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Steve, are sets 1 and 3 still available? Larry

Can anyone help me?

I feel your pain Kostucha. Same kit same level of progress. All the painting was done and it was sitting on the dining room table, only surface big enough to hold it, waiting for decals and weathering and final details. The cats got on the table and started fighting. They knocked it off and I caught it by the wing tip. Only one dive brake broke off. Chased the cats away and put it back. Well cats will be cats and I didn't catch it the second time. I have another tho and like any other model that got broke, I will apply what I learned and try again. Larry

Stew, I actually bought a few Podracers for greeblies. If you a set of actual decals would be better than a scan, PM your address and I'll pop em in an envelope and mail them to you. I will mail them next Monday as they are probably in the garage at the new place we are moving to and I am taking the rest of our possessions up Saturday so I'll get them then. Let me know.

I want that 1/48th scale Gunstar REALLY bad but I've heard nightmare stories about ordering from MIM.

Hasegawa 2003 new tool. Building it now and it goes together like a dream (so far).

artoor_k, I love what you've done so far. I esepcially like the turret housing in the stern. It blends the old saling ship/sci-fi elements nicely. I also plan to tackle such a project one day with a cheap Lindberg sailing ship. I plan to have massive lift generators in the ventral hull, fusion reactor housing bulge, partticle beam canon all on a wooden ship with canvas sails.

Lucas, Awesome work! I like 1/144th myself and appreciate the work you did on the Raiden. I'm bookmarking this page for the trees as well. Awesome. Two points if suggestion: The sand really looks out of scale. In this scale I would probably use plaster since the grain would be near invisible. At least I would use something finer like popcorn salt. Second, from a diorama point of view, the canopy being closed with no pilot I can see (or is there one in there?) puts a plot hole in the story. If he bailed, the canopy would be open or gone. I have a Sweet P-51B that is nearly finished

Bare Metal Foil makes a gold sheet.

Here are some pictures (courtesy of yours truly) posted at Starship Modeler. http://www.starshipmodeler.com/events/ihobby_2008.htm

To expound on what MadMake said, with respect, Mechwarrior was specifically the role-playing aspect for the wargame Battletech game, so that you could fight your mech in Battletech and then go buy parts and have a life outside of the cockpit in Mechwarrior. Very limited if you ask me. We played it for a while but geared towards fighting a mech it was not very adaptable for other aspects of that very interesting future setting. So we switched to HERO's system and had a lot more fun. Why the Video Game series took the name Mechwarrior when it only has aspects of Battletech, meaning no ouside

I confess I am a Battletech fan. I did it for 10 years. Been out of it for another 13 years but it still fascinates me and I plan to model several 35th scale kits from the series. I have a garage kit in 35th scale of the Vulture, the Horizon vinyl kit of the Madcat and paper kit plans for several scratchbuilds I plan to make including the Bushwacker below Here is the "right center and left torso" and "head" nearly done except for the roof and some finishing. It has a lit cockpit and working motor to turn a cooling fan in the butt. The cockpit is various parts and a seat I made from stock

Well my Modeling ADD hit again. Probably a hundred models started in some form or another and I start another, nearly as soon as I got it. My wife said I could have this as soon as the tax refund hit the bank so the day it was due I was calling her every 15 minutes, having her check the bank online till she said "GO!" and I ordered this from MDC in England. Only took two weeks to arrive. These are the first progress pics, about 4.5 hours of work here and there since I got it. The box and parts: The wheel wells completed: Closeup: Will post more as I go. It's my first serious mul

Okay, been a bit while I was occupied with a Snowspeeder Diorama, a Captain Harlock Arcadia and a Post Apocalyptic VW Beetle (I had ADD with regard to modeling) I got some more work done on the Thunderbolt. Fuselage together and wow I am a lousy modeler cuz I had seams and ledges and massive canyons (at the wing roots) and everyone says this kit fits wonderfully. I dunno.... Here I am adding a Eduard belt to the seat and the Flaps need some filing and filling: Here is the engine and the as foretold - PITA cowl. I wired the engine but now I see a missed a cylinder - oh well: And her

