Recent content by hamchuck

This one. Great kit, I might get another sometime and do the bat livery.

Let's see, I'm thinking Eduard's Wildcat, then the Academy Enterprise, Niko's USS Marblehead and I've got an Academy Dauntless on the way that will probably be after that. That might fill out the year, though I hope the Enterprise doesn't take me as long as the Saratoga has. At some point I...

I like that Booker a lot. It's a shame they didn't field it.

Most of the B-25 was built in '24, but technically completed in '25. I think all of these were the first half of the year. I've been lollygagging on the Saratoga ever since.

Yeah, my experience with HF has always been, um, uneven. As somebody raised on Craftsman when they were still made in the USA, shopping there never sat well with me anyways. Eventually all I got from there was clamps and simple stuff like that.

I've had those for gun cleaning, shop cleaning, cleaning for just about everything except my teeth. Harbor Freight for me, but I'm sure they all come from the same ginormous factory in China.

The Enterprise herself. 1/700 scale.

Just arrived from Model Monkey, for a future project. I'm going to be as gentle as a bomb squad tech, clipping the supports from this thing. (I mean a good one, I hope.)

I agree, I'll be filling out the ranks a bit more. Actually, I think I've managed to keep a hold of them all. When they launch they don't seem to go very far, usually remaining on the working pad.

I'm already thinking I should have ordered more crew. Also me: Oh god please no more of these guys. But in for a penny, in for a pound I guess.

Gents, I hope everybody had a Merry Christmas. Anybody get something cool in the modelling line? My complement of Oerlikons is installed and the deck is active with aircraft. I think my failure rate with the guns was about 25%. Those barrels will break off if you so much as look at them too...

I really had no idea how much care they took in painting these things. At the rate of production they had to put out I thought it was a far more rushed affair.

Not only is that a beautiful job, it really illustrates the US Navy's dictum, "Guns: Put them EVERYWHERE."

I was actually thinking about Revell's old 1/426 kit. Model Monkey makes some wonderful-looking 3D-printed pieces for it and I'm not a big fan of Trumpeter.