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  1. looking at the new F4 kit I came accross with a new idea. Or maybe the parts are already out there, I don't know. The BF109F6 was very similar to the F4, but was a recon version. Did anybody ever make a resin camera fairing for the 109's? Also it looks to me like it would be safe to use either a G or E unarmored wind screen in place of the armored one. Once again am I correct?

    gary

    If memory serves (alas the stash is in disarray at present so I can't check) there's a camera fairing in the injected UM Model 109 set

    HTH - Patrick

  2. Why does it take 6 months to get everything together to build a kit? I build kits out of my stash. All I need to buy are paints.

    There is no way I could wait six months to start a kit. 1 month max. My interest would switch to a different subject after that.

    That makes me feel so slow! My next project (the box fell off the shelf, it was evidently crying for attention) I bought the aftermarket for - five years ago, the kit - ten and shot the reference pictures...thirty-plus years back! Other projects, other aspects of life, best made plans etc :)

  3. To anyone who restores full scale aircraft:

    Can I ask, what happens for static exhibits? I was reading a cockpit book the other day (c/w Bock's Car: it was excellent) and some of the aircraft are evidently flown, have modern instrumentation in places and gunsights removed etc. For the other aircraft which will never fly again - e.g. the He115 or the 219 pulled out of the water recently, assuming the instrumentation is there, is it checked to work and wired if possible? I've seen statics that look rewired, and I wondered just how far the restoration went for a non-functional aircraft.

    Many thanks, Patrick

  4. Dragon Ho-229B (1/48). It took me five years to track that sucker down privately; the seller kindly included Re-Heat p/e with it.

    They are like Rocking Horse, aren't they? Once I learnt they existed I couldn't wait until one came my way, wasn't five years but it came half way round the world. Do wonder if the engines from the single seater will fit :)

    Patrick

  5. I have a Jerry Rutman Henschel 129 that he was good enough to go out and pour for me. Bought the barrel for it (B3 version) directly from Robert Schatton at one of the Telford shows. That probably beats the Revell Raiden (rescued from a bin where I'd thrown it and kept for twenty years by my father) narrowly into second place :)

  6. Which is as it should be in my book - better to tell your story the way you want it than to feebly try secondguessing what the audience would want to see.

    Surely that's what a screenwriter does for a living, though? Deliver a script that will resonate with a sizeable proportion of the moviegoing public? This is after all, a mass entertainment medium and there is no reason why a cerebral theme needn't be an unpopular one, if written accessibly.

    I wasn't impressed by the storyline. I believe I get most of the references (though some of the fanboy things seem to be a bit of a reach, and one could argue the very open script actively encourages this.) Some of these themes were interesting, some were risible (the Space Jesus thing is meant to be *deep*, yes?) but none for me compensated for the fact that in thirty years, the director seems to have regressed in producing films with interesting, believable, sympathetic characters who do interesting and believable things...

  7. Oh God, you mean there's more...? :rolleyes:

    Unless you've been living at the other end of the galaxy for the last few years, you could not possibly avoid Ridley Scott's disclaimers about it NOT BEING AN 'ALIEN' MOVIE/PREQUEL/SEQUEL/ANY DAMN THING!!! But...'contains traces of Alien', or whatever. So I hope no-one was expecting 'Alien X'.

    Given the wide variety of styles shown by the various Alien films over the years, I think one could be mistaken for thinking that, given the story takes place in the same universe with the same basic premises, you could reasonably expect a good-to-excellent science fiction film with some vaguely familiar bits in. That's what I was hoping for, anyway..

    The disclaimers to me are a complete cop-out:. Nice if you're respected enough to get away with it.. Instant audience, all the history pre-done but also full freedom to play with the core material. Likewise the stuff about this film being propped up by its' trilogy companions.

    The one (if that)-dimensional characters are pretty much what I'd expect from a largely one-dimensional cast who the producers specified to catch the exalted, un-critical demographic that sucks up by-the-numbers multiplex ordure such as 'Twilight Saga'.

    I'm not saying 'Prometheus' is in that category -or that anyone who enjoys it is in that demographic! But to me, it looks like it wants to be -even before I get to the box-office.

    Credit where it's due: Guy Pearce (well, some of him), Charlize Theron, Idris Elba - good actors...

  8. It hasn't made me feel safer about Blade Runner 2...

    Question (probably better for IMDB I suppose) - when the second lead character starts displaying great knowledge about how to read and manipulate the strange alien artefacts, did anyone else think whoa, shouldn't the rest of the crew be noticing this and questioning said character about what they knew and what this meant? Maybe even doing something scientific with the information gained?

  9. Its foul.

    But then I'm not a lager drinker at all. Hence this t-shirt

    17-hobgoblin-lagerboy-t-shirt.jpg

    Hmm, there's lager and lager.

    I was on a trip round the very nice Battledown Brewery in Cheltenham last year and the owner asked a couple of us what we thought of lager. The other guy evidently thought this was an invitation to cheap insult, and put the boot in with length and relish.

