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06-28-2008, 08:50 AM
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#1 | | Junior Member
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Hey folks,
I mainly collect 1/6 Dragon figures and lately I've gotten the bug to collect only air force figures.
Way back in the 70s I did some RC flying and have always been interested in warbird modeling. I still have a 1/6 Fokker DVIII.
My dad was in the USAF during WW2 and I grew up on a diet of stories about his part of the war. My mom was Welsh and a nurse and survived the bombing of Coventry.
Dubar is my "handle" on a variety of online forums so I chose to use it here too.
Hope to peruse thru the posts in the next few days and I may chime in from time to time.
I'll be picking up a 1/48 TA-152 soon at the Dragon DX08 show in Virginia Beach in August which will be my first WW2 model in a long time (I have a few 1/48 WWI planes in my collection).
Bob | 
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06-28-2008, 09:05 AM
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06-28-2008, 10:37 AM
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06-28-2008, 01:39 PM
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Nice to read you here.Please, stay with us longer and enjoy. 
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06-28-2008, 07:13 PM
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06-28-2008, 08:24 PM
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#6 | | Older Than Dirt
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Country: | Hey Bob... Where in Virginia Beach ?? I live here.... in Windsor Woods.
Welcome to the forum...
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06-29-2008, 12:16 AM
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06-29-2008, 06:48 AM
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Charles, I live in P'town. The IPMS and Dragon DX08 show will be at the Convention center. I think tomorrow midnight is the deadline for signing up for the DX08 as a "conventioneer", but they'll have a daily entrance fee for those that don't sign up as a "conventioneer". The $80 for the DX08 includes 2 figures (Omar Bradley and a jeep driver) at no additional charge and the opportunity to get first dibs on a couple of items (Bradley's 1/6 scale jeep for one!!!). Here's the link: http://www.dxpo.com/dx/08/news.asp
I've never been to one but from what all the old hands say there's a lot to see and get at these shows. Plus with the IPMS there'll be plenty of displays and vendors to look over.
Right now I'm trying to build a 1/6 (or so) FW-190 A8 cockpit. The framework is easy but finding all the small gauges and other instruments may take some leg work or turn them on my mini-lathe. The TA-152 I'm getting is the plane Willi Reschke flew at the end of the war. Dragon will also have a 1/6 figure of him that can be pre-ordered and picked up at the show (also on the link).
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06-29-2008, 10:30 AM
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06-30-2008, 06:37 AM
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07-09-2008, 03:51 AM
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07-09-2008, 03:56 AM
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Welcome to the forum!
Greeting from the Czech Republic 
Have you ever seen this figure? http://www.dxpo.com/dx/08/exclusives...ives-willi.asp
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07-09-2008, 05:25 AM
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Greetings from "down under"
Welcome!
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07-09-2008, 07:17 AM
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07-09-2008, 09:56 AM
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Hi & welcome , lots of chat & info on here---- Enjoy
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