HubertB
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Super project
, and very generous from Mike 
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Now I’m officially jealous
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These MFH kits are really impressive. If I was ready to commit to such an amount for a kit (knowing very well that in reality I scatter - at least - this amount across multiple kits in one year
), I confess I’d hesitate between a HpH DC-3 (NOT C-47) and a big scale MFH kit of my all-time favourite racing car, the mighty Porsche 917 ...
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10 hours ago, Wumm said:
For the benefit of our American or Continental European friends; who may now have the mental picture of Brad sitting on the couch dressed as Batman, naked from the waist down and holding an empty lotion bottle...
Unless your Cricket Bat has a polycoated face, you must rub it down regularly with linseed oil to keep the moisture in the wood. Cheap balls can often split the Willow.
I'll get my coat...
S
it’s a more logical and prosaic explanation ... but the mental picture was certainly .... hmmm .... dare I say « poetic » ?
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My stepdaughter has built two of those already, and is currently living in one of them (was there not 4 hours ago). Not my idea of comfort, but I have to say it’s a very smart build and you get all basic amenities within 14 sqm and 3500 kgs. Definitely very ingenious designs, well isolated btw, easy to warm in winter, albeit a bit warm in hot summers.
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2 hours ago, DocRob said:
That should be banned
here, ..., or you show us how you manage to get a complete interior into that plastic slab .
Cheers Rob
... with full crew, of course
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On 8/23/2020 at 1:46 AM, GazzaS said:
The rub of the whole situation is that larger scale kits have a lot more smaller parts than you'll find in most 1/48 scale kits.
True that !
As the scale gives you details roughly 3.4 times bigger than 1/48, you can pack a lot more detail, and add-on your own ad nauseam
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Ask me how I know
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All of you guys confessing their sinful inclinations ... shame on you
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But karma has a sweet revenge : as you are not getting any younger each day, you will soon see (well, actually, maybe not « see »
) that your eyesight is not consistent with these diminutive models .... (sardonic laughter )
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8 hours ago, DocRob said:
My last builds represented the ultimate interceptors of their time. Find the few differences between the birds
Cheers Rob
One has a red nose, and not the other...
I actually expected the size difference to be greater, especially as the MiG-31 is not an especially small aircraft ...
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Happy 37th, John !
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10 hours ago, DocRob said:
Interesting to see, how the surroundings define the type of cars used. Until I reached my tiny island, I wouldn't had believed that there could be such kind of automotive monoculture.
In the case of my island it is one third of Pickups, one third of Berlingos, Kangaroos, ... and the last third are others, but I think a third is overestimated here.
Most families have two cars, one of each of the first two groups in any given condition, because, well they are families and need a family car and nearly everybody has a patch of land or more and needs a 4 wheel driven Pickup for transport.Cheers Rob
I am assuming you meant « Kangoo » rather than « Kangaroo », Rob... Anyway, a Kangoo is not a car, just some wheeled « thingy »
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And for those from far-off shores, here is what a Kangoo looks like
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6 hours ago, BradG said:
Day 10,393 of lock down....I've run out of clothes, have resorted to using sheet as toga. Alcohol stocks at minimum, only the vegan food remains. Tried to venture into the yard but there was this mysterious bright ball of yellow in the sky, send help or model kits.......
You mean you have exhausted your stash in 10,393 days ? Now that was an amateur’s stash
Mine would last at least 50% more
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What’s wrong with liters/100 kms ? You guys from the Empire have such weird units, with those multiples and fractions on top. Soon, one guy will say ‘let’s do a model in 1 inch to 6 feet scale ... or better still 3/8 of an inch to a foot
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She’s beautiful
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And that prop was really worth the wait
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44 minutes ago, GrahamF@Iconicair said:
I'm an old hand at this, some people just don't 'get' how if you bid early all you are doing is raising the price for the eventual end sale price.
If you really want it just think what your absolute max price would be then bid in the last 10 seconds, You have the best chance then, If you do that any earlier it's like showing your hand in poker and is utterly pointless.
The theory if you bid high early you put people off is utter hogwash, you're just burning up the value of your bid, remember it's a world wide web and somebody out there probably has more money than you or is more stupid than you. All they need to do is bid a few pennys more.
I've done this buying CNC machines and it usually works, if you are bidding a lot higher at the end and also [ because I have a good idea of it's usual selling price] it doesn't give them time to think about raising their bid.
Graham
29 minutes ago, JohnB said:One of the first things I do is check how much time is left for bidding. If it's over a day or so I'll just keep a eye on it and bid when it's closer to closing. Otherwise you are wasting your time.
