Is there a way to make “My Stash UN-Grew Again”?
I started investigating a new line of model possibilities... the WWII themed manga stories from Leiji Matsumoto... of Captain Harlock and Galaxy Express 999 fame. Anyway, Hasegawa’s got some of the more prominent ones in their “Creator Works” series... the same imprint that Area 88 is being released under, but they’s mostly 1/48 scale. So I decided to do a few mini-dios in 1/144 scale and picked up a Sweet 2-in-1 F4F box and a bagged Zero as well as 2 kit Platz boxes for Bf 109s, Fw 190s and P-51s (and an Me262 from Trumpeter) in anticipation of a few projects.
I got excited and started on the “Japanese F4F vs. American Zero” project and got the fuselage glued together, a motor for the engine picked out and painted the engine (very nicely if I do say so myself...)
Then, while I was looking at the 1/48 scale paint call outs to decide the next steps for my 1/144 kit... I realized that there was something funny with the wheels... I couldn’t quite put my finger on it...
And then it dawned on me that this was a “F6F vs. Zero” party and I was two digits shy...

Of course my lucky streak with the available Platz boxes came to a crashing halt. The F6F-5 is no where to be found...
Sigh... So I had to go back and work on one of the other 6 projects I’ve got on the go instead... just my luck.
