It's a Canadian Bird, AY ?

Thanks Mark .

Regards,  Rick

Exellent job on the build, Rick!

Mark

Thanks Thundervette.

Regards,  Rick

wow.. Canada seems to be a common demoninator here... My relatives on Mom's side (Brousseau/Brossard/Broussard) were exiled from France way back in the 1604 and settled in Acadia, modern Nova Scotia... around 1750 they were exiled by the British from Acadia to Louisiana.. now we just shortened it to "Cajun" as far as our heritage. (people down here couldn't pronounce Acadien or 'Cadien as we called ourselves so it was 'anglocized')

Wierd thing was I had to do a doubletake on Mike's comment about Jasper.. Jasper to me is about 45 miles to the E.

Sorry to hijack the thread.. just thought it was wierd how many have ancestry from Canada...

Mikem_us, I've flown into Kincheloe a couple of times in the back seat of an F4 out of Selfridge.

Regards,  Rick

well I am from Yooperland (Da UP Eh!) and I live on a old decommissioned SAC base (Formerly Kincheloe AFB) spent 16 years of my life living in base housing and when my dad retired from the Air Force he bought one of the houses in base housing in Kincheloe so now we live in base housing.

Thanks Mike & zokissima, glad you had fun with the thread.  I've enjoyed it a lot also .

Regards,  Rick

beautiful work, eh!

Nice, clean finish. Great build.

Nice job, eh!  Being half Canadian, I'm having a bit of fun with this thread!

Off Topic a bit, but do you know why they called Canada, well, Canada?

So they know how to spell it.  "C", eh? "N", eh? "D", eh? 

(Told you I'm having too much fun with this.)

Thanks everyone for all the kind words.  Glad you liked the build.  I enjoyed building it.

Regards,  Rick

Simply gorgeous build of a great aircraft Rick .  I must say of all the kits I've seen you produce and display, that has to rank as one of the favourites.

Great job

Cheers

Great Build! As an Canadian ex-military pilot I love the Canadian stuff!  Of all the piston engined aircraft, that would have been one of the most exciting to fly. Great job again.

I said it before too Rick but it's worth repeating. Great build!!

My grandmother came from the States, Detroit to be exact.  So does that make me an honorary Michigian?  Huh?  Actually spent a summer down there once. 

Thanks Jay.  Actually, I have some Canadian Heritage.  My maternal Grandmother & Grandfather came to the US from Canada.  Sorry abuuut the AY vs. EH.  Have to brush up on my Canuckian .

Regards,  Rick

Rick, I said it in the Canadian GB, but I say it again here, WOW.  I love it, especially the spinner!  BTW the exclamaition is "eh!" not "ay!".  And actually we don't all say it, just some of us, eh?

You have done the RCN and the CAF proud! We should make you an honourary Canadian, Eh?

Thanks everyone for the comments, really appreciate them.  The model was painted with Model Master enamels.  There are no exact matches for the Canadian colors that I know of, so I used British Extra Dark Sea Grey over Light Gull Grey.  These are not exact matches, but close enough for me.

Regards,  Rick

I'll jump on the bandwagon and say.....Dang!!! What an awesomely crisp paint job.  Why dont my panel lines look like that?

Kudos!

Very very nice build Rick, nice and clean.

Jerry

wow!  I must have missed this one Rick.. looks great, as have all of the other planes I have seen you do across the several GB's we have been in...

A very inspiring build!!!

Hey Rick. Outstanding build my friend!

John, Duckman, Darren,  Thanks for the comments guys.  Really appreciate them.

Regards,  Rick