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After building models for over 40 years I quit in October, 2016. I have 284 models here at home with 300 awards. I have written several dozen model stories for 5 websites and 4 monthly newsletters.
About 17 years ago I found some "Royal Canadian Air Force F-86 Sabre Jet" decals for sale at an "on-line" hobby shop in Canada.
I emailed and got a reply then sent some money for two sets. The 2nd set was bought just in [...]
This is a "Classic Airframes" kit. I was somewhat shocked when I discovered that the fuselage was not mating up with their clear windscreen/canopy part.
I moved the one piece windscreen/canopy back to where the canopy would [...]
Do I have the right "id" number on this model? I added some "PE" parts to the cockpit, but left out the "PE" parts for the wheel wells. I must have had a photo and/or a drawing of the wheel wells, otherwise I [...]
My first photo show's a black & white photo that I took out of Reed Kinert's air racing book. The paper back book had a red cover, but I don't remember its' name. I just cut out dozens of photos and scanned them into our Apple p.c. [...]
The black and white photo was in one of my many airplane books and one day I went searching on the web for a model kit that had these beautiful decals. I found the blue cast resin model by "Hi Planes" which was located in [...]
I created this o.o.b. hypothetical Reno, Nevada racer 'cause I has several good quality race-related decals in my spare decal box.
I took no "in progress" photos, but you all know how to build models!
My first photo show's the model with the decal instruction sheet which was easy to follow.
All I had to do was use my Tamiya X-2 Gloss White paint, then apply [...]
Masking and painting was a bit time consuming, but in the end it was worth applying and removing all that tape. None of the Tamiya paints was pulled off by the tape.
My first photo shows a printed color side view by Roden which shows the [...]
This segment is titled "C-124A-WINGS/ENGINES" and is Part 3 of the build.
I started building the 4 engines which went together A-OK. I added some thin card stock to the inside of the motor frames. When I slipped on the front end [...]
This part of the story is titled "C-124A-Plans/Fuse/Tail." Fuse is my abbreviation for "Fuselage."
As you recall the cockpit is finished, so it's time for me to finish the rest of the fuselage by sanding everything [...]
