Moggy

This is the first time I've ever seen a built-up Red Hurricane Tu-14. Incredible. Hats off to the most audacious modeller in a looooong while! Cheers, Moggy

I picked it up at a club raffle - it can be argued I actually lost 😂 I still intend to build it (yes I'm crazy I'm afraid) Cheers, Moggy (patron saint of horrible kits)

If you're talking about the Red Hurricane kit that's not difficult... 🤣 Cheers, Moggy (sad owner of said kit)

Right beside the chimney to the left 😇 Cheers, Moggy - we know our own 😜

What about Supermodel's Aermacchi MB.326? First produced 1995; Supermodel only did a few kits - all of them italian aircraft. First kits 1973 (with the possible exception of the Fiat G.55) Cheers, Moggy

I have both the Roden He 111B and the He 111E. A long time ago, a modeller that went by the nick Mark M. wrote (on ARC Air Forum) what amounts to a guide about how to overcome the Roden He 111 multifarious defects. It is a lot more specific than a garden-variety WIP. I made a PDF document; I intend to use it the day when I succeed in screwing up my courage to build the above named kit Anybody wanting to get a copy of the above has but to ask 😜 Cheers, Moggy the Archivist

I think I found the kit! Unicraft 1/72 Horten IAe. 30 Naranjero. It combines awfulness with lots of interest (mine, that is!). It's been in my stash for 19 years. Flying wing cargo aircraft built by Reimar Horten in Argentina. Looks fascinating; resin kit in old blobby punctured style - with a few important parts left to scratching with no information!, here or anywhere else (enter imagination). Fit.... what's that? Lots of blocks and flash to saw/cut away etc. Open cargo bay! BUT, it's a fantastic subject and this should be the perfect opportunity to attempt it. Cheers, Kamikaze Moggy

I'm in - I like transport / multi-engined aircraft in 1/72, so my stash has a number of four-engined aircraft to choose from 😇 Lockheed 049 Constellation, C-54, DC-6, Boeing 707, C-135, C-97, An-12. Amodel Il-76 which is an unconventional kit: most of the fuselage is made of resin-covered fiberglass. It is not only a big model - it is rather heavy too 😜 I have planned to paint the Il-76 as Iraqi Airways (but really Iraqi Air Force). After you build them, you have to find a place for them - preferably behind glass, since I have two lesser felids. And then you have dust - pervasive dust and cat hair 🤔 Cheers, Moggy (in need of parking spots)

So you did what I did with Beechnut's BT-13 and disowned it 🙃 Which aircraft did the alleged kit thoroughly failed to represent? Cheers, Moggy

Well, I'm in; horrible kit to be determined later 😆 Cheers, Moggy

I have built one High Planes Mirage IIIEA (the old VERY short run kit) - I have now eight left in the pile... 🤪 Is it cheating to build a very difficult kit (still buildable) instead of, say, the Russian Project Antonov An-26; it has the same quality as the Red Hurricane Tu-14. I was thinking to build that, but somebody beat me to it. BTW referencing Anna Karenina is extremely cool. Isn't that a paraphrase of the first line in the book? Cheers, Moggy

I have reflected upon your words; I disowned the Beechnut crapola when I struck it off my stash catalog. It has officially ceased to exist - though its ghost still haunts my stash 💀 I gratefully accept the "bottom 10% of your stash" alternative, provided it still has some buildable attribute 😜 Yes, there are indeed acceptable alternative kits in 1/72 - AZ Model and Pavla, I have both of them 😎 The Pavla BT-13 definitively needs a steady hand. I'll search for something in the sewer er… lower 10% of my stash. Cheers, Moggy (Manure management dept.)

I'm talking about the original kit - not the 2nd incarnation (released in the early 80's) Excuse me; anything wrong with modern modellers?? 🤨 I build after themes; that means that I don't care who makes the kit (as opposite to restricting oneself to by example tamigawa) or the medium. Vacform, resins and any and all combinations are OK and part of my menu. The project on the table right now is a C-46 by William Bros. (ancient) kit that can be described as an old style vacform - injection moulded. 🫣 However it has correct shapes, that's most important to me. 😁 A completely new interior visible through the main cargo hatch sawed open; made 100% out of styrene card and rod including the floor. The new cockpit (in building) is 95% scratch, with the remaining 5% made of photoetch - visible through a new vacformed canopy. I sawed off the flaps and built the rest from scratch. Wheel wells detailed scratchbuilt with styrene card and rod. 😎 Next - open engine cowlings - modifying resin engines (each engine being made of over 40 pieces each) and cowling parts and scratchbuilding all mountings, exhaust manifolds et al.... has just started 😜 To me, the challenge of a complex project is what makes it attractive. I'm far from alone in this. So let's not have condescending comments on "modern" modellers. BTW, the mentioned Lancastrian conversion was completed 39 years ago. Maybe not so modern... 🥸 Cheers, Miffed Moggy

The black plastic was rubber-like - it was terrible to saw (my first completed conversion was a Lancastrian from the 1st Lanc kit) and black plastic always needs a coat of some neutral colour (I prefer light grey) to be able to see scratches, seams and filler problems. The same undercoat is a must before airbrushing; black surface makes the colours look funny... Cheers, Moggy

Sorry! I went and checked the B-26 in my stash 😁 - it had a few recessed hatches; I supposed that means partially recessed panels? 😇 Cheers, Moggy the Stash-raider