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Offline bozon

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Re: Model Airplanes
« Reply #15 on: July 21, 2011, 07:54:18 AM »
Quote from: phatzo on July 21, 2011, 01:00:08 AM
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Re: Model Airplanes
« Reply #16 on: July 21, 2011, 10:22:37 AM »
This is where I get all of mine :http://www.squadron.com/hotdeals.htm
I do mostly Academy and Revell 1:48 and 1:72.
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Re: Model Airplanes
« Reply #17 on: July 21, 2011, 02:02:46 PM »
Quote from: phatzo on July 21, 2011, 12:58:52 AM
I buy all mine on e-bay and only buy bargains, as a result I,ve built stuff I normally wouldn't build and have a backlog of $5 to $10 models to work through. Its the cost of paint that kills me.

My stash built up over the  years is about 200 kits.  I don't think I've finished one since I found Airwarrior however back in 1996.  Kinda sad really :)
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Re: Model Airplanes
« Reply #18 on: July 21, 2011, 02:14:56 PM »
:rofl Mind sending me a few? I've got a B-17 cutaway on the go right now...
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Re: Model Airplanes
« Reply #19 on: July 21, 2011, 02:24:14 PM »
I'm guessing off the top of my head I prolly have at least 200 unbuilt mostly 1/48 scale mostly WW2 aircraft kits all boxed up in my house where the temps are relatively constant. I pretty much had all the cheap monograms and revells and was starting to acquire the more high dollar ones when I stopped buying them. Bet I haven't bought a kit since the early 90s. Have an air brush and all manner of files and exacto knives known to mankind. When I had kids I had to put them away for safety. For both the kits and the kids :D. Got onto flying online and the modelling hobby I figure will come back to me eventually. And naturally now my eyes are startin to go bad. Dang you late forties! Fortunately I have one of those big lighted magnifiers that clips on the end of a table for just such an emergency.
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Re: Model Airplanes
« Reply #20 on: July 21, 2011, 02:31:38 PM »
Quote from: Guppy35 on July 21, 2011, 02:02:46 PM
My stash built up over the  years is about 200 kits.  I don't think I've finished one since I found Airwarrior however back in 1996.  Kinda sad really :)

LOL Dan! Not quite as bad for me, I only have a few dozen kits stacked on top of my computer armoire and desk in my office, but I'm a bit like you in the actual time spent... since discovering AH in March '09 I have completed exactly one kit, 1:48 scale P-38 "Arkansas Traveler".....

On top of my desk right now in front of me are 1:48 Academy P-47D, Hasegawa P-38J "Virginia Marie", Tamiya A6M5c, Hobby Craft La-7, Revell P-40E, F4U-4, P-51D, and Spitfire Mk II, ICM Yak-7DI/Yak-9(early)...... and a bunch more in the closet..... someday I'll have time.....

Not quite as cool as doing it yourself, but I picked up a few 1:32 and 1:18 WWII birds off e-bay, 21st Century Toys "Soldier of Fortune" stuff...









My son's room... I'da killed for that room when I was his age!
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Offline Shane

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Re: Model Airplanes
« Reply #21 on: July 21, 2011, 04:51:20 PM »
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I remember buying a Cox 049 plane/engine/battery combo on a blister pack at the "great miami air race" in the early 70s.



I did too, a p-39, but not early 70's  :noid    i, uhhh... kind of... FOD... <mutters about who put the tether ball pole there?>  it wasn't pretty.
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Re: Model Airplanes - AH project challenge
« Reply #22 on: July 21, 2011, 04:59:34 PM »
Y'all who have kits and experience, why not make a list and pick one plane or GV that matches up with an AH offering (including a current skin, preferrably).  1:76 1:72 1:48 1:32 1:35 1:1 even!

Then send to the Offices?

Anyone up for it?

