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I would love to have drawings to that badboy.Sure would make it easier to replicate than doing it from pictures.

HOLY TOLEDO BATMAN!!!!!!!. That is the very best photo I have ever seen of that NGM.Dang great find John.Thank you much.

I agree,the photo says the hacked up bird was in Alabama.What I don't get was why they allowed the bird to be hacked up? Very strange if you ask me.I have got to build that mount so if anybody comes up with good pics of that inside and out I would be forever in their debt.

Was that on ebay? There were other pics of a single gun nose 17 that had holes chopped all over the plane.The nose glass was destroyed but the mount was still intact.

That's cool.

The Rosenthal family is good people. We have been looking for records to show what stearmans Rosenthal would have flown during his time in sunny douglas.

That's cool then.carry on.

That would be awesome.What would be more awesome is the aircraft having a hangar.The winters are doing that aircraft no damn good.

Isnt the Grissom bird a G model?

Make it the F model portrayed in the movie is my hope.All the parts I have made so far for the bird have been F model.

The fine lines in the window area represent the bulge in the glass.If you are not cutting the paper out I wouldn't worry about it.The only sorce I know of for those window shapes would be in 48th scale by Koster I believe and he is retired now.I think I have a few sets for models I want to build.

Great pics John.I have been wondering if later production plexiglass for the late F was ever vacked in one piece.That last pic tells me no.Some of the early G models used the long nose glass IE 909 and I think outhouse mouse.I wonder if they were one piece.Anybody got pics of the 2 birds mentioned?

Well I'll be damned.

Somebody needs to find out who that lady was.What a pretty smile.I bet it would blow her mind that people are still fooling with these old planes.

You're welcome,ask away.