With 2010 rapidly drawing to a close, I thought it would be worthwhile to revisit the kits that have come off my bench since I returned to the hobby in July. Rather than follow the usual chronological order, I’ve decided to proceed from my favorite to least favorite kit. 1/48 Tamiya P-51B Mustang Tamiya’s superb…
Category: F4F-3 Wildcats
A Pair of Wildcats
REPOSTED FROM DAMNED IF YOU DOOGS. ORIGINAL POST DATES FROM OCTOBER 13, 2010. Back in the 1930s and very nearly up to the eve of Pearl Harbor, the warplanes of the U.S. Navy sported one of the most vibrant paint schemes in the history of aviation, and certainly of military aviation. The silver fuselage and yellow wings…
Rapid Task-Switching
REPOSTED FROM DAMNED IF YOU DOOGS. ORIGINAL POST DATES FROM SEPTEMBER 24, 2010. I don’t multitask. Never have, probably never will. My brain just isn’t wired that way. Instead, I practice something I read about a few months back – rapid task-switching. It’s a practice that looks like multitasking from a distance, but it’s actually a way…
F4F-3 Build Report – Unstuck
REPOSTED FROM DAMNED IF YOU DOOGS. ORIGINAL POST DATES FROM SEPTEMBER 16, 2010. Crappy canopy alignment issues solved. Before: After: The solution? Aftermarket vacuform canopies. Which, let me tell you, are an absolute treat to cut away from their backing sheets. Freehand. With a scalpel blade. The windscreens ended up being useless, but the main canopies are…
F4F-3 Build Report – Stuck
REPOSTED FROM DAMNED IF YOU DOOGS. ORIGINAL POST DATES FROM SEPTEMBER 12, 2010. These Hobbyboss Wildcats have been staggeringly inconsistent. Some of the pieces are just perfect. Detail and fit are spot on. Hell, the entire cockpit assembly can hold together without any sort of adhesive. But then you turn around and there’s this part that just…
What You Don’t See…
REPOSTED FROM DAMNED IF YOU DOOGS. ORIGINAL POST DATES FROM SEPTEMBER 6, 2010. One of the lessons I learned building the Dauntless was the futility of super-detailing cockpits. Even on a plane with as large a greenhouse as the Dauntless, everything but the seats, control stick and instrument panel is obscured by the fuselage and more-or-less impossible…
The Next Build(s): Grumman F4F-3 Wildcat
REPOSTED FROM DAMNED IF YOU DOOGS. ORIGINAL POST DATES FROM SEPTEMBER 4, 2010. When I got back into modeling, one of the first things I decided to do was build an airplane for Nolan. Something bright, with lots of bold colors. Of course, those types of paint schemes tend to take a lot of planning and masking,…
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