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darson

Member since
February 2003
From: Melbourne, Australia

Posted by darson on Friday, January 28, 2005 7:23 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by madmike

ok, this is a real problem

I cannot find the right Hasegawa Mk VIII kit to do an RAAF version. All our LHS hasis the extended wing version.

Pity, as those Altmark decals looked quite nice.

I might have to review what I build now, Perhaps a A-4G.....

cheers
Mike

Mike do you mean the pointed wing or the standard or wing version? Be careful because there is a difference. The pointed wing version was specifically made for high altitude work and wasn't used by the Aussies (I don't think).

Darren

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, January 28, 2005 7:19 AM

Ohhhh Ok so it's pick on Jules night eh Black Eye [B)]

Hmmm well you know what they say "You can pick your freinds but you can't pick your Ward Mates"

Darren not for this U-boat Mate...........But I also have the Flower Class Corvette in 72nd ( Big Ship ) and my Grand scheme is to combine that with another U-Boat into a diorama,The FCC will be alongside the U-boat (which will be listing)with nets down taking on survivors after a little gun battle, i'm gonna have to add some damage to the U-boat maybe a shell hole in the Tower, I got the idea after watching The Cruel Sea Thumbs Up [tup]

Mike when you say the extended wing version are you meaning the high altitude MK8 Question [?]

The MK8 i have has the normal wings but can also be built with the cropped wings....
If you like I'm going to my LHS in the Morning and i can check if they have another one there, i ended up buying 3 of them one of which i sent to Sean, these Spits are only $25:00 AU and i'd be more than happy to send you one Thumbs Up [tup]

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tho9900

Member since
July 2004
From: SETX. USA

Posted by tho9900 on Friday, January 28, 2005 6:46 AM

ARGGHHH!!! Sean you've left with two unpleasant visuals today.. Jules beng changed and Kremps in her underwear! It's bad enough when she wears those nurses outfits in... all you can see is her calves but it's too much! And actually I was thinking the other day they don't so much looks like calves as cows!!

Well feeling a bit better this morning.. hopefuly it will stick and I'll be back to building!

Bandha - I laughed when I saw that site.. actually that looks like my second dog... well without the brown....

Darren... thanks! I feel better today so should be able to ship that package to you!

---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, January 27, 2005 11:30 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by darson

QUOTE: Originally posted by tho9900

well here it another night with no building... been nursing some kind of crud all week and not feeling up to modelling... by afternoon my body feels like it weighs 1000 lbs and has needles all over it...

hopefully by Sat I will be my old self!!!

Real sorry to hear that you're not feeling too well there Tom, I hope you're feeling better soon. Although it is kinda weird imaging a 1000lb Texan covered with needles

Cheers
Darren

I dunno Darren, I reckon a 1000lb Texan would look kinda like a hedgehog, and in Toms case, with attitude!!!! Wink [;)]

Seriously though, sorry to hear your not feeling right Tom Sad [:(]

Maybe Krempes might have a secret elixir stuck somewhere in those granny undies she wears.
I'll get Jules to ask her next time she changes his nappy Clown [:o)]

I just got a visual of Jules looking like my son, legs up in the air with his dirty bot bot for all to see.............................
Laugh [(-D]

Phew, crack my self up!!!!!!

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

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darson

Member since
February 2003
From: Melbourne, Australia

Posted by darson on Thursday, January 27, 2005 11:18 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by tho9900

well here it another night with no building... been nursing some kind of crud all week and not feeling up to modelling... by afternoon my body feels like it weighs 1000 lbs and has needles all over it...

hopefully by Sat I will be my old self!!!

Real sorry to hear that you're not feeling too well there Tom, I hope you're feeling better soon. Although it is kinda weird imaging a 1000lb Texan covered with needles Big Smile [:D]

Cheers
Darren

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Bandha Boy

Member since
September 2004
From: Australia

Posted by Bandha Boy on Thursday, January 27, 2005 10:20 PM

Tom,

I saw this in the Cutting Edge product list on Meteor:
http://www.meteorprod.com/cgi-bin/meteorsearch.pl?show_graphic+CELS.jpg+CELS+++Thu_01_27_200522_24_19.dat+699.99+
(The URL code on this board can't cope w. the '+''s in the url, so you'll have to paste it manually.)

maybe you should call your dog "Mk II" or something like that? (Makes the subsequent muts easy to name.)

