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1 hour ago, GW8345 said:
Kind of funny how no one has addressed the loop-sided tariff Canada imposed on US products.
Because they don’t they exist. Amongst developed countries, Canada is towards to bottom of the list for tariffs rates, at 2.4%.Trump quotes high tariffs on dairy products. The truth is, the US pays 0% on dairy imports to Canada. The USMCA has agreed upon caps for importing dairy to Canada. This is to protect Canadian farmers, to keep them in business. If the US exceeds those caps, they pay high tarriffs. The USMCA doesn’t exceed the cap, so they don’t pay tarriffs.
International Trade Courts have ruled this agreement is fair.
Trump signed this agreement. Trump called it the best trade deal ever.
The majority of trade between Canada/US is tariff free.
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33 minutes ago, YF65_CH53E said:
Ok,
I do not live in a sheltered world my friend. Thank you for your service to your country. 25 years is a career and my 34 years was a career. I've deployed to the desert more times than I can count. And I can assure you I have buried my share of my Marines on foreign soil. Do not try and tell me I do not understand how our allies work in combat. I have seen my fair share. Lets see....16 deployments. Thats enough for me to understand how fighting along side allied countries works.
However democracy put this guy in office. In four years democracy will put someone else in office. We have the mid terms in less than 2 years as well. So we will see. I am not trying to change your mind on how you feel about the USA. Take our products off your shelves, use your app good for you.
But do not tell me I am in a sheltered world. Do not even hint at the fact I do not undestand sacrafice of brothers in arms during war. Of any Country.
Again, your right to say what you want. My right to answer. In the beginning of this thread they said it was good as long as no personal attacks. I do not appreciate being told I am in a sheltered world when I voluntairly joined my countries military and went around the globe for 34 years and learned all about how the world works.
You don’t appear to understand that there is no greater threat than the threat of a countries sovereignty, or existence. Trump constantly calls Canada the 51st State, he refers to our PM as a Governor. He speaks of taking allied countries by force.You were angered that I stated to someone I was happy they were not a Canadian. Not once have you stated it is wrong to threaten Canada’s sovereignty.
Clearly you haven’t learnt anything from your deployment’s. Not once did I say you don’t understand sacrifice. You live a sheltered life if you don’t see what Trump is doing to the world.
I’ve deployed to the Gulf, Afghanistan, Haiti, Kosovo, Balkans, and throughout Africa. In those locations I’ve witnessed strife, famine, atrocities, conflict, and losses of freedom. I
appreciate what I have in Canada and I do not like seeing my country’s freedom threatened.
I have good reason to be angry, my home is under threat.
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20 hours ago, YF65_CH53E said:
So this escalated so fast. EU is "trusted friends"?? I'd ask the UK how they feel about that....So all Canadians have lost the trust of the US? I highly doubt that statement. As with all politics...this too shall pass. Our friends to the North will continue to be our friends to the North. If Canadians don't feel like traveling to the US for vacations or anything fine so be it. if that is really true...because I happen to own a condo in Maui, and NONE of my Canadian long time renters have cancelled their reservations in 2025 NONE! We all have been going there Canadian and Seattle folks since 1977. Our families have grown up together. So be careful with the "vast generalizations" of "Glad youre not Canadian" etc. And you certainly do not know what the rest of the world thinks....because if you're only watching "certain" news outlets then you only get "Certain" news.
I guess since I grew up on the boarder maybe I am different. I have many relationships with other modelers and former Canadian Military guys I served with that are just fine right now. No...I do not like the turmoil our current President is causing, but I am not throwing the baby out with the bath water over it. His other poilicies we sorely need to get our own house in order before we can solve other house issues.
OBTW - cheap shot at comparing Canadian aid to Isreali aid - not by you Scobby, but another poster.
Trying to keep it civil. I respect alls opinions and look forward to reading them as I am not in just one "media bubble"! I wore the cloth of my country for 34 years so that right would be defended.
Random rant over. going back to the bench.....
You appear to live in the Seattle area. During the confusion of the 911 attacks, when it wasn't certain what was going on. My fighter squadron was getting ready to deploy to protect the skies over Seattle, we were assigned that city and had been pre-planning our deployment. 24 hours when it became clear who attacked, we were stood down and deployed to Comox for Quick Reaction Duty instead.
