Clunkmeister

Good to hear ICM marches to their own drum. A Cobra in 1/32 is something I’ll certainly build. Kitty Hawk and Academy have been giving us phenomenal helicopters these last couple of years, and it’s nice to see another player enter the fray.

That might be it. Although why Tamiya got going on 1/35 when 1/32 was a standard established accepted scale. It just places helicopters in that murky grey area where they’re out of scale with airplanes. And the odd manufacturer who dares kitting a helicopter in 1/32 gets bitched out by the armor guys.

There isn't much hate here, except that 1/35 was a scale Tamiya settled on for it's armor. All the other armor companies kinda somehow followed suit. I think much of the "hate" from airplane guys revolves around helicopters. Airplane guys think of helicopters as "theirs", and armor guys feel they "belong" to them. By default helicopters end up in a grey area. 1/32 and they're out of scale with the airplanes, 1/32 and you can't use them in a diorama with armor.

Krow, I agree. It’s a great time to be a builder of 1/32 scale aircraft. Never have we had so much love from so many manufacturers. We can trash Tamiya all day long for their adoption of 1/35, and believe me, I’ve said a few bad words about their decisions, but they sure brought 1/32 into the mainstream with the release of their incredible line of kits. Starting with the F-14, and the F-4, the A6M series, P-51s, Corsairs, Mosquitos, etc, etc, they broke it wide open. Then Roden and WNW with the WW1 crowd and away we go. Revell, Trumpeter, HK, KH, Eduard, SH, HPH, CMK, ICM, IBG, and many more, you name it, the line of high quality accurate 1/32 Aircraft has never been greater, and more are coming every month. The Eastern European Companies are now fully onboard, and unlike Trumpeter, which is hit or mostly miss, we’re getting some incredibly fine, accurate, and affordable models out of Eastern Europe. It’s an AWESOME time to be a builder in The One True Scale. We were just a fringe for so long. Heck, IPMS still doesn’t give 1/32 it’s due in the National Meet. We still have classes with everything lumped together, because they’re still living in ysterday’s World. They haven’t seen it, or refuse to see the change. It’s coming, and it won’t be long now. I thing a couple years more of strong attendance with showings of large scale models at the big shows around the world will wake these fools up. IPMS USA still lives in 1/72 and 1/48, but they’re living in an obsolete world. Show your stuff. Fill the tables. We keep doing that, they notice, magazines notice, and manufacturers notice. Heck, they’re even bringing out a 1/35 109! Someone’s betting huge, guys!

I’ve never gotten how the armor guys enveloped and adopted 1/35 as their standard scale. It’s just all kinds of odd.

Yep. Doing a G is a no brainer, but a a build wouldn’t feel right unless I hacked it to pieces and inserted resin all over.

And it seems her decision will also of course mean a fair bit of scratch work in the rear pit. The F and the G are somewhat different in rear seat panel layout. OH yay. I sooooo love scratching panels after my amazing B-36 experience.

Why not? Let’s just cut along the dotted lines..... After all, who needs them? Jammers flames, the ALQ-105 sets will need to be c’est histoire.

So then I show my wife both Super Set boxes and ask her which version she likes. She then makes a scientific ladylike proclamation: “I like the black and white picture”. Me “But the G has more rockets on it” Wife: “I like the black and white one” Me: “But all the extra rockets” Wife: “Black and white”. - Death Stare - Me: silence, muffled “gulp” and you’ll need to know the Thud to understand this, but....

Those should nicely augment some of the other things I have here. Plus the Zotz 105 F/G In Vietnam decal set.

Santa showed up with three small packages, which nicely augmented a kit I have in the on Deck circle.

If I tried for an output like that, they'd look like they were built by a third grader. I might manage 4 or 5 Tamiya kits, but a B-24, a resin kit, a Tamiya Mossie plus others, YIKES!!

A really sad output, even for me... But oooooh what a kit it was, andeven then, it’s still not really “done” because I want to do a bit more modulation on the finish.

John, no BS and no hype. Those are the nicest builds I’ve ever see you do, and to have them all in one hear is only more mind boggling. With your OK, I’d like to put these on the LSM FB Page....

I cleaned it up for y’all. No biggie

I’d say it was a 50 something toddler.... And he looks wasted because his hat’s on crooked

We can clean my house. The Gibson’s can’t be replaced. Oh wait! Evidence! Who is this masked dude? I think we have found our culprit!

Probably will do you or row, Harv. Her Lupus is acting up again. We had a clean home and then last night, a horde of toddlers descended like a cloud of locusts. Our place is a shambles once again. AND, someone got into my bottle of Gibson’s rye whiskey.

I missed [Cat]CplSlade, every year I screw something up. But it’s been rectified behind the scenes. It’s a huge fan of this and I hope that everyone is happy.

Like many who do wooden ships, I’m basically stuck on late 18th and early 9th Century British and French ships of the Napoleonic are. I’d love to do a heavy American frigate as well, but I’m not good enough to scratchbuild yet, and there are no decent kits at all of them. Most kitmakers concentrate on those years...

And, if you’re so inclined, you can build Brubaker’s bird from The Bridges at Toko Ri.

Good choice, Gazz. That’s the least likely of the two to be done in IM, and it really is one seriously beautiful kit that builds great!

I had missed #7 and 21. I went back and drew two names. Sorry about that, Chief!

GazzaS, Leitch144, and Landlubber Mike, please PM me your addresses. Smitty, I know I have hours, you lucky so. GazzaS, choose your poison, mate.

She’s gotten two an hour at least all day, so she’s got my germs all over her.