Carl

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Bandha Boy

Member since
September 2004
From: Australia

Posted by Bandha Boy on Thursday, January 27, 2005 9:29 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by madmike

I cannot find the right Hasegawa Mk VIII kit to do an RAAF version. All our LHS hasis the extended wing version.

I thought what made a Mk VIII a Mk VIII were the extended wings + the trop kit? Is there any other kind? BTW: I notice that the only 1/48 Mk VIII that Eduard support is the ICM kit, don't know if this means anything. The ICM kit is the Caldwell RAAF kit:
http://www.squadron.com/ItemDetails.asp?item=IC48066

Carl

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tho9900

Member since
July 2004
From: SETX. USA

Posted by tho9900 on Thursday, January 27, 2005 7:07 PM

well here it another night with no building... been nursing some kind of crud all week and not feeling up to modelling... by afternoon my body feels like it weighs 1000 lbs and has needles all over it...

hopefully by Sat I will be my old self!!!

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

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madmike

Member since
July 2003
From: Perth, Western Australia

Posted by madmike on Thursday, January 27, 2005 7:09 AM

ok, this is a real problem

I cannot find the right Hasegawa Mk VIII kit to do an RAAF version. All our LHS hasis the extended wing version.

Pity, as those Altmark decals looked quite nice.

I might have to review what I build now, Perhaps a A-4G.....

cheers

Mike

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei

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tho9900

Member since
July 2004
From: SETX. USA

Posted by tho9900 on Thursday, January 27, 2005 6:59 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by Bandha Boy

Well Tom, it could be that we IT mugs just have too much free time on our hands, or perhaps it's because we're so tuned in to reality:
(You've got to read the caption)

OMG! I have to bring this one into work!! I think that is a picture of my boss posing by that computer... it's about the time he went into the IT world...

Darren - agree... maybe it is a sci-fi type of thing and our computers are bring us together in the same builds... ok I gotta get more sleep tonight.. Wink [;)]

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

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darson

Member since
February 2003
From: Melbourne, Australia

Posted by darson on Thursday, January 27, 2005 5:04 AM

Geez there are just way to many IT types around here and almost everybody works in the health industry and yes I work in the there too. I am employed ( Laugh [(-D]

) by Aussie's largest private Health insurer.

Bandha, we've got that picture up at work, it's a classic

Tom, I'm afraid I never had brains enough to be one of the techo's, I'm just the idiot who runs around shooting his mouth off without actually understanding what I'm talking about Tongue [:P]

Jules, are you going to add any figures to your sub? I've seen some really nice ones that would make an awesome diorama.

I haven’t actually done much on the meteor yet except open the box and sniff the plastic. I think the hardest pert about the build will be fitting enough weight in the nose to keep it from tail sitting.

Cheers
Darren

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South Aussie

Member since
August 2003
From: South Australia

Posted by South Aussie on Thursday, January 27, 2005 4:32 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by tweety1

Well, the madness begins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[#offtopic Just saw some of that Aussie series, The Alice, again.
Would like to place my and say, being a resident of The Alice, I have driven down Stephens Road alot of times, and have NEVER seen a big wooly sheep lying on the side of the road.
Whole things just silly really

[#offtopicTweety, I was in Darwin during Cyclone Tracy and found a similar situation with the Tracy Movie, I suppose that the real facts would ruin their stories.

Wayne I enjoy getting older, especially when I consider the alternative.

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Bandha Boy

Member since
September 2004
From: Australia

Posted by Bandha Boy on Thursday, January 27, 2005 12:46 AM

Well Tom, it could be that we IT mugs just have too much free time on our hands, or perhaps it's because we're so tuned in to reality:

(You've got to read the caption)

Carl

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Tankmaster7

Member since
August 2004
From: Nowhere. (Long Island)

Posted by Tankmaster7 on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 6:36 PM

I shall follow this thread with interest. A bunch of Aussies and a texaussie... So what about lleyton hewitt and that Aussie open? Killer match against Nalbandian... do any of you follow tennis anyway?

