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12-18-2007, 12:41 PM
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| Member  Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Schwanebeck near Harz-mountains
Posts: 78
| Which Scale is the ZERO? |
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12-19-2007, 02:07 PM
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| Member  Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Houston, Texas.
Posts: 87
  | 1:32. DBII, I've seen it. It's in tropical colors? It's in Midland now, correct? I went there a couple years back and I was one day off on planning our trip, from being able to sit in the damn thing!  =/ Yup... Such is life.
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12-19-2007, 02:18 PM
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| Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Schwanebeck near Harz-mountains
Posts: 78
| The TAMIYA? |
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12-19-2007, 02:35 PM
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| Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Houston, Texas.
Posts: 87
| No no, it's not a kit.  It's pre-built and pre-painted, made by 21st Century Toys. I just do the weathering. Check out... Welcome to 21st Century Toys The manufacturer's site. Has a little bit of info, if you dig. But for a lot of their planes and tanks, go here... Bad Cat Toys Inc. - Toy Airplanes, Military Models, Diecast Model Airplanes and click either Aircraft or Armor and click either 1:32 or 1:18 scale. Select 21st Century Toys and you'll see. WarToyZ.com Same as BadCat, but a different selection. Still, between these two sites, it does not represent even half of all the paint jobs they've come out with. O.O It's awesome to see a real collection. Mine is nothing. I'll take pics soon tonight, with my gnarly new camera. It's hard to find these if you're outside the US. But if you're looking to order, go with BadCat. Incredible customer service from what I hear. I suggest these specific molds, mainly because they're newer and so beautiful compared to their original, toy-ish molds... Fw-190D-9 Fw-190A Fw-190F Ju-87B/R Macchi C.202 Macchi C.205 P-51B P-51C P-51D NEW mold (Kick ass compared to the old one!) A6M2 A6M3 Me-109F Me-109G P-40B F4U-1 The older molds aren't bad, by any means, but they're not as detailed or as advanced as the newer ones. The P-40B is an intermediate mold. It's new-old. It's beautiful though.
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12-19-2007, 05:51 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Melbourne, Victoria
Posts: 7,678
| I wish a large chain store over here would stock a few. I'd happily snap some up very quickly. I used to get really cheap Tamiya kits at Big W but now they have stopped stocking anything kit related 
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12-19-2007, 05:59 PM
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: LOWELL MI.
Posts: 27
| PRETTY COOL............ |
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12-19-2007, 08:34 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Queensland, Australia
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12-19-2007, 09:11 PM
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| Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Houston, Texas.
Posts: 87
| Yeah even the Wally Worlds stateside are downsizing their model stuff. Even the stuff I look for, the pre-built stuff was a mess. Nothing new, and little of nothing. They seem to have plenty of everything else, from Spiderman, to Barbie, to frickin' crack cocaine... Angered me. I wanted to punch people. But my medications restrain me. I just got out of the mental hospital getting my meds straight for 4 days, I was screwed up... =/
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12-20-2007, 01:04 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Melbourne, Victoria
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Like I got the Mosquito and beaufighter for 30 bucks and in model shops they were 60-70 dollars. I was hoping they would get a 1/48 Lancaster  Because they priced all the tamiya kits the same.But alas now even the paint and glues are gone Toyworld got kicked out of the local shopping centre and sadly closed down. WHile he was i snapped up a ton of kits and model supplies dirt cheap. My main resource for kits and materials is a games world store, they are pretty good for range and putty etc... Theres a new local hobby store but hes mostly R/C stuff.
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12-20-2007, 08:29 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Queensland, Australia
Posts: 3,625
| yeah I just went to toyworld today to get some paint so no more excuses its time to get building! I also picked up a classic planes c-47 cheap as well. Its a ready made kit with snap together parts.
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12-21-2007, 10:02 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Barranquilla, Colombia
Posts: 121
| Great paint job Skull! I particulary liked the chipping applied on the leading edges, very convincing. Would you mind explaining your technique here. It looks like the silver pencil technique... I use prismacolors, but I have yet to achieve that effect...
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12-21-2007, 10:50 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Texas
Posts: 1,774
| Alloy Skull, the 109 is in Midland. Back in the 70's there were 2. I do not know the current status. They were used in the movie, Battle of Britian. DBII |
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12-21-2007, 12:07 PM
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| Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Houston, Texas.
Posts: 87
| Very interesting, two in Texas?  Jgonzalez, I use Testors silver enamel paint. I take a hard, flat brush, and I dip the very tip in into the bottle and wipe 80% of the paint off of the brush onto a paper towel. I take the brush and kind of stab the corners of it at the places to be chipped lightly, it's an odd way to do it, but it seems to work. It is key that the brush be really almost devoid of paint. It takes a lot of time but when done you don't have overkill in some places. (Like my Fw-190)  It's best to buy some really cheap planes to practice on, not models but toys.
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