Folded Panther
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July 19, 2024Anyone remember this old movie?
Some great shots of real Panthers actually flying off carriers2
July 19, 2024The sprues, with the 'Matchbox' logo and name machined off3
July 19, 2024The seat was very plain, and since I was not going to have the pilot in there, I jazzed it up a little4
July 19, 2024I broke the control stick cutting it off the sprue, and then I dropped it after I'd carefully glued the two pieces together and painted it ... lost forever, so I made a new one out of wire with blobs of white glue for the knob and canvas boot. This is the original5
July 19, 2024There was a nice decal for the instrument panel6
July 19, 2024Added wire levers and a defroster hose7
July 19, 2024The tail unit and the nose needed some filler, also some sinkholes in the wing roots8
July 19, 2024After an overall coat of Humbrol 015 Gloss Midnight Blue9
July 19, 2024What happened to the air brakes: I thought I'd drill out the shallow indentations so the red wells would show through.
That's when I discovered that what I'd thought were dimples were, in fact, pimples. Needed a macro photo to find that out.
I'll have to make new ones
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3 19 July, 12:45
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