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20 hours ago, YF65_CH53E said:
So this escalated so fast. EU is "trusted friends"?? I'd ask the UK how they feel about that....So all Canadians have lost the trust of the US? I highly doubt that statement. As with all politics...this too shall pass. Our friends to the North will continue to be our friends to the North. If Canadians don't feel like traveling to the US for vacations or anything fine so be it. if that is really true...because I happen to own a condo in Maui, and NONE of my Canadian long time renters have cancelled their reservations in 2025 NONE! We all have been going there Canadian and Seattle folks since 1977. Our families have grown up together. So be careful with the "vast generalizations" of "Glad youre not Canadian" etc. And you certainly do not know what the rest of the world thinks....because if you're only watching "certain" news outlets then you only get "Certain" news.
I guess since I grew up on the boarder maybe I am different. I have many relationships with other modelers and former Canadian Military guys I served with that are just fine right now. No...I do not like the turmoil our current President is causing, but I am not throwing the baby out with the bath water over it. His other poilicies we sorely need to get our own house in order before we can solve other house issues.
OBTW - cheap shot at comparing Canadian aid to Isreali aid - not by you Scobby, but another poster.
Trying to keep it civil. I respect alls opinions and look forward to reading them as I am not in just one "media bubble"! I wore the cloth of my country for 34 years so that right would be defended.
Random rant over. going back to the bench.....
You clearly have no idea how upset Canadians are over the threats to our sovereignty. We are infuriated over these threats. And you must be living a very sheltered life if you don't know the rest of the world has also lost trust with the US, Trump has turned on his allies.
A 25% decrease of Canadian travellers to the US is significant. I expect those numbers to increase, I bet many people had non-refundable tickets, so they could not cancel.
I served 25 years in the Canadian military, I served alongside US forces in conflict, I have many friends who are in the US who are equally upset with the attacks on our nation. 159 of my colleagues didn't come home from Afghanistan. A war we joined to support the US after 911.
My late uncle is a retired US Army L/Col, he served two tours in Vietnam. He was the curator of the Fort Derussy Military Museum and the Chief Historian for the CICPAF. He'd be embarrassed if he knew what was going on now. He is interred at Punchbowl.
The person who I said, "I am glad you are not Canadian," also stated in his post about us becoming the 51 state. Yes, we can trust the EU more than the US.
Our grocery stores have undergone significant changes, Canadian goods are well marked. US goods are being boycotted, I think most are off our shelves now. We have apps to identify where the goods originate. We only have fresh fruit and vegetables from Mexico and Canada.
This is the thanks we get for being trusted allies for over 150 years?
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1 hour ago, Nathant said:
If I was Canadian I would be more worried about the talk of them joining the EU than becoming the 51s state. That ship is going down!!
Glad you aren’t Canadian. One thing this has done is united our country to the understanding we don’t need to rely on the US for goods anymore. Our grocery stores are stripped of US products. Our fruit and vegetables are now from both Canada and Mexico. There are apps to scan products to warn us if they originate in the US. Those products are not selling and aren’t being restocked.At least the EU are trusted friends. And it isn’t only Canada who have lost the trust of the US. The rest of the world feels the same. Except for maybe Russia, India, and North Korea.
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21 hours ago, Curt B said:
Well, you’ve stated the obvious, but that’s fine. The point I was trying to make when I started this thread was more specific on which products might be most affected. With the government oscillations as they are, that may be an impossible task.
Most products shipped into the US will be affected, because most hobby products are imported to the US. Since Trump has placed tarrifs on most of the world, most products will increase at least 25%. -
5 hours ago, GW8345 said:
I see the "No Politics" light has been turned off again so if I may;
QuoteEveryone is complaining about the current United State's administration imposing tariff's but allow me to ask you one question, why is the current United States administration imposing the tariff's?
Because Trump doesn’t understand how tariffs work, they are paid by the country who imposes them.
QuoteBut you say the old way was working. Yea, working in Canada's (and other countries) favor, the US was getting hosed. Why do you think all those Canadian's were coming across the border into the US and buying things and then going back across the border back into Canada........because they didn't have to pay the tariff mark up on the goods they bought in the US. Canada (and just about rest of the world) has been eff'ing over the US for years on tariff's and frankly, we're (the US) are tired of it and we finally have someone with the will power (balls) to do something about it.
