Hobbycraft F8F VNAF
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Stikpusher
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Re: Hobbycraft F8F VNAF
Ah ok. I was wondering if they had moved their practice from ElCentro to Pensacola. So I presume that the Pensacola practice is on the downtime between shows.
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Re: Hobbycraft F8F VNAF
Yep!
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I'm dying to go there. My wife does a lot if business trips to Pensacola and I can go anytime with her just have to pay for my own airfare. Of course there are no direct flights from here to there.Medicman71 wrote:I forgot about the Naval Aviation Museum!! I've been once and I ran out of batteries and space on my camera and phone with all the pics I took! That's heaven for US Naval Aviation fanatics like me!
I've been to the USAF museum in Ohio. That took 3 days open to close to look through
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Duke Maddog
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Re: Hobbycraft F8F VNAF
Thank you Mike for answering Carlos' questions. Yes, they practice in summertime between shows. It is a blast watching them practice. It's almost like getting a show and a half because of the do-overs they are called to do sometimes. They even have their announcer speaking as if it were an actual show, except at practice he sometimes critiques the pilots' performance.
Yeah, It took me two days to go through half of the USAF museum in Dayton.
Yeah, It took me two days to go through half of the USAF museum in Dayton.
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-Jayne Cobb, Firefly Episode 2 "The Train Job"
We are modelers - the same in spirit, in hunger to insanely buy newly released kits, hustlers in hiding our stash from our better halves and experts in using garbage as replacements for after-market parts.
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Re: Hobbycraft F8F VNAF
I’m bumping this one back to the top of my builds as of yesterday… I’ll have some progress photos up soon
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And now back to work on this project…
I resumed work in the cockpit, using a 3-D print decal seat harness, modifying a F6F-5 IP decal for use on this one, and some final detail painting plus dry brushing
and I started painting the engine
More in a day or two…
I resumed work in the cockpit, using a 3-D print decal seat harness, modifying a F6F-5 IP decal for use on this one, and some final detail painting plus dry brushing
and I started painting the engine
More in a day or two…
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Re: Hobbycraft F8F VNAF
Looks good. Whos 3d print stuff are you using? I just pulled the trigger on a couple kits I've been on the fence about - one of them is the Hobby Boss Bearcat.
Thanks,
John
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John I used a 3-D harness from Kits World. They worked super easy. But I am curious as to how long/well that they will stay in place. Only time will tell there.
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Re: Hobbycraft F8F VNAF
Tempted to give those decals a try...just tempted. Looks good!
To make each build less crappy than the last one. Or, put another way, "Better than the last one, not as good as the next one!"..
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I’m gonna try some of those cockpit console/IP 3-D decals next.
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