-Tanky

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tweety1

Member since
August 2003
From: Alice Springs Australia

Posted by tweety1 on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 7:24 AM

Well, the madness begins!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, not for me for a while yet, but I will make a start on the Bell soon enough.
Alot of detailing will go into the c/p, some of it will be a little 'imaginative', but as close as I can manage.

[#offtopic Just saw some of that Aussie series, The Alice, again.
Would like to place my My 2 cents [2c]

and say, being a resident of The Alice, I have driven down Stephens Road alot of times, and have NEVER seen a big wooly sheep lying on the side of the road.
Whole things just silly really Taped Shut [XX]

--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, January 26, 2005 7:02 AM

Wow! Suddenly I feel nervous with this many IT people in here... hmmmmmm... ::shifty eyed glance around the room::

Cossack - I primarily worked with McKesson HBOC if yall use them down in AU... kind of the Peoplesoft of healthcare in a way... actually it was with a division of a consulting firm that dealt only with HBOC... Now I decided the nerdy side of IT is where I belong... I'm a network manager and deal with servers (mostly Novell) Zenworks etc...

Jules - thanks a lot!!! I only got them because I talk too much but ya know what Kremps always says... better to be talking too much than tied to the chair in the sun room so you can't escape!

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

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 6:55 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by Bandha Boy

Just when will you finish that sub, Jules, 2007? You should get the governer general's wife to christain the thing when it's ready.

Yeah she can do it with holy water cause i don't think a bottle against the bow would be to healthy Big Smile [:D]

I think the sub will take all year to put together if i can squeeze it in amongst all the GB's, there's not that much to it OOB but when you add a whole sheet of PE it turns into a very long patience testing build, but i will be fun........ Big Smile [:D]

The CAC Sabre i'm doing for this GB is gonna be the hardest for me, not so much a patience tester but rather a skill tester.......Should be fun too Thumbs Up [tup]

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Bandha Boy

Member since
September 2004
From: Australia

Posted by Bandha Boy on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 6:42 AM

Just when will you finish that sub, Jules, 2007? You should get the governer general's wife to christain the thing when it's ready.

Carl

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South Aussie

Member since
August 2003
From: South Australia

Posted by South Aussie on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 4:13 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by cossack

South Aussie,

Just noticed you are attacking the Hudson Mk IV - may I ask which kit? And where you were able to find it??

Cossack the kit is a Classic Airframes 1/48 Scale Hudson Mk IV that I found at the SA Hobby Centre in Adelaide.

Wayne I enjoy getting older, especially when I consider the alternative.

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 3:14 AM

Well i can make a start but i'm not until i finish off a couple more builds Thumbs Up [tup]

I don't wanna have too many builds on the Bench at one time........

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 3:09 AM

And where off and running , Not that I can start yet still waiting for the PE for the cockpit to arrive .

cheers mike

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cossack

Member since
April 2004
From: Sydney

Posted by cossack on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 2:42 AM

South Aussie,

Just noticed you are attacking the Hudson Mk IV - may I ask which kit? And where you were able to find it??

Tho ... I am also into Healthcare IT - a Technical Director for Australias largest independent Health IT company. Geezzz its a small world!! Smile [:)]

Good luck all - I'll be watching from the sidelines ...

Paul

http://i993.photobucket.com/albums/af53/raiderpilot/smprop_gb.jpg

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 2:12 AM

Well i guess i can make a start on the Sabre Now Thumbs Up [tup]

Happy Australia day.......Hope you fellas enjoyed the day off.......

Hey TOM2000+ Posts Wow!! [wow]

and a new star..........well done and keep em coming Thumbs Up [tup]

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nicholma

Member since
September 2003
From: New Zealand

Posted by nicholma on Wednesday, January 26, 2005 1:16 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by darson

QUOTE: Originally posted by Bandha Boy

From that I can tell you that my schedule will be (sorry, but I'm a Project Manager by day, so I have to organise these things) Day1: clean up flash, day 2: clean up flash, day 3: clean up ....

