With the damn Ford FD-100 shelved, I decided to jump in on an oldie kit I acquired from Brent Jacobs (Handiable) a couple years back. An oldie I wished I had done as a kid and seldom seen built up.
Here's the kit:
I haven't decided on the colors yet. With the lack of a decent engine in my stash, I'm looking at hoping to find a pair of exhaust pipes as these... IF they can work with the fenders on. I may cut the cowl sides and install the hood as shown in the silver Ford.
“Who controls the skies, controls the fate of this Earth”
Author unknown- 352nd Fighter Group, Blue-Nosed Bastards of Bodney
“Send one plane it’s a sortie; send two planes it’s a flight; send four planes it’s a test of airpower. - Richard Kohn
"Surely I have made my meaning plain? I intend to avenge myself upon you, Admiral. I have deprived your ship of power, and when I swing 'round, I intend to deprive you of your life."
"Do you know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I get and beat you with 'till you understand who's in ruttin' command!"
-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.
"Surely I have made my meaning plain? I intend to avenge myself upon you, Admiral. I have deprived your ship of power, and when I swing 'round, I intend to deprive you of your life."
