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F-14 Tomcat Group Build idea...

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Posted by bstrump on Sunday, October 31, 2004 10:20 PM
Hi guys! Just had a chit chat with armorman and we in the GB can all start using the badge now. (See reggiethedorf, three posts up) Personally, I love it. Great work, Mark!!
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Posted by bstrump on Sunday, October 31, 2004 7:57 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by GLEN S

ha Bstrump, where did you get the cals for VF-11 Rippers? I did 4 years with them. Please email me . Thanks
Glen S

Sorry it took this long to get back to you, Glen. I haven't checked out this thread in ages. Anyhow if you haven't found them yet, they're available from TwoBobs or Flightdecs. twobobs.net or flightdecs.ca
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Posted by armorman on Sunday, October 31, 2004 7:28 PM
Mark!!! Looks great! What do you think fellas? I bet this was the same guy, Mark. Anyways, the badge looks great. Thanks for letting us use your space Reggie- how's your builds coming along? Mark- how are those A-4's coming along?
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, October 31, 2004 4:43 PM
here it is folks !

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v420/reggiethedorf/smallF-14GB.jpg


resized to fit

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, October 31, 2004 11:46 AM
I shot the image to Reggie. He has a Photobucket account. I am going to open one myself very soon. I have been had by one guy on EBay. I received 3 empty model boxes with no parts. I would like to know where all the kits were? And he was taking a bunch of people at the same time. He was caught though and is facing mail fraud amoung other things.

Been looking at getting the True Details resin cockpits for the F-14's. I have dealt with their stuff before and always had good results.
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Posted by armorman on Sunday, October 31, 2004 8:34 AM
I think I am going to go ahead and do an account with photobucket this week sometime- I'll let you know when I get it done and we'll upload it there. I bet it looks great! I've got one almost done but I am trying to find an image to put into it and not having much luck. Anyways, I agree with you on the prices of those Tamiya kits. I'd love to do an F-4E in the 'Chico the Gunfighter' scheme on the last page of the latest FSM. I checked out the guy who was selling that 1/32 Tomcat on Ebay and he didn't have the best track record. It would ship from overseas and a lot of folks had shelled out lots of money for him to not get the product. Besides, after shipping it would bring the price to 130 bucks and thats two Tamiya 1/48 scale kits. I am going to put the hunt for that kit on the backburner for a while. Well, the GB date is slowly creeping closer- very slowly... Later fellas, I've got to study for two exams.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, October 30, 2004 10:23 PM
I have some art work done that we could use for our GB badge but I don't have a photo host yet. If someone else does, I could email it to you. Let me know.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, October 30, 2004 12:45 PM
I love those Tamiya kits. They have so much detail. But the List price of those things are unreal. I would like to do one of the F-4 kits or the F-15E. I have not been doing much model stuff lately. I hope you get the model on EBay.
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Posted by armorman on Thursday, October 28, 2004 10:57 PM
There is a Tamiya 1/32 F-14 Black Knights that I might bid on... it's 60 bucks less than ordering it! I think it is 75.00 or so.
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Posted by armorman on Wednesday, October 27, 2004 9:25 PM
I'm checking them out now! Thanks Mark!
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 27, 2004 9:21 PM
I have been looking on EBay and there a ton of F-14 kits on there now. You need to put in F-14A to see most of them. But use F-14 and F-14D for your searches. I have not seen any of the Revell 1/32 kits but there are a couple of the Tamiya kits.
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Posted by pingtang on Monday, October 25, 2004 8:52 PM
reggie - That would be alright, I'd like to get my hands on some of that Johnsons klear. What would you want in return, I don't know of anything that's available here, that isn't available there. Like you say, it doesn't even have to be modelling supplies.

armorman- no worries mate, Do you know how to get the images from photobucket onto the forum? That's one thing I forgot to put in my email. Just in case you don't, all you have to do is copy the line under the picture in the album called IMG, and paste it into your message. Make sure you include the [ img ] and [/ img] bite.
-Daniel
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Posted by armorman on Monday, October 25, 2004 10:43 AM
Thanks pingtang!!! I'll email you when I get home from work later this evening- I really appreciate it!
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, October 25, 2004 8:18 AM
make sure you put a big enough stamp on that one Wink [;)] semi-seriously though, wanna organise some kinda modelling supplies trade ? heck, it dont even have to be modelling supplies !
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Posted by pingtang on Monday, October 25, 2004 7:01 AM
QUOTE: a bottle of jonsons klear comes to mind since i know it isnt available in australia.


