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  • Member since
    September 2021
  • From: Norfolk, England 🇬🇧
Hello!
Posted by AB88 on Friday, September 3, 2021 1:35 PM

Good evening everyone, 

If its evening where you are, if not good morning or good day.

Nice to be here, not built a kit since I was well a lot younger but came across an old kit I started when I was about 18 or 19 ( a Revell Peterbilt Black widow) only got the chassis together and put it away due to a move. And well life took over and here we are.

I actually found this forum while I was doing a bit of research/ recapping on the black widow and discovered a post by a lady she had written in 2011 that had built one and it looked pretty good all things considered ( the lady took on a already started kit) I did try to leave a comment but am not sure it worked. Anyway  thought It would be good to register as there appears to be a wealth of knowledge here.

Just wanted to say hello, introduce myself and I may be calling on some of that knowledge if that's okay. 

Cheers. 

Take care and stay safe 

Kind regards AB88.

 

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Posted by Flight Line Media on Wednesday, September 8, 2021 1:34 AM
Hello! Welcome to the forum. Glad to have you here.

Andrew

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  • From: New Braunfels, Texas
Posted by Tanker-Builder on Wednesday, September 8, 2021 9:02 AM

Well;

 A good Morning and welcome to you too!

  • Member since
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  • From: Norfolk, England 🇬🇧
Posted by AB88 on Wednesday, September 8, 2021 11:52 AM

Good afternoon Flight Line Media, 

Thanks for the reply and the welcome its great to be a part of something, especially something I was in to when I was a lot younger.

Also I wasn't sure my posts had worked as I wrote them quite a few hours before they were passed.

Cheers AB88 

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  • Member since
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  • From: Norfolk, England 🇬🇧
Posted by AB88 on Wednesday, September 8, 2021 11:56 AM

Good afternoon Tanker-Builder 

Thanks for the reply and the welcome, its really appreciated and as I mentioned to another member its great to be a part of something, especially something I was in to when I was a lot younger.

Also I wasn't sure my posts had worked as I wrote them quite a few hours before they were passed.

Cheers AB88 

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  • Member since
    September 2021
  • From: Norfolk, England 🇬🇧
Posted by AB88 on Wednesday, September 8, 2021 12:03 PM

Good afternoon all,

Just a quick reply to tryout this quick reply thingy as it might make my life easier to reply to more than one person at a time!

But then again it might not. Doing this on a mobile not a PC apologies.

Having said that I'm not to great with them either

fox
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    January 2007
  • From: Narvon, Pa.
Posted by fox on Thursday, September 9, 2021 2:27 PM

Welcome to the Forums! Glad to have you aboard.

Look forward to seeing your builds.

Jim Captain

Stay Safe.

 Main WIP: 

   On the Bench: Artesania Latina  (aka) Artists in the Latrine 1/75 Bluenose II

I keep hitting "escape", but I'm still here.

  • Member since
    September 2021
  • From: Norfolk, England 🇬🇧
Posted by AB88 on Thursday, September 9, 2021 3:22 PM

Hello Jim, 

Thanks for the welcome reply I really appreciate it hope to have something (the peterbilt) or if I can find what I'm looking for in the UK a steam loco or I have a massive soft spot for the Avro Lancaster Bomber. But as you know these things take time and are not to be rushed.

Cheers stay safe

 

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  • From: USA
Posted by keavdog on Thursday, September 9, 2021 4:56 PM

Welcome!  We have a few regulars from the UK on here.

Thanks,

John

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    January 2012
  • From: Cincinnati, OH
Posted by DanR1967 on Thursday, September 9, 2021 10:52 PM
Welcome back to the hobby. Get ready to start spending money!

Dan

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  • Member since
    September 2021
  • From: Norfolk, England 🇬🇧
Posted by AB88 on Friday, September 10, 2021 12:32 PM

Good evening Keavdog, Thanks for the welcome reply much appreciated and looking forward to getting advice and chatting.

Cheers.

  • Member since
    September 2021
  • From: Norfolk, England 🇬🇧
Posted by AB88 on Friday, September 10, 2021 12:35 PM

Good evening DanR1967,

Thanks for the welcome reply I really appreciate all of them as I am new to this forum thing only really done it once before in conjunction with my old land rover.

A really good way of getting advice as there is a wealth of knowledge here.

Cheers.

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  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Friday, September 10, 2021 12:56 PM

Welcome aboard. Nice to have someone else from the east on here, even better from Nelsons County.

Your first post or 2 take a biut of time to show up as they have to be approved, after that they go up straight away.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

  • Member since
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  • From: Norfolk, England 🇬🇧
Posted by AB88 on Friday, September 10, 2021 1:49 PM

Ah I see thanks Bish, 

Yep I agree it's good to know we're in the east especially Nelsons County. Although everyone so far across the water has been welcoming. 

Cheers. 

  • Member since
    July 2014
Posted by modelcrazy on Friday, September 10, 2021 1:54 PM

Welcome from across the pond Big Smile

You said you had started on a Pete then went to the P-61? I hope I got that right. If it's the Monogram 61 then sorry about that mate. The Mono 61 it not a nice kit to return to. Good to have you here and look forward to conversing you you. If you're like all the other British on here then you will be a might fine bloke. Big Smile

Posting photos is a trick if you've never posted before. But you'll get the hang of it with a little help from your friends.

I would like to see that Peterbuilt.

Welcome Sign

Steve

Building a kit from your stash is like cutting a head off a Hydra, two more take it's place.

