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I will keep and eye out for them. We did get some re released star wars kits down here in Australia, including the ATAT walker and a few others. I really should pick up the big revell ATAT though.

I managed to find myself the old Return of the Jedi boxing MPC 1/50 X Wing. I had built one as a kid and was looking for it again. On the hunt now for others I missed as a kid like the Star Destroyer, walkers, tie fighters and Y wing.

Is this going ahead? I will dig out my Verlinden 1/35 midget submarine if so.

Everyone at my funeral gets a taser, last man standing can have all my shit.

I've seen a couple of model stashes sold off. One was a bloke who passed with 5000 models and around 3000 books. He said in his will that his family was to hold a swap and sell and sell things off to the local modelling community. The family made quite a bit of money in cash and everything was sold within 2 hours. Was a hell of a morning I tell ya. The other was just this year, one of dad's friends passed away and his son asked for my help in selling off the models he had. We made him several thousand dollars over one weekend model show. The museum dad is with also receives a lot of donations from people who don't know what to do with things. Hundreds of books turn up each month because of this. Most of them get sold, however I'm sure much more just goes straight to the tip.

Last time I looked there was 2 out my way at the LHS for 150 each. Models and Hobbies 4U if anyone wanted them.

I forget the brand, but they come with a red cardboard backing to the package. Their tips actually bend under the slightest pressure, blades are complete crap. I now stick to the red capped little tubes of blades which are the genuine product and much better. It usually works out at about $1 a blade, but I might only go through 10 a year or so.

I have a couple; 1 - large scale steam locomotive- Trumpeter BR 52, built it, but it's gone now. Looking to build another. 2 - large scale U boat - have 4 - 2 type 7s, 1 type 9 and a type 2, all still in the stash.

I tried both direct to Trumpeter and the distributor out here in Australia. Got nothing but a run around both times. If you can, I'd just take it back to the place you bought it and exchange or refund, otherwise you might be out of luck.

I tried both direct to Trumpeter and the distributor out here in Australia. Got nothing but a run around both times. If you can, I'd just take it back to the place you bought it and exchange or refund, otherwise you might be out of luck.

The fit is pretty much perfect, no filler used at all. Along with that, this boxing (number 6523) gives you turned metal barrel, counterweights and top section of the gun. You also get lots and lots of extras as you can do different versions of the weapon and build with the shield on too if you want. I'm almost certain that this boxing would be better than Trumpeters.

Have you tried some free to play games on the net? I'm right into World of Warships, it's free to play, although you can spend money on it if you want to. I've also got a World of Tanks account but that game is much harder to be a free to play player as the encomony in game isn't as good.

If that's the 'early version' with the resin cowling Rog then it's still wrong for a -1.

64th Sentai tangled with the AVG on occasion with their Ki-43s, they were one of the first squadrons to receive them from I think (sorry I don't have my reference with me it's packed away) from mid 1941, so they would have initially got Ki-43-1's. The Hasegawa kit is a Ki-43-II, which didn't start to show up until very late 1942. You'd need to change the cowling, no upper oil cooler (I think) intake, that was on the bottom of the cowl lip, 2 blade prop, the gun fairings on the upper cowling are different as the -1's just mounted light machine guns, no droptank or bomb racks (for early model -1s) and you'd need to find a flat topped main canopy and I think maybe windscreen and long telescopic gunsight too. UMI Resin did the prop and cowling with some other little items, but that's long OOP and you'd still be on your own for canopy and windscreen.

40 thousand new cases in my state today, I'm hiding at home and only going out in the early morning or late evening if I need supplies, avoiding crowds and social gatherings.

Straight from the box with little trouble.

I got some of their super silver after seeing someone do NMF with it, they look very nice.

Am I ineligible for the raffle? I did send a msg but didn't get a reply and I'm not on the list. No worries if I'm not.

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Could I go in plz.

From what I've read, Iranian pilots really liked the Phantom. It's speed, weapons and durability were put to good use against Iraq especially, conducting bombing, fighter sweep and reconnaissance duties, However when equipped with the Maverick air to ground missile, the Phantom found a new and deadly role; tank killing. Nearly 50 machines are still in service with the IRIAF today. The 1/72 Hasegawa Phantoms are pretty decent kits, although do watch out for the fit of the forward fuselage to the body and the fit of the air intakes, it can be tricky to get right and the better you get the fit the less sanding you will have to do. The instructions give you three machines, but I was not happy with the colour call outs, so I went with matching colours to the box top that I believe look better. I did use their suggested Gunze 44 flesh for the sand colour, but picked RLM 71 over their suggested Gunze 303 for green which I think was too light and I went with Revell SM381 brown. Gunze 311 grey was used for the under surface and RLM 70 for the drop tanks as the green here looks darker than the air frame colour. You will have to source weapons as only three drop tanks are included, but Hasegawa has put the inner pylons along with sidewinder launch rails in the kit. The Mavericks and launch rails come from the Hasegawa weapons set.

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A nice little kit that is OOB apart from the decals that came from a Mirage kit and the fin flash was painted on. Gunze 42 bluegray was used straight from the bottle. This aircraft was used by the French post war as an engine test bed, so I kept the weathering pretty light, with a wash and some weathering pigments.

My old man built one about 40 years ago in 1/32 from the old Revell Spitfire and Bf 109 kits, but he did it without the engine cowlings as he didn't have the 110 kit.