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So, Camel wings "Part Duex," or "Camel wings, just like Buffalo wings, only better!" LOL! Not much to say here. The decals have been applied, the details painted, and the rigging eyelets added. I have given the wings an overall coat of Tamiya semi-gloss clear to even out the sheen and make it...

So, a small update. I've cleaned up the upper and lower wing and aileron parts. The leading edges have a very subtle scalloping molded into them and the trailing edges are delicate and thin. It took some care and patience to clean up the mold seams while not damaging these areas. The...

Love it!

Thanks, John! It's been fun and interesting to see if I could do something different than my usual AFV-overall dead flat finish. I do understand the idea and process a lot better now, and I'm sure I could do this again but much more efficiently. Still, lots more to do, so it's way too soon to...

I guess it's really about time that I update this thread. I admit that I'm a really slow builder, and this project seems even slower than many since I spend about as much time trying to figure out what and how to do things as I do actually doing them. LOL! At any rate, I've finally finished...

Looks like now she's suing the company (as if that wasn't predicable)... Because, I suppose, the product worked exactly as advertised on the bottle that she bought and being the same bottle that she then put into her hair. Her claim is that the warning said to keep away from eyes and skin but...

Something to note about your Sherman M4A1 in the earlier post is the WHITE counter-shading under the nose and on the hull sides behind the suspension. The disruptor color has been variously identified as either black or the original OD. These tanks have three-color camouflage, not two. I...

Nice! I'll see how this one goes before I step up for another. If I do, though, I'm considering E.W. Springs' other fighter, his RAF 85 Squadron S.E.5, "Mint Julip."

Good advice. I'll have to build a little fixture to test to see how that works and get a feel for the technique. As I understand it, there's a brief moment between the heat making the line sag then tighten and using too much heat a causing it to break. I've read about this technique before...

LOL! Well... You did make me go look! One of my references on building WNW kits does mention multiple kit options for the Vickers MG pads (included in other kits), but the USAS kit, 32072, only provides one set of them, parts D23. However, just in case they're in the kit but not called out, I...

Thanks for the props! Since I've started working on the fuselage and cockpit decking I've discovered some areas that needed additional painting (along the top edges of the framing) and have added some more bracing wires. I also found a fit problem with the MG receivers and the forward decking...

Nice! The proverbial "sow's ear into a silk purse"! Your extra work on the radio really looks the part, too, and adds a lot of detail.

Had to look Williamson up! Seems like he was the real deal! Here's another snap of E.W. Springs later in his life posing with one of his personal planes on his private airstrip at the family farm outside of Ft. Mill, SC. I've heard that he kept a collection of aircraft for his personal use.

Thanks for the kind words. You must be thinking about a different flyer. E.W. Springs was from "old money" southern families. His father's side had started and owned textile mills in South Carolina for a couple of generations and was very influential, both socially and politically, in the way...

So… I haven’t built a fully rigged biplane model since I was about 9 or 10 years old when I built the old Monogram Wright Flyer. Molded in color, IIRC, the rigging was done by lacing black sewing thread through the molded on rigging holes in the struts and wings. Well, that was back around 1970...

FWIW, I think that if you have the basic over-under configuration of the radio set and power unit right, along with the correct antenna (aerial) bases, you're good to go. The racks that held the main components were either mounted in the over-under config (as on your model right now) or...

I'll be watching this with some anticipation, Eric! That little engine is a real beauty. Great subject for the build, too!

Yes, the Variometer (what would now be called an antenna matching unit) is mounted in a different location in the initial WS No. 19 installation in the UC Mk. I. This initial install replaced or superseded the WS No. II that would have been in most earlier carriers. Here's an illustration from...

Looks like your radio questions are all sorted out. I would offer up, though, that the UC Mk II didn't enter production until 1943, so it's not very likely to have showed up with the Eighth Army in North Africa. It is just possible that some UC Mk II might have made it to Tunisia with the First...

Well, we'd of course love to rent a vendor table to you guys. The Florida AMPS chapters have gotten together for the part 2-3 years and done just that. Since they actually rent one of the vendor tables, they're also allowed to sell stuff (several of their members usually being kits from their...