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  1. Seriously, did you ever expect this to stay on a purely technical level?
  2. That is indeed a very pretty model, and I think the heavy weathering looks entirely appropriate and rather atmospheric. Would you care to elaborate on the issues you mention having with the Verlinden set? The Hasegawa in the box has a lot of very nice detail (IIRC) but nowhere near what you have there, with the dropped control surfaces and open access panels etc. Was that elegance the result of strife? Particularly like the adjusting tool on said access panel, which on a much cruder model (Esci with Eduard) I recall bodging a rougher version of... Patrick
  3. True eloquence died with Cicero.
  4. That is some very fine work (and dainty etch - Griffon Model?) Kudos...
  5. Ah, I see Relish had them (past tense.) Obviously going fast as (I gather) this is a really nice rendition of a graceful aircraft, going for about half the price of the Hasegawa 72nd...
  6. All gone now :) I do wonder (having just bought a 410 from a former expat, never seen one of those over here either) whether the price of shipping over the Pond for Revell-USA prevents them from exploiting a small but steady little market for their old moulds. The 48th's come in fairly large boxes and HM Custards & Exercise don't half penalise you for keeping the global economy limping on. Both very pretty kits...
  7. Patrick_Nevin

    48th He111

    Found them for a trivial twenty of your English Sponds out of Models For Sale in case anyone else wants one. That's the best price I've seen in Great Britain, £23 shipped :) Share & Enjoy: Patrick
  8. Revell's He111 does it for me in the 'sheer joy of its vast beauty' stakes. The HobbyBoss Me262's in 1/48 (I see the six-gun version comes with X-4 air to air missiles) are quietly taking top of the pile, and at 60% of Tamiya prices :) Am rather impressed by the Z-M Skyraider, too, very pretty...
  9. Telford was cool, as usual. Many thanks to the hundreds of ace modellers and scores of enticing merchants, the place was heaving in a way I've not seen it before (evidently other people saved up too, during the recession.) One thing I saw which utterly raised the bar for me was a nice Vietnam diorama - tanks and infantry in a graveyard. Very pretty - little GI in the corner in 35th. With a distinct cigarette in his hand. So far, so cool. But then this (I had to have it pointed out, you could only see it from a certain angle): the smoke on his cigarette was done. The builder had somehow
  10. Ross, They're probably contemplating what would happen to the F-35 thread... Patrick
  11. That's brilliant, thanks! Really useful and inspiring to see the tool in action. (side question: why does JV wear gloves while doing it? :)) Patrick
  12. Anyone use the Mission, then? I have one of those, the UMM (interestingly, the video quoted above doesn't work here due to 'copyright issues'), Olfa cutter, pin in vice and occasional metal shop deburring tool (for round bits), all seem to have bits they excel at... Patrick
  13. By definition the detail is down compared to more recent releases, but there are some bargains out there and it's quite satisfying to do hard work in this scale. Anything old and Revell tends to take a bit of effort, however you may be able to write this off as nostalgia and/or practice for newer plastic. LSP, MM & CM have a wide variety of reviews, I'm currently way impressed with ye olde Matchbox Tiger Moths that are quite beautiful (and have pukka, Canadian and Sea Tiger possibilities straight OOB for under £20) and an ancient Revell Beaufighter that I find really deserves the Vecto
  14. The downside to this argument is that instead of fiddling with the gunsight (as one might in 72nd) one fiddles with the adjuster knobs on the gunsight (because they're visible in 32nd) :) I love 'em and am seriously considering going purely onto this scale, but it doesn't get any easier...
  15. I'd like Dragon to pull their corporate finger out with the 32nd Do335. Get It Done please, people!
  16. Hobby Boss's 262's appear to be both high quality and accurate. Possibly class-leading...
  17. Sir, can I refer you to http://www.jammydog.com/micro_masking_tape.htm ? Canopy-width masking tape...

  18. Well indeed :) Really enjoying TWD (Season 2) not least for the way it broadly integrates with Max Brooks' world. They have, so far branched in slightly different directions (I really liked the global politics stuff like how the F-35 is tested in action, and how a slightly more desperate government sorts the wheat from the chaff by nerve gassing an entire column: the people who move afterwards are the enemy) but TWD plays very effectively in the survival-horror genre, IMHO. One thing that nags at me for both though - I guess it's central to the tireless/invincible/fearless army of undead t
  19. I have 1/48th 262's by Tamiya, Hobby Boss, Pegasus, Trimaster, Dragon, Italeri and Monogram (flirting with the Lindberg, I know it's no good but I still sort of want one.) In other scales Revell, Hasegawa, Matchbox , Smer, Trumpeter, Eduard, Academy, 21st Century. Actually, has anyone got any pictures of the Airfix? About fifty in all...I could spend the rest of my modelling life just building Turbos :)
  20. I thought two? The A-10 owes quite a lot to the Ju87, according to legend: "In addition, Rudel's input was used during the development of the A-10 ground attack aircraft." example source If so, that would be circular, as the whole dive bomber thing originated in the US if memory serves... But it would still be a pity to lose a very successful, iconic and focussed aircraft whose role doesn't seem to have lessened in favour of one facet of a new multi-role platform. Did they seriously lose everything necessary to reconstitute A-10 production? Patrick
  21. Nice one Chris, looks very pretty so far.
  22. How pretty is that? Thanks for posting, sir...
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