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Offline Doug Mace

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Re: Latest acquisition in your collection
« Reply #2115 on: March 09, 2018, 12:34:54 PM »
    Great choice Doug, still IMHO the best overall of the Wingnut Wings line and one you don't want to chance missing. I did it back almost 5 years ago in McKeever's and Powell's colors, A-7288, and it's still probably the favorite in my cabinet. Here's a link if you think it might be of use.
https://forum.ww1aircraftmodels.com/index.php?topic=1065.150
Cheers,
Lance
   Lance, allow me to emend my Laphroig induced errata from the other night...F2b, not FB2...of course...just a bit too obsessive to let that hang there but while we're back on the subject of illustrious Bristol tandems, I'll start another thread in 'time to relax' about a pair of characters who served with 48 RFC.....and characters they were.
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Offline lcarroll

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Re: Latest acquisition in your collection
« Reply #2116 on: March 09, 2018, 01:23:27 PM »
Doug,
    Honestly LMAO!! I missed it but at that time of night I missed your "Laphroig induced errata" (no doubt due to my own Macallan induced similar affliction) so we are even, although on opposite sides of the Scotch Single Malt Whisky palate! Apparently great men behave alike! ;)
Cheers,
Lance

Offline Tony Haycock

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Re: Latest acquisition in your collection
« Reply #2117 on: March 16, 2018, 12:20:45 PM »
When a mate texts to ask if I wanted a WNW SE5 and LVG . i didn't know I did, but it seems I do and I now have...

Offline RAGIII

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Re: Latest acquisition in your collection
« Reply #2118 on: March 24, 2018, 08:50:16 PM »
I received vol. One and two of the Pheon Sopwith Dolphin Decals: Volume one pictured.






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« Reply #2119 on: April 11, 2018, 09:53:30 PM »
This arrived yesterday;

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Re: Latest acquisition in your collection
« Reply #2120 on: April 12, 2018, 10:13:55 AM »
The day after I ask questions about Aviattic decals, my Order arrives. I think I understand now why these look so good.
I also,got the quick boost tensioners.  Peculiar looking in black, but they are very fine.

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« Reply #2121 on: April 13, 2018, 07:59:07 AM »
I've managed to get all my stuff out of the extremely well padded box - German efficiency in action.

This is pretty much what was in it. The prices were very, very good, and I happened to get an extra 10% "Easter Holiday" discount, so I filled my boots, so to speak, and ordered away like a man possessed.

Giant Cutting Mat, A1 size. I need all the space I can get.
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HobbyZone Paint Table.
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HobbyZone Paint Brush Holder. Uses the magic of magnets, wood & PVA to keep your expensive, tint little paint brushes safe
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HobbyZone 2 Drawer Unit - I have a lot of various Hobbyzone units, but I've been 1 unit short for months. Tho sorts that out:
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WNW Post-War Ninak - for the size of the box, this is a very heavy kit. Promises much!
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Nieuport 27, at a lot less than £30 delivered. Bargain.
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And a Nieuport 28. Prices too low to ignore, and a colourful kit.
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More to come....



 

