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No problem Barry, I'm sure others are wondering the same. The exchange below occurred on the "Cardmodelers" mailing list last night. Mike --- On Wed, 2/17/10, cardmodelrick@comcast.net <cardmodelrick@comcast.net> wrote: From: cardmodelrick@comcast.net <cardmodelrick@comcast.net> Subject: Re...

Hi Ron! Yeah, I've been keeping dual citizenship lately, partly thanks to Peter's nudging. Guess the other hangout is dead in the water at the moment, so good I can still keep the thread alive here. Hows the Berg/Corsair double feature going?! Mike

Downloaded the Ed Bertschy Fordson tractor here on Zealot and for the life of me, I can't determine what scale it is. I'd like to print it out in 1/24th scale, but the sheets don't seem to have even a benchmark from which to work off of. TIA Mike

Do Over!!! In a moment of “can’t leave well enough alone”, I decided to redo that gun controller. It just looked too clunky in there to me, and we all know what happens when I don’t like something. This time it wasn’t much to remove and modify it. Trimmed it down and reduced its dimensions...

Thank you Phillip, that's kind of you to say. For any tip or trick I performed on this model, I would refer you to the Papermodelers.com thread (link in my signature line below), which laboriously chronicles the build from the very start. Sadly, PM seems to be undergoing a tumultuous period at...

It seems our friends at PM are having technical difficulties at the moment, so we’ll start the week off here. Not much progress this weekend, but I did manage to cobble together a rudimentary gun controller. Not too much to scale (seems a little big), but the gist of it was what I was after...

Yes and no Elliot. I've had the same basic project rolling around in my head for years that I want to do someday. I won't say what it is as I hate to "announce" something that may never see the light of day. But, I will say that this Mitchell project has worked up my modeling "mojo" sufficiently...

Time to make the gun boot. First I took a cue from the B-25’s of the Doolittle raid, and made a pair of dummy tail guns from broom sticks: OK, they're really just toothpicks and mat board, but that doesn’t quite spark the imagination does it? Next I punched two holes in printer paper and...

In a little adaptive reuse, I decided the handle bars and foot pedals of the Orlik "bicycle" would make great armor plate supports: Permanently mounted in the tail cone: Then the side armor: There! Our tail gunning friend should be adequately protected now.... Mike

Thanks Greg, glad to have you aboard. Check back here or at PM often, undates as they happen, like now..... Working on the innards of the tail gunner’s station. For this I was hoping to use as many of the kit’s parts as I could, particularly since Orlik went to the effort of providing make up...

You can't fool me Peter. Yor're only saying those thing 'cause IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY!!!!!! Many happy returns my friend. Mike

Thanks Papa. Glad you found something useful in these ramnlings of mine. Moving along, cut out the area of the canopy, cut and removed bulkheads, and joined things together: Some touch up paint, added the floor and side pieces, and that’s about it for structure: And dry fitted to...

Hi Jim While I appreciate your kind words, the Mitchell is far from perfect. And I would have had this model done sooner, but no sooner do I think I will be sitting down to a productive modeling session, does the wife wants to (insert "honey-do" hot item that must be done now here). But your...

Aft fuselage work continues..... The tail cone is a modified pedal assembly. Orlik has made this piece integral with the back bulked and a printed canvass boot: I cut all the pieces out as I wanted the tail end hollow to make my own boot around the protruding guns. Assembly of the piece...

Thanks Padre. If you're the same "Padre" over at PM.com, you posted very early in that thread, and I hope you visit again when I get this done. As I mentioned, the assembly sequence of even this small portion of the fuselage mimics what was done for the fuselage at large. The two formers...

Thanks Elliot The tail end has started as a slow burn. I was hoping to just build it straight out of the "box" (or booklet I guess), using the Orlik playbook throughout, but a check of references (always with the damn references) means I have some work to do. Also, I realized that this...

Finished up with framing the canopy. Here's a quick tute' on how I manage this mess. Starting with the rear of the escape hatch, the first step is to cut out the part and trim to the right size. The kit’s part provided the basic pattern, adjusted to fit this model: Peel apart the back...

I don't want to turn your thread into a big discussion on priacy, and, as they say "others know more", but I do know that one aspect of the piracy problem concerns sellers out there (on eBay and similar places) selling "digital" kits that were only offered by the original publishers as printed...

I thought about it John, having scanned the whole kit before I started way back when to (hopefully) recover should disaster strike (hasn't happened yet, knock on wood), but I was trying to be sensitive to any piracy issues that doing such may invoke, being a touchy subject in paper model...

OK gents, envelopes went into the mail this morning. Load up those planes! Mike