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Staff Sergeant
Ahoy
While my PBY is drying I love to share this here is build you dont see everyday or any other day This is a vacuform kit from airmodel this is a old kit not certain i9f they make these anymore. I purchased this kit from Archers Hobby world in 1977 the worlds first mail order hobby house.I was hopeing domeday some company would produce a kit od old Shakey, It seems that airmodel filled the bill. This is not a kit for the novis at heart it is exstremely difficult to build there are no formers or spars in the kit cthey have to be made by the builder. in the kit there are 4 sheets of vacuform parts A choice three view plan sheet along with a sketch view of exploded parts in how the pane is assembled. again the intereir parts have to be made by the builder the kit is a challenge in itself. back then there were no injection kits made of this kit until now a company that makes the C-124 in the same scale all mulimedia kit resin and styren plastic all injection formed expensive to say the least $300.00 I american curencey not certain howm much in English pounds but its expensive.This kit back then cost $19.95 reasonable at the time the clam shell cargo doors opperate on the kit they have to be built by thye modler there is a boarding ramp in the plpane I forgot to lower it when i opened up the cargo clam shell doors. As you can see it is a beefy model the globemaster was a fat huge of an airplane I flew in one when I was embarking to the Phillipine islands. In 1966 I boarded one of these Behemouths took off from Travis airforce Base California to Clarke field Phillipines. A slow plane and loud there must have been atleasted 200 personal onboard no seats just a cargo deck with netted hamocks to sit on as you approached forward there is a ladder way that goes up to the flight deck where thye pilot flight engineers and navigators are positioned. interesting plane. Here is my old Shakey.
Boats
While my PBY is drying I love to share this here is build you dont see everyday or any other day This is a vacuform kit from airmodel this is a old kit not certain i9f they make these anymore. I purchased this kit from Archers Hobby world in 1977 the worlds first mail order hobby house.I was hopeing domeday some company would produce a kit od old Shakey, It seems that airmodel filled the bill. This is not a kit for the novis at heart it is exstremely difficult to build there are no formers or spars in the kit cthey have to be made by the builder. in the kit there are 4 sheets of vacuform parts A choice three view plan sheet along with a sketch view of exploded parts in how the pane is assembled. again the intereir parts have to be made by the builder the kit is a challenge in itself. back then there were no injection kits made of this kit until now a company that makes the C-124 in the same scale all mulimedia kit resin and styren plastic all injection formed expensive to say the least $300.00 I american curencey not certain howm much in English pounds but its expensive.This kit back then cost $19.95 reasonable at the time the clam shell cargo doors opperate on the kit they have to be built by thye modler there is a boarding ramp in the plpane I forgot to lower it when i opened up the cargo clam shell doors. As you can see it is a beefy model the globemaster was a fat huge of an airplane I flew in one when I was embarking to the Phillipine islands. In 1966 I boarded one of these Behemouths took off from Travis airforce Base California to Clarke field Phillipines. A slow plane and loud there must have been atleasted 200 personal onboard no seats just a cargo deck with netted hamocks to sit on as you approached forward there is a ladder way that goes up to the flight deck where thye pilot flight engineers and navigators are positioned. interesting plane. Here is my old Shakey.
Boats
