Was up in the loft again making space to store Halo*Star's plastic sprue collection whilst he moves, and during shifting my own hidden gems around this model box toppled off the scale model stash. Obviously a sign!
Back in January I'd built a Lindberg Kingfisher model and reported how my fears for the kit had not transpired. Those words were ringing in the back of my mind with this kit. Huge amounts of edge clipping, vague instructions, parts on the sprue that did not appear to be on the kit and awful, incomplete decals.
Thankfully, as I'm on holiday at the moment, it's all been completed in a short space of time. As you can see from the first photo, the large yellow decals haven't been applied, or left on to be more precise, as they tore all over the place. There are no decals for under the wings, and oddly the bugs bunny personalisation only has one copy - so only on one side of the airplane.
But completed it is, and looks fine from a certain angle, so that angle has dictated how and where it was hung. It's still a classically shaped jet fighter from the 1950s, and much like having a tattoo, the pain of the process will be forgotten and I will enjoy looking at it in the future! I have at least 2 more Lindberg kits in the stash waiting though...
In a break from the more documentary videos, here is some footage, both in cockpit and out, of an F-86A Sabre being put through it's paces at an airshow. Enjoy.
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