Mark Deliduka

Welcome Pablo. Looking forward to seeing some of your work. Enjoy the Forums.

Thank you Eric. I appreciate this.

Welcome Dave! Feel free to Hangul out as long and as much as you want! I do hope to see some of your work as well.

I have used it. My Dio Base isn't finished, but once I cut/carved each part for the different elevations and such, I sealed the whole thing in Modge Podge. That made it solid and very firm, allowing my plaster to adhere to it without any problems to the foam itself. I think, based on what a friend of mine involved in the floral industry told me, is that the water added to flowers in the foam is what mostly cause it to eventually 'decay/deteriorate'. So far, my dio base has been consistently solid for the last three years.

Hey all, I'm seeing an increasing number of posts asking about Hobby Shops in other cities. So, in order to facilitate things for all you travelers, I've started this Sticky Thread here to allow anyone who wishes to check out our very own Hobby Shop locator resource here on the site. Now, instead of posting a question asking where any hobby shops are, you can check this Thread out first and save your fingers the abuse of typing! Here is the link to our Hobby Shop address spreadsheet in Members Services: Hobby Shops Across the Nation Also, if anyone wants to take this info and establish a map (like Google Map or something) showing all these sites on it similar to the one done for all the shows and events, I'll add that link to this page as well. I'm leaving this Thread open for anyone wishing to post updated info on any Hobby Shop address changes, openings or closings in your town as well in order to keep this info updated as much as possible. So if you know about a Hobby Shop change of address, opening or closing, feel free to post it here in this Thread. Thank you all for helping me help others and for keeping this vital information current.

Henk of Holland also has loads of instruction sheets, but it is all for 1/72 scale armor.

Cool. Thanks John. I figured they were not 1/72 scale. I do have a 1/72 scale Victor and Vulcan in 1/72 scale already built, so all I need is the Valiant for the set. It's cool to see these sent over for the tour. Looking forward to the rebuilds!

Oh man, that is a beautiful display!! Splendid job on nthat R-100 blimnp. That would be a great kit to have! I would LOVE to have those ships for my Navy, especially that Shell Welder in the back! I take it that the three V-bombers are a smaller scale than 1/72. I need to get the Valiant next to complete my collection of V-bombers in 1/72 scale. That Mach I kit is expensive though.... I also love the four-engined Air Support Command plane. What kind of plane is that? I'd love to have a 1/72 scale model of that!

Man, I am overwhelmed with how incredible that looks! How did you do the natural wood so realistically? I'm speechless!

Stunning work! This is awesome! I love the three-tone bare metal finish! Did Strombecker make armor models? I got a wooden tank model from a friend once, I can't remember what is on the box though. I may have to pull i9t out and see what it is.

Where do you get it and how much? I brush 85% of my models. This would be a good thing to have by the gallon....

Welcome Will. Good to see you. Have fun browsing the models and works in progress here. Hope to see you at Phoenix.

Welcome to the Forums Paul. Beautiful work! I have a 1/72 scale DC-2 as well, someday I'll get to building it. It is good to see one built up like you have.

I'm also like Mark. I like movable parts on my models. After all, it's a model of a vehicle/machine. Why not also model what parts of it are able to do? Yeah, I play with mine too. Sometimes even in public on a war game table! One of my biggest pet peeves with model companies is when they tell you in an early step to "be very careful not to allow these parts to glue so they can move". Then in a later step you're told "glue this piece here so that this (movable) part stays in one position. AAGGHHH! If you wanted the part to move in the first place, then finish your half cocked engineering and stop being lazy! I'm faced with that problem on the Blackjack Russian bomber I have. I'm supposed to choose whether I want the wings to be extended or retracted because of the wing fences at the base of the wing. I'm gonna engineer this bad boy so the wing fences rise when the wings are retracted and lower when the wings extend! Too bad Trumpeter didn't finish their engineering so that I didn't have to do this extra step!! To me that is lazy!! Okay, back to your regular scheduled programming...

Ken, as for the rest of those kits, if you do not think you will be building them, I'd be happy to take one off your hands. I believe the D or C version was given to the Iraqi's and I've been wanting to get one to make Iraqi. If you'd like, save it for me to get at Phoenix and that just might be the bird I build in your commuunal build at the hotel. Or of you want to clear space, PM me the price and postage and I'll reply with my snail mail address.

Speaking for myself, I'm building quite a lot and I post a lot of pictures. I usually finish about 55-60 models a year anyway, and you can see everything I've been working on for most of the year in my General Modeling Forums Thread about my workbench. I am looking forward to seeing your pics. Hopefully you can get them posted soon and get some more discussion going. Thanks Ying.

I've never seen the extended version of "Dune". That might be interesting. I think they kept to the book fairly well in the beginning but got lazy in the last third part of the movie. Otherwise, I liked it too. It would be interesting seeing it re-done with modern tech today.

Hey Jeff! No fair sticking a pic of your local hobby shop's shelves in there! This is supposed to be YOUR workspace! Seriously though, nice stash! I also love the space, I'm getting some ideas here for revamping my own space.

Welcome to the Forums Chris. I also have built pretty much everything (and still have them!) I have a couple helicopters here on the boards if you care to peruse them in the Aircraft Forums. They are in 1/72 scale, as that is the scale I build exclusively in for aircraft and armor. Enjoy your time here on the boards!

Thank you Jay. I really appreciate that very much. I will keep going, in fact I just started about 6 new projects already. As for the rest, feel free to skip over all that other mess. Come on back to the Modeling Forums and I'll try to keep more new additions on here for you to look at. Maybe then you'll get that smile back about the Hobby. I also have to say, the first jackstand you made looks outstanding! Beautiful job; it looks just like a full sized one. I almost mistook it for one. I seriously would love a set of these in 1/72 scale. Keep it up and keep photo-etching!

Oh that's good!! I'd have loved to have seen a pic of that model! Ross, that is an outstanding job! Your gold foil work is incredible. I like it.

Gil, that is brilliant! Stunning work on that bird. The cockpit looks real enough to climb into and start flipping switches! Best of luck at Warner Robbins.

Beautiful job! Love the look of that Swordfish. Good luck at Telford.

Nice job! Now if you can shrink that down to 1/72 scale I'd be happy to purchase a few from you. You've done outstanding here. Keep it up.

Ah yes, Tracks-n-Troops! I'm very familiar with that site. They got some great stuff and I regularly communicate with Milan on Braille Scale Forums on Missing Lynx. Thanks for the links. I may try to get a couple once I get more income.