Stash reduction builds

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I was going through my stash, thinking about what my next project might be. In addition to published kits by the various well-known publishers, I have quite a collection of miscellany, and I’d guess I’m in the majority. My stash includes Scissors and Planes aircraft, some KoolWheelz from Airdave, Volker’s advent calendar models, postcard models, free samples from publishers, and random downloads from the Internet. These are the models that don’t take a long time to build. So, since I just finished a long term project, I thought I’d build a few of them for quick gratification.

My rules: a model may not take up more than 2 pages, I’ll pull them out in the random order they are stored in, and I won’t build two models by the same designer back-to-back. So it’ll be a pretty random sampling.

First up: a 1:48 Regulus 1 cruise missile designed by Eric Truax in 2005. As I recall, he sent me this model to thank me for my finding him some reference materials on a Bomarc. My stash copy lived in my desk at work for years and got liquid on it somewhere along the way, so I had to find a fresh copy of the file on the Internet to print. Today I’m housesitting for friends, so I built it up. I made a few mistakes. At first I thought it had a bullet nose formed by petals. I did a great job, but it actually has an air intake. Oops. I reprinted the page. And I had a little trouble getting said intake into the nose, so the nose has some very minor crumpling. The only mistake the designer made was omitting a sliver of the “N” in “NAVY” on the starboard side. Fit and marking alignment were quite good, and instructions were exemplary. Model comprised 2 pages. So, I’m off and running!