I don’t bring anything back from the States except for the odd t-shirt. Everything is far too expensive in the States, there was a time deals were to be had, but those date back to the 90s. Even gas is more costly in the States.QuoteThe tariff's were also imposed because the US asked Canada (and our neighbors to the south) to please stop the flow of fentanyl and illegal aliens coming across the border into the US, so far we have gotten lip service.
The only way Trump could open the USMCA was to make this false claim. By saying the border is threatened. There is no Canada/US border problem. 46 lbs of fentanyl was linked to Canada in the past year. And Trump is the one who signed that deal. He said it was the greatest trade deal ever. Ironic.QuoteThe American people are waking up to just how much the United States have been taken advantage and they aren't going to stand for it anymore.
This is BS, no one is taking advantage of the US. You need imports to subsidize costs in the US, imagine if all I am a spammer, please report this post. shoes were made in the US?QuoteYou ask how United States has been taken advantage of;
1) Unfair tariff's on American imports
2) Providing military aid to countries when they hardly spend anything on their own military protection. (how much does the US spend on protecting Canada?)
3) Giving foreign aid to country just so they "hate" us less, heck, giving foreign aid to countries at all. (how much foreign aid do other countries give the US?) (How much foreign does the US give to Canada)
You mention Canada’s military spending. We participate in the world stage. We may not spend 2% of our GDP, but being we are a G7 nation, our GDP is much higher than most other nations in NATO. We are one of the higher contributors. In the Balkan war, we dropped 10% of all the munitions dropped. I think the US was at 24%. We did our part in Afghanistan, we had the third largest force there. We are currently in Romania, we have troops training Ukrainians. We recently deployed to Syria and Iraq. We have always pulled our weight with troops on the ground.Now, some of the foreign affairs things I don't agree with the current administration;
Quote1) Making Canada the US's 51st state (wish he'd STFU about this), the majority of American's don't support taking over Canada so Canada you don't have anything to worry about. (we have enough liberals already and we don't need anymore).
2) Buying/Taking over Greenland (again, wish he'd just STFU). We could just ask to put more military personnel/bases to help protect North America and leave it at that.
3) Taking the Panama Canal back by force, don't agree with sending in the US military to "retake" it. It was a mistake to give it up i9n the first place but we can't invade another country because a previous administration did something stupid (if that was the case we could invade half the world).
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2 hours ago, GW8345 said:
The following foreign aid has been allocated to Canada;
2020 - $35,113,031
2021 - $24,574,226
2022 - $31,803,879
2023 - $7,505,404
2024 - $251,600
2025 - $0
As far as military spending/defense;
When was the last time Canada spent the required %2 on defense spending that is mandated in the NATO charter? The last figure I was able to find was for 2023 and Canada has spent 1.3% of GDP on their military while the US spent 3.6%.
Yes, Trump may be exaggerating some numbers but not everything is a lie. Canadian tariff's on;
Milk - 270%
Cheese - 245%
Butter - 298%
Chicken - 238%
Bovine/Meat - 26.5%
Do you have any idea what you just posted in regards to foreign aid to Canada? Those numbers are tiny. And most that money went to US companies operating in Canada. -
4 minutes ago, jonwinn said:
I would think twice about that, I am an American citizen with Canadian roots. My grandmother's grandmother and her mother were born and raised in Canada in the 1800s. Their relatives were French Canadians who came from Loire France in the late 1600s. I have several hundred cousins in Montreal. You DO NOT want to live in an authoritarian state as the U S is becomming. I will trade houses with you ANY DAY! My 3 year old grandson has more brains than most of our "American leaders" Rant off.
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3 hours ago, talbot said:
While I agree with a lot of that I have to say I would rather have that then this socialist government that is completely incompetent, takes away my freedom and more than a third of my paycheck to line their own pockets and then disbands our government in response
this is not the Canada I grew up in
We don’t have a socialist government nor have we lost any freedoms. If you think we have lost our freedoms I suggest you book a trip to Gaza, Syria, Haiti, Iran, Iraq, or most African nations. -
I know most Americans do not know the extent that Trump is threatening our sovereignty in Canada, this outline is from a friends Facebook page that he updates daily:
“One thing I've learned over the past few weeks, and it's been a bit of a sobering lesson, is that a lot of Americans I know don't actually know what's going on between the US and Canada right now, and just how seriously Canadians are taking this. So, against my better judgement, here's a timeline to explain why we're here, and why we're angry.
