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  1. I emailed Giannis directly a few weeks ago about it. mf1.cg81@gmail.com He responded quickly and has communicated at each step of the shipping process. Denzil
  2. If you're doing anything other than a factory fresh machine, or a specific example, an eyeballed colour is going to be close enough for a working ag plane. Chemical, oil and Gas stains rapidly tint the paintwork, and if aircraft were lucky enough to have their paint touched up, itd often be a case of close-enough is good enough. Are you building the Jamo kit? Mines on its way to me and I cant wait!!
  3. I'm very sorry for your loss, mate. You're in my thoughts.
  4. Happy birthday ARC! Glad that I could be a part of it for more than half its life 😄
  5. Looking forward to seeing how this goes together, Modelsvit are bringing out some awesome kits! I should get back to this one:
  6. Keep the family photos and documents. You'll forever regret letting that stuff go and it's something you'll never get back. As has been said above, museums might have anni interest in historical records.
  7. Thanks mate! Shes coming together ok for a rough build. So I had some more good,good times with this build. Whilst touching up some white paint, despite being sealed under a few coats of gloss, some de-tacked, already low-tack masking tape managed to peel the decals clean off the build. Insert rude words. This little kit is fighting, but I can't have a selection of trainers WITHOUT a T28, so the build continues. Xtradecals T28 set is ordered and on its way. In the mean time, the GFactor brass landing gear turned up. THESE are beautiful and ST
  8. What about a factory fresh Mustang? https://www.drawdecal.com/p-51d-mustang/ Seeing these decals availiable, I.might have to procure a Tamiya P51 and have a see what the fuss is about 😄
  9. Decals applied. Throw out the kit decals.and buy some quality aftermarket ones. These ones are as brittle as I've ever seen, shattering upon meeting my delicate gaze, didnt conform and wouldnt sink into panel lines, no matter how much decal set was used. And also they were translucent 😡😡. Also, whilst the stencils were just about legible, I'm pretty sure the instructions calls for most of them to be applied to incorrect locations. Oh well. This ones a shelf sitter, not a competition winner. With all the nose weight in the thing, the scale thickness plastic nose w
  10. I filled in the fuselage with lead tyre weights to prevent from sitting on its tail, but to be on the safe side, I also put some nice fat penny washers behind the engine, on the firewall. This meant removal of the intake piping on the back of the engine, but it wont be seen on the finished model, so no dramas. The nose bowl fit was rather interesting. Out with the coarse sandpaper and plastic sheet. Primer time Black masked off, MRP White, then masked ready for the colour. A home made blend of Tamiya Red and Gunze Flourescent Or
  11. Gday everyone, first build post from me in a LOOOOOONG time. Let's see if I can finish this one! Roden's T-28 came up cheap on internet auction site, and was promptly added to the stash. A current mood mojo of 1/48 trainers saw the trojan making it's way promptly to the bench. The kit is.... rough. Very nice detailing, albeit buried under plenty of flash. HEAVY scribed panel lines, ordinary fit and the decals. Ugh the decals. More on them later. I'm using photo bucket for pic transfer and I'm not sure how the quality of the pics will be on these pages. Com
  12. Yikes, that's a whole lot variance! Fair call. Maybe I'm confusing ICMs D models for being clones of the Tamiya kits. I know I've held the fuselage half of an icm p51 to another manufacturers and they've lined up perfectly. I suppose, at very least, using the ICM kit you could make an accurate model of the restored N51Z "Polar Bear" (or whatever shes been renamed since the paint strip) 😂 Thanks for the heads up!
  13. Is there something wrong with the Accurate Miniatures (and then ICM cloned) A-model mustangs? I thought the A36 went together very well.
  14. Absolutely stashes are normal! Everyone has their own limit in terms of what's acceptable, and as long as you're not doing yourself and financial damage by expanding your stash, wheres the harm? Worst comes to worst, you'll always have something you can sell off if you change your mind or need some $$! D (who stopped counting after 600)
  15. I'm dissapointed that in the years since this thread, there hasn't been another major weathering tecnique to argue about. Have different weathering techniques come to an end!?!? 😂
  16. Yes, I do agree it will happen. I will be suprised if there is a clear cut "no ICEs" limit in our lifetime though. More taxing isnt the way. Incentives to buy EVs are. I absolutely believe government corruption is the stranglehold holding back from further mass progress. To summise peoples dependency on ICE vehicles as purely attachment is ignoring the fact that not everybody can afford an EV. I'd bet a vast majority of people can't afford to have a shiney new EV in their driveway, otherwise they probably would, provided it was a suitable option for them.
  17. Exactly 😂😂😂😂😂😂
  18. That's a wonderful daydream, but doesn't work in reality. Does that mean cities will need to be walled off to keep ICE vehicles out? Will people living within those boundaries be forced by law to have to buy EVs? Where to start with anything that needs transportation by anything bigger than a SUV? It's a lovely theory, and for sure a goal worth having, but the logistics of actually making it work arent going to happen quickly. If governments want it to happen, they need to make it worth the while of the people.
  19. https://newsroom.aaa.com/2019/02/cold-weather-reduces-electric-vehicle-range/ I am for EVs, under the right circumstances. If you live and commute in a city, then perfect, EVs are exactly the right idea: quiet, reduced pollution etc, but for those of us who DONT live in the city limits, who DO need a range of more than a few hundred miles in one sitting, who DO live where the temperature sits at -30/40°F for weeks/months at a time, an EV is nowhere near suitable. Yet. I lived in a town in Australia where the next nearest town was an 8 hour drive away. And that's not 8
  20. Absolutely beautiful, Ken! I really enjoy the way you tear through these less common kits! Denzil
  21. Fantastic! That looks beautiful 😄
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