Fly-n-hi
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Considering that Che Guevara was from Argentina and he went around sticking his nose in other countries business I don't think I'd be talking. Just sayin.I hope China get's his new J-20 fighter soon, that will make things a bit more balanced out there and the US will have to think a bit more carefully where to get is nose in.
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You're right. I googled UK gun crimes and this was the top site (among many). And it only took about 12 seconds.Utterly, utterly false. The latest crime stats from the UK show that last year;
- Overall crime fell by 4.2%
- Homicide down by 13.8%
- Attempted murder down by 7.6%
- Firearms offences down by 15.8%
A whole 20 seconds typing 'UK crime rates' into Google would have told you the truth.
Vince
You were saying?
Want me to post all the sites? It'll take up alot of room though.
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The idea that "lax" gun laws are to blame is ridiculous and simple minded. The UK, as one of many examples, has some of the most strict "gun laws" and their crime rates are soaring. We live in a country (US) where an estimated 66,000,000 people own guns yet only a handful of them use their guns to commit crimes. Relatively speaking, gun crime in the US is very low. In fact, stats prove over and over that CCW laws reduce crimes in virtually all cases and pro gun communities have lower crime rates as well. One of the reasons the theater massacre, Colombine, VT and the Gabriel Giffords shootings make headlines in the way that they do is because they, in reality, happen very rarely.
Would a CCW holder have been able to stop the Theater Massacre? I don't know. What I do know is that there wasn't one person in that theater who was able to fight back. If you choose to go out into public without the ability to protect yourself then you really can't blame anyone else when you get victimized. At least a CCW could have tried to make a difference. To the guy who said that a CCW holder would have made the situation worse: 12 people are dead and 50 wounded. How do you make that situation worse? Unbelievable.
I think Thomas Jefferson said it best: "I'd rather have complete liberty and accept that some people will abuse that liberty than to not have liberty at all." The bottom line, I hate to say, is that some people are bad and no laws will change that.
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Looks great.
Only thing I noticed was that some decals had silvering. The main offender was the LN decal on the left vertical stabilizer. Looks like the silvering is right along that panel line. Its easy to fix, though. Just poke some holes in the silvering with a new #11 blade and brush some Micro Sol on it and that should work. Same thing with the decal at the front of the left intake.
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Good job! Nice to see another Luke Viper.
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You didn't say what scale but since you asked about the Airfix kit I'm assuming its 1/144. Try these guys: Nazca Decals Scroll to the very bottom and there should be a detail set for the 1/144 737-200.
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Nice work!
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I'd say it looks close to Burnt Umber...maybe a little lighter.
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Yes. Look at the decal sheet instructions. They have a picture to specifically show the ECS vents. Its the 3rd one down.
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Nice work!
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Looks great. The camo and the grey panel marking really make it look busy. I like it.
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Do you take requests? Cause I know about 15 different liveries that people are dying to find...like the 1980's Saul Bass United Airlines DC-10 and the TWA L-1011 Twin Stripes with the correct red color for example
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I've purchased and had good experiences with Joy Decals, too.
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Its definitely gonna be brown...not black.
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That's pretty cool, man!
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Hi guys,
Maybe someone can help me with this. I recently switched to Shutterfly because I was having problems uploading pics to Photobucket. But now I'm having trouble attaching images in my posts. The problem with Photobucket, BTW, is that all of a sudden it doesn't ask me if I trust it to open files on my computer.
Anyway, If I bracket the Shutterfly url with "[ img ]...[ /img ]" I get the message "You are not allowed to use that image extension on this board." (I added the spaces simply to get it to appear). Using the insert image button gives the same message.
If I add ".jpg" to the end of the url I get this:
How do I get the full size image to appear?
This is the link:
Ok, I figured it out.
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Nice work!
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I think overall you did a really good job on this. I like the discoloration on the fuselage an it looks pretty spot on.
One thing I did notice right away (sorry if it was already pointed out) is that the decals on the tail are not level with the ground or rather they are not level with the longitudinal axis of the plane (pic #3). My guess is that maybe you applied the CO banner first and it was just slightly higher in the front which caused you to place the remaining decals at the same angle.
You might be able to fix it. I've had decal issues where I simply took a soft brush, continuously dipped it in water and brushed it over the decal that I wanted to move. Then as it begins to lift a bit you can very gently start to work the brisltes under the decal. You gotta be slow, patient and light handed but it does work.
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2 things:
1. On my last build I polished the canopy, masked it, painted it and then dipped it in Future. I liked this because It allowed me to handle the canopy without having to worry about messing up the Future. After I dipped the completed canopy on the Future I just hand brushed some flat over the framing. It was really easy to do. If you mess it up just spray it with Windex and do it over. The catch is that you can't use paint that dissolves in Windex to paint the canopy.
2. On my current two builds I polished the canopies with a polishing kit (3200, 3600, 4000, 6000, 8000 and 12000 grit sanding cloth) then I polished them out with the Novus polishing system. The canopies look as clear as if they had been dipped in Future thus I was able to skip the Future dip altogether. In fact, the canopies were so smooth that the Future (and Micro Mask) was having a difficult time sticking to the canopy (yeah...for some reason I tried to dip them in Future). It looked like it was separating in spots.
On more than one occasion I've had the tape damage the Future because I wet sanded the model to smooth out the paint and the masking tape got wet...which softened up the Future underneath.
Most of my canopies have been dipped in Future but the Novus system worked so well that I might just stick to the Novus system from now on.
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Looks great! What colors did you use? They look really good.
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What scale? Are the welsh kits 1/72?
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Can we say "zombie thread?"
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Thanks alot for the nice words guys. This is somewhat special to me since my father flew 727s for TWA.
Jay, the decals are a set from a company called Nazca. They have detail sets for several kinds of planes in different scales.
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Hi guys. Here's my latest build. It's the 1/200 Hasegawa Boeing 727-200 OOB with TWA decals and scratch antenna and rotating beacon. Hope you enjoy it.
MOONSCAPE
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Those remind me of the LEGO base boards.