RGronovius
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I agree, I always like the Soviet light tanks. Your build looks great.
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On 4/23/2020 at 9:02 AM, Paul said:
Are there any online only IPMS clubs or clubs with a healthy online component?
I'm interested not only because of the current pandemic threat, but also because I'm not physically near any club. I'd like to just meet up with some model makers and talk about what we're doing these days. An hour or so on a video chat would be fun - just to see people and swap some build stories. I work from home, so I do a lot of video meetings already. Occasionally having one about something fun would be great!
Is there anything like that currently? If not, is anyone interested in one?
Most of the clubs have extremely active FaceBook groups, including several in the Massachusetts area that I belonged to when I was stationed there. Although I've been gone for nearly 15 years, I still stay in contact with the club members and keep up with their club goings.
This is the AMPS group (armor modeling) I still stay in touch with https://www.facebook.com/groups/1581450152071913/
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there are some rank decals http://www.archertransfers.com/ASSETS/FiguresPg2.pdf
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11 hours ago, Neo said:
Mark,
The kits in the flyer were mostly from the Japanese animated TV show “Dougram”. Max Factory in Japan has been issuing new tool kits of the mecha and vehicles:
I never knew exactly where they came from when I first saw them while in college in the early 80s. I knew the kits as depicted on the box were not as they were supposed to be painted. There were virtually entire decal schemes not used in the instructions. The kits were different scales and the manufacturing was different as well. You could tell they weren't from the same series. It would be like boxing a Monogram Colonial Viper with the MPC Darth Vader TIE fighter; roughly the same scale, but not quite and definitely different manufacturers.
When I collected my old kits from my parents' house in 2004, I found many of the poorly built kits and a couple I bought on clearance but never built. So I started searching for the original instructions online so I can build them as they were intended.
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Sure, I'll sell all three.
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I have several of them. I will look to see which ones I have.
I have all three, the second one is still unopened.
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This insert shows some of the ground based 1/72 scale armor kits. I still have several of the built ones, and the giant tractor trailer ground recovery unit, right hand side, second from the bottom, is one of the unbuilt ones.
Some of the remnants of my built kits from the 80s.
The helicopter in the bottom left hand corner of the insert is in this photo. It resembles a reconfigured Chinook used to insert the robots.
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On 2/24/2020 at 2:19 PM, Mark Deliduka said:
I agree. Although Gundam models don't generate a great deal of interest for me; I can still respect and admire a well-built, excellent detailed model. They are all models as you say and deserve to be respected as such; especially given the incredible talent most of these Gundam modelers have. I was entranced by that diorama in the Journal and I'm thrilled that the editors included it.
There are some awesome 1/72 scale pseudo military scale models that were originally produced to go along with the Robotech style kits. I was first introduced to these through the Revell Robotech series in the 1980s. Back then I built a lot of Hasegawa 1/72 scale armor and Matchbox 1/76 scale armor. These "Godzilla fighting" military wheeled armored vehicles were quite well done.
My understanding about the Revell Robotech series is that they combined totally unrelated Japanese animated series and created Robotech from it. It would be like a Japanese company combing Star Wars, Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica models and releasing them as a "Galaxy Wars" series where the Enterprise launches X-Wings to attack a Base Star.
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I picked up this old kit recently, it appears complete since I went over it with a medium-toothed comb.
Anyone ever build this old dinosaur? It's in Revell's military miniature 1/40th scale. I built several of their old kits back in the day, but never this particular kit. Just wondering what to expect.
I do have the desire to use tube glue and small bottles of Testors paint to build this kit. Where the instructions in the original kit better than the life like ones?
https://www.scalemates.com/products/img/1/0/0/207100-65-instructions.pdf
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On 2/28/2020 at 1:23 AM, Neo said:
And yet I hear the same thing told to me over and over again. It gets old after 25+ years in IPMS.
Anyway, enough of my rant. I just wanted to praise Jerry’s nice diorama. I really liked it a lot! Jerry, if you can, i’d like to see more detail photos, to see what characters are in the crowd!
I still believe sci-fi and fantasy models are the gateway to our hobby. Fans want to build a model of the latest star wars vehicle. Gamers want to build "their" in game version of their World of Tank tanks.
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On 2/22/2020 at 9:56 PM, Neo said:
Time and again I have heard the old trope that plastic models should only represent actual, historically significant machines, and nothing else. I have had that told to my face verbatim at an IPMS meeting. That is total bunk; those little plastic planes fired no shots and won no wars...
