Recent content by spruecutter

What's "wordy"? Is that like "shirty"?

Why? And no. I am not ripping apart the fuselage to re engineer the rear seat.

Downtime thanks but it's a plane not a sailing ship, I will use plastic card stock.

Here is a picture showing the seats in without the ejection rails or headrests in. The front seat area has room the rear is very questionable.

Thanks, I have the fuselage together with 17 grams of weight in the nose. I can't figure why Academy left a gaping see through hole behind the 2nd pilots seat by the headrest. I saw a build elswhere and the modeler blanked it out with card stock. Also I don't think the back seater's seat is...

I had a brother like that, worked in a mold shop, stated out on Bridgeports, lathes, then boring mills and finally polishing. For a hobby he was making a telescope, polished the lens by hand. I was a lowly welder, iron worker then went into a machine building company, working with stainless...

Moving right along, cockpit done and in right side fuselage. Now to order resin seats.

Here is the replacement 1/48 T-33A for the now defunct Testors kit. Same subject, Cuban Revolutionary Air Force T-33A during the Bay of Pigs in 1961.