 

 

http://www.spamodeler.com/forum/

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    September 2021
  • From: Norfolk, England 🇬🇧
Posted by AB88 on Friday, September 10, 2021 1:55 PM

Hi everyone, 

Apologies not sure if this is the correct place to ask but I seem to be having trouble logging out. 

Is this common?

Cheers.

AB88

 

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  • Member since
    December 2002
  • From: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
Posted by Bish on Friday, September 10, 2021 2:02 PM

They are a good bunch on here, even for yanks Big Smile

I never logg out myself, but there is link at the top of the page next to the image of the new front cover. If you have tried that and if it has not worked, not sure what else to suggest.

I am originally from Norwich, but now living south of the border.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

  • Member since
    July 2014
Posted by modelcrazy on Friday, September 10, 2021 2:03 PM

Haa, well, sometimes. Most of us just stay logged in and close the page. Ye, the site can be a bugger at times. You'll learn it soon enough.

Steve

Building a kit from your stash is like cutting a head off a Hydra, two more take it's place.

 

 

http://www.spamodeler.com/forum/

  • Member since
    September 2021
  • From: Norfolk, England 🇬🇧
Posted by AB88 on Friday, September 10, 2021 2:04 PM

Good evening modelcrazy,

Thanks for the welcome, just the black widow for now but would like to try a Lancaster and possibly an old steam loco but when I started making kits pretty much the only way to put paint on it was to brush it  now I see people talking about brushes powered by air! 

what's that all about?

  • Member since
    July 2014
Posted by modelcrazy on Friday, September 10, 2021 2:08 PM

AB88
now I see people talking about brushes powered by air! 

Oh boy, your going to be a fun one I see. Air brushes are a small paint gun. There are a lot of diffrent ones and several paint delivery options.

My suggestion would be to look around the site, especially on the paint forum. Look up some YouTube vids, but don't get discouraged by the really good modlers, you'll get there soon enough.

Steve

Building a kit from your stash is like cutting a head off a Hydra, two more take it's place.

 

 

http://www.spamodeler.com/forum/

  • Member since
    September 2021
  • From: Norfolk, England 🇬🇧
Posted by AB88 on Friday, September 10, 2021 2:10 PM

Yeah but even south of the border doesn't always require a passport  well not the distance to yourself anyway mate.

  • Member since
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  • From: Norfolk, England 🇬🇧
Posted by AB88 on Friday, September 10, 2021 2:14 PM

WHAT!!

Now we shoot our kits with paint ?

Oh dear.

  • Member since
    September 2021
  • From: Norfolk, England 🇬🇧
Posted by AB88 on Friday, September 10, 2021 2:41 PM

Hello modelcrazy,

Just an observation but there are a lot of people posting modeling videos but at my skill level I'm not sure I would spot a poor one. 

How can you tell?7

  • Member since
    July 2014
Posted by modelcrazy on Friday, September 10, 2021 3:49 PM

her's a few I watch, excelent information! I'm not at the level of these guys but they do give you some ideas of what you can achive. There are a few that are just for beginers, and don't know them off hand. They go over techniques, tools and basic construction.

Here are the guys I watch. Some haven't posted in a while

https://www.youtube.com/c/NightShiftScaleModels

https://www.youtube.com/c/idaemonplasmo

https://www.youtube.com/c/AndysHobbyHeadquarters

https://www.youtube.com/c/DoogsModels

https://www.youtube.com/user/reelmesh

Steve

Building a kit from your stash is like cutting a head off a Hydra, two more take it's place.

 

 

http://www.spamodeler.com/forum/

  • Member since
    March 2012
  • From: Corpus Christi, Tx
Posted by mustang1989 on Friday, September 10, 2021 5:23 PM

Welcome aboard!! Great to have you here and can't wait to see some of this Black Widow being built up.....but a nice rig like a Peterbuilt would be cool to see too.

                   

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  • Member since
    September 2021
  • From: Norfolk, England 🇬🇧
Posted by AB88 on Saturday, September 11, 2021 3:56 AM

Awesome thanks modelcrazy much appreciated I shall have a look, am going to try to upload a photo of a very dusty revell kit box but a learning curve for sure.

Cheers 

  • Member since
    September 2021
  • From: Norfolk, England 🇬🇧
Posted by AB88 on Saturday, September 11, 2021 4:10 AM

Thanks for the welcome Mustang 1989,  I hope to upload a photo of the kit but it'll be very dusty as its been in the back of all my stuff for pretty much all of 30 years + the kit is a Revell Peterbilt Black widow rig I put the chassis together and then life took over so a challenge for sure. Hopefully it will still all be in the box! It should be as I had the sense to put  the kit box in another box so fingers crossed ha ha.

Cheers 

  • Member since
    March 2012
  • From: Corpus Christi, Tx
Posted by mustang1989 on Saturday, September 11, 2021 8:09 AM

NOOOOW I'm followin' ya. A Black Widow Peterbuilt!! Frickin' COOL!! If it's the one I'm thinking about I remember that kit!! 

You mean this one? 

 

                   

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  • Member since
    September 2021
  • From: Norfolk, England 🇬🇧
Posted by AB88 on Saturday, September 11, 2021 1:35 PM

Good evening Mustang 1989, 

Yep that's the one Big SmileBig SmileBig Smile

I'm going to try to load some photos I took today but am unsure if this is the right place or should I open a new thread?

  • Member since
    September 2021
  • From: Norfolk, England 🇬🇧
Posted by AB88 on Saturday, September 11, 2021 1:37 PM

Just throwing it out there I have taken some pics of me kit should I open a new thread somewhere else as this is introduce yourself?

Cheers.

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