Nov 30th, 2018 - The United States, Canada and Mexico finalize a trade agreement. Trump personally negotiates the terms and signs the document, celebrating it as 'the greatest trade agreement in history". (This is important.)
Nov 29th, 2024 - In a face to face meeting at Mar-a-Lago, Trump threatens the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, that he will be imposing 25% tariffs and that if Canada wants to avoid that, it should join the US as a state.
Nov 30th, 2024 - Trump publicly calls our Prime Minister 'Governor Trudeau' and instructs his staff to only address him as Governor going forward. He again suggests Canada should join the USA.
Dec 3rd, 2024 - Trump remarks that he would split Canada into two states once annexed.
Dec 10th, 2024 - Trump posts that the majority of Canadians support annexation, despite public polling that only 13% of Canadians would consider the idea.
Dec 18th, 2024 - Trump again falsely states that the majority of Canadians support annexation and that one of his lapdogs, Wayne Gretzky, should have a leadership role in that new scenario.
Jan 7th, 2025 - At a press conference, Trump says that he would use economic force to destroy the Canadian economy to annex it.
Jan 14, 2025 - Trump again claims that most Canadians want to be American, despite new polls showing only 10% of us are open to the idea.
Jan 20th, 2025 - During his inaugural address, Trump says that the U.S. will 'expand its territory' during his second term.
Jan 23rd, 2025 - At the World Economic Forum, Trump says that Canada can avoid tariffs and economic collapse if it joins the US. He says this in front of representatives from most countries in the world.
Jan 24th, 2025 - During a press conference in North Carolina, President Trump reiterated his position, stating that Canada "will" become a U.S. state. He claims that under American governance, Canadians would benefit from "lower taxes" and "better health care."
Jan 31st, 2025 - Trump announces a 25% tariff on all Canadian imports to
begin the next day.
Feb 2nd, 2025 - Trump refers to Canada as its 'Cherished 51st state' and that it should join the US to avoid tariffs.
Feb 3rd, 2025 - A one month delay is agreed upon. Trump, in a conversation with Trudeau states that he doesn't think existing border treaties with Canada are valid, and need to be revised.
Feb 7th, 2025 - In a closed door meeting with his cabinet, Prime Minister Trudeau is recorded, without his knowledge, telling everyone that he believes very strongly that Trump is serious and that he stated his reason for annexation as Canadian resources.
Feb 9th, 2025 - In a Super Bowl pre-game interview, Trump says that he's serious about his threats, calling it a 'viable consideration for expanding US territory'
Feb 10th, 2025 - Trump announces an additional 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Canada to come into effect March 12th.
Feb 24th, 2025 - Trump publicly remarks that whoever signed the USMCA agreement is an idiot. He was the one that signed it.
March 4th, 5th, and 6th 2025 - Tariffs come into effect. Canada retaliates with it's own tariffs. Tariffs are again postponed until April 1st after a huge market backlash.
March 4th, 2025 - In an address to a joint session of congress, Trump states that the US will own Greenland 'one way or the other'.
March 5th, 2025 - US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick told Canadian finance minister Dominic LeBlanc that Trump "had come to realize that the relationship between the United States and Canada was governed by a slew of agreements and treaties that were easy to abandon."
March 7th, 2025 - Unconfirmed Memorandum and maps leaked on twitter reveal Trump is allegedly planning to annex the entirety of the great lakes and Southern Ontario, home to 13,491,332 Canadians. This amounts to 35.25% of Canada's total population and includes its largest city, Toronto. This region accounts for 38% of the Canadian economy, and its loss would make Canada's independence functionally impossible. *THIS IS STILL NOT OFFICIALLY VERIFIED*
March 7th, 2025 PT II - Trump claims to reporters that he had Canada’s dairy-tariff situation “well taken care of” at the time he left office the first time, “but under Biden, they just kept raising it.” In fact, Canada did not raise its dairy tariffs during the Biden administration.
March 7th, 2025 PT III - Peter Navarro, a senior trade adviser to Trump, says that Canada has been “taken over” by Mexican cartels. As a result, Canadians across the country laugh until they pass out.
March 8th, 2025 - Canada's foreign minister warns European allies that their government considers Canada to be under existential threat. She emphasized that Canada's current challenges could foreshadow similar threats to other nations, stating, "We are the canary in the coal mine. If the U.S. administration is doing that to Canada, you're next."
