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  1. I've given ole Nell a start. I had a plan to model one of the the planes that sank the Repulse and the Prince of Wales. But those planes were the improved model 23. I have the Hasegawa kit, and this earlier model may have practised with torpedoes but I'm unsure of whether they launched any in combat. As an armchair historian, I believe WWII started when the Japanese attacked China in 1937, and major Chinese cities were indiscriminately bombed by these planes starting almost a year before Hitler attacked Poland. The LS kit's bombs were too toy like, so I've decided swap weapons, and build the Hasegawa kit alongside this one. I lost a wheel hub for a day, and got glue and filler on the wings, engines and cockpit parts. I hope to get a bit more done soon. Here's the Hasegawa kit, it's a much later release, but a harder to find and more expensive kit. I'm hoping tomorrow will be a more productive day than I've had lately. Dave
  2. I have all of the new tool Airfix V bombers waiting in the stash...
  3. I built this kit once about 15 years ago for a friend who's dad was in that squadron, the squid decal busted apart on me terribly. I managed to piece it mostly back together and my buddy was happy with it, but I'd suggest using Super Scale's liquid decal film, or a UK derivative, if there is one...
  4. I'm a 1957 model, that makes me an official boomer. The B-58 and I were born in the same year. I guess everyone has seen the contents from the kit. I added these goodies, it's the stuff that comes with the "Big Ed" kit for the B-58: Next is Minni World intakes, Aires exhaust nozzles, Armory wheels and tires, and Master pitot tube. I hope to make it look like this. One more boomer entry... Dave
  5. I lost my buddy Sergeant York last year, it's never easy to say goodbye to such a friend...
  6. Doesn't that figure? It says 1/72 on the box, but you know how model makers get embarrassed when someone breaks out scale drawings...
  7. It took a while to find this one in the stack o' stash. My only other LS kit. I bought it out of curiosity, I got a box of spare parts from a friend back in the 90s, one part was the clear fuselage half from this kit. I thought it must have a specially detailed interior or something, but I'd never seen one, except in old full page ads for the Squadron Shops in 1970s aviation magazines. The KI-109 is an odd looking hump-backed machine, the Japanese shoehorned a big honking gun into it. It was meant to be a high altitude B-29 killer, but as usual for Japanese projects of this sort, it was too little, too late. In later boxings of this kit, the Japanese box art painters showed them shooting down B-29s, but before they got the bugs worked out, Curt LeMay changed over to low level night bombing, and the 30 or so KI-109s built never got the chance to fire a shot in anger. Anyway, the mottled paint job is kinda cool. I may do this one too...
  8. I realized I'd begun tinkering with this one. It's older than dirt, but still the only game in town for this bird. There's the Hasegawa Nell, but it's the later version with the bulbous dorsal gun position. I'm looking to build the torpedo armed version that attacked the HMS Repulse and Prince of Wales. The decals are iffy. I've cut the main parts from the sprue and assembled the torpedo, part of a wing, put an air scoop on one of the engine cowling and glued the vertical stabilizers to the tail planes. It's a start, I'll let others judge whether that constitutes 20%... Dave
  9. I must admit, the Sword G.55 twofer is a sweet deal... ...I'm not a huge fan of Il Duce's air force, but those planes do offer a chance to practice some off the wall camo.
  10. Here's an example of what the issue is here, maybe 350 bucks for a 1/32 might not be so terrible, considering its size and all. This may be a really cool, highly detailed kit, but in this scale, these subjects are dinky. Yet Sprue Brothers list price for the kit is $102. Granted, they include shipping in the price, but that's $51 apiece for two 1/72 WWII airplanes. It's a subject near and dear to my heart, but it will have to wait at this price...
  11. I've always loved century series jets. Thuds are my my favorite... ...Right after the Delta Dart! Note: My dad didn't go to 'Nam, he worked the F-106 for the 48th FIS at Langley VA when that fracas was going on. The Robins Air Museum has the bird he was assigned to on display...
  12. Someone here did that last year with the Academy kit...
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