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Yellow Wings
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 3:26 pm
by Stikpusher
I’ve been wanting to build a few Between the Wars/Yellow Wings subjects, like Lyle and his Golden Era racers of the same time period. So I have been buying some new kits, decals, and looking at what’s in my stash. These two are gonna be among my first, with the F2A leading off…
First I need to finish up a tank for a IPMS GB…
Re: Yellow Wings
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 3:27 pm
by LyleW
Good ones!
Re: Yellow Wings
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 3:28 pm
by speedgraflex
Yes, please. Following.
Re: Yellow Wings
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 4:25 pm
by BlackSheep214
Carlos... how about you hosting a Group Build on Yellow Wings? I’ve got one started and stalled. And I do have a Stearman in my stash.
Re: Yellow Wings
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 4:34 pm
by Paul
Good idea, Carlos. That sounds like a good reason to finish up my F4B4.
Re: Yellow Wings
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 4:43 pm
by Stuart
Cool, I really like between wars subjects!
Re: Yellow Wings
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 9:08 pm
by keavdog
Great choices. I did the Tamiya Buffalo a while back - just have to watch for the glass bottom fit otherwise fun. I'd join a yellow wings GB if you start in February
Don't think I've ever built one. I like the F3F a lot.
Be sure to make that Buffalo canopy clean - lots of glass there. BTW - love the wingy thing interest!
Re: Yellow Wings
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 9:32 pm
by Stikpusher
A between the wars GB? That sounds like a fun idea…
Say starting in July?
I just won an auction on eBay, so I have a couple Army Yellow Wings kits inbound…
Re: Yellow Wings
Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2022 11:31 pm
by jeaton01
I'd be in for for YWGB.
The canopy on the Buffalo has a million individual panes, but what makes it a real pain is all the gussets in the corners of the framing. And that bottom window i busy with framing as well. The kit I built had masks for the bottom but they were just marked, not cut. Bait and switch!
A long time ago I started a Monogram F4F to make an early F4F-3, and then the Tamiya kit came out while I was building it so I got one of those and used goodies from it to finish the Monogram kit. It was really hard to find references for the wing panel lines, but then soon after I had it done they started fishing -3's out of Lake Michigan. References are plentiful now.
Re: Yellow Wings
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2022 6:44 am
by Greg
Looks like a good project, Stik. I do hope you post your WIP.
John, I've been wanting to build the Tamiya F4F-4 and try to match the paint job on the F4F on display at O'Hare Airport (in honor of Butch O'Hare) as close as I could (even though I don't think the one on display is an dash-4....I'm not that particular).
That said, your yellow wing version has me rethinking, it's very nice.