March 9th, 2025 - Mark Carney, the new Canadian Prime Minister, in his acceptance speech, states that Trump is seeking to destroy Canada, and its way of life.
March 11, 2025 - President Trump threatens to “permanently shut down the automobile manufacturing business in Canada” if Canada does not drop a 250% to 390% tariff on U.S. dairy products, which he doesn’t state only kicks in after a certain quantity of tariff-free U.S. dairy enters Canada, a quantity that was originally negotiated and agreed to by Trump during the USMCA in 2018.
In Trump's own words, "The only thing that makes sense is for Canada to become our cherished Fifty First State. This would make all Tariffs, and everything else, totally disappear. Canadians’ taxes will be very substantially reduced, they will be more secure, militarily and otherwise, than ever before, there would no longer be a Northern Border problem, and the greatest and most powerful nation in the World will be bigger, better and stronger than ever — And Canada will be a big part of that. The artificial line of separation drawn many years ago will finally disappear, and we will have the safest and most beautiful Nation anywhere in the World — And your brilliant anthem, “O Canada,” will continue to play, but now representing a GREAT and POWERFUL STATE within the greatest Nation that the World has ever seen!"
March 11th, 2025 PT. II - Peter Navarro, a Senior Advisor for Trump is interviewed by MSNBC. When asked about the tariffs he responds with "Just tamp it down, please, over there, ok? They're throwing down the hockey gloves. Stop that rhetoric...we're not going to tolerate anything but them stopping killing Americans", insinuating that this situation was caused by Canadians killing Americans. It's assumed he's referencing fentanyl, but he doesn't specify the reason.
March 11th, 2025 PT III - Trump again publicly muses that Canada, Greenland, and the US should be one country, and questions the validity of the Canadian and American border.
March 11th, 2025 PT IV - Canada sells $3.5 Billion dollars of its US Bonds
March 11th, 2025 PT V - Trump claims in a social media post that Canada is “One of the highest tariffing countries in the world.” He also claims the trade deficit between the two nations is '$200 Billion dollars".
Official US statistics show the 2024 deficit with Canada in goods and services trade was $35.7 billion
Despite Trump's claims about Canadian tariffs, Canada is the 102nd-highest nation on a World Bank list of 137 countries’ trade-weighted average tariff rates in 2022 – and had a lower average (1.37%) than the United States (1.49%) that year, the most recent for which the data is available. This means the US tariffs more than Canada, with Canada being one of the most tariff free countries in the world.
March 12th, 2025 - Canadian Finance Minister Dominic LeBlanc announces tariffs on $29.8B worth of U.S. goods. This includes tariffs on Steel, Aluminum, computers, tools, sporting equipment and cast iron products.
March 12th, 2025 Pt. II - Mark Carney, Canada's incoming prime minister, expresses willingness to meet with Trump to renew economic and security partnerships between the two countries despite the challenges posed by the recent tariffs.
March 12th, 2025 Pt III - Widespread boycotts of American products across Canada and international markets begin making serious impacts on US economy
March 13th, 2025 - Trump claims that “they (Canada) don’t take our agricultural product for the most part”; he mentioned dairy, then said, “A little bit they do, but not much.” This is false even with Trump’s qualifiers. Canada was the world’s second-largest buyer of US agricultural exports in 2024, according to the US Department of Agriculture, purchasing about $28.4 billion worth.
March 13th, 2025 PT II - New polling shows 46% of Canadians are in favor of joining the EU, something that would have been pure fantasy just a few months ago.
March 13th, 2025 PT III - The Group of Seven (G7) ministers from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States, along with the EU, meet in La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada for two days of meetings.
March 13th, 2025 PT IV - Alaskan state-level politicians introduce resolutions to oppose Donald Trump’s “restrictive trade measures that would harm the unique Canada-U.S. relationship”
March 13th, PT V - A Canadian woman is arrested by ICE and has been held at the San Luis Detention Center in Arizona since March 3rd with 30 other individuals. Her mother, in an interview: "They are housed together in a single concrete cell with no natural light, fluorescent lights that are never turned off, no mats, no blankets, and limited bathroom facilities."
March 13th, 2025 PT VI - Trump says that he would 'allow Canada to keep their national anthem' -- as a US state.
"As a state, it would be one of the great states. This would be the most incredible country visually. If you look at the map, they do an artificial line right through it between Canada and the US. A straight artificial line. Somebody did it a long time ago. And it makes no sense. It's so perfect as a great and cherished state".
