Academy

Clear Parts

Pierre Lagacé4 Comments

Day 220, and now it’s Day 3…

2 October 2022

The PBY Catalina is progressing well with the side blisters having been installed.

Last Friday I had started working with the clear parts. Glueing the side blisters necessitated some dry fitting before using Contacta clear glue.

After my trip to JacHobby yesterday I tried out Tamiya cotton swabs and I added a dab of silver for the wings landing lights.

The landing lights are different on this photo.

As you might have noticed my collection has grown with this unexpected addition…

When I saw it at JacHobby, I googled Academy TBF-1C on my cellphone and decided to buy it since the price was quite reasonable.

This is how it could look from photos taken on this forum.

https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235034269-tbm3-e-avenger-148-academy/

On that forum, members talked about the instructions sheet being somewhat minimal and one member directed others to Wayback Machine to find the original Accurate Miniatures instructions.

TBM_1C_0120

TBM-3D_0121

I probably won’t build this one in the very foreseeable future, but at least I know what I am up against.

Sure you can go back

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I had no intention to write yesterday on My Forgotten Hobby V, but when I saw this I was transported back in the 1950s.

This is what I posted on My Forgotten Hobby II a long time ago.

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Little did I know back then…

The year is 1959 or 1960. I was playing in the alley behind the apartment building where I was living on Davidson Street in Montreal. There were some Popular Science magazines in the garbage. I picked them up and looked into them.

The January 1944 issue was like having an epiphany…

It was my first encounter with the P-51A, and there were lots more fighter planes I had never heard about except the Spitfire. In 1958 I was 10 years-old. So what does a 10 year-old kid do?

Cut the pages up? Of course I did!

Fast forward 63 years later…