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I'll give it another try; I'll build a General Aviaton plane. Let's see how far I can get it this time before it lands on it's final destination - and will it be the showroom shelf, or the bin? Well, if I look back at the failed attempts and abandoned projects of the more recent past, there where a significant amount of Airliners among them - not especially challenging kits, some as easy as the new Revell Airbus 320 neo. But I failed, mainly at the stage of closing seams, which is for me a crucial part, but I manage to do so at submarines, so it should be doable. And, failing when the bar sits lowest, I think I have to raise it. If I fail with something like a modern Revell Airbus, it probably was to easy and I should go with something more challenging. You get the logic? (Well, there isn't any. But it reads meaningful. Kind of.) Do be honest; reading @S.A. Lady wonderful take on the Jumbo I wanted to splash some white paint on grey plasic as well. Knowing, it will not turn out that nice. But hey one must try to fail with style. 😉 I had three candidates; Roden's PanAm Boeing 720 (not in the mood to hussle with them decals), A&A's Beechcraft Super King Air (need to get some proper blades and stuff first) and Sova-M's Learjet 35A. And, the latter it will be, Ifeel it's the right thing to take on the saddle of a General Aviaton bullride. Yep, Short Run that is. Parts are warped, fit is mediocre, details are basic. This lesson will be not for the faint of heart. Let's see what we've got. Beautiful Boxart, of an Argentine connection plane from the Falkland aera, mentioning that this is limited to 450 pieces. It's a beautiful scheme, and I guess I will build it straight like this. The box is quite cramped with some three larger sprues and some eight smaller sprues, some are duplicates: Decals are quite nice, clear parts are separately packed, and there's a small PE fret included. Instructions are what you'd expect from a short run kit like this - a bit basic: This is not your comfy seat, but requires work. As it says on the tin; This model is executed on the technology short run and is intended only for experienced modellers! Amen, bro! I'm experienced in messing up any kind of kit and failed on even more messy ones - so that counts, I guess? Hey ho, let's go!

I finally finished something, and it's not even vacation time yet! This model was started a long time ago, and back then it was the first short run kit that I've ever attempted. Due to reasons it stalled at 25% done, but after all work on a Beaufighter during the autumn I got the mojo back to do something about this one. I had a fun time with the gun throughs and the cooling fans, but in the end they do look quite nice! Not so much with the rocket rails though :-( Anyway, here are the pictures (yes I wil cut of the radiowires a little more. I just need to have a steady one first or time the cutting to my heartbeats) Onwards and upwards. One finished is worth two new on the bench and five in the stash right? Here is a link to the WIP: (pictures from photobucket are blocked, but I might put them over to flickr if need be)