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    Got Myself a Plane!

    The Postman arrived today with a registered pkg from GPM in Poland and inside was the newest Orlik, the SM 79 Sparviero. Man is this thing pretty big!
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    Old pics

    I was looking a Shoki's Kikka pics and thought with todays simple photo-editors you could retro the pics and make them look loke war photos. I played with a few pics and came up with a couple from the Claude I built, Mike if you'd like to see your kikka pic let me know, I did a couple of yours...
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    Your First

    Everyone has a first. First car, first Love, first cigar etc. If you still have your first card model post em' here. It would be fun to see how we've progressed thru the years, a not too critical eye, sometimes a few laughs, and even a glimpse of some neat subjects that may not be available...
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    Man did we make the right choice!

    I still receive catalogs from that "other medium" and thought this might put a bit of perspective to our craft. The following 3 kits are 1/32 scale on sale at a hobby supplier. Notice that after the large price for the basic kit you still need to "upgrade" them with "detail" kits. And this is...
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    Phabulous Phantom F4B in 1/33

    Hi all. it's been awhile since I posted a thread or have seriously started cutting and folding. I thought I'd start the New Year with my all time phavourite aircraft, the F4 Phantom. Designed by McDonnell-Douglas, taking ideas from thier F3 Demon aircraft and a few new ones they came up witha...
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    Future reverse engineering project

    Hi Guys, I'm testing a few things out and sorry but this site seems the best forum. Quite a few years back when building ships in 1/400 scale, JSC filled my to do pile , I had a bug to try and design my own. Well I picked a pretty easy US destroyer Escort, as the only reference I had was...
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    New downloadable kits from Dr. Zarkov

    Hi guys, Dr Zarkov has 3 new releases on his site, all downloadable of the Soviet bloc Trainer L-29 Delphin. It is available in 3 differant versions, A USSR trainer and Bulgarian trainer in what looks to be simulated bare aluminum finish and a cool Czech Republic bird in a tigerstripe camo...
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    What is possible with paper

    At work, while waiting for results of tests etc. I usually am fiddling with something, mostly my thumbs but at nights it's some sort of card model project. Then the question, is that paper and why? etc . comes up. @-3 years ago when reading Patrick O'Brian, I had to have a sailing ship. I...
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    JSC's Shimakaze-The Hard way

    Hi Guys, Newest project for 2005, is to enlarge JSC's 1/400 scale Shimakaze to 1/250. The basic kit is a gem with a lot of small detail that I thought would stand up to enlarging. The ship herself was an unusual one of a kind. Started in 1941 and commisioned in 1943 with experimental engines...
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    Maly Modelarz Ark Royal restoration project

    Hi All, Currently taking a break from the Z-37 and working on a kit I got off Ebay the Maly Ark Royal. I knew this was going to be a total rework when the "kit" arrived in the mail. Printed @1990 the paper was more burlap and raw wood pulp than anything else. The colors were suspect, and...
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    Wilhelmshaven Destroyer Z-37

    Howdy all, just started a download kit from Wilhelmshaven, the Mod 1936 Narvik destroyer in 1/250 scale. This comes as a PDF/zip file containing 3 instruction sheets (in German), 14 diagrams, 8 main parts and 2 sheets of alternative parts to make up vessels Z32,33,34 37, 38and 39. My German is...
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    Digital Navy's Admirable

    I think I'm getting the hang of pics and posts, I do apologize folks for flooding the site with my attemps at getting this right. My 2nd 1/250. I jazzed the Admirable with 1/200 GPM rails, mostly scratch built/modified 20mms, I shrunk and simplified the 40mm twins from the GPM Saratoga,(which...
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    JSCs 1/400 scale

    Here's a pic of the JSC Graf Spee, rails are Tom's Modelworks 1/400 scale rigging is .3 mm sprue, stand is water color paper painted to look like wood, water is artist's acrylic gel. These are great little kits, medium level of detail , fit was practically perfect, however, looking at the works...
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    Modelik's Yak-23 Flora

    I just recieved a few of the "next generation" Modelik Models and am impressed. The Yak-23 Flora kit is 1:33 scale printed on A4 sized pages. 4 illustrations 1 text (polish), 4 parts @87. The paper is similar to the type that Halinski used on thier F4J model kind of semigloss. The metallic...
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    PModels

    Howdy relatively new to the list accidently posted this to internet finds but PModels from Japan has upgraded thier F104J. This now has a cocpit/interior. It seems if you have the old version the password is still valid for the new one. (technically the misplaced post is free if you have the...
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