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  1. 52 minutes ago, Clunkmeister said:

    My big deal is that I’m absolutely not cool with the Chinese doing what the Chinese do: openly stealing intellectual property for their own gain. 

    Now, IF they acquired it legally according to NZ Law, I’d be 100% cool with it.   That’s just how I’m wired. I’m 100% against intellectual theft. 

    The good news is, I’m under no obligation to buy it, or anything else I feel is stolen intellectual property.   And this is NOT because I support PJ whatsoever. A close friend of mine has, in other retail areas,  been the victim of Chinese theft, and it’s NOT a victimless crime. He lost hundreds of thousands in sales, tens of thousands in development dollars, and 10 years of his life. He had exactly 7 months of sales before flagrant bootleg Chinese copies arrived on the shelves at half price, and 1/10 the quality. 

    The Chinese are pretty amazing at the copy game.  And I'm not saying I approve.  A long while ago I wanted to buy a Mauser C96.  Probably the ugliest, yet coolest pistol in the world.  I didn't want a Chinese copy so I bought a book about them.  Included were some pics of the copies...  and they were pretty good...  except for the one where they put the "M" upside down.  So, the pistol was engraved "Wauser".

     

    Recently at a club meeting, I was told of a practice for disseminating copied goods within the People's Republic only.  Apparently, the model kits involved were sold in plain, white boxes.

     

    But these sales are all out in the open.  I'm sure some kind of deal was struck.

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  2. Dude...  Free your mind from little bottles that say exactly what you want them to say and drain your wallet.

    Open your perspective to the ease of mixing Luftwaffe paint....

    RLM 02 is just a light grey with a hint of green, or green and brown...  Lighten with white if doing landing gear.

    RLM 66 is just dark grey

    RLM 76 is just sky blue lightened (a lot) with white and a tiny amount of green added

    RLM 65 is just sky blue lightened slightly with white

    RLM 74 is just medium grey with a hint of green

    RLM 75 is just light grey with a tiny hint of purple

     

    But if you must have acrylic, both MIG and AMMO make sets for early and late Luftwaffe.  But they are pure acrylic and fragile.  I usually thin them with Future when airbrushing to make them stronger.

     

     

    Good luck!

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  3. 3 hours ago, [CAT]CplSlade said:

    Are you familiar with this Ghia?

    1965_volkswagen_karmann-ghia_type_34_155

     

    This is the Type 34, which was primarily sold in Europe. A few made it to the U.S. and I have seen a couple when I used to participate in VW shows with my bus.

    Nossir...  can't say I have.  TBH, my favorite Ghia's have the chopped top, California style.   Not that I could drive them anyway.  I had a friend with an 80' Corvette with Targa tops.  For me to ride, the Targa tops had to be off.  VW's are great cars.

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  4. 3 hours ago, Clunkmeister said:

    I’ll never get over WNW not doing French fighters. That was a huge mistake. 

    I wouldn’t be surprised if the WERE originally the WNW molds, now nicely requisitioned by the Chinese government and redistributed to the local Chinese companies.  Western rules of business etiquette and copyright mean nothing in China. 

    I’ll pass. 

    Well...I have less and less respect for PJ every day...  I don;t know if we could have ever made ends meet for WNW because I don't know how the money was spent.  I have a feeling that the artists and designers were probably paid very, very well.  But he ran WNW stupidly.  When the world wants apples, why you go and give us lemons?

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  5. heh...  only four posts here.  At TOS and  FB it's a bit more active.  So far sounds like they're the WNW molds...  which is cool.  I just hope Meng got some of the molds for other aircraft.  Ppl are begging for the Lanc and the 0/400 now.  But I have doubts that Meng is feeling suicidal.

     

    My biggest concern is the detail decals and the decals themselves.

     

    Let's hope Meng decides to make a lot of different WWI aircraft models.

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  6. 11 hours ago, Wumm said:

    Aires have an Fw190 inboard cannon set for the Hasegawa kits (2025), which include the wing covers as well as the guns and bays.

    IMG_20200618_203036.thumb.jpg.d006bc4083c1e2d2cb664dc5dd2ddfe2.jpg

    These also have very nice internal details. Aires also include these parts in their Super set for the '190 D.

    IMG_20200618_203120.thumb.jpg.db21825531f91381c8530b2a466c87b4.jpg

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    Thanks for that.

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