will have red stars on it though. I, of course, have decid
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    A-7E Walleye

    Sweet. Totally loading one of my DS A-7s like the second picture. Thanks for posting. Cheers, Dave
  13. Yufei, thank you so much for the detailed build. For the intakes, did you butt weld square rods onto the intakes and sand to the correct shape or were there internal mods you had to make as well? Forgive me if I inadvertantly make that sound overly simplistic. Looking forward to more. Cheers, Dave
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    F4U-4B Wingfold

    That's what I was thinking, just can't be sure any of the close up pics of the fold I have are actually -4Bs. Cheers, Dave
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    F4U-4B Wingfold

    So, I started a build of a VF-113 F4U-4B a while back using the Academy kit and I scratch built one of the wingfolds. Unfortunately, the partially finished kit came to grief in a wife-cleaning-hobby-room incident. I am restarting using the Hobbyboss kit, but the hinge is significantly different from what I have seen in Corsair pictures. Was it different on the -4Bs from other Corsairs? I guess I am not sure of the pedigree of any of the online pics I have looked at, and the era is not one that I have a bunch of reference material for. Thanks in advance. Dave
  16. Looks nice. Still haven't been willing to try weathering myself. Gonna do it with TIRU though. D Bellis is going to give some mentoring. Dave
  17. Thanks, I have been having a heck of a time getting her cleaned up before a gloss coat goes on her in the lead to weathering. I am going to repaint a section this afternoon and then I should be able to move on to the gloss coat. Cheers, Dave
  18. When i thought about it the other night, I was bummed that I thought I had only gotten 3 models done this year. I got looking back through pictures and realized I was wrong. I did spend a lot of time building with my kids so I "helped" with some 1/72 builds. A P-47, P-51 and F4U. All were "easy" kits of various types. The P-47 by my daughter, her first, with some help :), was the best: I, however, didn't manage to finish another plane this year. But, something that "flies" for Halloween did take a bit of time: Six submarines somehow occurred:
  19. Yeah the marking indicates where the "soft" areas are for the bow sphere and flank arrays. Since they are close together it is one continuous marking. It is to give the tugs a visual indication so that they don't break the GRP covers. Dave
  20. Oh, and here is a shot of my finished one... Cheers, Dave
  21. Nice build. Did you paint your waterline or is it a decal? I was going to try to use some white decal stripes that I have to do it on my second YASEN. Left it off the first one. Also, did you trim the "No Push" marking (the big U around the bow). The decal seemed entirely too wide on mine. Cheers, Dave
  22. Absolutely awesome. So much better than the ever-worsening atrocity that is NYE in NYC. Granted being in NYC in person might be cool, but the TV broadcasts have gone down the tubes. Dave
  23. Pictures from a Russian drydock might be helpful as well. Not sure whose pictures they are, just stumbled on it in an image search. PD-50 drydock image album Cheers, Dave
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