Medic's Prowler

[Medicman71]

I've made some significant progress on the Prowler with filling and sanding. Added a piece of plastic in the hole and filled and sanded it. Needs just a bit more work. Working on fairing in the resin parts on the tail. Coming along nicely.

[LyleW]

Well done

[BlackSheep214]

[Medicman71]

Thanks guys! Back to working on it today.

[Medicman71]

I started checking the fit of the resin wings. I cut the casting blocks off and checked for fit. This is going to be some work to fair in. Well of it doesn't work, I still have the kit wings that I can fall back on.

[Stikpusher]

You're shooting for folded wings?

[Medicman71]

Yeah that's what the resin wings are for. The kit wings don't allow for folded wings.

[BlackSheep214]

I remember building the old Revell 1/32 scale Baa Baa Black Sheep F4U Corsair kit that you can have wings move folded or unfolded. What a nightmare that was as a kid.

[Stikpusher]

There were several kits from that era that had workable folding wings. The 1/32 Revell Corsair and Wildcat both had that. I want to say that their 1/32 F-4J Phantom also had that feature. Man it's been way too long to remember from when I built that one. Monogram's 1/48 Corsair, Wildcat, Hellcat, Helldiver, Avenger, and Devastator also all had working folding wings. After too many foldings and unfoldings they all eventually broke and had to be glued into flying position for playing...

[tempestjohnny]

And it didn't take long for the fold mechanism on the,Wildcat and Hellcat to snap