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Posted by Tojo72 on Monday, October 28, 2024 9:28 PM

Well I had to keep my 7 year thread going

 

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Posted by Gamera on Monday, September 23, 2024 7:34 PM

Real G

Gamera,

We must be brothers from different multiverses!  I also have the IS-7, and was seriously considering the ornithopter kit.  But I dissuaded myself due to the enormous size of the kit.  I believe both Atreides and Harkonnen ornitgopters are around 24"x24", the size of a 1/72 4-engine jet.

 

G, the Harkonnen ornithopter can be built with the wings folded back along the spine, I'm assuming for transport or storage in a hanger. So it doesn't have to take up too much space. I haven't seen the Atreides one yet. I'd like to pick it up when I do. Can't say I'm interested in the figures though, in my mind Paul Mu'dib Atreides looks a lot like Kyle MacLachian and not this new guy. And the only Chani is Sean Young. 

I do want a 1/72nd 'Beast' Rabbon though so I can have him screaming 'GET THA THOPTER!!!' 

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

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    May 2011
  • From: Honolulu, Hawaii
Posted by Real G on Saturday, September 21, 2024 11:53 AM

Gamera,

We must be brothers from different multiverses!  I also have the IS-7, and was seriously considering the ornithopter kit.  But I dissuaded myself due to the enormous size of the kit.  I believe both Atreides and Harkonnen ornitgopters are around 24"x24", the size of a 1/72 4-engine jet.

“Ya ya ya, unicorn papoi!”

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    November 2009
  • From: SW Virginia
Posted by Gamera on Saturday, September 21, 2024 9:25 AM

From my birthday presents to myself from three weeks ago:

IS-7, at 68 tons the biggest heavy tank ever produced by the USSR. Such a weird and wonderful tank, I had to have one. 

Sometime in the future I intend to build a captured/knocked-out Tiger I with some Canadian troops, going to have one of these guys taking a propoganda photo of the soldiers posing with the German tank. 

Dune ornithoper, okay the recent 'Dune' film wasn't the best movie, but I did like the ornithoper had actual flapping wings unlike the flying machines in the Lynch and Sci-Fi Channel versions where they were just fixed-wing airplane type craft. Now a want a set of Harkonnian power armour suits, yeah no where in the novel but I played the 'Dune II' computer RTS so much as a youngster they're burned into my version of Dune now.

 

And I picked up a number of models at our IPMS show from about a month ago but this one is special.  The Italeri F/G Panzer IV was the first 1/35th armour I ever built, and to my teenage mind my first 'serious' model. This H model I built a few years later in the early '90s about thirty years ago. It's kinda a rush to rebuild the same old kit again all these years later.

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

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    November 2009
  • From: SW Virginia
Posted by Gamera on Thursday, September 19, 2024 8:00 PM

Real G

 

 
Gamera

Awesome trio of destroyers Bill! 

 

Keep saying I'm going to build a ship but never get around to it... Confused

 

 

 

 

This:

IJN Battleship Fuso 1944 Special Version (w/Photo-Etched Part) (Plastic model) Images List (1999.co.jp)

 

 

Lol that's a little much for me G! I started on a 1/350th IJN Shimakaze but didn't get very far.

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

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  • From: Honolulu, Hawaii
Posted by Real G on Wednesday, September 18, 2024 3:16 PM

Gamera

Awesome trio of destroyers Bill! 

 

Keep saying I'm going to build a ship but never get around to it... Confused

 

 

This:

IJN Battleship Fuso 1944 Special Version (w/Photo-Etched Part) (Plastic model) Images List (1999.co.jp)

 

“Ya ya ya, unicorn papoi!”

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: SW Virginia
Posted by Gamera on Tuesday, September 17, 2024 10:12 PM

Awesome trio of destroyers Bill! 

 

Keep saying I'm going to build a ship but never get around to it... Confused

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

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Posted by GMorrison on Tuesday, September 17, 2024 11:05 AM

Bill

 Modeling is an excuse to buy books.

 

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  • From: SW Virginia
Posted by Gamera on Sunday, September 15, 2024 6:49 PM

Great stuff there SP! Love that French FT. Such a cool lil tank and so important historically! 

 

I got a couple new models for my birthday two weeks ago but between posting issues and lack of interest I never got around to posting them. 

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

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Posted by stikpusher on Thursday, September 12, 2024 9:42 PM

 

F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!

U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!

N is for NO SURVIVORS...

       - Plankton

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Posted by stikpusher on Tuesday, August 20, 2024 3:54 PM

Gamera

Nice stuff there SP! I really the Takom M103! 

 

Thanks G! I've been wanting one since it came out!

 

F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!

U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!

N is for NO SURVIVORS...

       - Plankton

LSM

 

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  • From: SW Virginia
Posted by Gamera on Monday, August 19, 2024 10:02 PM

Nice stuff there SP! I really the Takom M103! 

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

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Posted by stikpusher on Sunday, August 18, 2024 8:14 PM

 

F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!

U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!

N is for NO SURVIVORS...

