In a comment on another post, Ross demanded updates from other members, so I figured I would update you guys on my lack of building progress.
I will be out of the state for the Richmond show, so my deadline for contest entries has been slightly extended with NOVA being the next target in April. I don’t believe my motorcycle will make it (it’s going to need a base and I need to develop those skills a bit first) but fingers crossed for the Bonanza. My 3D printing side gig is taking off and proving a bit difficult to keep up with, but that just means more money for kits I’ll never build!
In the immediate future, I’m working on an article to be published in the Mentor Monitor which is a quarterly magazine put out by the T-34 Association, which I’m a member of through my job. I’m going to be covering as many of the different scale model kits available for the T-34 Mentor as i can and trying to give comparisons between them. Here are some of the photos I’ve been accumulating for that project.
– Chad
Shenandoah Valley Modelers 
What an awesome project Chad,,I am sure T-34 groupies will love this project when you put it all together. I flew in the T-34C many moons ago so I have a soft spot for the Mentor
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I suspect the vast majority of our military pilots flew in one at some point so it’ll be interesting to see how the civilian market takes to them when/if the military starts offloading them. Currently I think the only privately owned C models are ones that were originally delivered overseas.
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Now that is what I am talking about! What an amazing project this is! How much time and travel, not to mention internet sleuthing has gone into that stash of kits? Very cool! Now you need to take a page from Saylor’s playbook and build the entire squadron of Mentors in the same livery…
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It’s taken about 2 years to gather all this and learn the things I’ve learned. I probably won’t go full squadron but, at least in 1/72, I want the whole family: Bonanza V-tail, Bonanza traditional tail, QU-22, T-34A, T-34B, T-34C, Fuji T-3, and Fuji T-7. I would fill that out further with T-34A/B models from other countries like Japan, Spain, Argentina, Columbia, etc. It’s my long term, slow moving project.
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