A little background;
every year at our March meeting, our model club, IPMS Ottawa, has a contest with
a theme which is suggested and voted on by the members. This year was
Experimental/Prototype which was my suggestion last year, so I had to get a kit
into this contest. I had this kit started so I rushed it to completion for the
meeting (03 Mar 2010, last nite) and it is not my best effort, but you
understand, I had to have something done!!
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The Hobbycraft version is a
good little kit and goes together well. I used the kit decals which are
not the best, but when rushing thru a model any port in a storm. I thought
about doing it as "Glamorous Glennis" but Hobbycraft printed
this as a mirror image, oops! Since I have the Tamiya kit in the 'stash',
somewhere, I figured it will be done with those markings, and not rushed
for a contest or display.
So it was finished
at 1630 last nite, with the meeting starting at 1930 and took a tie for third
place in the contest so the rush effort was worth it. The turnout for this years
theme was excellent with at least a dozen kits, both armour and aircraft. I have
got to plan ahead for next year; yeah like that will happen!?!
Graham Mansell
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