One of my other loves in aviation is the golden age of air racing! This is my first subject in this field, and a lovely little kit it is! It's a little old (late 60's early 70's) but it must have been awesome when it first came out! There is a lot of flash on almost all the parts, but once cleaned up the all fit extremely well. I did not need any filler on the major assemblies. The wings are just sitting in the grooves right now as I will be removing them to paint the red trim on the fuselage without them in the way. (The wings are removable on the real plane and this is a natural break, so any seam left over will be left alone.)

The interior is fairly well detailed with a section of the tube frame represented on each side, rudder pedals, a stick and trim wheel. The instrument panel is a very detailed decal, and while not my favorite way to go about it, stands in very well. (Very little of any of this detail will be visible through the tiny windscreen so what is there is more than enough. Perhaps if it were modeled with the access hatch removed...)

I sprayed chrome yellow right on bare plastic for the smoothest possible finish, however I wish I would have found some flat yellow to use as a base. There are a ton of very light coats used to get good coverage without having any high spots peek through.

The fun part is now going to be the masking for the black scallops. The red trim will be painted by hand with Guards Red and I've already started practicing using the scallops painted on an old model. I'm almost shooting straight even lines now!

I can't wait to see Kermit Weeks get his back in the air, he's pretty close now! (He also owns Delmar Benjamin's Gee Bee R, though I don't know if he'll ever fly it.)

I have the Gee Bee R now too with my eyes on Hall's Bulldog and I have the Super Solution on the way. The company that runs Williams now is slowly re-releasing all the kits and is very helpful with missing parts BTW!

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I'm still under 40 so my hands are still pretty steady as long as I lay off the coffee! I just need to knock the rust off of my drawing and painting skills. I was doing pretty good painting lines on a piece of flat stock, we'll see what happens on curves!

I do plan on getting all of the W-B racers. They also have the Schoenfeldt Firecracker and the Caudron. I've been fortunate enough to see replicas of all of these fly at EAA (Except the Super Solution, I only saw it static 🙁 and the Bulldog as no one has built one yet.)I also plan on getting Lindberg's Laird Meteor which builds up into a pretty nice plane. I also have to find a Mr. Mulligan.

The guy I talked to at W-B also said they have new kits in the works, but was silent on what they were. Hmmm...