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hi people!

i've been so busy with modeling that i didn't have mind to publish what i was, eh, modeling, since several months ago...

then you'l lfind herebelow the links to the google photo albums dedicated to each subject, if you'd mind to have a look.

 

-f-84g+mk vii: https://photos.app.goo.gl/KLkXGegwNAwazuzKA

-b-17g "little miss mischief": https://photos.app.goo.gl/oF8WTTK7SPXbnEWM8

-b-17f "memphis belle": https://photos.app.goo.gl/X3V7oCPDX9YLBmjU9

-b-24d "dopey": https://photos.app.goo.gl/SZ2QBZvnhtfv2ecc6

-b-29 korean war "united notions": https://photos.app.goo.gl/xEtGdbUd68Ea42Ax9

-b-24h "gemini": https://photos.app.goo.gl/y9M2Doe2jskuwB2F7

-f-101a voodoo: https://photos.app.goo.gl/VK4ZdQJ9H2jrYekL9

 

generally speaking, there's just something notheworthy to say about the splendid tamiya 1/72 f-84g kit plus valom mk vii nuke, and the 1/144 conversion of a minicraft b-17g to an "f" model to make the "memphis belle", as in 1/144 scale there's no "f" available and you have to convert the minicrafts' "g"s.

actually, the custom conversion was more worrysome to think than to realize. sure the scale helps, but i'm particularily satisfied with the outcome, milliput-shaped drop nose antenna included.

last but not least i want to tell the story of the "ugly duckling" valom 1/72  f-101a.

the kit was wicked. yeah it had a spell on itself that began with the absence of pin-and-hole references (i hear that it's a no surprise with the east european kits) nor, as for that, almost any reference as to where, from the bigger to the smaller part, were supposed to be placed.  also -they're mad with p.e.-  even the landing gear doors were photo etchings, resulting in something too thin for realism,  and eventually warped from handling.

well, i confess that i had a bad imprinting from the first look at the kit...and it paid me back with all sorts of problems and glitches.

i tell you, i became convinced that the kit was charmed in an evil way, and that this was just an ugly model that could never have been mended. ugly,  yeah an ugly -and evil...- thing.

as a friend modeler of mine said, it's hard to turn chicken shoot into chicken salad...

all sort of accidents and shortcomings happened until, first  time in my long modeler's life, i became so disgusted with the project that i packed all that was done at the time, cast it aside and wanted to forget about it.

thereafter i started the minicraft 1/144 b-24h "zodiac sqn." 

though the scale is an "easy" one only at a superficial sight, it built and painted like a clockwork, and in a relaxed and serene state of mind. it was "happy modeling" again!

when "gemini" was completed and photographed, i was reconciled and reassured with my modeling skills, the spell cast away, and i eventually felt like taking up the voodoo again.

well, i must say that although it wasn't a piece of cake, this second round was less a fight between "evil" and "good"; i possibly assumed a more relaxed attitude accepting the snafus for what they were, just snafus, without anger.

there was no alignment mark for the cannon's fairings? well. a look at the pictures, and there! i pasted this delicate detail almost carelessly, on-the spot, on the fuselage...and -roughly- i got it done right...

if you look at the pics now, one couldn' tell the hardships that are behind what all in all showed to be just an ugly duckling...

 

thank you for your attention and hope you will enjoy watching the pics as i -a tad vainly- did.

 

happy modeling -anyway and in any case!- to everybody.

best ciaos, bobo.

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thank you very much, sbarc, very kind of you.

so you're from b.c., canada: 26 years ago my future wife and me traveled from seattle, wa, where she was for a master in hindi language at the uw, and came right up to british columbia (awesome primordial lagoon landscape from the ferry), then reached vancouver and went back down to the u.s. in seattle. it was christmas holidays...

we enjoyed each and every mile of that trip!

after that, on the shore of lake washington, i asked her to become my wife....wow!!!

have a great day, be well...and happy modeling!

best ciaos, bobo.

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