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06-28-2008, 10:50 AM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2008
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| Hello! 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, 11:05 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Melbourne, Victoria
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| Welcome mate. 
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06-28-2008, 12:37 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Herrsching,near München
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| Bob, Hello & wellcome
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06-28-2008, 03:39 PM
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| Siggy Master   Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Poland
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| Hallo Bob, Nice to read you here.Please, stay with us longer and enjoy. 
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06-28-2008, 09:13 PM
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| Der Crewchief  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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| Welcome to the forum.
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06-28-2008, 10:24 PM
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| Older Than Dirt  Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia
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| Hey Bob... Where in Virginia Beach ?? I live here.... in Windsor Woods. Welcome to the forum... Charles
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06-29-2008, 02:16 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Alexandria, MN. USA
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| Welcome Bob. Hope you enjoy it here.
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06-29-2008, 08:48 AM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2008
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| Thanks folks! 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). Bob |
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06-29-2008, 12:30 PM
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| The Pop-Tart Whisperer   Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: South Jersey, United States
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| Welcome to the forum from a little further north on the East Coast!
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06-30-2008, 08:37 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Adelaide Sth. Aust.
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| Hi Bob, welcome to the forum mate!
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07-09-2008, 05:51 AM
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| Member  Join Date: Jun 2008
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| echos of same from down under.
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07-09-2008, 05:56 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Zlin, Czech Republic
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| Hello Dubar! 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, 07:25 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Heyfield, Victoria
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| Hi Dunbar Greetings from "down under" Welcome!
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07-09-2008, 09:17 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Dallas, Tx
Posts: 4,346
| Welcome to the site
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07-09-2008, 11:56 AM
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| Member  Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Gloucestershire, England
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|  Hi from England Hi & welcome , lots of chat & info on here---- Enjoy
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