I have to disagree with you, guys. Even if you enter a high amount early in the process, you are not « showing your hand » , as the bids that will appear will not be your maximum price, but the ones a few cents above competitor’s bids. Your maximum amount will only be reached if competitors are getting near it ...
And if you are outbid, even a few days before the auction’s end, so be it. You were not ready to pay a higher price anyway, just like Gazzas pointed out for the auction he was following ...
Just my
(anyone wants to propose ... 
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15 hours ago, IainMackayDall said:
This explosion has raised fears from a the nearby town of Newcastle, where Orica has a stockpile of ammonium nitrate that is four times the size of the one that exploded in Beirut https://www.news.com.au/finance/business/mining/how-chemical-stockpile-could-wipe-out-newcastle/news-story/fc4d3a747bb7a64dfa799dde961d4c97
Whilst it is unavoidable if you want to sustain intensive agriculture, this stuff is dangerous if wrongly manipulated, or stored in unsafe conditions, like with possible contaminations of oil, fuel, etc. Which is why most countries have very strict safety rules Imposed on companies stocking them. And the bigger the stock, the tighter the rules. And, btw, It will not burn or explode with an « ordinary » flame. It needs a very high temperature trigger to explode.
In Beirut, it seems it was a stock seized 6 years ago, stored there waiting for further notice. But, alas, the dereliction of the country and its structures has made it impossible to dispose off this hazard properly. And there is wide speculation that the primary explosion was one of fireworks, or a cache of explosives
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The answer to your first question is yes, there can be a reserve price set by the seller, but the buyers don’t know about it.
Some people make it a game to bid in the last minute. To avoid this trap, I always do as Bill said: I enter a bid with MY maximum possible price. The Ebay system will increment the last bid (in your case the first one) by a fixed amount. IIRC the increment is determined by the starting bid price, usually for kits, by 50 cents, then by $ 1 above a certain threshold. The system will keep incrementing the bids against the « last-minute snipers » up to your maximum bid. And, btw, for two identical amounts, the earliest one will win, this being judged by the time your bid was submitted.
Some bidding wars end up being just pissing contests between alpha-males, to the point of nonsense. To set YOUR maximum possible price look for similar items with a « Buy It Now » price. Entering your bid with your maximum price is the best way to avoid the temptation of this courtyard last-minute brawls
One last tip : people tend to bid in round numbers, or with multiple of 5 for the decimals (like $ 10.55). Making your maximum bid with an extra cent can sometimes yield a win (like 25.01, or 30.66)
HTH
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I certainly wish everyone here all the best, and it’s good to know that Karim’s family has not been hurt, at least physically.
I have seen the videos, and the blast is just unbelievable. It is said that some 2 750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate, stored there for the last 6 years, blew off. In September 2001, the Toulouse explosion involved 300 tonnes of ammonium nitrate, and the damage and death toll was hard to recover from. Lebanon sure did not need more chaos
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Another beautiful build, John
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Well done !
Hubert
PS : and I still prefer the Spit with elliptical wing-tips
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Great renderings ! When do you think we will see a full kit ?
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Nice and original build !
FWIW, MEK works great on ABS.
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3 hours ago, Vandy1 VX-4 said:
I also received these today. The Land Rover and AFV club Draggon came with the dolphin HH-65
Break ! Break ! There’s flak hidden in the middle of the targets
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Speaking of the devil ...
Look what arrived this morning in the mailbox
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1 hour ago, Bomber_County said:
Hubert............I thought you were downsizing........
.........nice haul though.......
That's what my wife is telling me also
... I wonder why
Does "reassigning with smaller kits" count as downsizing the stash
? Help me with the terminology, guys. !
Hubert
PS: I gave away/sold some 13 boxes, and am up 5 ... I am still good on my target. If you want to help me more :
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Had a bit of a shopping spree with Central European manufacturers and sellers in the last 3 months. Still missing the Silver Wings Tiger Moth, which got shipped but seems to have been lost in-between Poland and Portugal ...
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One of my bucket list models..
in Modelling Discussion
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Well, I have had a R-985 in design for quite some time. I stopped and stumbled on the design of the cylinder head cooling fins ... Maybe I should resume my work on this one, although the availability fo the KH Kingfisher kits made it a less urgent requirement ... It was dimensionally designed in 1/32, but could be scaled up to 1/16 easily in a split second on a 3D-printer setup, especially with the level of detail I incorporated
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This is where I stalled :