[CAT]CplSlade
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What, so we look for your lost ass as well?
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Which 10? The first list that Moses smashed or the second?
If you read them you'll notice they aren't the same.
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I survived, and I refuse to be quiet about it.
That's how it gets forgotten.
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Not a coffee fan myself; all I can smell are burning oils whenever a pot is brewing.
The irony is I was a café manager for a while.
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Even worse are the kits that weren't even paper panzers but 'what-ifs' people came up with trying to extrapolate what would have happened if the war continued.
May as well build Sci-Fi models if you're going to play make believe.
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1 hour ago, 1to1scale said:
So, you seem to be going well with the build, does this mean that “Doogs” review was unwarranted?
I've been seeing a few of these get built recently, so I'm guessing they aren't as rough as he said. Not that they aren't fiddly, but they seem doable. Like Special Hobby's Tempest, which many people have griped about but there is one guy who has managed to build about a dozen of the damn things in record time.
I have both and will build them once I clear my 'in-progress' kits off the bench.
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I believe you mean 'hole'.
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Well, I know I have my local Hobby Lobby beat and there is a LHS a town over, although admittedly RC is their focus, that I also dominate.
But I ain't selling nuttin' to nobody!
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On 7/26/2019 at 8:29 PM, Martinnfb said:
You are absolutely right Wumm, GM for instance, it should be dead, stolen by its own executive team. But this is USA and basic economical principals are pushed aside by the chosen few.
Here is the list of heavy hitters of US economy. Explains a lot.
2007 rank Company Revenues (in millions) 1. Wal-Mart Stores $351,139.0 2. Exxon Mobil 347,254.0 3. General Motors 207,349.0 4. Chevron 200,567.0 5. ConocoPhillips 172,451.0 6. General Electric 168,307.0 7. Ford Motor 160,126.0 8. Citigroup 146,777.0 9. Bank of America Corp. 117,017.0 10. American International Group 113,194.0 11. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. 99,973.0 12. Berkshire Hathaway 98,539.0 13. Verizon Communications 93,221.0 14. Hewlett-Packard 91,658.0 15. Intl. Business Machines 91,424.0 16. Valero Energy 91,051.0 17. Home Depot 90,837.0 18. McKesson 88,050.0 19. Cardinal Health 81,895.1 20. Morgan Stanley 76,688.0 21. United Health Group 71,542.0 22. Merrill Lynch 70,591.0 Merrill Lynch used to have an office over the Borders Books I was a manager at. But it caught on fire after a tower fell on it and my whole building had to be demolished and dumped in Staten Island.
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I managed to buy a bunch of Mr Color in German and Japanese colors from a guy a few years back. Probably 2-3 bottles of every color for about a thirds of the price.
I like the colors and I don't have to mix anything.
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On 4/24/2014 at 10:42 AM, RalphSarc said:
My Neo airbrush should arrive today so I'm shopping for WW2 German Tamiya paint colors.
What are the most commonly used upper and lower fuselage colors, interior colors, propeller and spinner colors etc? I notice yellow was also used system wide to note squadrons and theaters.
There are a few good deals on eBay for a mixed choose of either 5 or ten bottles.
Also I would assume a good quality thinner from Home Depot could be used to thin?
As always and suggests would be greatly appreciated.
Ralph
Since you're just up in Woodstock, are you able to get to the HobbyTown in Kennesaw? Their armor selection has been shrinking, and they don't seem to get many 1/32 planes but they have lots of supplies. I am so stocked up now I only get there every few months but driving the 70-mile round trip for Tamiya and the rest still ends up cheaper than ordering them online.
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Side rooms off the garage for the win!
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On 9/4/2019 at 1:19 AM, HubertB said:
Well that’s assuming you don’t buy any new kit until 2189 ...
And, at my current building pace, my stash will still be here when they launch Picard’s new Enterprise ...
Hubert
That will be an extremely long time considering he won't be Captain of the Enterprise in the new crapfest--I mean show--he is doing, and he will likely be dead before he gets another Star Trek series.
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23 hours ago, BlrwestSiR said:
The last name would be pronounced Chew. Why they couldn't just use that, I have no idea.
So, you'd be okay being named Fanny Chew?
To put it in a different perspective, my wife once had a friend who was expecting her first child which she thought was to be a girl. Her top pick for a name was Aleek.
I put a stop to that when I said, "So, when she gets married the priest is going to turn to the groom and ask if he takes a leak as his wedded wife".
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On 7/17/2019 at 6:51 PM, crazypoet said:
Hmmm... have to see how to post pics from my phone now!
And... success! Now I don’t need to give photobucket any more $$$
Why did you ever give them any in the first place?
