Jeff's Texan with an accent.***Finished*****

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Great start, Jeff. And quick!
The tape trick for dihedral is very good and I used it often myself. :)
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Great start Jeff. Nice one. If I remember right it was one of these that was my first 48th scale kit. Looking forward to watching the build.

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jssel wrote:Never mind. But I have two grandkids , 5yrs and 9mos. Love em. Love em. Love em.
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Oh sorry, thought I had mentioned this (ooh, I did). It is 1/48th scale and I'm lovin' it.
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A real beauty.
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So last night I got her up on her pegs just checking fit.

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But things got a little silly and before long the undersurfaces were painted and the landing gear and flaps fixed.

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I used Testors flat yellow in the little bottles (1169). Covers well but as of this morning just a little tacky. Hopefully tonight I will mask and start the upper surfaces. Colors of choice for the uppers will be from he Polly Scale line. While they last.
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Those Testors enamels can take forever to dry....
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PaulBradley wrote:Those Testors enamels can take forever to dry....
I've actually thinned out the Testors yellow and shot it through an airbrush. Have to say, it dried quite fast that way
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I actually thinned mine with lacquer thinner. Normally I hate the fumes but I do not use enamels much.

I have read a little more about this airframe. Believe it is now under the juris of Duxford and being repaired after a forced landing in a field. It has gone through several color changes over time. In Paul's photo, it appears to have the "less framed" canopy of the G model. An antenna post just behind the canopy and a VHF antenna slopping behind that. Reported earlier it was one timed owned by Gary Numan around the time he got into "Cars." Found a picture today of Mr Numan flying this aircraft painted as a Tora Tora Tora Zero. Ok, enough is enough.
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Gary Newman was part of the Harvard Display team that flew in the 80’s-90’s, when I was on 846 Squadron one of our pilots was Norman Lees who flew the other Harvard in displays with Gary Newman and Norman kept his green/brown/yellow Harvard in out squadron hanger.
Back in the mid 80’s I had a several commission from Norman to produce1/72 & 1/48 scale models of the display team.

Unfortunately Norman was killed in a flying accident several years ago so seeing you all build the Harvard’s has bought back good and bad memories from the past for me.

I do recall building the Monogram 1/48 scale kit of Normans a/c and thinking what a great kit it was to build and having the a/c to crawl over made life so much easier.

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Thanks for that Alan. I understand also that the "stand-in" pilot for Robert Mitchum in the movie lost his life in a automobile accident. This is getting depressing. Well, in memory to a good movie and good people: Cheers.

So last night I added the Dark Earth.

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Had a real issue develop which really hampered my progress. As stated before I used an enamel paint for the lowers thinned with lacquer thinner. Normally I have no problems after cleaning the airbrush but there must have been a little residue inside the airbrush as when I started using the acrylic paint, things turned to globs of crud. So completely broke down the airbrush for a proper cleaning and went back to work.

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Been there, done that.....
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PaulBradley wrote:Been there, done that.....
and me :-D
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Should look good when done.
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jssel wrote:Had a real issue develop which really hampered my progress. As stated before I used an enamel paint for the lowers thinned with lacquer thinner. Normally I have no problems after cleaning the airbrush but there must have been a little residue inside the airbrush as when I started using the acrylic paint, things turned to globs of crud. So completely broke down the airbrush for a proper cleaning and went back to work.

Sometimes we can be so smart.
Well, you did get to fully clean your airbrush. Now you don't have to do that later. :ha:

Coming along great, Jeff. Love the smoothness of your paintjob!
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