Old Guns Build. 30+ an older.... Lets show these Young bucks a thing or two!

Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, September 25, 2004 5:52 AM

The pics look fine to me Joe.....nice pit mate,midget enamel never heard of that before..

Hey Tom just out of curiosity what carrier is that burning in your sig.........

Tweety1 the Alice eh i think i can recall that show and i think your right....should take those city types to your local Croc hole for a swim....................

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fightnjoe

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September 2011

Posted by fightnjoe on Saturday, September 25, 2004 12:58 AM

ok going to do something i shouldnt. going to post more recent pics.

now the pics of the instrument panel are from a webcam. they are still not the best. but they are at least visable.

joe

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tho9900

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July 2004
From: SETX. USA

Posted by tho9900 on Friday, September 24, 2004 8:00 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by danok2

42 yo, so I've got that going for me.

Well then...

I'm in with the Tamiya 1/48 F4U-1A. I'll probably build OOB. I'll try to upload pix when appropriate.

Dunno what you mean by a "group build badge". How 'bout a slogan: "Age and guile trumps youth and a bad haircut"?

-Dan

haha that's funny Dan... the group badge is the picture of old man at the bottom left of this message I am typing... it signifies you are participating in the GB... when you complete it and post pics you get the comletion badge, the old man with a full beard...

I am building the Tamiya F4U-1a right now too for another group build... so far it is a dream to put together. I did buy the ares resin cockpit for it... so far just have the instrument panel together on it but it looks GOOD!!!! I am glad I got the extra parts... of course it was a nice cockpit out of the box too... I like Tamiya's models...

The model I am building for this one is an OS2U Kingfisher by monogram (out of production kit) it has some minor photoetched stuff but I didnt use most of it...

Nice to have you aboard!

---Tom---

---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!

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danok2

Member since
December 2003
From: Waxhaw, NC

Posted by danok2 on Friday, September 24, 2004 3:32 PM

42 yo, so I've got that going for me.

Well then...

I'm in with the Tamiya 1/48 F4U-1A. I'll probably build OOB. I'll try to upload pix when appropriate.

Dunno what you mean by a "group build badge". How 'bout a slogan: "Age and guile trumps youth and a bad haircut"?

-Dan

"Ahh, the Luftwaffe. The Washington Generals of the History Channel."-Homer Simpson

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tho9900

Member since
July 2004
From: SETX. USA

Posted by tho9900 on Friday, September 24, 2004 2:00 PM

just pick a model.. and it would be nice to see pics as you build... so people see how other people put their models together... I think 12/31 is the cutoff date to be finished...

I think RustyFord is the one who started this and he has copies of the group build badge.. and oh yeah, you have to be 30+ like the title says...

---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!

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danok2

Member since
December 2003
From: Waxhaw, NC

Posted by danok2 on Friday, September 24, 2004 11:16 AM

Is it too late to get in on this? Never done a GB before, but this looks like fun!

"Ahh, the Luftwaffe. The Washington Generals of the History Channel."-Homer Simpson

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tweety1

Member since
August 2003
From: Alice Springs Australia

Posted by tweety1 on Friday, September 24, 2004 7:46 AM

They recently made another show called 'The Alice' Thumbs Down [tdn]

Largest load of tripe I have ever pointed my eyeballs at. Yuck [yuck]

As soon as it showed on tele, all the locals took the p**s out of it.
That what you get for letting city artistic types into the scrub.

SoapBox [soapbox]

--Sean-- If you are driving at the speed of light and you turn on the headlights, what happens???

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tho9900

Member since
July 2004
From: SETX. USA

Posted by tho9900 on Thursday, September 23, 2004 6:55 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by tweety1

You mean, 'A Town Like Alice'?

Yeah, that was made here.
Mind you, the place has changed a little since then, we actually have bitumen roads now!!!!!

Other than that, still a dust bowl in the middle of nowhere.
25,000 people, the largest beach in the world, you have to drive 1500 k's to get anywhere near a water source.
Roughly the same distance to get to a hobby shop also, hence I survive on mail order.

