What’s going on with spray paint?
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WHY THE CANADIAN BEER WAGON IS BIGGER!
Category Archives: Kit Bashing
Angry gods punish me for Procrastinating!
The video doesn’t do a good job of showing the mold growing on the plastic model kits.
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Got a nasty surprise when I decided to go through one of my storage tubs in a storage shed. The 40+ years old sheds decided to start leaking this past Winter during the snow melt. Still making scary discoveries even after months of clean-up.
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Use it or loose it!
Got a nasty surprise when I decided to go through one of my storage tubs in a storage shed. The 40+ years old sheds decided to start leaking this past Winter during the snow melt. Still making scary discoveries even after months of clean-up.
Part-2: Why the Canadian Beer Wagon is bigger!
Intro: Beer (Wagon) for Xmas?
Can I make the 01DEC2023 build deadline?
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1970 CHEVY MALIBU, REVELL-MONOGRAM MERGER, WAS IT WORTH IT?
Part 2: 1970 Chevy Malibu, Revell-Monogram merger, was it worth it?
I continue my laborious ramblings about why the one time issued Monogram 1/24 scale 1970 Chevy Malibu is so significant to me.
How did I end up in Idaho, and is ‘following the jobs’ worth it?
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1970 CHEVY MALIBU, MY OLDEST SURVIVING CAR KIT & WHY IT’S SPECIAL TO ME
Beware the Corvette Ghost!
Part-1: 1970 Chevy Malibu, my oldest surviving car kit & why it’s special to me
In 1982, I built this 1/24 Monogram kit as a reward for myself, for legally graduating high school at the age of 16 and being able to join the military at the age of 17, despite the fact my parents, and high school principal, said it couldn’t be done.
Kit Bashing: WHERE IS BLACKBIRD NASA 831? AND THE PROBLEMS WITH THE OLD TESTORS KIT.
How to sling load your 1:1 scale F-80 Gate Guard with a CH-47.
Iowa Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 11APR2023.
On 11APR2023, the Iowa Army National Guard was called in to move an Iowa Air National Guard ‘gate guard’, using their Viet Nam era CH-47 Chinook.
Iowa Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 11APR2023.
The Korean ‘UN police action’ era F-80 Shooting Star had just gotten some new clothes, in order to proudly continue its guard duties on Camp Dodge.
Iowa Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 11APR2023.
Iowa Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 11APR2023.
Iowa Air National Guard video by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 11APR2023:
The painting process began on 15SEP2022, when the F-80 was sling loaded to the paint shop in Sioux City.
Iowa Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 15SEP2022.
Iowa Air National Guard video by Senior Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 15SEP2022:
It wasn’t the first time the Iowa Air Guard F-80 got new clothes.
Iowa Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, April 2011.
In April 2011, the Shooting Star was stripped naked and fitted for the uniform of the 174th Fighter Bomber Squadron, for its new job as a gate guard on Camp Dodge.
Iowa Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, April 2011.
Iowa Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Vincent De Groot, 2011.
Cold War Vehicle I-D:
IOWA CHANGING OF THE GUARD; F-100 
Iowa’s RF-84F THUNDERFLASH & YRF-84F, AN APPEAL TO MONOGRAM!
Cold War Vehicle I-D: How to fuel & arm your USAF F-86 Sabre in Korea
Cold War: Approximately 1947 (due to U.S. President Harry Truman’s Truman Doctrine) to 1991 (Operation Desert Storm, collapse of Soviet Union).
Somewhere in Korea, date not known.
In June 1950, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (north) invaded the Republic of Korea (south) in an attempt to unite the country (something that had been promised at the end of World War Two). The recently created United Nations essentially declared war and created the United Nations Command, invading Korea in September 1950. The United Nations Command still operates in South Korea, today.
Korea, date not known.
Silent U.S. Air Force film (by H.E. Reid), re-arming and re-fueling your F-86 after a mission, Kimpo, Korea, 17DEC1950:
The F-86 used three Browning M3 12.7mm x 99mm (.50 caliber) machine guns.
Date not known.
The first F-86 Sabers to arrive in Korea touched down on Kimpo, 15DEC1950. Three squadrons of F-86As had been sent to Korea to deal with the Soviet MiG-15.
Silent USAF film (by Frank Evans) of arming and fueling your F-86 near Taegu, Korea, 25-26JAN1951:
Mach Knocker.
Freshly armed and fueled Sabers take off from Taegu, silent film by Frank Evans:
HOW TO ASSEMBLE YOUR 1:1 SCALE F-86
Kit Bashing: 1:72 COMPARISON F-86 SABER FUJIMI VS HELLER, OR, NOBODY IS PERFECT!
HELLER, FUJIMI & HOBBYCRAFT F-86 SABRE KITS COMPARED