Recent content by RobTACP

Yes Yes Yes. As a forward air controller, I've got a lot of time working on the battlefield with these guys and have been hunting for a good AC -130 model. Thanks for that link, I might have missed it.

Hi John, Welcome, I'm pretty new here too. I just moved to the Seattle area from Portland last summer. They are always comparing/contrasting the two places, now I'm experiencing them both. We liked Portland a lot but have to give points to this area for being next to the water.

Zathros, I'm retired Mil and I'll give you points for that as I have spent many a day against a Black Hawk bulkhead (and my grandmother worked for many many years at Sikorsky on the admin side).

Wow, that's great! You make it look so easy ...but I know better.

Welcome, I'm pretty new here too. This is a great place to learn from some really inspiring folks. I thought it would be pretty obvious - cut, fold, glue, how hard can that be? But then I looked at the great models out there and then thought this is insane, no way. But I'm picking up some great...

Wow, very nice. I am very interested in the 1/1 weapons as it provides some relatively inexpensive wallhangers. Though I am warming up on 1/1 weapons with a sci-fi rifle (Aliens M41A1) I am eager to do some models of actual weapons, L85 among them. Some of the folks I have had the oppotunity...

I also needed A4 size paper and through one of the forums somewhere came across Borden & Riley #234 Paris Bleedproof Paper for Pens $8.95 for 40 sheets on dickblick.com. It is 108lb and I'm too new to tell you where that lies in the realm of things but it seems in between my regular paper my...

Hmm, being about the same age, I *think* I remember the scene...

Thanks for the encouragement, guys. And Astro, that's not a hijack, that's inspiration - as well as some helpful advice. I'm working on the pistol grip now and it's a bear. I agree on the ink usage, I went and added a CISS to my Goodwill-find Epson and it is working great. The Facehugger was a...

So I warmed up with a three inch model of the Aliens APC before starting on this, learned the hard way on the APC about the basics of edging, gluing, cutting, etc and started in on this bugger...

Thanks for the welcome. I have been busy reading many of the posts - some for tips, techniques, warnings, some just for inspiration. I look forward to putting up some pics...

I'm a retired US Air Force guy who thought some of the unique papercraft models would offset working on plastic models. After warming up with the "Aliens" APC, I started on the 1/1 scale M41 pulse rifle from the same movie. Whoops, so much for crawl, walk, run... With a few 'learning...