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| ftomstark | Comet Boeing P-26 | Parked | 17-Apr-10 14:14 |  | | Views : 731 | | I used the color scheme of the Peashooter in the Air Force Museum. You can get goot photos from their web site. |
| ftomstark | Comet Boeing P-26 | Build | 17-Apr-10 14:11 |  | | Views : 716 | | Its covered with Jap tissue as supplied in the kit. |
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| ftomstark | Comet Boeing P-26 | Build | 17-Apr-10 14:09 |  | | Views : 731 | | In checking against scale data the wing is about 3 inches longer than it should be. I suspect the Comet made that dimension accurate the model would be too large for the 10 cent model fleet which generally had a 16 inch wingspan. |
| ftomstark | Comet Boeing P-26 | Parked | 17-Apr-10 14:05 |  | | Views : 747 | | As near as I can remember this was the first model airplane kit I ever tried to build, probably in 1939. I didn't finish it but I did cut myself on the split double edge razor blade used then to cut out the parts. |
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