The drama that accompanied this build was far from welcomed. Unfortunate events occurred that were beyond my control but the dark cloud that loomed refused to dissipate. The end result is not one that I am extremely proud of. I am very happy to be finished with it, that is for certain. Between the wreck, the gaps, and the paint, I think it turned out better than I had thought it would.
Hobby Craft did a sub par job on this Canuck. I was hopeful in the beginning that I could perform a facelift to make it into a decent kit. The model lacked details and the fact that I chose to make it the bare target tow platform didn’t help much. I can’t win them all and while I am not overly joyed with this build, I learned from it. That is invaluable to me. Somewhere down the line I will remember this build and take a different approach to better results.
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It looks very good to me!
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Thank you!
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Nobody is perfect except politicians.
Figure that one out.
Your build is fine.
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Thank you. I just had high expectations for it.
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You’ve got a very respectable result from a kit that I know all to well is a real pig to build.
If I were to do one again, I’d definitely try to get my hands on the Obscureco resin detail set for it:
http://www.obscureco.com/product_pages/OBS72009/OBS72009.html
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Wow. That would have been a game changer. And for $18? A steal.
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No kidding! 18 bucks for that much resin is very reasonably priced.
Now, if they could just come up with a fix for how that rear fuselage joins up to the rest. It was nearly impossible to get it looking right no matter how much trimming and sanding I did to get the angle of the rear end to not look droopy.
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Look at mine and you’ll see I had the same problem. After the crash, I just accepted that it wasn’t going to get any better and went with it. Oh well.
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Looks ok to me. Problems and disappointments help us to learn and improve. We wouldn’t get better without them!
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Thank you. That is very true.
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Now that is superb work sir
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Thank you!
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