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1/72 C-54 / RCAF North Star


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Starting up two big models which will be massive conversions. Start with the Revell C-54. Add the Belcher Bits North Start conversion. One (late version) for a customer and (early) for me.

 

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This is NOT your Revell kit of yore. This sucker has a bizzillion parts. Just the cockpits took most of an afternoon.

 

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Silly amount of detail for something that I highly doubt will be visible when the model is complete.

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Until I get to the conversion parts, THIS was the hard part I think.  But I have till the end of January. It will happen. But nothing more till Friday.....unless I don't get OT on Wednesday.

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Turns out I did not get overtime. This model is taking a LOT of time but is (so far) not as hard as I thought it would be. MANY very small parts. Had more then a couple go flying to the carpet monster. Fortunately I found them all.

 

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Larry Millberry's Northstar book is a good reference if you can get access to one.........You caught the window on the port rear that needs to be filled and  believe there is a small one on the starboard behind the cockpit that should be filled too. There is a picture in the book that shows this. It is however a small window. Looking good so far....Dry fitting of the resin engines in my kit show a pretty good fit so build away

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One of the reasons that I never bought this kit was because when I was at my LHS the size of the box led me to believe that it was a large kit.  When I look at it compared to the bottle of Tamiya paint you have there it doesn't seem that bad.

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Could not wait on these two....it IS a Revell group build after all. There are 15 pennies and fishing weights stuffed into the forward bottoms. Seems heavy enough now. Rick, your plane is getting the good horizontal stabs. Hopefully I can find the missing one so I can finish mine. Otherwise.......have to create one.

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Good news, found the stab. Bad news. With the stabs on they are tail sitters again. I can fix that still. Props took an hour of ripping the blades of the American prop hub and fitting them to the Canadian aerodynamic hub

 

 

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