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Aero-space / Re: Grumman F9F Panther, Fuerza Aerea Ejercito de Cuba Kit is AMT, 1/48th scale
« Last post by Jeffry Fontaine on Today at 05:32:08 AM »
Nice work on making that old kit! 

So what if the Cubans had Grumman Panthers instead of de Havilland Venoms? 
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Land / Re: 1/72 "Tank, Infantry, Mark 1, A11, 'Matilda' "
« Last post by robunos on Today at 04:53:15 AM »
Quote from: Frank3k on Yesterday at 10:57:16 AM
It came out great! I thought some of the details were "exaggerated for wargaming", but I looked up the real tank and it looked like this.


Yeah, it's a bit of a lottery as to how the models will come out, but in general I've found that scaling down produces better results than scaling up. You have to study the images provided by the seller. If i'm lucky, they will show an image of an unpainted, printed model, so that the detail is visible, failing that, a painted, finished model is also useful to judge, whereas CGIs of the .stl aren't realyy useful at all. Sometimes, of course, you just have to bite the bullet and buy the file . . .
Thing is, being an editable file, it is possible to modify things, if it's not quite right . . .


cheers,
Robin.
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Land / Re: Canadian Leopard C2 MEXAS
« Last post by Frank3k on Today at 04:46:16 AM »
They all came out great! I thought the second picture was a reference shot of a 1:1 tank.
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Swords to Plowshares GB / Re: NACA Dornier Do 350 V1 Aufklärung
« Last post by The Big Gimper on Today at 04:29:46 AM »
Thank you all.

I've had this idea floating around for a while but I wasn't ready the sacrifice a pricy Do 335 kit. Then I stumbled upon this started kit so that was the ice breaker.
BTW the F2H-2P nose is humongous.
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Swords to Plowshares GB / Re: NACA Dornier Do 350 V1 Aufklärung
« Last post by apophenia on Today at 04:16:17 AM »
A truly impressive kit-bash mélange! Very nice  :smiley:

With the front DB 603 gone, there would be a huge amount of space in the nose of your Do 350. You can see why NACA would be interested in this bird.
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Aero-space / Grumman F9F Panther, Fuerza Aerea Ejercito de Cuba Kit is AMT, 1/48th scale
« Last post by The Rat on Today at 04:14:05 AM »
Kit is AMT, 1/48th scale. Nowhere near perfect, but I'm still learning a few techniques, and rather than trying to get everything right all at once I'm taking baby steps. If I see one of these on a shelf at a decent price it will be purchased, there are a few things I would like to improve on, now that it's shortcomings are familiar. Yes, it's old, yes, it's got minimal detail, and raised panel lines (which I rescribed) but at 1/48th scale it's easier to work on, and scratching up bits and bobs and greeblies is not as difficult as 1/72nd, which is still my preferred scale for simple storage/display reasons. Decals are from ARMYCAST. Paints were Tamiya Fine White primer for the underside, Model Master Acryl gloss gull grey for the upper surface. Tamiya red for the nose and tail decal touch-up (decals are intended for a P-47 so they needed to be sliced up a bit), Tamiya gloss white for the wingtip pods, AK True Metal paste for the leading edges. 









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Land / Re: Canadian Leopard C2 MEXAS
« Last post by apophenia on Today at 03:49:52 AM »
Great stuff, Didi! What an array  :smiley:

I especially liked your detail of picnic coolers on top of the 'plain' C2 and the tank with mine rollers  :D
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New Model Kit News/Reviews / Re: A&A Models
« Last post by Kerick on Today at 03:41:25 AM »
Hmmmm….,
Would be an easy conversion to the only RF-61 used as a fire bomber!
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Other / Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Last post by Kerick on Today at 03:39:22 AM »
Maryland to New Jersey isn’t very far and good training opportunity. Or just to prove it can be done!
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Swords to Plowshares GB / Re: Spitfire Cloudbuster
« Last post by Robomog on Today at 02:50:33 AM »
Hi fellow male type Kim!

Not many of us about these days.

To be truthful if the decals hadn't been so bad I would have been severely tempted to build the police Spitfire straight out of the box.

After a week or so in the window they have faded a bit, the problem is I'm in the UK and sunny days are at a bit of a premium.

I'm still staying optimistic I can recover them.  ::)

Mog
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