I gotta move to the coast!!!!!

cool...! I don't remember much about it but that I liked the show...

---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!

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tweety1

Member since
August 2003
From: Alice Springs Australia

Posted by tweety1 on Thursday, September 23, 2004 5:15 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by j.s.harrison

Still waitin on power out there Tweets.................

--Sean-- If you are driving at the speed of light and you turn on the headlights, what happens???

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 23, 2004 10:48 AM

Still waitin on power out there Tweets.................

Joe glad to see you got the beast under control,determanation and patience are a must have in this hobby,and a hammer just in case all else fails.................

Thad a P-47 with a twist, i like it cause it makes you look twice just to make sure the old eyes arn't playing tricks..........................

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tweety1

Member since
August 2003
From: Alice Springs Australia

Posted by tweety1 on Thursday, September 23, 2004 9:24 AM

You mean, 'A Town Like Alice'?

Yeah, that was made here.
Mind you, the place has changed a little since then, we actually have bitumen roads now!!!!!

Other than that, still a dust bowl in the middle of nowhere.
25,000 people, the largest beach in the world, you have to drive 1500 k's to get anywhere near a water source.
Roughly the same distance to get to a hobby shop also, hence I survive on mail order.

I gotta move to the coast!!!!!

--Sean-- If you are driving at the speed of light and you turn on the headlights, what happens???

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tho9900

Member since
July 2004
From: SETX. USA

Posted by tho9900 on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 6:22 PM

haha I was eyeball challenged till today... got my new spectacles... I can't wait to try em out on that new 1/24 Spitfire I got... of course now that I have I was thinking how good a craft that big would look all dressed up with some pretty PE and fancy decals... seems lately I just can't get a model and build it... I gotta go for more...

hmmmm... I remember watching a show when I was younger, on PBS. It was called "A town called Alice" I think that was set in Australia (been a few... ok about 27 yrs probably since I saw it) anywhere near Alice Springs?

---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!

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tweety1

Member since
August 2003
From: Alice Springs Australia

Posted by tweety1 on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 4:54 PM

fightnjoe, nice pics, good to see you tamed the plastic.
Strange though, after all is said and done, the average onlooker has no idea just how difficult it is sometimes to get a model to actually fit together.

Like tho9900 said, ill fitting kits are a matter of principle.
Personally I can't stand the thought of being beaten by styrene, to pigheaded I guess.
I have an Airfix Catalina in the cupboard that is an atrocious fit, but I will make it look good, one day.

Besides, modelling is good character building.
If one can spend 5 hours making a fuselage fit together, then one can spend 5 minutes talking to a total idiot about the weather.
It's all a matter of paience.

In the meantime, gonna break out the Bf109 G14 this weekend, and make a start on the cockpit.
Got alot of PE, and being 1/48 scale, it's gonna be a challenge for my old eyeballs.

--Sean-- If you are driving at the speed of light and you turn on the headlights, what happens???

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tho9900

Member since
July 2004
From: SETX. USA

Posted by tho9900 on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 1:47 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by fightnjoe

well j.s. i am a day late but happy birthday. i have a few months before i go to 37.

thought i would share a bit of my progress. i have eight hours in on this build and this is all the farther i am. the first night the pit went together like a dream. resin and pe, fit together great. then i gave the pit a wash and called it a night. the second night the fuse halves and the wings were a nightmere. the fit was horrible, the body was warped, large gaps, nothing to hold the tail in place, i spent four hours fighting with it. after much proding, pushing, pulling, and a good deal of glue i have these pics

thats it for now. was going to post pics of the pit but they are horrible. they were taken with a web cam and they turned out blurry and distorted.

joe

I'm kinda in the same boat joe... got this high tech kingfisher from monogram.. I was all excited because it came with PE and stuff... the body didn't wanna align, the plastic is soft so I have to be REAL careful sanding it.. and after reviewing pics of kingfishers in action I realized some (a lot) of the PE is either not scale or didn't exist on the real thing... but I am gonna finish it if it kills me!!! It's a matter of principle now....

