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Pretty cool!

Pretty cool! I'd like it even better if it were a coupe, though.

Wow, I am truly honored and humbled by your kind words. Looks like a cool project. That's a good color for Rivs. I hope you can save it and make it work. Good luck with your rescue!

I've done a LOT of reading and study about the air war in Southeast Asia, and this helicopter almost NEVER comes up in either words or photos. I did some quick web research today and found out that yes, they were used in Vietnam, and one source even said they were involved in more rescues than any other helicopter. I guess most of these must have been in South Vietnam or maybe southern North Vietnam; much of my reading has been about the air war in Route Pack VI and Laos, and I don't think the H-43 had the range for rescues in those areas. That was HH-3 and, later, HH-53 work. I'm gonna try to find a pic of one of these with a minigun on it.

Very nice, very clean!

Neither of those mentions an actor by name. The MMTC box doesn't even show an actor.

And here's exactly what I'm talking about, from this very site, today! If you see something like that, don't click on it. There will be no Jungle Pam in there.

Lindberg did a kit too, and it's been reissued several times, the latest not all that long ago. Should be readily available and it's not a horrible kit, considering its age.

Looks like it was the April 2019 issue. You can get it here: http://www.airclassicsnow.com/back-issues-2019.html

Sorry to hear of your loss.

You had me all excited until I read 1/18. It sure it pretty, though.

I haven't done it or even tried but I can't see any reason why it wouldn't work, or could be made to work with minimal effort. They're the same scale and wheelbase and (more or less) width. You might want to compare the wheelbases and widths of the kit bodies; any BIG problems will show up right there. You might have to mix and match pieces of the two interiors to get something that will work for you, but that's all part of the fun. Hey, it's GOTTA be easier than what I'm working on at the moment--putting the Monogram flip-front '66 Chevelle body and engine on their '64 GTO frame. What a nightmare it's been!

I stuck a chisel-point Xacto into my palm the other day. Ouch!

Does household 90% rubbing alcohol take it off? If so, it's lacquer.

Which one are you in the mood to build?

I too believe it's enamel similar to Testor or the old Pactra enamels. As Meat Man said, it can be polished out nicely, provided coverage is sufficient (at least three coats) and it's allowed to dry/cure fully (till it doesn't smell like paint anymore). This can take several weeks.

Yeah. I believe there was just a detailed writeup of this backbirth in Air Classics magazine in the last year or so.

For years, when this debate comes up, I've been asking for someone to name me the solvent or chemical that will take the color, any amount of it, out of styrene plastic without dissolving or damaging the plastic itself. So far, no one has been able to do it. And I doubt we'll get an answer this time either. I've also asked for someone to show me a body that's been painted and stripped and the color seems to be faded out of it, even a little. No one's been able to do that, either. I don't believe it's a matter of any color coming out of the plastic and into the paint. I think this is just a matter of particular paints not being opaque enough to cover the colored plastic. And I think that something about the wavelength of light up in the red-orange-yellow end of the spectrum in some way is able to penetrate coatings better than wavelengths down in the green-blue-violet end. Isn't it odd you never hear anyone complaining about having blue or green or black plastic "bleed through"?

Strangely enough, he was also close friends with Glenn Beck. Will also be interesting to hear what Beck has to say. One of the funniest things I've ever heard on the radio was a phone call between them about three years ago. I was listening on The Blaze direct feed and it included a couple moments I'm sure had to be censored for broadcast air.

Long story short, I think you're over-worried about yellow "bleeding through" your Silver Jade. Over 20 years ago I painted a yellow '69 GT500 with one thin coat of light grey primer and a couple airbrushed coats of Grabber Green--which is lighter than your color--and I had NO "bleed through" at all. None. Simply not a problem. Now, if you were painting it white, or silver, or a light blue or gray, you might want to worry.

I apologize. Please don't take it personally. I've just become very contemptuous of those clickbait sites that make you click through 40 screens to read a four-paragraph story of some sort. And three times now, I've been taken in by a clickbait that said something like "50 Amazing Photos from the '70s You've Never Seen!" or "Uncensored Photos from America's Past" and baited with a picture of...Jungle Pam! All three times I clicked through all 50 pics and not a single one, or a word about, Jungle Pam! GRRRRRRRR!

You've got some great "insulation" on those walls, my friend!

I don't know of one, and I've looked. Modelhaus used to repop the one from the AMT '65-'67 Corvette but I noticed it wasn't on their last parts list. There was one in the Prestige version of the reissued AMT '63 Corvette. Round 2 needs to reissue that sometime soon. The AMT tops aren't direct drop-ons for the Revell body, but Ron Hamilton said he was able to make one work. I've bought several glue bomb AMT '65-'67 roadsters off eBay just to get that top. Maybe someone will post up a source for us both.

Very sad. He gave me a LOT of laughs over the years.

The 104 was designed to be a point defense interceptor. You have to wonder about the mind that would look at it and say, "Hey, we can make a good attack/tactical airplane out of this!"