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Hubert Boillot

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  1. 23 hours ago, shipman said:

    Hubert, we've swapped PM's. I'm trying to sort out the ebay malarky, to pay you.

    I've sent a couple of updates to you, but Mailer-Daemon keeps returning them to me. My old brain hurts!

    Hi Alex, no worry. I got your emails, and your kit will be on his way this week. Thank you again !

     

  2. 9 hours ago, mtaylor said:

    I'm going to add this a bit... Please don't post your email or personal identification (address, etc.) but use the PM to Hubert.  We do get crawled by a lot of bots and you really don't want your personal info out in the wild of the Internet.

    Yes, thanks for the reminder. It went without saying for me, but it is always better to repeat it 🙂 ...

    I got some PMs already.

    Thanks for watching.

    Hubert

  3. Hello all,

     

    As the building of my new house progresses and the prospects of moving there get nearer (this is hopefully my -2 or -1 house move, the next ones being to the crematorium with maybe a intermediate stop to the elderly home), I have to decide whether I will move all of the stash with me.

     

    The honest answer is no, because I will certainly not build everything I have. So I am selling some plastic ship kits. Shipping is extra, at cost, from Portugal to anywhere in the world. I will try to minimise the parcel weight without compromising the content, but you all know that postage costs can now kill a seemingly good deal. Payment is via Paypal, or, for European buyers, alternatively via SEPA banks transfer if you prefer.

     

    I will check the content before sending the kit and asking for final payment. If the content is not complete, I will not sell the kit. Therefore, I don't believe a return is a viable proposition. Some kits are really old, and the box shows it. Do not expect to buy collector-pristine boxes. I always believed (how self-delusional can one be ?) I would build all of them, and never had a collector's approach to these.

     

    I am open to (reasonable) counter-offers and grouped deals, but no trade. This is to free some space after all 😉.

     

    1) Merit (Hobby-Boss) 1/200 Mikasa 1905 Sold

    I have a duplicate of this one, having subsequently bought the 1902 version, which I am keener on owing to the color scheme.

    Asking price : € 100

    2) Revell 1/96 USS Kearsage.

    An old, and I believe OOP kit. The box top, in typical Revell fashion has taken some beating, but content OK. Asking price : € 60

    3) Hasegawa 1/350 "Soya" Antartic Research vessel. Asking € 40

    4) Eastern Express 1/350 Borodino . € 30

    5) Zvesda 1/350 Cruiser Varyag. € 15

    6) Otaki 1/36 (?) "Miss Tahiti" Ketch : € 30

    7) Revell 1/160 Steam paddle-steamer "Goethe" : € 25. Box typical flap opening flimsy carboard, so battered just by looking at it 😐

    8- ICM 1/350 "Grosser Kurfürst" WWI Battlewagon : € 20

    9) Heller 1/600 Queen Mary 2: € 20

    10) Glencoe 1/400 (approx) USS United States: € 40

    11) Revell 1/350 SMS Emden : € 10

    12) Revell SS Oriana (rare OOP liner ship). Scale approx 1/500. € 20

    13) Lee 1/500 SS Brazil (ex-Revell molds). € 20. Instruction sheet is a photocopy of original, which was missing in my box.

    14) Airfix 1/600 liners. € 10 each:

    * SS Canberra

    * RMS Queen Elzabeth II

    * RMS Queen Elizabeth

    15) Airfix 1/160 (?) Great Western steam and sails liner . € 20

    16) Revell ship kits. € 10 each* 1/350 Hawaian Pilot cargoship

     

     * 1/380 N/S Savannah

     * 1/400 Oil Tanker "Glasgow"

     * 1/471 Hospital ship "Hope"

     * USS Burton Island ice breaker

    17) Revell 1/570 Queen Mary. € 15

    18) IMEX Cargo ships. € 15 each

    * 1/400 MS Nedloyd Bharain

     * 1/450 Cargoliner Trinidad

    19) 2 very rare ITC kits ship . Boxes old and worn. Don't expect collector-pristine condition, but nice kits kits when built

    * "ATLANTIC" 3-masted schooner. Charlie Barr's Atlantic-crossing record holder for 70 years. Asking € 40

    * "Corsair II" steam yacht. JP Morgan's famous 1930 yacht/commuter. Asking € 20

    20) Pyro "Blockade Runner" mixed propulsion. € 15

    This is a 1/96 scale (I believe, but not too sure) kit of the famous Revenue Cutter Harriet Lane. Box shows the age of the kit.

    21) Revell 1/125 "Calypso" research vessel. € 30

    The kit was later renamed "research vessel" without the "Calypso" name, owing to a licensing conflict with the Cousteau foundation.

    22) Giving free to a good home, but shipping on top.    Gone !

     * Imai 1/350 tall sailing vessels : Mircea, Nippon Maru, Juan Sebastian de Elcano, Cutty Sark

     * Lindberg Russian Missile tracking fishing trawler. About 1/140 scale, model of a North Atlatic fishing trawler. Box sound but grease-stained

     * Lindberg Motorized shrimp boat (1/60  ?)

     

    Please don't hesitate to ask me questions and contact me.

     

    Hubert

  4. I have been away for a couple of weeks (focusing on other projects like having a house built, until everything - including my own company - came to a grinding halt), but the feast for the eyes (well, mine at least, as I can imagine some of the strain on yours sometimes ;) ) on returning is always so great !

     

    Picking up my jaw, my chair, the popcorn and waiting for more :)

     

    Hubert

  5. 20 hours ago, Ponto said:

    There is a fine line between the efficiency resulting from being totally organized and the total euphoria one feels when the elusive tool that has eluded you for quite some time, finally presents itself at the most opportune time.  I still struggle to find the happy medium..........................!!!!!!

    Yes, but which one is it really ? The first one, or the second you bought because you could not find the first, or the third because both the first and second of the same had disappeared 😉 ? That the one who has not multiples of the same tool throws the first nail at me 😁 ...

     

    Hubert

  6. My workbench (used essentially for 1/32 plastic aircraft models) used to shrink to the usual free one-square-foot.

     

    I have invested in Hobbyzone (hoobyzone.pl) modules, and my modelling life was changed. Now, part of the discipline in modelling is to end up any session (admittedly not as frequent as I could wish) with a cleaning and putting back tools in their right place.

     

    It makes modelling so much more enjoyable, especially when you start every time with a clean (and orderly) bench ;) .

     

    Hubert

  7. In my eyes, the J-class is still the epitome of racing yachts, and you have rendered true justice to this classic among the classics. She looks sleek, beautiful, racy, even sexy ... A master achievement you can be proud of.

     

    If I may venture a small criticism, the cradle you have chosen, whilst justified for stability reasons, looks a bit « heavy » and spoils a little the fantastic lines of the hull.

     

    A fantastic result nevertheless. Well done !

     

    Hubert

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