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Blue Angel Pancake; Hasegawa/Hobby Spot XF5U-1
Topic Started: Sep 1 2015, 09:15 PM (457 Views)
Paul Boyer
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My club, the Richard I. Bong Chapter, IPMS/USA, recently held a competition for alternate Blue Angel and Thunderbird designs. I thunk this one up without the use of drugs or alcohol. I removed the huge props from the XF5U-1 "Flying Pancake" kit, added plastic tubing jet exhausts and used spare Blue Angel decals to make the different take on "Blue Angel." What if they went with a flying halo motif? I painted the bottom white, then masked off the tails and painted a yellow ring "halo" on the bottom, then hand painted light blue feathers on the "wings." Wicked!

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J.C. Bahr
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Paul Boyer,Sep 1 2015
03:15 PM
I thunk this one up without the use of drugs or alcohol

Are you absolutely SURE?!?! :lol: ;)
J.C. Bahr

"A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory. LLAP" - Leonard Nimoy
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dknights
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The court of LAST RESORT!
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OK, that is way cool.
David M. Knights
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14 Finished: Special Armor V-2, Airfix P-51
15 Finished: SBS Gladiator engine
16 Finished: Brengun C2 Wasserfall, Merit SS-N-2 Styx, World's smallest diorama, Airfix Hurricane.
17 Finished: Japanese Carrier Deck, Belcher SS-4, Italeri AB41, PLAN Type 039A (not 72nd scale)
18 Finished: NONE
The bench:Platz T-33, Trump. T-34/85, Meng F-106, Airfix P-51 #2, Airfix P-40
Revell MiG-21F-13, Ace Citroen V-11
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softscience
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That is just too cool!
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Ralph K.
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philp
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Nice looking whiff.
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