Welcome to Episode 83 Sponsored by Sean’s Custom Hobby Tools and Return To Kit Form Hosts Stuart Clark Geoff Heyland Terry Meisle  Thanks to our latest Patreon Supporters: *************************************** LATEST NEWS CH2A model show Guelph show has been cancelled Hobbyeasy credit card hack ************************************** MAILBAG Correction on folding wings Joel Middleton  Hello, it is lovely to hear Stuart is doing well. In your last podcast, you mentioned that the Flyhawk SBD had been criticized for not having a wing fold. It is worth noting that the real thing didn’t either… Otherwise a great show as always. Ray Boorman from Toronto wrote in as well with the same facts. ***** Hello Stuart, Geoff and Terry I’m a long time listener to the pod.  I am happy that Stuart is feeling better and thought I would share some thoughts about stashes since you three were talking stashes in your last episode. On one hand, if it is managed and cared for, the stash is a legitimate hobby within a hobby.  I see it as no different from other forms of collecting, even if the stasher has only the slightest intention to build the kits.   Hey, if having kits brings joy to someone, what is wrong with that? However, an experience from earlier this year showed me the ‘dark side’ of the stash.  Without getting into too much detail, a friend of mine purchased a collection and asked a few of us to help take it out of a house.  I volunteered because (a) during covid, I’ve been extremely bored and house bound (b) it would be a fun morning with my model buddies and (c) I get to paw though models. Well, after some 4-5 hours of clearing out a house with 10 other guys I can tell you this: There is definitely a difference between a managed stash and a hoard of model kits that have been piled endlessly and have gradually taken over all living spaces.  A significant amount of these kits were not only sealed, they were not even taken out of the bag from the store.  Just piled and piled and piled.   I can’t guess how many kits were there – but there were thousands.  I only saw a small fraction of what was being boxed up and loaded onto almost two cube trucks.  What I thought would be a fun experience became a depressing one.   The point I am trying to make is that “stash” went well beyond collecting and probably an indicator of something else.  If you think one of your friends or some club member is heading down that road, it might not be a bad idea to check in on him once in a while to see how he is doing.       Chris Wallace / Model Airplane Maker   From Paul Brown: Hi Terry,  Just a quick heads up that there is a fault with the Kinetic F-104G!  Kinetic is aware but has stated publicly they are not going to change the moulds due to cost (so you may need to graft a section from a monogram kit in to rectify!). Above the wing section on the fuselage, where the jet intake blends into the trailing edge of the wing, the Kinetic kit stops way too far forward.  They have corrected the issue on the TF-104G and the F-104C as they had not been released, so if the monogram fix isn’t practical, you may need to cut the single-seat nose off and fit to the Tf-104 (F-104 C tail is too short to make a G! Hope that’s helpful We want to hear from you! Let us know if you have any comments or suggestions at [email protected].