And I'll send you a kangaroo, as I know they're not available in singapore.Wink [;)] Don't know whether that's very legal though.
-Daniel
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, October 25, 2004 6:31 AM
QUOTE:
I'll take that bet, what odds are you giving. I could stand to make some money.



a bottle of jonsons klear comes to mind since i know it isnt available in australia.
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, October 24, 2004 10:38 PM
I saw where Photobucket is not taking new 'free' clients. But $25 a year for some cool extras is not bad. And one of them is no ads! May just do that. I can use that for my photo business as well.
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Posted by pingtang on Sunday, October 24, 2004 10:12 PM
QUOTE: originally posted by reggiethedorf
i wager that by the time we end the build, the number of posts posted before the build started will equal the number of posts posted after the build started.


I'll take that bet, what odds are you giving. I could stand to make some money.

armorman- If you want to upload some pics, you can put them in my photobucket album for now. I'd like to see some pics of your super bug. Just email me if you want to, and I'll send you the details.
-Daniel
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Posted by armorman on Sunday, October 24, 2004 9:46 PM
Yeah, I worked on the Super Hornet today and finished getting the forward fuselage connected to the main. I had a nasty gap in the front that I am beginning to putty. I decided not to fold the wings. Built the front gear and a few other odds and ends. Photobucket is not accepting new members at this time so I'll email photos to you tomorrow evening Mark. After all the bragging I spouted about this kit the nasty gaps around the forward fuselage have shut my mouth. I don't design them so I'll shut it. You been working on anything reggie or are you still up to your eyes in exams?
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, October 24, 2004 6:34 PM
Whatever he said!!!!!???????? Tongue [:P] Can't wait for this one to get going. I need to make some serioud progress on my A-4's. Have not touched them in a week.
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, October 24, 2004 9:38 AM
i wager that by the time we end the build, the number of posts posted before the build started will equal the number of posts posted after the build started. Smile [:)]
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Posted by armorman on Sunday, October 24, 2004 9:25 AM
Mine is calling from my 'kit closet' and I am thinking about building the Revell-Monogram at the same time... so far i am adding the black box to the academy kit and converting to an F-14B and I will do the RM-F-14D OOB with a few scratchbuilt stuff around the cockpit. I am so ready...
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Posted by pingtang on Saturday, October 23, 2004 8:00 PM
Mine is under my bed. No there is not a mine under my bed, but my Academy cat is waiting patiently under there with the other half of my tiny collection (the other half is an academy Titanic) of two kits. It keeps calling out to me in the middle of the night "build me, build me, build me......", or maybe I'm just going nuts and am imagining it, which is probably more likely.
-Daniel
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, October 23, 2004 4:37 PM
Mine are out in my shed. Out of sight, out of mind. I still am thinking of them though. This will be a cool GB. I am going to build 2 'B' cats and 1 'D'. We will seehow building 3 simoutaniously will go! I have done 2 but not 3!!!!Big Smile [:D]Cowboy [C):-)]Thumbs Up [tup]Thumbs Up [tup]Smile,Wink, & Grin [swg]
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, October 22, 2004 5:56 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by armorman

Is it January yet? My 'Cat is making noise on my shelf...

mine is under my table where i do homework ! the agony !
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Posted by armorman on Thursday, October 21, 2004 8:37 PM
That does suck, pingtang.
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Posted by pingtang on Thursday, October 21, 2004 8:15 PM
QUOTE: originally posted by armorman
Is it January yet? My 'Cat is making noise on my shelf...


My cat's doing the same thing. It doesn't leave me alone. We'll have to get a countdown going, only 70 or so days to go now.

My LHS only stocks Tamiya and Humbrol paints, so when I get a chance too, I go for the long drive north and stock up on Gunze and some left-over stock of Aeromaster paints. And when I go for the even longer drive north, I'll get some Pollyscale and MM paints. I hate living in a town where the only HS is a toy store.
-Daniel
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Posted by armorman on Wednesday, October 20, 2004 10:38 PM
My LHS only stocks Tamiya and MM Enamels as well. Squadron is where I go as well for the stuff I cannot find.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, October 20, 2004 10:33 PM
I like the Gunze Sango colors too, but I can only get them by mail order. The local, and only LHS, only has Testors MM enamels and Acrylics. The next larger town east of here may have a LHS that has them but it is a 2 hour drive each way over 2 mountain passes. Squadron and other mail order houses are my best option. The LHS here has some great models and tools but the paint selection is sparse.
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Posted by armorman on Wednesday, October 20, 2004 10:17 PM
Is it January yet? My 'Cat is making noise on my shelf...
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