       - Plankton

LSM

 

  • Member since
    July 2004
  • From: Sonora Desert
Posted by stikpusher on Monday, August 12, 2024 11:27 AM

 

F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!

U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!

N is for NO SURVIVORS...

       - Plankton

LSM

 

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: SW Virginia
Posted by Gamera on Thursday, August 8, 2024 9:36 PM

Looks cool G! I had no idea anyone was doing an injection-molded figure now. 

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

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  • From: Honolulu, Hawaii
Posted by Real G on Tuesday, July 30, 2024 7:25 PM

Part man.

Part machine.

All plastic injection moldeld kit.

There is another boxing that includes the hover pack from the second movie, but I like just the regular Robocop from the awesome first movie.

Okay, everyone all together now:

"I'D BUY THAT FOR A DOLLAR!"  Stick out tongue

“Ya ya ya, unicorn papoi!”

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  • From: SW Virginia
Posted by Gamera on Monday, July 15, 2024 8:08 PM

Wow Jim, you bought the whole car lot!!! 

Fantastic selection there! 

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

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Posted by jimbot58 on Monday, July 15, 2024 12:00 AM

She's so fine, my 409! Ebay again! Lindberg kit again!

 

*******

On my workbench now:

It's all about classic cars now!

Why can't I find the "Any" key on my keyboard?

 

 

 

  • Member since
    June 2009
Posted by jimbot58 on Sunday, July 14, 2024 2:23 AM

Lat Friday stopped at Hobby Lobby and it was another 40% off sale. Took a picture of these two kits sitting on the shelf. Texted a friend for his opinion of which I should get. He replied that at that sale price, get both! Dang him! Now this picture of them sitting on the store shelf is no longer accurite as they now sit here next to me on the floor by my desk. With one of them being yet another Chevelle! Can't get away from the Chevelle fever! And the idea of a purple Impala SS seems interesting...

 

*******

On my workbench now:

It's all about classic cars now!

Why can't I find the "Any" key on my keyboard?

 

 

 

  • Member since
    June 2009
Posted by jimbot58 on Sunday, July 14, 2024 2:14 AM

This Revell Old's 442 came home with me a few weeks ago during one of Hobby Lobby's 40% off sale. I can never seem to resist. It features options of either auto or manual transmisions, and provides both transmision cases, shifters, center consoles, and floor pedals for either. Also a couple of choices for the rear axle.

*******

On my workbench now:

It's all about classic cars now!

Why can't I find the "Any" key on my keyboard?

 

 

 

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    June 2009
Posted by jimbot58 on Sunday, July 14, 2024 1:42 AM

Also added within tha last couple of months is Lindberg's Olds "67 442 W-30. This one is actually on the work bench now. Ebay aquisition

 

*******

On my workbench now:

It's all about classic cars now!

Why can't I find the "Any" key on my keyboard?

 

 

 

  • Member since
    June 2009
Posted by jimbot58 on Sunday, July 14, 2024 1:37 AM

Any more I just can't seem to get my fill of these 'classic' 60's and 70's muscle cars. These kits joined me back in May.

The Revell kit and the Lindberg were both Ebay finds. The Revell I paid too much for as it was the second one I bid on. Most of what I was running across was open boxes and some were partially started. I won't buy an Ebay kit that isn't still sealed. I got stung a couple of times. The 70 Chevelle was LHS find.

 

*******

On my workbench now:

It's all about classic cars now!

Why can't I find the "Any" key on my keyboard?

 

 

 

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: SW Virginia
Posted by Gamera on Thursday, July 11, 2024 9:37 PM

Thanks Pat! I think I can handle the figures. But I haven't done a horse in years so that's gonna be interesting...... 

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

  • Member since
    December 2008
  • From: UK
Posted by PatW on Thursday, July 11, 2024 4:17 PM

Thanks Gamera on my 'woody' type purchase, but you've got a lot of fiddly painting coming up with all of those figures!

Remember , common sense is not common.

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: SW Virginia
Posted by Gamera on Tuesday, July 9, 2024 8:15 PM

I needed more figures like another hole in the head but hey, you only live once...

'Rice ball yesterday, rice ball today, rice ball tomorrow...' 

'Shut up Dmitri and poke the mine with your rifle!' 

And I love Sprue Brothers flash sales. They're worth watching if you like military kits. I picked up this Dragon late Tiger I for half price. 

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: SW Virginia
Posted by Gamera on Tuesday, July 9, 2024 7:46 PM

Cool, you're on a roll Pat! 

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

  • Member since
    December 2008
  • From: UK
Posted by PatW on Tuesday, July 9, 2024 4:39 PM

Yet another from ebay GB, this is my third one I think!

Remember , common sense is not common.

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: SW Virginia
Posted by Gamera on Monday, July 8, 2024 8:21 PM

SP, Tojo, Pat, TJ: All of those are cool! 

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

  • Member since
    December 2008
  • From: UK
Posted by PatW on Sunday, July 7, 2024 4:20 PM

Not a car or bike but a kit all the same!

Remember , common sense is not common.

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