Oh sure what the heck! I was just staring at this 1/32nd Lysander that's been calling to me and now I know why - Matchbox groupbuild! So as I always say in these things, sure I'll starta model and fail to finish it :wacko:

Long time no post but it's nearly done. It went to the Nationals but I wasn't fully happy with it. I forgot to bring my two vac canopies I made with my Mattel so I tried to shape a battery blister pack and it looked okay. So I have to replace the canopy plus I had to scrape the antenna wire because it took like 20 tries to attach it and there was too much CA on the tail and mast. So here are more in progress shots as I vac a new canopy and try the radio wire again. And again, totally scratchbuilt cockpit which no one can see now and dropped flaps and elevators.

Thanks for all the comments and advice, guys! No updates just yet. I just did some minor things like gluing the fuselages halves together and the wings to the fuselage. Everyone talks about the great fit of this kit. I must be doing something wrong. I have a ledge on the bottom of the fuselage and both wings have some gap-age where they meet the wing root. I also got two bombs glued together, the wheels, the centerline no bump tank and one stabilizer. The plane is wedged between two books right now so the stabilizer dries straight. Hagar, I'm building on of the kit planes, Eagleston's

I've started the Thunderbolt, despite a hundred other projects being started, on the premise that it's a great kit out of the box and will need a minimum of extra work to make look good. I just want to actually finish somethign and not go crazy like this P-51B in 1/144th scale I've dropped flaps, scratched a cockpit, ran brake lines and am currently vacuforming a canopy to pose open. The cockpit is done. All I've added here is an actuator from the throttle to where it will be hidden under the instrument panel. I also plan to get a belt in the seat. Heading to the LHS to get a PE one tom

Randy! I hope I caught you in time. Unless you are building gear up or using the kit supplied stand, put some weight in the niose. It's not a tail sitter, but it is perfectly baalcned and rocks. The front landing strut doesn't rest on the ground flat. Jon and I had this problem.

Here is another shot of Jon's awesome Y-Wing. I should see Jon this weekened so with his permission, of course, I'll get some more shots including the vane modifications he did. Mine is done but unpainted and not modified. I may have to revisit but Jon and I are trying to make a deadline for a group project the two of us are doing.

More pics. Hard to get in there with the camera to see everything, like the control stick but... Seat Left sidewall Right From above Pictures show a little touching up to take care of but I am ready to start painting.

Yes, sadly I made a mistake. It's the Hurricane, not the Spit. They do have the Seaking and the Macchi 200, tho. The kit seems very accurate externally, only missing one panel line on the upper wings that I can see on my reference - Squadron Signal: Allison Engined Mustangs Walk Around. Here are some more pics - paint is needed yet. A better view of the scratchbuilt intrument panel Left sidewall Right sidewall (so far) The seat - thinned sides and some bits in the bottom It's hard to work on the cockpit with the seat fitting so snugly. I plan to represent what I can, like

At the Region 5 convention this year I picked up the Sweet 1/144th P-51B twin pack, having bought their F-4F kit with the kittykat deck crew (I'm a sci fi modeler primarily) last year. I fell in love with that little kit, how easily it went together and how nice it was for being so far from my normal scale of 1/32nd, even though it has taught me not to wash enamels with oils thinned with turpenoid. The wash (or the enamels it messed with) never dried and attracted every cat hair in the house (we have 5 cats). So anyways, I got the P-51Bs as I love the Sweet kits and the Stang is my second f

Konley, I love your Stuka. Always loved the snake markings that came with the old Revell kit. Wanted to let you know if you have Wal-Mart's nearby (or eBay) 21st Century Toys makes a plastic kit of the Stuka B in 32nd scale thatc omes with the snake decals. If you still want a big one, it's available and cheap (under $10 USD) LG Johnson

I saw the bird there (I was working the Iwata Make and Take area all weekend) and drooled till they called security. The Stevensons' guy told me just it was just around the corner. I've wanted the Intruder, or the Prowler, in 32nd forever! Now we will have both becuase we know Trumpeter will give us the kit again with a different cockpit - but the same wings.