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Re: Latest acquisition in your collection
« Reply #2122 on: April 13, 2018, 08:48:53 AM »
Various Eduard machine guns. You can never have too many machine guns when modelling WWI aviation.
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Selection of AM for WWII stuff. Pair of Merlins for Tamiya's Mossie is a bit of an indulgence, but in my defence they cost less than £40 for the pair, and they truly are kits in themselves, with 120 parts & PE included. Great dio possibilities. The Stuka cockpit was also a bargain, and contains a hell of a lot.
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Here we have some more gun barrels, Brengun's Roden Siemens-Schuckert PE set, as well as 2 packs of turnbuckles to try. Look a little flat, but we'll see. CMK's Spitfire Mk II detail set for the Revell kit, should make a big difference. And then Rosie the Riveter tools, in single & double, at 1mm and 0.75mm. Can't wait to try them out
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Bunch of WWI AM, including Eduard's 1/32 stitching, Eduard's 1/32 lacing & Eduards 1/32 Wires and Stretchers, which I've never tried before. The Copper State Models 200HP Austro-Daimler will have to go back, as most of the spark plugs are snapped in half - but, curiously, masking tape has been applied to keep them together. Very odd.
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This popped up on EBay, just as I bought the Revell kit. Couldn't not buy it.
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Not in the box, these were bought from EBay & LSP. The Storch looks interesting, with PE and a Slovak markings. With Revell going under new ownership, I fully expect the new owners to ramp up prices. A lot. Seems like standard procedure these days. So I buy well priced 1/32 Revell kits, from the new batch - Ju88, He111, Bf109, Spitfire, Mustang, Me262, Ar196A, Fw190F & A, He219 - as I think they'll go up in price soon.
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Pair of Taubes, because they are such beautiful, fragile things;
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Some high quality Albrecht Durer water-paint pencils, for cockpit & prop painting. Never tried before, should be interesting. I've selected shades that I hope will work well together on the prop in particular. At around £1.50 a pencil, they should last for years & years;
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And finally, a Trumpy 1/32 Hellcat for around £25? As I have only Hasegawa's old, wonkey Hellcat kit, I thought this was a decent investment.
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Re: Latest acquisition in your collection
« Reply #2123 on: April 13, 2018, 10:02:55 AM »
I bought some gum.
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Its all I can afford after this:



Offline RAGIII

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Re: Latest acquisition in your collection
« Reply #2124 on: May 22, 2018, 12:07:31 AM »
I have not been paying proper attention to this thread. Some really great purchases guys! Looking forward to seeing all of the buid threads.
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« Reply #2125 on: May 23, 2018, 12:26:55 AM »
I have received the Proper Plane Axial Prop and REXx exhaust for my Albatros DV. Quite pleased with the products!
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Offline GazzaS

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Re: Latest acquisition in your collection
« Reply #2126 on: May 23, 2018, 05:47:20 PM »
Nice looking prop!
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Offline Jeff K

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Re: Latest acquisition in your collection
« Reply #2127 on: June 05, 2018, 07:44:06 PM »
I got all my stuff back here (Thailand), from my upstate NY stash, via large suitcase.

cha-CHING!

First, the kits. Conspicuously absent is the Gotha, the seller (understandably) wanted to wait til the Paypal money cleared before shipping, so the package arrived three days after I returned. I'll pick it up next time, I'm nowhere near ready to build it yet...

Offline Jeff K

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« Reply #2128 on: June 05, 2018, 07:52:18 PM »
Got some books too. A LOT of books. These are just the WWI books, also got some good books about the continuation, notably Warburton's War, Malta Spitfire Vs - 1942: Their Colours and Markings, and Flying Tigers Colors.

More are on the way. Guynemer--Les Avions d'un As, Austro Hungarian Army Aircraft of World War One, and French Aircraft of the First World War. The last two I got for a decent price on Ebay.

Offline Jeff K

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« Reply #2129 on: June 05, 2018, 07:58:49 PM »
And finally, some tools. Micromesh is for canopies. Optivisor, pretty obvious one. Airbrush is more like a small spray gun, it will do an elliptical pattern which (according to Paul Budzik) will make for smoother finishes due to more of the paint landing wet.

Kim wipes? Seriously? Yep. Kim wipes are designed to be anti-static. Very handy for minimizing a model's attraction to dust.

First few builds will be 1/72 post-intermission subjects (Koga's Zero, Joe Foss' F4F Wildcat, a Midway Dauntless, and one of Beurling's Malta Spitfires). They'll show up in the off-topic section here. As a former teacher I can't prevent myself from designing a curriculum to methodically reintroduce myself to building models. Once i complete 'basic training' I'll build a diorama of a P-3c my cousin served on before starting on the WWI subjects...