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Kitlinx Newsletter -
Oct.24, 2024
Dear <name>, Thank you for shopping at
Kitlinx, llc!
Modeling News!
- Another European Order lands tomorrow Friday Oct.25 or
Saturday Oct.26. (Sometimes it's held a day longer in NY customs - but
Kitlinx employees do not ship on weekends)
- Kitlinx is having it's monthly OPEN WAREHOUSE on
Saturday Oct.26, 12pm-4pm. We still have over 400 binders of the
Harmston collection. These binders have some interesting topics of research.
John was an avid modeler but also an historian. There are several letters of
communication between publishers and him, correcting their historical facts.
These binders will be "GIVEN AWAY" to those attending the open
warehouse [first-come, first-served].
Customer's Story
The below story
developed as I was exchanging messages with a customer who added a product to an
existing order, but the original order left before this addition was captured.
However, the added kit was VERY PRECIOUS to the customer and we were able
to locate the kit and ship it out. It is amazing the "history" that
some of our customers witnessed...
The kit is made by
Italeri and out of production. It was part of the Preston
Collection of 1/32 kits
"Fantastic!
I'm so very grateful. There's a personal story involved here, I knew the
gentleman that painted the original dragon on Jim Thompson's aircraft. He
passed away about 3 years ago, his name was Bill Manney (picture below),
and the decals in that kit represent Bill's aircraft that he crew-chiefed in
Korea. I asked him about the name, " the Huff " and he laughed and
said that was Jim Thompson's nickname for his wife!"
"it's
the original artwork that used to hang in the halls of Monogram models. The
artwork was wrong in that the fins on the dragon were green instead of red, but
the decal sheet and that old kit is correct."
"Starboard
side of the aircraft was named "Bill's Baby" and it pictured a
dragon's head chewing on a MIG 15."
"The
subject is a North American F-86F-10 Sabre Jet (39th FIS, 51st FIG no.512897 In
a dogfight at dusk during the Korean war sometime in 1953. The story that Bill
told me was Jim Thompson had been up North and tangled with some MiGs. One
zoomed past him and he saw a big black dragon painted on the side. Bill said,
I'll paint a dragon on your 86, and the next morning when Jim Thompson came out
there was this huge garish dragon painted them the left side of his aircraft.
Bill later added a few finishing touches including the nickname The Huff. It was
well documented in several color photographs however, not everybody was thrilled
with the paint job. Though it was a morale booster, it was later ordered to be
removed. Bill Manny lives on in many kits that have been inspired by his
original paint job."
"Bill
passed away on Veterans Day, November 11, 2019"
"Sadly,
I just learned that Jim
Thompson has passed away just two weeks ago"
Lest
we forget
[if
you have an inspiring story of veterans you wish to share, please send an email
to loic@kitlinx.com]
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