<Runs to check existing built kits to see if I have anything already done, or strip and repaint/mark one.  :noid >















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Offline STXAce8

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Re: Model Airplanes
« Reply #23 on: July 21, 2011, 05:03:31 PM »
Quote from: Drano on July 21, 2011, 02:24:14 PM
I'm guessing off the top of my head I prolly have at least 200 unbuilt mostly 1/48 scale mostly WW2 aircraft kits all boxed up in my house where the temps are relatively constant. I pretty much had all the cheap monograms and revells and was starting to acquire the more high dollar ones when I stopped buying them. Bet I haven't bought a kit since the early 90s. Have an air brush and all manner of files and exacto knives known to mankind. When I had kids I had to put them away for safety. For both the kits and the kids :D. Got onto flying online and the modelling hobby I figure will come back to me eventually. And naturally now my eyes are startin to go bad. Dang you late forties! Fortunately I have one of those big lighted magnifiers that clips on the end of a table for just such an emergency.
Do you have a dual action airbrush you arent using anymore?  :D
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Offline Nypsy

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Re: Model Airplanes
« Reply #24 on: July 21, 2011, 05:10:37 PM »
In 1965, when I was in 7th grade wood shop we cut, carved and sanded wooden Zeros and 109's from WW2 War Department drawings. Back during the war the models were used as plane identification aids for young pilots.

I am so old.  :old:

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Re: Model Airplanes
« Reply #25 on: July 21, 2011, 10:37:06 PM »
Quote from: Reaper90 on July 21, 2011, 02:31:38 PM
LOL Dan! Not quite as bad for me, I only have a few dozen kits stacked on top of my computer armoire and desk in my office, but I'm a bit like you in the actual time spent... since discovering AH in March '09 I have completed exactly one kit, 1:48 scale P-38 "Arkansas Traveler".....

On top of my desk right now in front of me are 1:48 Academy P-47D, Hasegawa P-38J "Virginia Marie", Tamiya A6M5c, Hobby Craft La-7, Revell P-40E, F4U-4, P-51D, and Spitfire Mk II, ICM Yak-7DI/Yak-9(early)...... and a bunch more in the closet..... someday I'll have time.....

Not quite as cool as doing it yourself, but I picked up a few 1:32 and 1:18 WWII birds off e-bay, 21st Century Toys "Soldier of Fortune" stuff...

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My son's room... I'da killed for that room when I was his age!

LOL I've got a 1/18th Red Tail hanging from the ceiling of my little guys room now and two diecast Red Tails, a 51C and 51D along with the Red Tail framed print and the IWM print of 4 Spit Vb Trops that I had on my wall, then my oldest sons wall.  I think part of the joy of being this much of an addict is you get to do your kids rooms up right in airplanes :)

My oldest son and I built lots of models, again right up until Airwarrior arrived and then we tapered off.  Half done Hasegawa F4EJ still waiting Airfix Hurricane I, Hobbycraft Spit XIV, Hobbycraft 109G6 and a Tamiya Panzer III.  All half done. I've bought a few models since Airwarrior but never quit find the time to make it happen.  I figure with the little guy I'm prepared for when he's old enough :)
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Re: Model Airplanes
« Reply #26 on: July 21, 2011, 10:39:02 PM »
Quote from: Reaper90 on July 21, 2011, 02:31:38 PM
My son's room... I'da killed for that room when I was his age!

I'd kill for that room now!
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Re: Model Airplanes
« Reply #27 on: July 22, 2011, 12:43:12 PM »
That was a cool show. I couldn't stop watching it once I started this morning.
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Re: Model Airplanes
« Reply #28 on: July 22, 2011, 10:10:41 PM »
Workin on an F-14 right now and I have a SBD to do later
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Re: Model Airplanes
« Reply #29 on: July 22, 2011, 10:18:36 PM »
Quote from: Reschke on July 22, 2011, 12:43:12 PM
That was a cool show. I couldn't stop watching it once I started this morning.

You should watch some of the others in that James May series.  Even the one about the clay flowers is fun to watch.
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