---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!

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tho9900

Member since
July 2004
From: SETX. USA

Posted by tho9900 on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 1:44 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by KINGTHAD

here is my entry to the old guns gb.It is a 1/48 Tamiya p-47, atleast I think it is I have not taken my pills today. P.S can someone help me with a badge?

Thad

looks nice! took me a sec to soak in the decals vs. the plane type haha... nice paint job! Rustyford has the badge for this one... since you're done you get the one with the long bear I guess...

---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!

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KINGTHAD

Member since
May 2004
From: Dallas

Posted by KINGTHAD on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 12:19 PM

here is my entry to the old guns gb.It is a 1/48 Tamiya p-47, atleast I think it is I have not taken my pills today. P.S can someone help me with a badge?

Thad

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fightnjoe

Member since
September 2011

Posted by fightnjoe on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 8:30 AM

well j.s. i am a day late but happy birthday. i have a few months before i go to 37.

thought i would share a bit of my progress. i have eight hours in on this build and this is all the farther i am. the first night the pit went together like a dream. resin and pe, fit together great. then i gave the pit a wash and called it a night. the second night the fuse halves and the wings were a nightmere. the fit was horrible, the body was warped, large gaps, nothing to hold the tail in place, i spent four hours fighting with it. after much proding, pushing, pulling, and a good deal of glue i have these pics

thats it for now. was going to post pics of the pit but they are horrible. they were taken with a web cam and they turned out blurry and distorted.

joe

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tho9900

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July 2004
From: SETX. USA

Posted by tho9900 on Monday, September 20, 2004 7:31 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by j.s.harrison

tho99o your Kingfisher is comin along nicely champ,i wouldn't say dissapointing,just remember your'e your own worst critic,something that all modelers seem to have.......

Well this old guns gets a little older tommorrow 33 on the 21st..........................

happy birthday in advance!!!! yeah I know... my wife always harps on me about that... "Well I can't see ONE thing wrong with it!!!" she says. so I sit there trying to explain the little bit of seam showing on the engine nacelle etc.. is bad.. she just rolls her eyes and shakes her head... maybe I am trying to be a perfectionist... but I guess that is the only thing that makes me progress...

maybe that's why I am here... I see what good models look like and strive to make mine look as good/better... I gotta long way to go... but I'll get there!!! Some of the models I did at 23 look twice as good as mine at 38... so that's my mark I gotta reach I guess... I guess this is a modellers mid-life crisis... instead of getting lots of jewelry, hair implants and a convertible mustang, I'm getting 1/24 Spitfires with PE and resin?????

---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!

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tho9900

Member since
July 2004
From: SETX. USA

Posted by tho9900 on Monday, September 20, 2004 7:22 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by fightnjoe

tho9900 it looks good so far. i like the work on the instrument panel.

thanks joe!!! yeah this kit did have some niceties about it... the PE in the cockpit was nice... some of the exterior stuff I am going to leave off as I have yet to find a reference pic with it on... i.e. handholds on the floats etc... maybe they were there but oo small to be seen by the camera, which means to me these are out of scale if they can be seen by the naked eye at 1/48 (most noticable actually) and not on real lifephotos...

---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!

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fightnjoe

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September 2011

Posted by fightnjoe on Monday, September 20, 2004 7:10 PM

tho9900 it looks good so far. i like the work on the instrument panel.

as for me. it is time to begin. as i open the box what do i see.

the plastic

resin and vacuform

film instrument panel and pe.

much less as far as parts than my recent fort.

so here i go.

joe

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 19, 2004 9:05 PM

tho99o your Kingfisher is comin along nicely champ,i wouldn't say dissapointing,just remember your'e your own worst critic,something that all modelers seem to have.......