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D.O.A. was the best Canadian band ever, followed by the Subhumans and SNFU.
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16 hours ago, GazzaS said:
Oh hell, that's country-rock! No, No, fuck no!
Needs more distortion.
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They are both retail brands of Huihuang Electric Appliance Co., Ltd in China. I believe Trumpeter is the primary outlet for HEA but both companies have slightly different things they focus on although IMO it is getting harder to tell them apart lately.
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I guess I married a non-traditional woman as I could build just about anywhere in the house and she wouldn't care. She doesn't even bat an eye when she sees my stash (or she won't dare because of all her hats and shoes).
However, I have her and two kids so I can't go all minimalist with the dining ware; I wish I could at least manage it with the glasses as my wife has a soft spot for cute juice cups and wine glasses. We only need four; one for each of us.
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Hmmm...I don't know about that. According to all my old advertisements from the late 50s/early 60s soda cans were initially made from tin. Bethlehem Steel especially loved blabbing about it in Life all the time. I think a lot of that old aluminum got recycled prior to that era.
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That is certainly in the cards for the future, but until that happens we are stuck with the system in place. I know printer prices will come down, but they need to shorten printing time and the materials used, as to me that seems to be the real issues in need of refinement. I haven't seen what the latest units produce, but I imagine we might need at least another decade to print out parts that look like Tamiya molded them.
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1 hour ago, 1to1scale said:
Why do model manufacturers continue to release the same subject over and over and over?
Kitty Hawk releasing another Fw-190! It’s not like we need another! Hasegawa, Revell, and PCM make pretty nice versions already! ZM making another AR-234 and Bf-109G? It seems that some of the most iconic planes are being ignored, yet manufacturers keep carving up the same segment of the hero plane pie. I don’t understand the mentality of it?
How many different 109’s, 190’s, spitfires, mustangs, p-40s, and zeros do we need?
Why isn’t there a Kate, Betty, Val, DC-3, or civilian planes like the Staggerwing, Bonanza, PA-161, 172, beaver, otter?
How about helicopters, why isn’t there an Apache, Ka-50, or Mi-28?
Jets? Saab 37, Kfir, F-111, Mig-15, Canberra, mirage F1, Mystere, S-3 Viking, F-106, F-101, T-38, Super Etendard, B-58, Mig-25, Su-17/22, A-37, F3H, and the list goes on.
What do you guys think, why is it the same subjects over, and over, and over again?
Two things:
1) They make money;
2) People know them, which is why 1) happens.
Kitty Hawk, realizing this, are looking to raise capital quickly and hopefully consistently in order to finance their more esoteric choices. Realizing there have not been any good toolings of the 190 and the other companies promising new ones have not yet delivered, they hope to fill a hole before them. They likely can beat Z-M on price, and HKM on timing, but their kits can be a bit fiddly and that is what will make or break their release. I bought their Kingfisher and P-39 and intend to build them even though others have had fits with those two kits because noone else has delivered on those fronts (I know Special Hobby did the P-39 but those also have issues). I like WWII planes, and if Kitty Hawk needs to sell a 190 or a Spitfire (actually still room for unkitted variants there) to make money to make the less popular airplanes, then so be it.
The vast majority of modelers are likely not as familiar with your list past DC-3 (which is also where my building interest stops) and unless any of that list are visually striking enough to compel someone to buy it then it will remain a niche item. Also, how many movies featuring WWI and WWII air combat are there compared to Cold War, Korea, or Vietnam? 109's and Mustangs have had tons of free advertising the past 70-odd years to ingrain them in the minds of potential kit buyers.
Everyone bitches when another Tiger or Panther hits the market. I likewise roll my eyes at Shermans, M1 Abrams, or T-34s. But in the end the companies are going to make what they feel like making, so all of our bitching is a big waste of time anyway. They are not losing sleep over this. Neil at HKM may be a nice guy, but has he ever asked customers to send him a list of wants to pull his to-do items from? Or does he simply reveal a list of upcoming projects for the next few years? I've been back into modeling nearly a decade now and this type of thread gets repeated with every release of these particular subjects, and it doesn't change. Because the truth is they sell better.
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I thought we knew this was coming. This isn't the 'surprise announcement' is it?
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19 hours ago, crazypoet said:
CATCH-22!!!
It would certainly be a possible marketing tool for them to sell more B-25's and for the Catch 22 guy's to market the show to HKM's domestic region, which is presumably PTO-biased and an ETO show might be refreshing.
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A moment of silence....
in General Discussion
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Over here in the States, we have a politician who referred to it thus, " CAIR was founded after 9/11 because they recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties "
We know who did it, and what that was. Elephant and room, together again.