Recent content by typhoonken

Aaarrghh, Matt, you got me . For as nicely as the rest of the checkerboard went on, (including the bottom), it was all I could do to get something resembling symmetry on the top. I hate to be inaccurate, but this was a case of creative repair or strip off the whole checkerboard. Ken

Thanks all. This kit is a 1/48th Hasegawa, and besides a new resin cockpit, (I threw out the original pit accidentally; it was assembled and painted and still stuck to the masking tape on my tabletop newspaper cover), I added new brass tubing barrels, a PE ring and bead sight, and a rearview...

When I started using aftermarket decals in the 70's one of the first planes I built with the then-Microscale sheet was Major Quince L. Brown's P-47D, personalized as 'Okie.' In 2003, SuperScale released sheet # 48-879, which included a later version of 'Okie.' I decided to re-do the plane and...

Hello Njaco, I'm in Mount Laurel, moving soon to address #2 in Mount Laurel. I'm a Willow Grove ex-employee, and after all the base closing news a year ago, I couldn't tell you if it's on or off the Closure List.:confused: Sorry I can't help, but hello. Ken

I took a bit of a beating from les when I started posting here. But I left myself open to that BY posting my info. I coulda kept it to myself, but the reason for posting is to get info and other opinions. All feedback is good. I caught up on the Pierre posts recently, and as much as I...

I played a Beamont clip of him explaining his V1 tipping method (off of the Tempest website). EXACTLY where he described his method the sound stuttered a bit and I wasn't able to make out if there was wing-to-wing contact. I thought there might have been.:oops: What Tony says makes more...

Keep going, Wayne, and could you tell us the scale and company brand? Thanks, Ken

(whispering) me and the old lady are trying to buy our first home so keep this quiet. I restatrted on an ESCI/ Ertl Tempest but the re-scribing was taking too long. I made a large credit card payment recently and decided to re-purchase the Eduard kit on credit and have at it.:D I bought...

Thanks, guys. This is a Tamiya 1/48th A6M5c kit from the early 1980s. Some recessed, some raised panel lines. Markings are for the restructured Air Group 252, 1944-45. Since this model of Zero only reached service by November 1944, it would have been based in the home islands fending off...

this is one of only two kits I completed last year... Added alot of PE in the cockpit but it got swallowed up when the fuselage went together. I like to model somewhat anonymous planes, but ones that definately saw action. I found it tough to find A6M5c's pictures from...

I always wonder if pilots who've flown in different aircraft develop a true preference for one,over another, going into combat, (109 or 190 or 152.) Also, were tactics going in against heavy bombers strictly adhered to or did it become a free-for-all after initial sighting/ contact. And...

Typhoons and Tempests. You start looking at the tail and fuselage and you're O.K., move up the fuselage to the wings and you're thinking:confused: "Uh-oh, what's going on," see the undercarriage and those huge tires,:( "oh my, what have I..." then you hit that open mouth radiator and... "it's...

Northwest, Funny you're doing a P-47. The one and only time I needed to mask off a cowling was a white-nosed T-bolt. What I did was paint the whole cowling white, wait for it to dry a day or so, then put a big fat snug rubber band around the white. I adjusted the band until it was straight...

Not a sailor? A tard? I think I've been verbally abused.:) I guess you don't wanna hear about duty or standing watches or any other way of redeeming myself? Didn't think so.:oops: Anyway, I loved it and I'm proud. Ken P.S. FLYBOYJ, a P-3 reference? I remember them well.

Enlisted and entered Great Lakes boot camp 1991. Directly to "A" school, Millington TN. First choice on Order Choosing day. One week later, orders taken from me, torn in half, and I'm told I am not USN but rather USNR-TAR(AD). "What does this mean," I ask. "You are not an active duty...