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GT-R R34 'Z-Tune' Great job so far Ian. :thumbsup You do know you got the steering wheel on the wrong side, of course. ;)

Super job so far Uros. I am intimately acquainted with the medevac Challenger, having been medevaced myself once. The Quebec Government operates one fully equipped, including an onboard premature birth care unit. It also has a gravel kit that allows it to operate off dirt strips. I don't think...

Thanks guys. Being a bear for punishment, I've started a second -18 on floats. Rich Hulina, the guy who wrote the book in the last post I made with pictures, saw the model posed with his book so he now wants one of his own. His will be the one he flew for a few years - CF-TBH - operated by...

Thanks Frank. Re the stories, I'll come across something and all of a sudden it's like "Hey, that reminds me..." Glad you enjoyed them, mostly I just bore the pants off people. :oldguy

Thank you Uros.

What a fine addition to the fleet. Outstanding work Uros. :thumbsup :thumbsup

Thanks for all the kind comments fellas. Much appreciated. :thumbsup I've started the -8 for Matthew's Christmas gift. Gear down of course, and beefed up a little. We wouldn't want a gear collapse, for sometimes small boys get a little excited as they push the thing along the floor while...

Fantastic job Mike. That one goes front and center on the shelf. :thumbsup :thumbsup

Thanks fellas. Whaddya mean, not the shoe? That was funny. Well maybe you had to be there. :bgrin Anyway, stick a fork in this one, she's done and dusted and it's Yukon Ho! when the mail leaves here this evening. Jim Botaitis of J-Bot came through with a fine set of decals. There are no...

Fantastic, Uros. You outdid yourself on the gear. :blink:

Some fine work there Mike. I love those headers. :thumbsup What did you use for the gold paint? Wish my attempts came out like that.

Rhino, a coffee can'll do in a pinch, as will a shoe. A friend was driving a Norseman load of mail back in the day, the back was full of mail but he had a paying passenger riding shotgun. The pax had had a few beers, and there was still a hundred miles to go. Bucking a 30 knot wind that was over...

That's unusual, by golly. You're off to a nice start Rhino. :good

Excellent work as always Uros. :thumbsup Been there, done that. :facepalm

Thanks for the kind comments fellas. I have the base coat of paint on, three mist coats of Tamiya flat aluminum, sanded between coats, then a wet topcoat. The topcoat has been polished using Peek metal polish, looks not too bad. Needs a coat of Future to prepare for the decals and to seal the...

Great stuff Uros, love what you did to those tank vents. :thumbsup There was a couple of inflight fires with the DC-6 early on and at least one hull loss. There was a tank vent too close to the heater air scoop, and if the tank was overfilled during a crossfeed procedure the vented fuel...

Well, stick a fork in the floats. Just to prove they both look alike, one right - one left. The water rudder cables are exposed to all and sundry out in the open like that on the deck of the float, so to protect them from abuse, not to mention being the cause of inadvertent swimming by...

Thank you all for the kind comments, much appreciated fellas. I have the floats and the main struts finished. The main struts are hefty affairs - as they must be - the airplane weighs what.. 9000 lbs? and the floats take a beating in rough water. I had no idea of the length, so I made the...

Thanks for the kind comments fellas. Cap, I'm sure someone out there makes 1:48 dead or drunk fauna. If not, Bob's wife is an accomplished sculptress. She built a diorama for that 180 on floats I built for their son. It has a little miniature of their son's dog sitting by the float of the...

Nice job Uros. Not often one sees a glider. :thumbsup