However I had forgotten to glue the control panel and I decided then to call it a day.
That was a few months ago.
I have not forgotten my ICM He 111
Author: Pierre Lagacé
Reblog – The Zero Hunter: Let’s Visit All of Japan’s Restored, Replica and Wrecked Zero Fighters!
Reblog of the reblog…
My friend over at wayfarerdaves.com has published a guide to all of the preserved A6M Zeros in Japan. Dave explains that he did not care about the Zero when he came to Japan, but as he traveled and visited museums, he kept seeing them more and eventually began to appreciate the Zero’s aesthetic. Now he wants to see them all and that’s a worthy goal. I tried to find a way to reblog the post over here but I could not find the button to do that. So here is a link to the post:
The Zero Hunter: Let’s Visit All of Japan’s Restored, Replica and Wreck Zero Fighters!
I get what he means about learning to appreciate the Zero’s aesthetic and needing to see them all.
When I got back into the hobby around 2007, it was all about Corsairs for me. I bought some and I built some and I…
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Update
I think this is a good time for a little update on My Forgotten Hobby III.
The MiG-15 finally got its decals two weeks ago. Then came the F-86.
I tested the MiG decals first and they worked perfectly even if they sat in the box since the 1980s. The F-86 decals came after with the yellow decals I had received from Model Airplane Maker.
I still have to figure a way to fix this though.
I still have a few touch-ups to do before I think how I will give them as a gift.
Next in line will have to be the He 111.
I think the clear parts should be solidly glued now.
I had started painting the He 111 using a paintbrush.
First the upper surfaces with dark green which seemed to be the wrong shade of green, and then the undersides with the right shade of RLM 65 Hellblau.
Those photos we taken with my new Motorola Stylus G cellphone I got as a gift from my son. Now I have no reason to procrastinate and then shower you with photos of my progress reports.
To be continued…
Grumman F6F Hellcat Color Photographs Part I
Hellcats!
An early F6F-3 Hellcat positioned in front of the island of the Essex-class carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10). The first Hellcats were delivered in the standard Blue Gray over Light Gray scheme with national insignia in six locations. This photograph was taken in May, 1943.
Yorktown again, but three months later. These Hellcats are finished in the graded scheme and feature the barred insignia with blue outline in four locations. The wings have extensive cordite staining from the guns.
Hellcats recovering aboard the USS Saratoga (CV-3). Saratoga survived the war, only to be expended as a target for atomic bomb tests.
F6F Hellcats and SBD Dauntless dive bombers warm up aboard the USS Lexington (CV-16) off New Guinea in April, 1944. Close examination of the photo shows kill markings displayed on Hellcats 5 and 20.
Plane handlers sunbathing on the wing of a Fleet Air Arm Hellcat Mk.1 of the Royal…
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One model kit in my collection
A review leading me not to even start this kit…
https://modelingmadness.com/review/viet/us/usaf/kol58.htm
About its history
A-1H Skyraider. — THE SCALE MODEL HANGAR
Just as the A-1H Skyraider, NE/572 “Paper Tiger II” was being shot off the deck of the USS MIDWAY, a 1MC message came from the bridge, ‘What the hell was on 572’s right wing?’ Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction……….. According to Squadron Historian Holt Livesay, on 4 November on the last mission of the […]
A-1H Skyraider. — THE SCALE MODEL HANGAR
Curtiss P-40E Warhawk — Plane Dave
We’ve looked at the story of how the Japanese exploded across the Pacific at the start of the Pacific War a few times. Now let’s take a look at where the line finally held, and one of the most successful early pilots. At the start of World War II in the Pacific there were virtually […]
Curtiss P-40E Warhawk — Plane Dave
Matchbox’s Whistling Outhouse — The Sprue Lagoon
With a nickname like that, you know the plane has got to be something special, right? Well, what could be more special that a plane of which there is still, in 2021, no other mainline injected kit than the 1978-vintage Matchbox original? The Supermarine Stranraer was something like a big-brother to the (marginally more famous?) […]
Matchbox’s Whistling Outhouse — The Sprue Lagoon
Consolidated PBY Catalina Color Photographs Part 4
If I don’t build my Monogram PBY next, it’s not for lack of motivators like Jeff…
A PBY-5A Catalina amphibian from VP-61 flies over the rugged Aleutian landscape in March 1943. Aerials for the surface search radar can be seen under the wings.
Another photograph from the Aleutians shows this PBY moored to a buoy with others visible in the background. Flying boat squadrons could be based in sheltered bays and supported from seaplane tenders, many of which in the US Navy were converted from flush-deck destroyers.
A pre-war photograph taken in 1939 shows a Catalina from Patrol Squadron 51 in the colorful yellow wings markings. Posed in front of the aircraft is the Governor of Puerto Rico, William P. Leahy.
VADM Patrick Bellinger presides over a ceremony at NAS Norfolk. The PBY is finished in the Atlantic ASW scheme of Gull Gray over White. Note the asymmetric demarcation of the color separation on the fuselage.
VP-94 transfers their PBY-5A’s to the Brazilian Navy in this…
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Douglass TBD-1 Devastator
John C Waldron The Devastator is best known for the sacrifice of it’s crews at the Battle of Midway. In particular, Torpedo 8 which lost all of their aircraft and most of their personnel in one attack. Let’s look at a prime mover behind the well known story. John C Waldron was born in 1900 […]
Douglass TBD-1 Devastator
My Forgotten Hobby III 