Well this old guns gets a little older tommorrow 33 on the 21st.......................... Boohoo [BH]

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tho9900

Member since
July 2004
From: SETX. USA

Posted by tho9900 on Saturday, September 18, 2004 6:46 PM

ok here is two early pics of my build... the unfinished cockput area (needs to be cleaned up a little) and an external before I putty it up... I got the seams even and just stuck the floats on to hold it up... not even cemented yet...

kind of a dissapointing build, I picked up a Hobby Craft 1/24 Spitfire V today at Hobby Lobby, marked down from 119 dollars to 40, I guess no one wants em because the were still in the shrink wrap.. I asked the lady to open it and there was the PE and resin figures and stuff.. so everything was there...

Anyway I might build both.. because I am tired of the OS2U already and that spit is really looking like it needs to be built haha

(re-edit) oops I forgot the pics...

---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!

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tweety1

Member since
August 2003
From: Alice Springs Australia

Posted by tweety1 on Saturday, September 18, 2004 1:31 AM

Did you get the matching cane to suit as well??? Tongue [:P]

--Sean-- If you are driving at the speed of light and you turn on the headlights, what happens???

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nicholma

Member since
September 2003
From: New Zealand

Posted by nicholma on Friday, September 17, 2004 4:45 AM

I've decided what I'm going to do and its a bit different, well the scale will be anyway. Another topic on the Auto form reminded me of a couple of kits I got years ago and have left in the cupboard. So after a bit of scambling around I located them and will start in a month or 2 on a 1/87th scale Cat dozer and logging arch (c 1950's) and a Mack cabover with a logging trailer typical of the sort used in New Zealand c 1980's).

I've just got a new set of glasses befitting us Old Guns so seeing those small pieces won't be a problem. Just to remind me of my (moderate) age my Wife gave me a walking stick for Father's Day a couple of weeks ago!!

Kia ora, Mark "Time flies like the wind, fruit flies like bananas"

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 16, 2004 10:05 AM

dont forget the teflon tape or ya will have to come back a second time ! Wink [;)]

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 16, 2004 9:58 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by tho9900

QUOTE: Originally posted by reggiethedorf

us young guns have no problems with "Wife" but have problem with "Mother" and "Father". doesnt get better as you go along, does it ?

nawww... however it ends up, there's always someone looking over your shoulder... problem is with parents complimenting them or buying them something nice won't make them look the other way when you buy that next kit... it only makes em more suspicious that you're up to something haha

of course when you mention buying a new kit at your age it's "not until you've done you're homework" at our age it's "not until you've finished painting the bathroom" or "not until that grass gets cut" lol!

tho9900's is right Reggie,i'ts a downhill journey Laugh [(-D]

"just kidding"now i gotta go and fix that tap...........................

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 15, 2004 7:55 AM

what do you mean by "at our age" ? my dad is always on teaching assignments overseas, so i am usually found fixing the shower curtain railings, replacing that plug that has been hanging around for as long as i have been hanging around or other various domestic disasters. needless to say, so help me if i try to set up the airbrush if any household repairs are undone.

good luck on your builds !

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tho9900

Member since
July 2004
From: SETX. USA

Posted by tho9900 on Wednesday, September 15, 2004 6:25 AM

ok the OS2U kit came in!!! on with the build!!!

---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!

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tho9900

Member since
July 2004
From: SETX. USA

Posted by tho9900 on Wednesday, September 15, 2004 6:20 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by reggiethedorf

us young guns have no problems with "Wife" but have problem with "Mother" and "Father". doesnt get better as you go along, does it ?

nawww... however it ends up, there's always someone looking over your shoulder... problem is with parents complimenting them or buying them something nice won't make them look the other way when you buy that next kit... it only makes em more suspicious that you're up to something haha

of course when you mention buying a new kit at your age it's "not until you've done you're homework" at our age it's "not until you've finished painting the bathroom" or "not until that grass gets cut" lol!

---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, September 15, 2004 4:09 AM

i notice its "Wife" not "wife"

heheh

us young guns have no problems with "Wife" but have problem with "Mother" and "Father". doesnt get better as you go along, does it ?

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