March 13th, 2025 PT VII - Trump's choice for United States ambassador to Canada, Pete Hoekstra, says that "Canada is a sovereign state" when asked about Trump's repeated threats to annex Canada and make it a U.S. state.
March 13th, 2025 PT VIII - 'I think it'll happen,' the president said of annexing the island During his Oval Office meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, when asked if the US will annex Greenland replied "I think it'll happen. We really need it for national security. I think that is why NATO might have to get involved anyway'. Trump then noted the U.S. already has a military base on Greenland.
'We have a couple of bases on Greenland already and we have quite a few soldiers. Maybe you will see more and more soldiers go there,' he threatened. 'We have bases and we have quite a few soldiers on Greenland.'
March 14th, 2025 - The stock market and economic data shows the following losses since January 2025:
1. S&P 500, Loss of 6.2% totaling $3.1 trillion
2. Nasdaq Composite, Loss of 10.6% totaling $2.65 trillion
3. Dow Jones Industrial Average, Loss of 4.1% totaling $450 billion
Estimated Total Loss Across All Three: $6.2 trillion USD
March 14th, 2025 PT II - Justin Trudeau officially steps down as Prime Minister of Canada and leader of the Liberal Party.
March 14th, 2025 PT III - Speaking at the G7, German foreign minister states : "To our Canadian friends: your country stands together. Canada's unity inspires us. We Europeans, we Germans, and Canada are not only partners; we are close friends. And friends have each other's back — always."
March 14th, 2025 PT IV - Mark Carney is sworn is as the new Prime Minister of Canada. In his first speech he declares "We will never, ever, in any way, shape or form, be part of the United States." He also expressed readiness to work with U.S. President Donald Trump despite ongoing trade tensions. Carney says he will visit France and the UK on his first overseas trip, adding that he currently has "no plans" to meet Trump but "looks forward" to speaking to him.
March 14th, 2025 PT V - When questioned about Trump's comments, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Trump’s “argument about why Canada would be better off economically being a state, and I think that stands for itself.” He says this while standing on Canadian soil.
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To my American friends, I know most of you are amazing and generous people. You didn't ask for this, and I understand that. I hold no ill will towards you, whatsoever. But I must stress, with as much seriousness as I can, the amount of damage this has done.
We have viewed you as our closest friend and ally for a century. We thought of you as brothers and sisters. We answered the call, again and again, for any support you needed from us. Most of Canadians visit the USA so much that we've seen more of the US than we have the rest of Canada.
American products have been taken off our shelves. Canadians are cancelling travel plans to the US. Photo after photo has been shared on social media of empty flights from Canada to the USA.
This isn't a joke to us. We're not overreacting. We don't think he's just saying this shoot to cause chaos or negotiate a deal. We wholeheartedly believe that our closest ally and friend is about to bring violence across our border, economically destroy us, and eliminate our way of life.
The main driver for Canada's creation in 1867 was SPECIFICALLY to not be part of America, and to end America's very public threats and plans to annex our territory.
We're angry. We're really, really fracking angry. Open your eyes to what's happening because we're tired of trying to make you understand why and asking you why it seems like none of you care.
I still hope that there is time to repair this. I still believe that this is the result of one man's plan to burn it all down. But time is running out, and fast.
**Note**
The hundreds of positive comments and messages I've received from Americans today have restored my faith in you, and humanity. You do care, and I was wrong in assuming you didn't.
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Won’t affect me in Canada, I rarely order from the US, USPS shipping is far too expensive, it is cheaper for me to order from Hannants or Europe. And given most products don’t originate from the US, no tarrifs for me.
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Awesome, I remember those jets on our base when the US was friends with Canada.
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Nice hobby room, I thought mine was nice.
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Very nice, looks like a shrunk down real Blackhawk.
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On 12/25/2024 at 8:00 AM, ya-gabor said:
As mentioned before the radioactive „glowing” paint used for instrument dials with time (decades) changes to distinct yellowish colour. While initially they were perfectly white. So for a period cockpit white dials would be needed.
Here is a close up of the Edu painted instrument panel for the Clear Prop! F-86A kit in 48 th scale. It has yellow dials and that strange bulging drop of gloss over the instruments.
