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    And it doesn't take much alcohol to land one with a DUI charge nowadays either. They are watching very closely around here during the holiday season.
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    I wish I could sit down next to an expert user of acrylic paints through the airbrush, and just observe what they do and how they do it. I know for sure there are those who get incredibly good results from acrylic paints and primers because I have seen their finished products. If there is a truly "sandable" acrylic primer, I am unaware of what it is or who makes it. Acrylic paints through the airbrush remain an enigma for me.
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    Happy Thanksgiving everybody. No matter if this is a holiday from the USA, no matter where we are from, we all have things to be thankful for. I am thankful for all the fine folks at MSW and this wonderful forum for this super hobby of ours. My daughter dressed Topaz in a turkey suit today. Gobble-gobble.
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    Check out this fish my grandson caught yesterday. Fishing with his rod and reel using dough balls for bait. A carp. Catch and release of course.
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    Mostly it’s just personal preference between plated vs painted bright metal. Every place where plated parts are removed from the plastic sprue tree leaves marks that need to be matched with touch up paint. Near impossible to match. Often there are imperfections under the plating that needs attention by filling sanding or general imperfections in the plating itself. There are very good paint options nowadays that give a very good representation of polished metal and I find this finish more consistent once applied.
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    And also the new pup came home this week. Daughter is thrilled.
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    Moving along slowly. Quite a lot of fit, filling, and finish issues to take care of on this vintage kit. Chassis is going together while there are details to finish on the drivetrain and engine.
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    She's a beautiful bird Edward! Outstanding.
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    This is my feeble attempt at building the DeAgostini HMS Victory in 1:84 Scale. I started building my model some few or more years ago but have not worked on it again since 2016. I am hoping by starting this build thread it will prod me into maybe even finishing it. I am not an accomplished model ship builder and will be happy to receive hints, tips and advice along the way. Looking back, I recall stalling at the stage where I began to lay down "copper" tape on the lower part of the hull. I was not thrilled with the way my attempt was looking, so I will need to start there and see what I can do. probably with my lack of experience, I am hoping for a level of perfection that is unreasonable. But I would like to finish this model even if it's not near perfect.
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    Oh, and please let me also mention that between some academic scholarships, grants, and her working part time jobs, all her education costs have been paid in full. She owes nothing, nada, zilch. I am really proud of the way she put her nose to the grindstone and did it all without a ridiculous accumulation of debt. For reasons I don't fully understand, some of her classmates through high school who were equally good students with consistent high grades, honors societies, and so forth, have graduated under a mountain of debt.
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    My baby girl graduated with her bachelors degree this morning in New Hampshire. Wife and big sisters are up there with her while I babysit our dog, Snowball, here at home in sunny Florida.
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    Looking at the three engine compartment photos, the 1st is somewhat different than the other 2. I think that possibly the first photo is of a different year model, maybe? The first photo seems more original as the other two photos appear to be maybe, restored? For sure the second two photos are of a cleaner engine compartment, but I think maybe the first one is more original. Any thoughts? My kit does not have what looks in the first photo to be some type of coolant reservoir just behind the radiator and in front of the cylinder heads. Been off on other tangents of late and haven't done a whole lot of work on the model. Will have some update photos, hopefully in the next few days. The age of this kit and the engineering of it bring back memories as I work on it. Reminiscent in some ways of the old JoHan classic car kits but a much larger, 1:16 scale. A little crude by today's standards. More attention required to prepping the parts before assembly as well as filling minor gaps and other little flaws here and there. This Rolls Royce has a very distinct and unusual chassis and suspension setup. You'll see it when I get there.🙂
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    There was a Fokker D.VII, Sopwith Camel, and a SPAD as I recall. an oddball box-scale sort of series of WW1 planes came out in the '60's. Very good for their time.
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    What a great model. I love things like this. So much visual appeal and the fact that it's so much different than what we are used to seeing makes it stand out. Now you have drawn me to look at the entire series of these type kits. Never knew about them before. My grandsons would love stuff like this.
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    What a beautiful addition to your model aircraft collection. Congratulations on another fine model completed.
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    I had a dearly departed friend who was a B-17 tail gunner. He survived being shot over Europe down 3 times! The third time he was captured and spent the remainder of the war in a German POW camp. He never talked much about it, but he sure could pound down Wild Turkey. I always imagined it was his pain killer for everything he had seen and gone through during the war. A very successful road and bridge contractor.
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    Until now, never had any idea that a shade of red was used inside certain British aircraft fuselage. It's the first time I have ever seen it. Looks very interesting and different for sure. Reminds me of the red seen inside ship hulls on the gun decks.
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    I saw that too. Also, their "news" section tells about it. Says they are expecting delivery very soon, but they are not offering preorder. First come, first served when it gets here.
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    My son is a huge Ebay seller, just not model kits. He has taught me a lot of tricks to watch for when buying or selling. His knowledge and recall of what items are worth is astounding to me. He can spot a valuable item a mile away. Things I wouldn't notice or give a second look if I did, he can spot it and immediately know how much he can make from the sale of it. He bought a big box of new old stock electrical items one day when I was with him garage sale hopping. I think he gave maybe $25 for the entire box. He sold individual items out of that box for hundreds of dollars each. They were component parts for commercial grade HVAC units.
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    I always check the "sold" prices on Ebay, not the active, asking prices. Often there is a large disparity between the asking prices and the actual sold prices. There was one particular WnW kit I wanted from Ebay but the asking prices were $150 or even more than the actual, historical sold prices. I made a seller an offer for the sold (history) price and explained why. He declined. I waited and within a week or two bought another one for the historic sold amount. That other seller never sold his kit and took it down from Ebay listing. But yeah, there are some ridiculous prices people are asking for their stuff. Probably sometimes they even get it because people don't take the time to thoroughly check history. For those that don't know, you can begin a search for an item on Ebay, then select the check mark for "sold" items only. This will give you a list f items that match your search that have sold in the last 90 days or so.
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    I agree with you 100% on this. Wish Andy had limited the orders to one of each, because I have a feeling there were resellers who came along and ordered dozens each of certain kits that have the highest resale value, and that hurts the modeler who actually builds the kits. I don't know what else could explain certain kits being sold out just two minutes past 6:00 PM. I seriously doubt it was from modelers who bought one of each.
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    I don't see anything about the kits on Spruebrothers website. Where did you hear about it?
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    Didn't know Spruebrothers were also getting a shipment. Thanks for that update. Andy said the container had thousands of kits. Hard to believe so many sold out in just minutes like that. Some people must have been ordering many of each.
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    Unbelievable....I started trying to open the page at 6:00 PM on the dot. Wouldn't show the products. After hitting "refresh" over and over again, it finally came up around 6:02 PM. Some of the inventory was already "sold out". I did manage to order a duelist kit which contains two kits, the Halberstadt Cl.II and an RE8 Harry Tate. In addition, snagged the Jeannin Stahltaube, and the DH.2 with Lanoe Hawker figure. I am happy to land these kits, for sure. Maybe will be here by Christmas, we'll see.

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