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Re: Hobbycraft F8F VNAF
Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2021 5:12 pm
by Ceaser_Sa1ad
Very nice!
I want to do this kit too, so I will be following carefully.

Re: Hobbycraft F8F VNAF
Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2021 6:35 pm
by Stuart
Good progress Carlos.
Re: Hobbycraft F8F VNAF
Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2021 8:03 pm
by Stikpusher
Declan & Stuart, thank you. I’ll have more updates nice I get the cockpit quite a bit further along. That will likely be next week.
Re: Hobbycraft F8F VNAF
Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2021 10:01 pm
by speedgraflex
Medicman71 wrote:Stikpusher wrote:Thanks Mark. I normally don’t show the sprues, but since everybody else was… show me yours and I’ll show you mine…

Whow there! We're friends but that's going a little far.

Nice progress Stik! Oh and if you want to see a Bearcat up close, come to Houston for the airshow. Warbirds EVERYWHERE!!!
Hahaha (exactly what I was thinking)
Re: Hobbycraft F8F VNAF
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2021 11:30 am
by Medicman71
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!
Re: Hobbycraft F8F VNAF
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2021 12:38 pm
by Stikpusher
Yes I need to hit there and Dayton before I die. Fort Rucker is supposed to have a nice museum also for Army aviation stuff.
Re: Hobbycraft F8F VNAF
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2021 12:41 pm
by Medicman71
Yes those too!
Re: Hobbycraft F8F VNAF
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2021 12:50 pm
by Duke Maddog
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!
Yes, I've been to that museum a number of times. If you go on a Wednesday in the summertime, don't forget to slip out to the back of the museum and watch the Blue Angels practice. They run their practices just like a show complete with a set of bleachers to sit on. The fun part of it is that if the pilots don't quite nail a maneuver; they do it again!
Good times!
Re: Hobbycraft F8F VNAF
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2021 1:06 pm
by Stikpusher
Mark, do the Blues practice in the summer or the winter? I always thought that winter was their off/practice season and summer was when they do their air show tours around the nation.
Re: Hobbycraft F8F VNAF
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2021 2:08 pm
by Medicman71
They practice at Pensacola NAS (where the museum is) during the airshow season. It's only during the winter that they're at El Centro.