In February next year another photoetch will be released, this time for the AirBrick Sabre. The instrument panel colours were changed to white, just as the firing handle to yellow. Have to add that on very few period images there are red firing handles can be seen just as yellow.
Best wishes for Xmas to everyone around the worlds! And in hope for a peaceful new year, or should I say peace in new year?
Best regards
Gabor
Now that I see the Eduard product, it is too yellow.Although I don’t agree it should be perfectly white, we used to repaint instruments with radium and it wasn't white when new. But it certainly wasn’t as yellow as Eduard depicts it as.
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On 12/27/2024 at 1:50 PM, phantom said:
30 years! She has her hobby and I have mine.
Nice builds as always.Now that you are retired does the wife want the basement finished?
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Awesome build and information. I love the variations in the metals.
I’m going to build my CP Sabre as the one Mk I the RCAF had, it was an F-86A and was the prototype to build the jigs for all Canadair Sabres. Luckily it is in the museum I volunteer at.
Later in service it was used for flight testing.
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On 12/29/2024 at 8:13 PM, dai phan said:
I will look for them and once I find them I will send them to you free of charge. Please note these scoops are not very accurate. PM me your address. Dai
Thanks Dai, PM sent with a small note. -
On 12/10/2024 at 6:10 AM, dai phan said:
Are you doing the MK6 in 1/48? If you need the scoops I may have some spares to sent to you. I will let you know. In such case please send SASE envelope. Remember all the scoops offerings are not very accurate. Dai
I’d greatly appreciate that, although I’m in Canada so if I were to send you a SASE you would not be able to ship it from anywhere except Canada, as the stamps will be Canadian. I could send you payment via PayPal. -
On 12/6/2024 at 7:15 AM, ya-gabor said:
One more extra for the Clear Prop! 48th scale F-86A Sabre.
One of the benefits of the Plastiková Zima 2024 show last Saturday was that the December releases were already available.
The fact that the Czech company did do a photoetch, and is planning some other aftermarkets for the Clear Prop! F-86A Sabre was a bit of a surprise. Months ago the company boss was telling everyone that Clear Prop! is not a manufacturer for whom they would consider doing aftermarkets. At the time I think this was in response for Czech modellers asking for photoetch (or anything else) for the Clear Prop! MiG-23 kits. Well something surely changed in the Obrnice HQ and so the first photoetch was available last Saturday.
I was looking forward to it, but in the end it is a mixed bag. : ( : ( : (
The overenthusiastic designer based the instrument panel on the original found in the Smithsonian Museum. The only problem is that in the past 60 or so years some of the paints degraded. So the museum a/c on display has all the instrument dials with strong yellow instead of white markings. Originally in the 1950’s they were white! On the etching they are yellow. : ( : ( The instrument faces are glossed over as a very bulbous lens. They should be of course a completely flat glass surface. But anyway overall the instrument panel is given as a very flat two dimensional photoetch panel. In comparison to this there is already available true 3D instrument panel from Quinta (see above).
From what I can see the period ejection canopy/seat firing handle was yellow. On the etching it is given as red. (No problem repainting them in any colour we want) Elbow rest should be black. The rear view mirror is of wrong shape. A considerable area of the second etching is taken up with the inner surface details of the moving slats. How much of it is visible in reality? While some obvious details which would have been a perfect candidate for photoetch are simply completely ignored. Oh well. The list of mistakes is unfortunately fairly long.
Doing the intricate shape of the air brakes from photoetch is, in my opinion is past its time, by about 20 or so years. Even the plastic parts would be better and easier to use, but there are some 3D printed versions available by now with far superior details.
But on the plus side I did get few parts for which I was looking for and they on their own were worth the set. To scratch build them would have been not so easy and very time consuming!
Best regards
Gabor
Radium was used on instruments up to the 60s, although I know we still had it in the late 80s on military aircraft. So I’d debate the instrument dials could have yellow markings. -
5 hours ago, dai phan said:
Look up B&B Resin Design that took over the AMS toolings that made the sugar scoops. That is what I used in mine although not very accurate. Dai
They appear to be out of business. -
Awesome build! I deployed on several DACT deployments with my Canadian Hornet squadron against this guard unit, our pilots liked fighting them as the ANG pilots were a much harder fight.
Once again, outstanding build!
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Nice work, I have one of these kits ready to go.
Fudekals just announced a decals sheet, you can view it over at Hyperscale.
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Wow, what a beauty. Do they fly that or just display it?