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I am sooooo jealous Eshark!

I may be the last, but hopefully not the least to welcome you to the best squad in all the Ethernet!!! Now get in front of me and I will show you how to be shot down..... hehehehehehehe

this has been running on US TV. It's a hoot!

Truly a work art FT! The use of American vehicles, including the 58 Chevy Impala is cool. I hope everyone in town that sees it appreciates all the work you put into the model and its history. You are probably educating a new generation that probably has no clue of the historical importance the bridge represents.

I'm glad I dropped in FT. That is way neat in the design and building of your model. Look forward to watching its progress. Excellent workmenship M8!

COOL!!!

I ran into him years ago at Oskhosh along with Pappy Boington. He was selling his book. Pappy said he was crazy and that he did not shoot him down. LOL Who knows?

That was awesome. Quad copters do have their uses.

I hope I am not boring all you with this. I feel I am blowing my own horn here. Some have asked to see more of the scale planes I have built over the years so here are some more. Ist is a Byron Husky, 114WS, powered by a O.S. Pegasus flat four four stroke engine on ignition and gas. It has removable floats to a land base plane as well. " Husky on floats.pdf Next is a Japanese Rufe a friend built and I helped with the surface detail and weathering. It was powered by an 80cc flat twin on gass Next is 90" scale model of the "One Design" aerobatic competition plane. Powered by the same 78cc twin now residing in my T-28. I payed for the model by selling advertising to local businesses as you can see aka NASCAR...LOL My first giant scale was a 105" Howard DGA powered by a Quadra 50 cc engine. Here is my lovely wife Carla with the model in front of the local Beech Dealer Next is a PDF of my F-16 sitting on the wing of the full size Falcon that the plane was modeled after. The model sports the same paint as the full scale. Byron F-16.pdf F-16 with Dee, Col. Zerbi and I.pdf Next photo is Col Zerbi, and Master Sgt. Dee Fanjoy and myself. Dee was the one who hand painted the lettering on the model. Col. Zerbi was the head of maintence. Byron F-16-2.pdf The next photo is of my first giant scale Mustang in flight before it was signed by over 70 Tuskegee Airmen. P-51 Mustang in flight.pdf the next phot is one of the few scale Helicoptors I built. It was Chopper 7 for the local Dayton, Ohio TV station. Here one of the TV News Anchors, Cheryl McHenery, and Weatherman Bruce Asbury hold the model in front of one of there mobile news vehicles OK that enough for this thread.

First of all. It takes skill and patients to do any scale modeling regardless of scale. The work all of you do on the plastic models is amazing and note worthy. Only difference is size. Snacko, I can't tell you if or when the RC show will be back at the museum. The group that put it on has all but disbanded due to age. I used to run the flight line and helped put the show on for many years. It was great seeing all of those models fly. I will be heading for Top Gun this Wendsday to flight judge over the week end. I get to set on the flight line and witness some if the finest scale models fly in the world. I will try to get photos to pass along. I can not video them due to judging. I will get there Thursday and will have time to photograph them in the pits.

]I did professional building for other modelers for over 25 years. The kit industry has as you all know all but died due to ARFs. Here are a couple of models I built for others as well:

Here are photos of one of my most favorite models .The F4U Corsair. I was fortune enough to get photos of the real aircraft up close and personel. Sat in it....LOL I built it from a Top Flight Kit. 85" wingspan. Model is all wood construction. Was glassed then all surface detail installed(panel lines, hatches,flush rivets sliding canopy). Painted with base coat/clear coat automotive paints and powered by a 50cc gas engine. It has operating retracts and sequencing gear doors, sliding canopy. Sorry no tail hook Complete cockpit with scale pilot. I used this model to compete at Top Gun back in 2004. A friend of mine had more money than I have brains and he now owns it and displays it on special occasions. He will not fly it. The plane weighed 30#s. If you would like to see more of the models Iv'e built let me know

Here are photos of my T-28. It has a 98" wingspan, retracts, fusalage speed brake, main wheel brakes, all nav and landing lights with rotating beacon, All panel ines and rivets with hidden hatches for electrical switches, air fill and charging jacks. sequencing gear doors as well. It weighs in at 34#s. It is powered by a 78cc horizontal twin operating on glow for additional HP. It was converted from gas to alcohol and the ignition system removed and glowplugs installed with special fittings in the existing sparkplug holes. It is painted with latex housepaint and cleared with a urethane clear to protect it from the alcohol. It has been flown many times and flys "like a trainer" just had to say that...hehehehehe

As I said coffin makers had no buisness in the aircraft business. I had heard that story years ago due to being a part of the WACO historical society here in Troy, Ohio. That would have been hard to watch.

If not for IL2 I would have never realized the role this aircraft played in WWII. The Air Force museum has one painted as a night fighter and her name is........ wait for it......."Night Mare" Crackin good job mick!