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  1. So guys, all these discussions about 1:1 replicas, and ships, got me thinking ...

    I intend to build a 1/5 (let’s be reasonable and think about mooring fees :rolleyes:) replica of the most beautiful liner ever built, The Normandie :wub:. Of course, internal fittings will have to be adapted to make it usable ...

    As I have :

    1) a faint idea about ship-building linked to my ship-modelling experience

    2) no idea about real ship building requirements (well, some in fact, but I am too important to deal with such trivia)

    3) no competence in steel-welding

    4) not the first cent for this project

    I am counting on you all to do the work and money-supply for me...So, please (see, I am being nice) donate everything you can. And when it is finished, and I have all the pretty girls running after me, I will be the Ruler of the World !:admin:

    How is that for a project ? 

    Hubert :lol:

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  2. Besides the fun we may have in this thread, the fact is that a new member comes here, with an ambitious - if not totally lunatic - project, and has an abrasive if not outright insulting tone in most of his posts .... This is not linked to the poor command of English of this member, who has demonstrated his/her english was good enough, but to an arrogant behaviour expressed by someone with the interpersonal skills of Komodo dragon ...

    Why do we tolerate this attitude ? I am personally fed up with this thread and the tone of the posts of the original poster. It’s high time we send this member and his project to where they belong ...

    Hubert

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  3. 2 hours ago, TJTX said:

    Thankfully I have found a -3 to trade for my -1. So as soon as I can complete that trade and get a few minutes at home, I'll get this party started.  

    Good to hear ! Looking forward to see you converting this beast into a peaceful bomber ...

    Hubert

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  4. Hi, you had the same post on LSP before it vanished, and then you post here, how strange ... 

    If your intentions are real, you will get the same type of answers than on LSP: this is a vey ambitious (and not cheap) endeavour, and you need to make sure you get the grasp of what it means to build a full-size static replica of a modern jet. If you are aware of it, and have the drive for what is a very long-haul project, than fine. After all, a Chinese man built, on his own, a steel replica of an A-320...

    A word of advice however : you may not be a native english-speaking person. But, in a first post, asking for donations rather than eliciting help and advice is a « surprising » approach, especially when I remember reading on the - apparently deleted -post on LSP that you had no intention of spending one cent ...

    HTH

    Hubert

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  5. 8 hours ago, GusMac said:

    Is it IM? 

    Would love one but not sure I can justify the cost.

     

    It is definitely resin.

    I have read somewhere a price tag of GBP 180. Not cheap, but that is a lot of resin you get, and not unreasonable compared to a similar-sized IM jet. Plus Boris will make this price tag lower in USD or Euro soon. Kind of instant clearance rebate :rolleyes:

    Hubert

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  6. I went and checked the LSP thread on this kit. It effectively went south in one day :( ... so sad ... ( in the meantime I went to a modelling expo south of Lisbon, in Montijo. Some nice kits, not many in 1/32 - about 6 or 7 overall -, of which at least 2 P-51s and 3 Spitfires, and all «plagued » -IMHO- by ‘Spanish-school’ type of finish, but for a nice, if a bit bland in the hall’s poor lighting, Tempest).

    It’s a nice subject, it’s a 1/32 twin, it spanned WWII to Vietnam, and it can even allow some civvies’ schemes. Rejoice, and get on with the wrong cowlings, whether you modify them, design-and-print new ones, or wait for the inevitable correction and  detailing sets :poo:

    Hubert

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