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Getting to know one another => Your Introduction => Topic started by: JimF on June 04, 2018, 08:23:43 PM
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Hello all. New to aircraft modelling, (I say new, though I did build several, back in the 60's). Been into armor, then railway modelling, since the 70's, but have found a renewed interest in aircraft modelling. Primary interest is UK WWI and WWII aircraft. Am going to explore the different popular scales, though 1/32 seems to have the strongest appeal.
Jim F
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Welcome to the best aircraft model forum on the net Jim! You'll find all the resources and knowledge you'll need to transition to aircraft here, and 1:32 Scale is certainly not lacking in variety and quality of the subjects that appeal to you. Enjoy!
Cheers,
Lance
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Welcome to the Forum from Beautiful Fleetwood North Carolina 8) I know you will find all you need to know here. WNW has helped to make 1/32nd popular but there are still many kits available in trusty 1/48th and Good Old 1/72nd. It is up to the Modeler as to preference. Looking forward to your participation.
RAGIII
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Welcome aboard, Jim! I look forward to seeing your work.
Cheers,
Bud
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Hello Jim, welcome on this great forum. Have fun here!
Bye,
Manni
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Welcome to the forum, Jim.
Good luck with your first project and please make sure you share your progress with us.
Cheers,
Bob ;)
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Welcome, Jim!
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Welcome aboard Jim. What part of NC? I went to school initially at State, then transferred to Chapel Hill when I quit engineering school.
I prefer constant scale wherever possible to jumping from scale to scale, mainly because I like to see how large one plane is compared to another. If this is not important to you, then enjoy jumping around!
Basically i put everything i thought i might ever want to build in a big spreadsheet that shows how big it would be at any given scale. From this, taking into consideration availability of kits etc, I determined the best scales for me.
1/32 is, in my opinion, the best scale for WWI aircraft. It's only an opinion, of course, but I *did* put a lot of thought into deciding what scales to commit to. Main attraction of 1/32, besides the existence of Wingnut Wings, is that figures are large enough where you can recognize a likeness with the naked eye. 1/48 is too small for this IMO. also there's a long tradition of 54mm figures, so there are lots of aces available in 1/32. I also like 1/32 for select WWII subjects... ones that involve figures of aces.
For everything else I choose 1/72. Almost every aircraft that ever existed is available in both 1/48 and 1/72... but I chose 1/72 because I'm also interested in water-going R/C stuff. Particularly submarines. Yeah you can do an RC sub in 1/48, but anything bigger than a destroyer would be too big for even a boat trailer!
I may add a larger scale, as I get into R/C things that fly. It's possible these days to build tiny flying models from Depron... I've seen a 1/72 MiG-15 on Youtube that actually flies (!)... but a bigger plane will be less likely to be knocked around by wind.
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Welcome to the forum, it's a great place.
Giuseppe
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Thanks for all the welcome, folks.
Jeff K, I'm in Salisbury, about midway between Charlotte and Greensboro. I'm what's called a "da**ed yankee", though. Those are the ones who came to visit, and stayed :) Originally from Boston MA.
For all my other modelling, in the past, I tended to stay in one scale. But my primary interest, at least right now (always subject to change) is doing the 3 WWII aircraft I like most, in the different scales.
As of this moment, they are:
AIRCRAFT 1/72 1/48 1/32
Spitfire IXc Eduard 70122 Eduard 8282 Tamiya 60319
Typhoon Mk.1b Airfix A50079 Hasegawa 09311*
Mosquito FB V1 Tamiya 60747 Tamiya 61062 Tamiya 60326
To stay with the WWI focus of this forum, however, I want to do the same with the Felixstowe F.2. It will be just 2 scales, the Roden 1/72 models and the WnW 1/32 model.
Eventually, I'll go for almost any and all UK aircraft I can get, from Wingnuts Wings.
Ambitious plans, I know, so we'll see what I accomplish :)
Oh, and speaking of R/C, that's my latest rail model thing, putting it in 009 (1/76 scale narrow gauge) locos!
Thanks again.
Jim F
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Welcome Jim
I hope you get lots of enjoyment from the wonderful people on this forum - the best WWI modelling site on the internet!
cheers
Dave Wilson
Gold Coast
Australia
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Jim,
I was a damn yankee for a while, now I'm just a yankee.
If you really wanted to collect the whole set of Felixstowes there's a 1/48 resin kit:
http://www.lonestarmodels.com/store/bsk/lsm-480606-felixstowe-f2a-flying-boat
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Welcome Jim. Enjoy the forum in all three scales!!
Steve
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Thanks again, all.
Upon reflection, I've decided I'd rather start in 1/32, both for the detail, possibility of easier painting, and it's a size where I think learning rigging would be easier (never done it before). So I'll spend some time (impatiently LOL) reading reviews of 1/32 kits, with a lean towards aircraft of the RNAS.
Jim F
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Does my take on your progression of logic see a Felixstowe Build Log in the near future Jim?? ::) Now that's a transition from Armour and Rail Stock! 8) Looking forward to whatever you start with ........
Cheers,
Lance
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Thanks again, all.
Upon reflection, I've decided I'd rather start in 1/32, both for the detail, possibility of easier painting, and it's a size where I think learning rigging would be easier (never done it before). So I'll spend some time (impatiently LOL) reading reviews of 1/32 kits, with a lean towards aircraft of the RNAS.
Jim F
Looking forward to your builds! By the way Salisbury isn't too far from me in the Mountains Near Boone. I am what the Locals here call a "Half Back" Moved from the North to Florida and only made it Halfway Back ;D
RAGIII
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Hey, RAG, nice to see a few of us tarheels on here.
Lance, yes, that is my goal, the WnW Felixstowe F.2 models, hopefully the early and late models, and maybe they will do the one of version, with the extra gun station on the top wing :)
I knew Spads, Sopwith Camels, Fokker Tri-planes, as a kid, but met a guy while on vacation on Cape Cod. He had a R/C Felixstowe, that he was flying and landing, is a small tidal cove. I though it was the coolest thing ever, and saw Roden had done 1/72 kits for it. But now, with WnW doing them, I will go after the larger scale.
I'll do something simpler, just to try rigging a model. maybe a Sopwith Ship's Camel?
Jim F