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  1. Another one, a fantasy named A Guy Named Joe. I think it was generally superior to the Steven Spielberg re-make Always . The original came out about 1943, B&W, and featured Spencer Tracy as a hotshot B-25 pilot. He was killed in action early on and his ghost was assigned as an informal flying instructor. Lots of good sequences of Vultee Valiants. The movie ended in the Pacific with his WASP pilot ex-girlfriend (Irene Dunne) stealing a P-38 and bombing a Japanese ammunition dump. Some excellent shots of the P-38 too, especially on the ground, boarding ladder out. The remake was set i
  2. Final Countdown, like Midway and Tora, Tora, Tora, is a good place to be careful. Made long after the war and the real thing wasn't available, so the Zeros are really Harvards and T-6s. Vultee Valiants show up as Kates. The list goes on. The technicals apart (and who among the general audience would know or care anyway?), the movie seen as a movie was actually pretty good. A lot of the epics tried to cover too much ground to be successful as movies. Telling the whole story of Midway, overlaid with the love plot, made it too stodgy. Final Countdown had a smaller scope and, I think, bette
  3. Don't limit yourself to recent movies. All the aerial footage will be either restored aircraft - warbirds - or clips from the past. Some can be pretty disappointing if the producers weren't careful but others can be really good. Instead, try a period piece like 1942's Captains of the Clouds. The cast is excellent, James Cagney, Alan Hale and a Warner Bros. ensemble cast playing bush pilots and, later, RCAF instructors. It was filmed on location in Northern Ontario for the bush sequences (excellent footage of a raft of bushplanes including the very first Norseman), in Ottawa - bet you've n
  4. The beauty of the method is that it takes no particular steadiness or even skill. Rest your wrists on the edge of your desk and all that moves are the fingers of one hand, slowly revolving the axle. I've been doing it this way for forty years, it works every time.
  5. Handpainting really is the easiest method and it yields the best, most consistent results. Very little equipment is needed, nor is masking. First jam the wheel onto the handle end of an old paintbrush. No adhesive necessary, just a push fit. Paint the hub as required. Load a paint brush with tire paint. Then, using the handle as an axle, touch the tire to the brush. Note that you touch the tire to the brush, not the other way around. Rotate the handle slowly between your fingers and you will find the paint flows into the groove between hub and tire. No muss, no fuss and with minimal
  6. I hadn't noticed the new registration, something more to add to my files. Thanks! The last I heard of this machine it was in Australia. Brett Green had a walkaround over on HS, even had a picture of himself in the cockpit.
  7. Not French, the name on the nose notwithstanding. This one was built for the Chinese air force, impressed into the USAAF and saw service in New Guinea. It was abandoned there, recovered and taken to Australia on the 1970s. Since made airworthy. A pretty shot of a pretty example.
  8. I don't have one to spare but Squadron carries a vacform canopy: http://www.squadron.com/ItemDetails.asp?item=SQ9628 The Squadron canopy is sold separately but it's made by Falcon and it's also sold in their set No. 53: http://www.falconmodels.co.nz/clearvax/set53.html
  9. Bob Perry

    T-28 Trojan

    It's a good solid early Monogram kit, first released around 1960. It's been available in several versions, from the original A model to the B and D, and in and out of the catalogue for years. It isn't particularly rare, certainly not rare enough to justify sixty bucks. IIRC it was re-released as a D model about 5 years ago. You might get lucky at a local hobby shop or maybe the sale tables at a model contest. Perhaps a thread in the Buy & Sell forum here on ARC?
  10. Maybe this will help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-47_Skytrain#Variants
  11. Duh, didn' t read the scale. I assumed you meant 1/48. Keep moving, nothing to see here!
  12. There are sealers other than expensive and dangerous CA. Try a good quality gloss wood varnish in several well cured coats, sanding between. Apply over the previously applied sanding sealer. If you can't eliminate grain that way, you can defeat it by vacforming once. Leave the first vacform on the master and vacform over that.
  13. I have several downloads, some with the the original potted cowlings, some with the smooth ones. Shoot me a PM with your direct e-mail address and they're on their way.
  14. Simpler and cheaper, you might be able to get away with household bleach. Submerge the parts in the bleach, cover and leave for several hours. A stiff toothbrush will get the debris from the cracks and the rest can be rinsed under a tap. I'd finish off with soap and water and a final rinse. A word of caution with these solutions, all of which can be dangerous. Wear industrial rubber gloves, make sure the area is well ventilated and keep the stuff away from kids and pets.
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