Yesterday’s work on the Maryland comprised the completion and installation of the bombardier’s five-instrument cluster and control column (he had the ability to kind of fly the plane, although I can’t locate any rudder pedals in any photos), the wiring of those instruments and the rigging of control rods to the control column. It’s looking good for the addition of the nose glazing, although I could just keep adding hardware to the bombardier’s compartment indefinitely – I have no two photos of the nose showing the same gear. Ah, well – that’s the hazard of building 1939-vintage aircraft.
Last night I picked up the Revell Gannet in 1:72 – very nice. Perhaps I could take my not-quite-as-nice Trumpeter Gannet and turn it into an AEW.3 variant – I had planned to do this with the Frog kit at one point and I’m grateful to not have to consider that. If that conversion is a marathon, these kits move the starting point to about the 10-mile mark.
Also, a pet peeve: when you talk about Trumpeter, don’t shorten it to “Trumpy.” Trumpy was the nickname of the alien in “The Pod People,” which should only be viewed accompanied by the “Mystery Science Theatre 3000″ accompanying soundtrack.
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