baronred3

Im looking for a 1/32 vacuform kit at a great price, I know there are some sitting gathering dust out there ! Im seeing what you might have to sell. Cheers Baronred3

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Dose anyone have an old 1/72 Lindbergh Betty for sale ? It can be 1/2 built or no box no decal or instructions! Would consider missing parts! Just good and cheap ! Cheers Baronred3

Any one have a spare 1/32 plastic Lewis gun from any kit?

My hurt is rare items: old kits and books. I have old luftwaffe books i couldnt replace at all! Cant wait till they make a machine that will scan a book turn the pages and all. I cant do some books but no time for rest.

anyone who wishes to tell their story put it down here. I lost my model collection of both scratch built models and kits mostly unbuilt bought in the 70s and 80s . It was a theft of my whole storage unit. they said the old caretakers sold the wrong unit. wrong my foot!!!! i had uniforms, medals, art work (my own) and all the models 200+ it still gets me!!!

That's what I think too! out of town modelers,But I can't believe I'm the only local modeler in Myrtle Beach.

it's ED'S HOBBIES in downtown Myrtle Beach

Over thinking! look on your shelf and pull something off! it sounds like you want to experiment with the new paints so just pull one of those kits you have on your shelf and put it together, than spend your time painting! Enjoy! Cheers Baronred3

I feel like the only modeler in the Myrtle Beach area. I see the kits come off the shelf at the hobby shop, but when I try to start a club here i get no response. Check the members on web sites and bang no one from here. So if your around the myrtle beach area please contact me. Charleston area too! Cheers baronred3

I was talking about the U-boat not the zepp!

I'm a bit shocked by the lack of 100th anniversary packaged kits for the great war,something like the old group packs the 3 in one revell kits of the 60s or include mini posters, or something new in kits like the U-20 in 1/72 scale, a zeppelin etc...even just for fun gold plated kits. Lets face it the war to end all wars is unknown (SCARY!) Cheers Baronred3 P.S. the movie industry is just as bad! no movies Well... I am now going to cry while i eat my red baron pizza! LOL!

I'm a bit shocked by the lack of 100th anniversary packaged kits for the great war,something like the old group packs the 3 in one revell kits of the 60s or include mini posters, or something new in kits like the U-20 in 1/72 scale, a zeppelin etc...even just for fun gold plated kits. Lets face it the war to end all wars is unknown (SCARY!) Cheers Baronred3 P.S. the movie industry is just as bad! no movies Well... I am now going to cry while i eat my red baron pizza! LOL!

Mine would be the 60s Airfix 1/72 scale R.E.8. The cockpit edging is very thick,but the struts had large balls in each end to glue in to just as large pits in the wings each strut was by it's self with no way to Aline them! the wings were probably too thick making the plane look heavy. Lots of work to get it to home base!!

We all have a beef about kits! but from beginning to end what was the worst kit you built? Lets hear the horror stories! The older guys need to shake their memories and remember that piece of crap from long ago.Please try not to scare the young ones out there!

Yes! Buy the newer stuff!, I too will buy the better, but I will not be held hostage by high prices.and I'm not talking about the old kits when I talk about people complaning about the kits. instead it's the new kits that people pick at not fitting perfectly. just take that extra step to fix it instead of shelving it.Nothing about old kits here, it's just we had to fix them, so we did!

That's interesting, but lets keep on task about Craftsmanship and the loss of it. I believe it's been replaced with nit pickiness. Modelers trying to make a prototypical aircraft with every bell and whistle that they can get to put on the plane. most of it can't even be seen.Now should I take it to the hobby shop? maybe I missed something on it (some new after market part) Is it up to class? and so on. This is killing the hobby. Because someone can't spend the time on working to improve good and even bad kits. Instead they super detail the plane.these same people put down anyone who's not in t

Yes! Yes! I agree! I have seen kits get bad raps because there OLD SCHOOL, I also see resin kits go for $100 in 1/72 scale, I do one thing that my father showed me and that's scratch building! It's funny to think of the deprogression of the modeler! Back in WWII kids (my dad) would buy or get a free 3-view from uncle SAM, then pick up some wood and a good knife and carve a very nice aircraft. True craftsmanship! Next kits had carved fuselages, you carved the wings. Then came plastics with simple detail and no cockpit. It took putty and tube glue you had to wait over night to dry,Kits got bett

Yes! I so agree with your assessment on the price of kits.I know the kits today are better with more detail and the extra photo etched parts etc. It's all very nice! Maybe?Here are my complaints both of price and the modern attitude in model building. The price of kits. I'm an artist and a teacher and most prices are out of my range. I build mostly 1/32 scale aircraft and $50+. is just too much for a ww2 fighter, and some are quite a bit more. I believe this is one of the reasons new hobbyist are few and far between. companies are pricing the hobby out of the main stream of leisure activ

Yes! when I was living in japan it was different and when i grew up in northern Va. but now I'm in a state were things are diffrent. (Mayberry)! the other is education, most people interested in history and or aircraft move out of the area. My nearest I.P.M.S. is 2 hours away. The one thing that has changed here is the milatry base, it's no longer here,but that was over ten years ago.I know that living in the desert you shouldn't complain about not having water. but I do feel the hobby is not as evenly spread across the population.as it was in the 60s and 70s. We are now a specialized group

My local Hobby shop has been around for forty years ! From a boy to an old man I've seen things come and go.Now I see a heart breaking thing. plastic model kits are being pushed out of the store.Being replaced by Drones and r/c cars (r/c planes just holding on) I do know that web shopping is taking out stores and web sites like this one are the new( shoot the bull place to go),but really! no comparison to going down to the hobby shop were a good crowd would be, just to see whats in the display case and what new kit came in.I asked the owner of the hobby shop if I could bring in some finished

Im looking for a pair of 1/32 lewis guns (thin barreled) for conversion to Japanese.If someone has some spares (oob plastic ones) laying around please contact me. Cheers and thanks Baronred3

Is there any good size kits (1/72,1/48,...) of any World War One Subs or U-Boats? I only know of the vac-u-form ones from Combat Models. With the 100th anniversary of the war, you would think someone would. Any one know of any?

Thanks, Helmsman : Best source is the mothers nipple !

I'm looking in to building a 1/32 su-15 f flagon. I've many sources, but they have a wide deference in the dimensions for the aircraft. can someone tell me the true dimensions for the su-15 f flagon cheers and thanks Baronred3