    Me, I'm quite partial to a chilled Stella Artois on a hot day (and indeed one with a Diamond White and a Blue Curacao mixed in at Christmas :)) so kept it shut. Owner listened patiently to the rant and then said, "I suppose you won't want to try out my new Steam Lager then" Was very nice,had body, bit of a nice change to the usual 6X, Black Sheep and rare - when it can be got -

    ....
  10. Thanks Scott for the link. Too bad I don't know what the registration numbers of the ones used in the movie but they look cool in the movie with US Navy markings. With the Goshawk version of the Bae Hawk in service as anavy trainer it would be cool to build a Gnat model with US Navy trainer colors - too bad the only one I know are in 1/72 scale which is not my preferred scale.

    The Gnat's been done in other scales:

    48th:

    http://s362974870.on...howtopic=238727

    Note comment on post #6 :)

    32nd Card

    http://www.paper-avi.../wars/ww3_f/390

    http://b00m-file.inf...25_gnat_mk1.zip

  11. Having imported dozens of various items including model kits, car parts etc etc.... I have only been hit by the HMRC once and that was for a $500 exhaust system for a car, in a box that I could've went to sleep in.

    They seem to be getting more attentive. Both the Z-M kits I bought attracted an extra £40 duty; the Ta183 I got last week had a nice £12 addition on top of the $20 cost/$10 shipping (hope the AMTech decals survive - otherwise would have been cheaper to buy Tamiya locally.)

    I think it's the economy....

  12. Best place is to buy them off of ebay, Lucky Model or HLJ. You'll get better prices, that are more reflective of their actual MSRP than the markup the UK market sees.

    For the last two please consider "...and then add the markup that HMRC levies on anything imported costing over £15" :)

  13. This kit has been in my stash for a very long time, its the older Fujimi 1/48 scale Bf 109G/K that was produced in the late 1970s.

    My model was built O.O.B. but used EagleCals for the markings which are for ''yellow 4'' of IV./JG 5. Those familiar with Bf 109 camouflage schemes will notice this one is painted pretty strange which suggests this aircraft may have been a recycled airframe or was partly repainted after repairs from combat damage.

    Great to see your work again, sir. Impeccable and inspiring!

    Patrick

  14. Conspiracy (the Kenneth Branagh one) Branagh doesn't look remotely like Heydrich but this account of the Wannsee conference is downright superb. It also has a Fi156 in it for geek points if required.

    Enemy at the Gates (Jude Law) Excellent Russian sniper movie

    Flags of Our Fathers

    Man Of War (Max Manus) - gritty resistance movie

    Days of Glory (the story of a troop of Algerian soldiers.)

  15. I was going to buy the Tamiya Spitfire MK. VIII yesterday afternoon at my LHS for a tick over $100. Good buy in my eyes, but still more money that I wanted to spend. Had it been a MK. V or a MK.IX I'd have bought it. These kits and the Mustang and Zero are known to be very nice kits that are pretty much dead on. I have three big Trumpeter kits in my stash, and the ME 262 and Harrier look fantastic, but also fall into that price groove.

    Eh? Is this another geographical thing? I am something of a fan of the Trumpeter Me262 and have a bad habit of picking them up when bored at shows, regardless of stash size and predicted life expectancy. Mainly as they tend to go for about £30/$47 which is - as I believe you suggest elsewhere - is relatively affordable: it's the price heeled/unwary punters pay for a fifteen year old 48th Bf109 tooling. Never seen the Trump Sturmvogels over £35/$55 from serious sellers, so for me they're far cheaper than the recent Tamiya releases.

    (For which, going back to the thread topic, cost far too much for me for aircraft I don't desperately want to model. Hence the continuing absence of either even in my pretty diverse stash. I bet Tamiya have weekly crisis meetings about this...)

  16. * BF109's; [snip] 1/32 bird, I like the Hasegawas (never been inside an Eduard as I said). There's also a new Airfix E, but once again kinda rare around here. They say the new Trumpeter 1/23 kits are nice, but so are the Hasegawas for less cash.

    Apart from (I would respectfully suggest) the 32nd Hasegawa Emil, which is out for £30-odd and - please correct me if it's deficiencies have been sorted since - is a tooling old enough to have originally been released under the Frog name and rather shows it. The Airfix is 48th scale (and nicely holds its value, good for the guys :))

    Again, to confirm (as I ended up doing hard work on a 32nd Emil today and at some point would like a more shake'n'bake sequel) in 32nd the Trumpeter's OK, the Eduard's good (and of course corners the AM market), but the real value award goes to the Dragon?

    Patrick

  17. In terms of popularity of builds in the last three years, the order is reversed in an almost perfect mirror image...

    Meantime for the 109E's, one could argue both got punted down the line by Airfix, which in its' turn now looks likely to be blown into the weeds (well apart from in cost terms) by the rather pretty looking Eduard offering...

    Patrick

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