Hey Bandha, I just noticed in your post that you are a PM, me too.

And me

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

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Bandha Boy

Member since
September 2004
From: Australia

Posted by Bandha Boy on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 11:53 PM

Darren, yep - I work for that big blue US company.m currently on the Qantas account.

The Hiplanes kit - I'm starting with those metal cockpit tubs - crikes! I figured there must have been some detailed plastic or decals to put over the side panels but nope, that's it. Pretty hard stuff to work up some instrumentation detail on & what's there is as rough as. Strange when the front instrument panels are so nicely done.

Oz Day today, of course, so I've had a trio of F/A-18's & then the Roulettes roaring past all day. Those Roulette birds have a very strange sound, kind of like a giant, high-revving harley, not at all like most small prop aircraft.

Carl

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tho9900

Member since
July 2004
From: SETX. USA

Posted by tho9900 on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 8:35 PM

hmmm learn something new every day... so Banda and Darson --- when's go live on this? Not a PM but a Team Lead in a past life.. (before going straight network admin) we did multi facility health care software upgrades and installs... been thinking of getting my IT Project + lately just to pad the resume a little bit... don't think the life of a PM is the life for me! I enjoy staying a bit more obscure and being the one in the back of the room with a good idea now and then...

I was puzzled by the "Go!" a minute ago then I remember it's already the 26th there... gonna wait to finish my martlet and my SBD (both anywhere from 50% to 80% done) should be able to start next weekend...

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

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darson

Member since
February 2003
From: Melbourne, Australia

Posted by darson on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 8:21 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by Bandha Boy

Mine's a BAE Hawk 127, which I just did a dry build on (hey, it's after midnight, ok!).

From that I can tell you that my schedule will be (sorry, but I'm a Project Manager by day, so I have to organise these things) Day1: clean up flash, day 2: clean up flash, day 3: clean up .... yes, more flash than a Marvel Comic. The Hiplanes kit is quite schizophrenic. The big plastic bits are very flashy & the fit quite poor. The small plastic bits & the resin seats are superb - different type & colour plastic from the structural items so I'm guessing that one or the other is outsourced. In fact there are 3 or 4 distinct types of plastic. The white metal is reasonable while the small amount of PE is without any detail (just the antennae's).

Hey Bandha, I just noticed in your post that you are a PM, me too. Are you in IT as well or some other industry?

I know what you mean about a build schedule, I have written down day one, day two etc, etc but I haven't come to the point of putting it in MS Project yet (yet), although I have thought about it once or twice (sad I know Big Smile [:D]

)

Also, I have that HIgh Planes kit as well and I know exactly what you mean, I think someone did a poll a while ago about their most intimidating kit in their stash, the High Planes Hawk tops my list easily.

Cheers
Darren

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darson

Member since
February 2003
From: Melbourne, Australia

Posted by darson on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 7:55 PM

GO!!!!

Happy Australia Day everybody!!!!

Darren

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Bandha Boy

Member since
September 2004
From: Australia

Posted by Bandha Boy on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 8:53 AM

Mine's a BAE Hawk 127, which I just did a dry build on (hey, it's after midnight, ok!).

From that I can tell you that my schedule will be (sorry, but I'm a Project Manager by day, so I have to organise these things) Day1: clean up flash, day 2: clean up flash, day 3: clean up .... yes, more flash than a Marvel Comic. The Hiplanes kit is quite schizophrenic. The big plastic bits are very flashy & the fit quite poor. The small plastic bits & the resin seats are superb - different type & colour plastic from the structural items so I'm guessing that one or the other is outsourced. In fact there are 3 or 4 distinct types of plastic. The white metal is reasonable while the small amount of PE is without any detail (just the antennae's).

Carl

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madmike

Member since
July 2003
From: Perth, Western Australia

Posted by madmike on Tuesday, January 25, 2005 5:10 AM

I still have to get a Spitfire MkVIII kit, I will keep you posted on the outcome!

cheers

Mike

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei

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