If you think my old one was packed… I have even less space here… Check this out…
And another one… BTW, the F4U you see on top of the Voodoo box is a new build. I needed a weekend project, so I hauled out an old minicraft kit that was missing half it’s landing gear and did it wheels up.
I really need a good higher chair in there…
Gamera, thanks for the info on the MIG decals. Sprue bros charges a ton on shipping. Heck, with the shipping, the decals would cost more than the kit, so I think it’s a Sukhoi after all…
So the MIG is now back in the race. Good thing too. I opened the SU35 kit to discover that all of the instructions were in Chinese. No English whatsoever. If anyone has the Trumpeteer SU35/37 kit… (below)
Could you please consider making me a scan of your instructions? It’s not the most graphically descriptive instructions I have seen, and I have no clue on colors for it. lol
Tonight I used my technique on the photo-etch. I will explain with pictures. First I take a glazing spreader like the one in this picture:
Then I take a piece of tightly woven cotton cloth like a handkerchief, soak a small portion of it with mineral spirits, then wrap that soaked area around the glazing spreader and hold it tight like in this picture:
Next I go over the photo-etch while it is laying flat on a smooth surface with the glazing spreader very carefully watching how much paint I am removing with each pass. This will remove the paint from the high area and leave the paint in the low “etched” area. Here is a picture of the final result:
This techique also works real nice on a two color paint instrument panel photo-etch but is a little more complicated because it also involves using acrylic paint. If you want to see that technique let me know and I can find where I posted it in the F-4 Phantom build.
How can a guy love a jet that much…his country…I can’t even begin to say how much i respect a guy who would dig an F-4 out of a mud paddy only to save another guy and get blown up in the process.
Well, life ain’t fair…and that’s why we remember them.
“…Dom…Doc said I can smoke all I want…that’s not what killed me…”
What a straight up guy.[Y]
Berny loved big jokes, not the ones with the 2 second punch lines, but the ones some people take a life-time to reckon with…it was his way of teaching.
i think a lot of guys, many of them here, who served like he did, get those jokes right away…oh man, did he respect ordnance…and a great lunch!..lol…
Shishh…we found an obscure WW II bomb at Wright Patterson, he had never seen one before, it took us ten minutes to tear him away from it…like that was his new best friend!..lol…what a guy![:D]
