Oh yes, we all remember that sour smelling stuff

Haha yeah I Remember NEVER BUYING IT !!!

Very true Carl

Yes, it is usually far more profitable to make the "add-on" accessories for existing models! So, if someone wanted to build a 48th scale Jamaican Spitfire Mk8.25 flown on April 31, 1946, they'd have the ability to do so. I know I was a bit over board there, but you can get the gist of my meaning. Most people don't have the knack to scratch build modifications (why I like scifi and small scale armour/ships - at that scale, who can really tell). They'd rather buy it and attach it.

In 1968 I took my first flight in a small plane, and it was a luscombe just like the in this video Your videos are enjoyable and informative.

I could do that, might help help a few folks get their naps going 😜

thanks

Me too Max

thanks

That is incredible! At least you are in the right country to get molds made.

wicked awesome!

HUH ???😉😉😉😉😉

thanks, I love the 8E

agreed

my work is done :)

wow

Glad to hear it, thanks

1/48 was/is the planned scale

@@maxsmodels AWESOME. May I ask, what aircraft were you considering apart from the Luscombe? 1/48 seems to be a good scale for GA air raft, even the bigger Cessna and Piper twins wouldn't be too big.

@@crazybrit-nasafan would like to do Aeronca also

thank you sir

Call me sir one more time and I'll unsubscribe. LOL Just kidding.

@@markfrench8892 As the Sargent in the army used to say, don't call me sir, I work for a living.

thanks

thanks

I have built both many times and have a converted 180 into 182 jump plane hanging over my head in the shed (out of camera range).

thanks

Nothing like the original, gave me nightmares as a kid, made me a fan. My flying career would be a total snooze.

awesome

Go for it Paul,You would be amazed at what's out there now.

@@model-man7802 I've been intrigued by the raw stryene elements available and watching videos about scratch built modeling.

@@PaulMonaco Hoping Max does one on scratch building cause that’s what I do best.

@@PaulMonaco in all my years I've never been good at it.I know guys who can take trash and create art.Simply fantastic!!! These guys do 1/48 models of Titanic with the interior and take ten years.They do it from scratch too! Wow!!!!

@@model-man7802 Yea those guys are impressive! I've always wanted to get into non-vehicular modeling. Not that there's a market for it but I think it would be cool to build miniature replicas of "old iron" mainframe computers.

So say we all!

Learned in an 8E

And that is why you always take the 1st upgrade available

I remember those kits

Yeah, VT-8 is now a training squadron due to nomenclature changes. Bravery dripped out of the sky in that battle along with a lot of blood. We don't call them the greatest generation for nothing.

@@maxsmodels I met a few WWII Aviators. Some were friends of my Dad. Julian Acres was assigned to VMF-211 but still in Pearl waiting on a hop to Wake on 7DEC41. He was reassigned and flew at Midway. Shot down, he bobbed in a raft until friendlies picked him up later. Jack Long had been a Guard on Knute Rockne's ball club at Notre Dame. Right after they beat Navy, Marine Recruiters in Dress Blues were in the locker room pitching the aviator program. He flew SBDs off Cactus. He was my Confirmation sponsor in the early '60s, still in the Marine Reserve. Later he was a professor at Loyola Chicago. William Kelley, father of my Marine buddy Sgt Bill Kelley, flew SB2Cs in the Pacific. Don MacKenna had been my Dad's roommate at U Wisconsin. Don went to Canada to join the RCAF in '39. [My Dad joined the Illinois National Guard Field Artillery about the same time]. MacKenna flew Spits and Hurricanes in the Battle of Britain with the Eagle Squadron. He also trained Polish fighter pilots. He got transferred to the USAAF, later. John Kavonda flew transports, C-47s, C-46s over the Hump in the CBI. He stayed in the USAF Reserve into the late '50s. John's later wife, Anita, had been my Mom's roommate at Northwestern. [Anita was a looker -- one can only imagine the nose art.] My college theatrical lighting instructor at the U of AZ , Gene Lafferty, had been a flight engineer in B-17s with the 8th AF in the UK, then transitioning to B-24s in India later. The flight engineer usually got to man the twin-fifty blister behind the cockpit -- besides monitoring the 4 engines, electrical and hydraulics systems inflight. We was from W VA, and much like Gen Yeager in looks and attitude. I was priveleged to know such fine people.

@@maxsmodels I met George Gay several times at air shows in the eighties. He loved to talk about that fateful day in June '42 and seemed to remember the names of all the lost aircrew in the squadron. He usually had a table or booth to sell his book. Saburō Sakai would often be there too selling his book. Needless to say, they didn't talk. Sakai didn't speak English well. He had caucasian wife who acted as translator. She was also very knowledgable. In one of those small whorld things, Gay had flown with one of my uncle's best friends at TWA, especially so since my uncle was a United pilot.

I was but am no longer a CFII/MEL

Abe Shikes did have the connections so that makes sense. Thanks

youprobabky refueld our birds

me too

ain't it though