Just looked up the Alaska class heavy cruisers with a Google search….very nice looking ships!! Almost smaller copies of the Iowas, minus one stack, but very similar, and heavily armed (12″ inch guns)…they would’ve done pretty well vs. a similar axis ship, I imagine…

Mark

Shall I call Bill Greenwood and see if he’d let him have a go at TE308? Bill’s been advertising instructional time in the Spit around here for over a year now…someone send the poof (um, Eddie) this way and we’ll see what happens…

M

As I recall, my first kit was a Monogram 1/48 scale Douglas Skyraider, and I think I was about 10 when I started on it, and patience, like others have said in this thread, WAS’NT a virtue…later I did a Bearcat out of pieces and parts from othe kits, guns mounted on top of the cockpit and all (total fantasy plane)…later I discovered the planes with moving parts, always loved building those, the Hurricane and Spitfire from Monogram (same size, 1/48) had folding landing gear, and the Corsair had folding wings AND gear, the Dauntless had a bomb that dropped and dive flaps that opened as well as gear that retracted…also did the B-17 that Steve P. mentions a few times and the 1/32 Revell Corsair in Kepford’s markings…and still am building them, have about 10 in the apartment here now in various stages of repair or construction. Lots of fun over the years…

Mark

Another U-bird joins the ranks of the living! Happy day indeed! Bring out the Morris dancers!!

Mark

…Officer’s mess, where they were shown on a clean piece of purely white wall, where all the detail and nuances of his finely shot films were met with raucous cat calls from the gathered officer ranks, not all of whom seemed to be of the ‘butch’ variety…

All I know is I’ve read of CAF accidents over the years (back into the 1950’s) with Spitfires much in the same way they’ve gone through PBY’s for some reason…don’t know how many through the years, but obviously the most recent was the CAF Spit that Howard Pardue used to fly that burned in Canada…suffice it to say Bill Greenwood has provided them with their most successful Spitfire operation…but then it’s HIS plane…

Mark