Thanks Mike! Great little read there! Much better than a video IMO! Lot’s of cool insight.
Idid use a blade on some triangular holes on the fwd edge row of holes. But aft if that the plastic gets soo thin I was afraid of over-gouging!
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Glad ya liked it… I prefer articles to videos, m’self. In videos, you don’t hear your check pilot say, “A parachute won’t do you any good in this airplane,” he deadpanned. “If you survive the crash, we’re going to kill you.” .[swg]
Good Evening old chap! [oX)]
I’ve been enjoying your progress on this one, looking forward to seeing more.[tup]
Man, I envy your perserverance! Drilling all of those holes would drive me batty (or, crazier than I already am!). [8-] Keep the updates coming! [tup]
Thanks Darren and Frank!
Just got through with some unintended details…glue is dry…paint is drying. But too late for pics right now.
Had to rework the gunner’s place (and the guns) (guns…plural)…and build all needed to button up the fuse. That’s what I get for articulating the canopy![(-D]
But it’s fun and there will be many new pics tomorrow after work!
This will be LCdr Max Leslie’s SBD, VB-3 from Yorktown at Midway. Had to ‘update’ the kit to match. Not much…but some!
See you tomorrow!
Namrednef Max Leslie flew with VB-5 not VB-3. VB-3 was off the Saratoga and VB-5 was off Yorktown.
Of course it is Mikey! I have a sheet with possible SBD pilots tacked in front of me and crossed up the squadrons. I’m planning to do one Marine and one Navy of each of my 2 Monos and 2 Accu-minis.
Good to know you can spot an error like that! Great backup![tup]
What? No A-24 Banshee? Slighting the USAAF, eh? Guess I’ll have to do it to keep things equal then…[:D]
Comes from watching Midway way too many times.[:P]
MikeyM…very good! Very good! But then you did know of the Sara connection which wasn’t in the film![(-D]
HvH (Mike) I thought about an A-24…I read quite a few pages about their history…For various reasons the few A-24’s had a dismal war record. I will do one…but right now it’s a footnote. Good observation though! I’d be happy to see your take on one!
Go, Fender, go! I like this challenge- do up the old girl, I say! When gouging and drilling, don’t forget that a quick brush of liquid cement will do wonders to smooth out the rough spots and melt in all the little hairy fringes of tortured styrene. I built this kit back in the 60’s while still a sprout, and it hung in the basement for decades with it’s bright yellow bomb waiting to wreak havok on the never-to-be-completed Cutty Sark below… [:D] Cheers!
chuk
Nam, I read that you called this a $5 kit. The only place I can find this is Hobby Lobby or Michael’s and it runs about $12. Where did you get yours for $5?
Thanks chukw! Yours and many others build posts here inspired me to stop swimming in circles and maybe I can pay it forward as you guys have!
Dontcha love my hi-tech graphics? Curse me for not using the liquid cement tip! Well, as they say, “What doesn’t kill me…”
As you may have read…this really is the most FUN (and not work) that I have had!
Hope you’re feeling better and still enjoying your last posting!
David
Yeah and the fact that Max didn’t have a single bomb when he made his attack run. “Stupid electric arming switches”
Yeah Mikey! I read that many many years ago! But he was more valuable there than gone!
It was something like…" I armed the bomb and felt that sick sensation as the aircraft got lighter and I knew I’d lost my bomb!"
Paraphrasing, of course
I believe those are the same type of arming switches that killed Joe Kennedy.
Hi All that look! Very sorry that I haven’t hit the goal for tonight. But I got SOMETHING done!
Burned up over two hours on the cell…3 different calls…all from the GF! What!? Nothing on TV in Westport!? Uuuggghhhh!
Anyway…the fuse should have been buttoned tonight. Gawd! I spent half the friggin’ day with her yesterday!
This is tonights measely line-up:…The last (mostly) of cockpit(s) work. In the center is the kit IP decal mounted on plastic stock…clockwise from upper left are some scratchbuilt ‘suggestive’ rudder pedals that will be filed and sanded to better scale size tomorrow.
On the right side, the gunner stuff. This plane needed a twin .30cal to represent Max Leslie’s A/C properly…not that simple!..scratched a mounting post to fit the traverse ring. Next to it is the gunner’s seat. The seat I made by sawing off the nose of a 500 lb bomb half…added straps to attach to the gun ring. They should be round, but they won’t be as visible as the seat
Lower right is the ‘headrest’ portion with seat…the gray spot is because I’ve wiped out the backrest seatbelts…all my refs show a thin padded backrest…still deciding how to do that!
The last couple items…the hook I will scratch from some real wire…too thick. The bomb swingarm I will use…just have to rig a convincing attachment point.
Hoping to have better progress tomorrow. Thanks for looking in!
I wish the GF wanted to marry! Then she’d leave me alone! Right?..Right?
Looks like you are exceding the two main criteria for a build:
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Having fun
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Making progress
I call this overwhelming success! Now, get off the [censored] telephone and get to work! [:D]
(Hope you know I’m kidding!)
Looking good there, my friend.
Hey what you need is the old speaker phone, you can listen to the significant other ramble on while your hands are free to model. Just be sure to insert the appropriate “um-huh” here and there.
Hmmmm looks like progress… did he say he is getting ready to close up the fuselage! Wow![tup]
I can sympathize with the GF competeing and infringing on your building time. Here is a tip… [alien]
Just tell her your looking at spending the evening and into the wee hours of the next day playing around with some graceful curves and sticky stuff![dinner]
( That usually gets the wife to leave me alone for a couple hours at least.) [party]
Better yet she may misunderstand you and come over! [}:)][:-,][#toast]