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AlasdairGF
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So it's done - Lt Saburo Shindo's "Zeke", half way to Pearl Harbour... see construction thread, too.
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Some stretched sprue as an antenna wire was a last-minute idea: had never tried this before and it took quite a few goes before I had a piece I was happy with that wasn't too fine to work with or far too thick for the scale. Unfortunately, it then just looked like stretched sprue, so I hurled some thinned grey/aluminium mix at it which doesn't seem too bad though I've no idea how authentic that could be.
As mentioned in the title, this is part of the "Dogfight Doubles" set, so here's one of the two together:
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And here's an intimation of their undoubted doom:
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And The Boy's idea which he wanted me to make & share - the two planes superimposed on a shot of Pearl Harbour, circa 1940 (as close as I could find on short notice!):
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Some stretched sprue as an antenna wire was a last-minute idea: had never tried this before and it took quite a few goes before I had a piece I was happy with that wasn't too fine to work with or far too thick for the scale. Unfortunately, it then just looked like stretched sprue, so I hurled some thinned grey/aluminium mix at it which doesn't seem too bad though I've no idea how authentic that could be.
As mentioned in the title, this is part of the "Dogfight Doubles" set, so here's one of the two together:
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And here's an intimation of their undoubted doom:
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And The Boy's idea which he wanted me to make & share - the two planes superimposed on a shot of Pearl Harbour, circa 1940 (as close as I could find on short notice!):
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