GazzaS
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Good Luck, Maru!
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Great video, thanks for sharing! For the curious, Carl Vincent is 200 feet or so longer than the Lexington.
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Aye Caramba! That's a lot of paints, Carl.
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50 minutes ago, Dekenba said:
Steady on!
I'd not say they were "dumb". They'd still be beavering away now, if it were not for a virus that is causing - according to the Bank of England - the worst recession in centuries.
It was simply PJ enjoying his hobby in the most grandiose style imaginable. He wanted a DFW C.V, he wanted a Gotha on floats, he wanted 4 types of Eindecker & 6 boxing's of Fokker D.VII's & 5 types of Camels, he wanted two massive HP O series bomber types to go with the three Gotha's & two AEG's, to say nothing of a pair of Felixstowe's.
We were lucky that he decided to share his hobby with us.
Personally, I thought it was glorious. If WNW has been run as a profitable business, it would have kitted maybe one or two boxing's a year, mainly of single seater stuff, it would have probably reduced mould quality & detail somewhat to reduce costs, whilst still being the best 1/32 WWI modeller out there, prices may well have been higher - at least initially - the fancy artwork may have never been commissioned, the instruction booklet may have been predominantly black & white, they'd never have offered free shipping for 5 years, etc.
PJ, with half a billion dollars of wealth behind him, put his tastes - and fellow modellers ability to share his hobby - ahead of profits.
We'll never see it's like again.
PS I have a spare Pfalz, once we return to semi normality I'd be happy to ship it over to Oz.
Perhaps my view will come around once my period of mourning is over.
Thank you for the kind offer! I'll look forward to normality, then. It's a sweet build of a kit, if you haven't had the opportunity, yet.
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It's all just one huge disappointment. What were they thinking? The list of slow sellers is pretty big. Whatever they were doing, it wasn't about making money. Dumb, dumb, dumb. Ernie has listed many of the Turkeys. so I won't repeat it.
I don't care if the Czechs or Chinese re-pop everything that was produced. I have enough of the ones I wanted. (unless you have an unwanted Pfalz D.III sitting around) But now I feel bereft of hope. There is no tomorrow when a new WWI aircraft model will be released. Let alone 2-3 a year.
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Just now, krow113 said:
yes even longer , some posts go back to 2014
thats why I'm wary of the 1/48 177 kit , it is a serious model
I would build it... I just wouldn't know what to do with it once done.
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6 hours ago, krow113 said:
A 1/32 177?
help me Jebus!
I have the 1/48 Hi-Tech from Special HobWaby , I look in the box once and a while and then I carefully close it back up and put it back on the shelf.
Wait, aren't you the guy who's spent the last two years on the Gotha?
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11 hours ago, Dekenba said:
All you have to do is pay for the kits.
Stranger things have happened! But if I buy it, it has to jump to the front of your build que.
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She's a beaut, John! Lovely weathering!
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Rob,
I absolutely love it! The squid is just awesome! Well...it's a fantastic build all round. The squid's mouth, is both terrifying and realistic looking at the same time.
Congrats on a job well done!
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As much as I hope that you get either, or both, I just don't have room. I'm guessing that there are a lot more photos of 17 details than there are of 217 details. The ICM 1/48's are nice kits. But nowhere near the level of detail you guys would expect.
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Smitty, those cockpit details look sharp!
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19 hours ago, DocRob said:
Very nice finish. I can understand what triggers your happyness.
Cheers Rob
Thanks mate!
16 hours ago, BlrwestSiR said:Really nice looking 262 Gaz, especially the mottling.
Carl
Thank you! it'll look even better after a bit of wet sanding.
14 hours ago, smitty44 said:MRP=airbrushing bliss
You got it, Marine! Once you start spraying this, you'll wonder why you open another pot made by somebody else.
2 hours ago, Clunkmeister said:Gazz, that 262 is sublime
Thank you, Ernie!
1 hour ago, Martinnfb said:is that 1/48 scale Revell ?
Yessir, it is. It even had '1978' in raised letters under the belly. But if you have one... Throw it in the bin and buy Tamiya.
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On 4/21/2020 at 6:01 AM, Dekenba said:
I have shown immense self restraint & ordered a total of no kits whatsoever.
None!
(I got one of these instead)
Hi mate, I just looked one of these up here in Australia. I've noticed that the finest grit for sale is 400. That's a bit coarse for my liking as I find myself getting rid of gouges whenever I use anything more coarse than 600 grit. Is the paper the fuzzy backed stuff?
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If Happiness is a warm gun, than close up is getting all of your masks up without paint lift.
Painted with MRP lacquers. Eventually I'll sand the mottle to get rid of some overspray.
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Beautiful!
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Great detailing!
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Anybody build any of these?
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3 minutes ago, biggtim said:
I've had similar happen to me on some planes and ships years ago, and I found after a while it was because I was getting my rigging too tight, whatever the material. The trick is to get it just tight enough that it stays straight, but isn't actually taut enough to play a tune. Now, I've never built one of those giant WWI bombers, and maybe those actually require the rigging to help support those long wings. But in fighters, the wing, glue joint, and strut should be doing most of the work, the rigging just helps out a little. I think with the newer products, which are slightly stretchy, it should be possible to make them look taut without exerting real pressure on the joints. Just my experience, anyway.
One interesting note - the old K5Y Willow biplane kit actually came with STIFF steel wires for rigging, and I mean stiff as hell. Their idea was that all you had to do was glue them in place, and they held themselves straight with no tension at all. It actually wasn't a bad idea, and worked pretty well. Until you bent one!
On the D.III build I'd actually used EZ-line. I've switched to monofilament since. It doesn;t help that the Roden plastic is soft. Still...there's not a lot of space between upper and lower wings for big hands. I wear a large glove, and have never been called graceful/dainty/gifted dexterously. Long tweezers help.
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19 hours ago, harv said:
1970, Utapoa Thailand. Jammer driver extraordinaire. USAF. MMS squadron. Barry knows about it.......hsrv
My father was an armorer too, F-102's in Germany... where he married my mother.
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21 hours ago, Clunkmeister said:
I was thinking Harv could put up a picture of when he was in, posing with Artaxerxes.
Hahaha... I figured that was an age/joke/reference... So I had to look it up. I'm sure he;s not that old!
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21 hours ago, Clunkmeister said:
I had no pics of me (one didn't generally run around taking pictures of oneself) until a couple guys sent me a few. Most were on R&R, but they sent one or two while in uniform. Was a pasty faced cold blooded, no nonsense gut at one time. About a year after this pic was taken, I transferred to a training batallion and did a tour as a DI.
This one was taken in 1982 on a Reforger fun get together. LOL
Great pic! What's the gun in your left hand?
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This is just beyond cool!
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I think that might change with a full fuel load (plus auxiliary tank), and a bellyful of 500 pounders.