There have always been mundane subjects such as automobiles or cargo vehicles that were not historically significant machines. There are models of figures, monsters, animals, sailboats, and the entire science fiction genre of items that never existed or may have only been movie props.
Even a model of the TV series Batmobile, a fairly iconic vehicle, is mainly a model of a vehicle that is just a mock up of vehicle that is based on someone's imagination.
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Modern water buffalos are normally assigned to the company's supply deuce and a half. So if the truck is bumper number A-4, the trailer is A-4-T.
I can see a lot of interest in one of these.
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Okay, are you talking about the many small individual track links that make up one side of the tank track, you know, like gluing 100 of them together to form one side?
Or are you talking about two long pieces of vinyl tracks which uses two per side for a total of 4 pieces of vinyl track?
I'm not familiar with that particular kit. Many current kits include the tiny multiple pieces that form the track. Here is a link to an old track tutorial.
https://armorama.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=1737
But there are several kits that use two long pieces of vinyl track to make up one side of the track. Italeri's Leopard 2 comes to mind.
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Yes, solely for nostalgia and I really don't care about accuracy. I know I was not satisfied with my build way back then.
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Many years ago, prior to 1977, I got this 1/72 scale Monogram Tomcat F-14 kit as a birthday gift. I've stumbled across it once again and wonder if it's worth building or one of those old kits "not worth the glue or time"?
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/monogram-5992-tomcat-f-14a--161285
As a kid, I don't recall much issue with it besides my using white gloss Testors paint from a small dime bottle and it looking like crap, but that was 40 years ago. It's not my normal modeling genre any longer, but the nostalgia sets in.
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Squadron carries the Hobby Boss kits for $20ish. Track48 slightly cheaper, but in Canadian dollars. http://www.track48.com/hobby-boss-c-18/
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I remember getting mad at her for stepping out on Luke in ESB.
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my first movie crush, the 13 yr old me wanted some princess.
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The Red Baron wasn't hunting innocent civilian pilots who were on a Sunday flight enjoying the French countryside. He was an aerial combatant stalking other aerial combatants during a World War. If he enjoyed what he did, it was probably so he could cope with the idea of hunting his fellow man, knowing he could easily become the hunted in a moment's notice.
McVeigh's car or his Ryder rental truck would be rather morbid as would OJ's getaway white Ford Bronco (I know it wasn't his vehicle). You would probably have to put some sort of description of the vehicle's historical significance since many wouldn't know the getaway vehicles and just see them as model cars. Same with the airliners that were hijacked during the 9/11 attacks. They would require descriptive plaques to identify their historical significance.
Everyone recognizes the Red Baron's triplane. Not everyone would recognize a Japanese plane that attacked the Arizona.
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I read the original version as a free Kindle book. It would be awesome to see a movie of it in its period correct era. Also the 1950s version with the America tanks and the brief glimpse of the flying wing bomber is also a classic.
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When painting modern US armor, I just go for "what looks right". The only time the tanks look the same is when they are fresh from the paint booth.
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And for out desert tan tanks, in the motor pool, the sun faded the top surfaces and any side surfaces that got direct sunlight. The side that was shielded by another tank or faced away from the sun looked very yellow compared to the sun faded bleached look of the upper surfaces. One tank, one paint scheme, two different shades.
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When we painted our M60A3TTS tanks, we often mixed different colors of paint to make it last. It never seemed like we had enough of the brown paint. So sometimes we'd pour some tan or black into the brown to make it last. While all tanks got the same base coat of forest green, the brown would then vary from an earth or baseball mitt leather brown to a kind of olive brown.
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As a lifelong US Army tanker and modeler, I always cringe when I see items piled on the blast panels of an Abrams tank or tank rounds loosely stacked on top of a turret like they are pick up sticks. Other items like rifles laying about in a diorama or set on an part of a vehicle that they would fall off as soon as the vehicle went into motion.
It may look good, but not accurate.
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Kind of expensive, but here is a set on eBay: https://www.ebay.com/itm/REPRODUCTION-DECAL-REVELL-JUPITER-C-THOR-JUPITER-IRBM-OR-REDSTONE-MERCURY/221494444382?hash=item339219015e:g:jHEAAOSwmfhcWzcG
Have you tried contacting Revell via their website for replacements?