Got this for around $22 at Hobby Lobby during their 40% off sale. I was going to finish it in natural metal until one of my hunting/shooting/scotch drinking buddies was over one day and saw the kit. He sez "Wanna see something cool?", pulls out the decal sheet, and points to the Chowhound option where I saw his Dad's name...turns out he was original crew on this aircraft.
Naturally plans changed immediatly and the model will be finished as Chowhound, and the finished product will go to him.
It's pretty much OOB except Master Model brass .50 cal barrels and Quickboost engines. I did not go overboard with the interior as it's almost invisible when closed up. The Quickboost engines are very nice but they don't include valve rods which kind of surprised me seeing how prominent they are, but a little .020 rod will take care of this problem. As for the kit, well it's from 1975 and us older blokes all know what that means. It's coming along slowly and I expect it to eat a fair amount of time
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