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                        All Subjects - Aussie Group Build 2005

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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Monday, May 2, 2005 6:24 AM
                        i missed out big after really.....Sign - Oops [#oops] communication error... danger will and penny robinson....Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Monday, May 2, 2005 6:18 AM
                        yeh darren but i need ifo on whats the average time to build plus how to post piccy,s on progressQuestion [?] iam on a really project at the moment. regards jazz
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                        darson
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                        • From: Melbourne, Australia
                        Posted by darson on Monday, May 2, 2005 6:13 AM
                        Hey Jazz, that sounds to me like you're looking to join our little band? Another member of the group is always welcome.

                        Cheers
                        Darren
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Monday, May 2, 2005 4:25 AM
                        thanks 4 the info dave regards stooThumbs Up [tup]
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Monday, May 2, 2005 4:20 AM
                        iam a ex 2nd cav got out in 86
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                        harvs73
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                        • From: Melbourne, Victoria
                        Posted by harvs73 on Monday, May 2, 2005 4:18 AM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by jazzbot

                        hay harvs u look like a aj


                        Funnily enough Jazzbot, I am Big Smile [:D] Only done 18 years at it so far.

                        Dave Harvey

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                        harvs73
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                        • From: Melbourne, Victoria
                        Posted by harvs73 on Monday, May 2, 2005 4:16 AM
                        Jazzbot, a GB iswhen a topic is agreed upon and those that wish to participate in it nominate a model that they want to build relating to that topic eg the Aussie GB. As you build the model you give everyone a update on how you are going and also post pictures if you want to/can. The other advantage is that if you have problems with your build you can ask questions on the GB topic and someone will always be able to help with the problem you have. This also goes the other way where you may be able to help someone else.

                        Dave Harvey

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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Monday, May 2, 2005 4:13 AM
                        hay harvs u look like a aj
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Monday, May 2, 2005 4:05 AM
                        the group build thing please explain to just a box-stock
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Monday, May 2, 2005 4:03 AM
                        five looks to me the highest star rate ....whats after that some ones model roomLaugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Monday, May 2, 2005 4:01 AM
                        boy u guys are nuts but this seems the place to beApprove [^]Approve [^]Approve [^]Approve [^]
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Monday, May 2, 2005 2:06 AM
                        Thanks Dave It sounds like a pretty good kit to buildThumbs Up [tup] i've been thinking of giving the single seat fighters a break after i've nailed a few GB's and start making some twin egined models, i already have the Promodeller ME 410 as well as the Tamiya He 219 and the HAS henschel 129 but i'd like to add the A/20 to the collectinThumbs Up [tup]
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                        harvs73
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                        • From: Melbourne, Victoria
                        Posted by harvs73 on Monday, May 2, 2005 12:37 AM
                        Woohoo, only 8 more! Propeller [8-]

                        Jules, I only had a few dramas with the kit. The biggest drama was just keeping the engines stuck inside the cowlings as there is no real locating spots for the glue to hold it together. The other drama is the main undercarriage is in the incorrect spot from what I have read. It is apparantly a few mm to the rear of where it should be (I left mine alone).

                        One suggestion that I picked up from a build on Hyperscale or ARC was with the nose. The nose comes in three peices, two sides and the nose cap as well as the left an dright fueslage halves. The best way to put it all together is to glue each nose half to it's respective fueslage side. This makes it easier to do the required filling/sanding when the fueslage goes together. Doing it the way the instructions say by joining the two halves together then adding them to the fueslage after it's together causes fit problems.

                        Other than those few areas it went together with little trouble at all and only minimal filler. HTH

                        Dave Harvey

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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, May 1, 2005 11:33 PM
                        Ahh Dave how well did the kit go together, any fit problemsQuestion [?]
                        Hey i just noticed 8 more posts and you'll be getting your 2nd starThumbs Up [tup]
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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, May 1, 2005 11:28 PM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by darson

                        Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]
                        Thanks for asking, I sent him to Noosa for the weekend to get some extra R&R.

                        BTW, I think that the A-20G that Dave built was the AMT kit. Italeri have now re-released it with some Aussie decals included.

                        Cheers
                        Darren


                        Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Yeah Noosa is nice this time of yearBig Smile [:D]
                        Italeria make it eh, Hmmm i'm not a huge fan of Italeria the plastic seems brittle to me but i definatly want oneWink [;)]

                        QUOTE: Originally posted by tweety1
                        Did any of that make senseConfused [%-)]Confused [%-)]?

                        yeah Tweets it kinda makes sense, i know where your coming from (East Wing, room 24a, happy acres mental institution)Wink [;)]Big Smile [:D]
                        BTW don't judge yourself too harshly, we are our own worst critics, I've seen many of your builds and i know the 47 is gonna look flashThumbs Up [tup]

                        QUOTE: Originally posted by tho9900
                        Darren - as far as Charlie you might want to check in on him... I saw a sock getting arrested on the news that had a stricking resemblene to Charlie... seems he was wandering around downtown, drunk as a skunk and propositioning every pair of fishnet stockings he ran across...

                        Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Tom out of all of us you would have to be the most mental oneTongue [:P]
                        BTW thanks for the laughWink [;)]Wink [;)]

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                        harvs73
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                          March 2003
                        • From: Melbourne, Victoria
                        Posted by harvs73 on Sunday, May 1, 2005 11:11 PM
                        Jules, Darren was right about the kit, it was the AMT offering of the A-20G that Italerie has now re-released. It just had the addition of the True details wheels and liferaft and Aussie Decals markings. Hopefully they release the A-20B/C as well as Highplanes has released some decals for RAAF A-20 B/Cs.

                        Sean, I totally agree with the 'we are our worse critic' view. My mosquito looks good to most but after I have virtually sanded most of the paint off due to 'inadeqacies' that I found it is looking a bit sad. Sad [:(]

                        Tom, are you suggesting that someone ACTUALY make a kit OOB???? Shock [:O] Smile [:)]

                        Dave Harvey

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                        tho9900
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                          July 2004
                        • From: SETX. USA
                        Posted by tho9900 on Sunday, May 1, 2005 7:39 AM
                        Sean, that reminds me of another of Kremps' sayings but we can save that for another time... I am like that, very hard on my builds... I think in some cases thats where I hold myself back... won't try something creative until I have it down on a junk model etc... just think to yourself when you hesitate to do something for being hard on yourself... "What would Kremps do?"

                        I do like the idea of the priginal concept on the kit then what you produced idea... hmmm... that might be an idea for a GB.. a "before and after" GB... build one kit OOB, the other the way YOU want to modify it...

                        Darren - as far as Charlie you might want to check in on him... I saw a sock getting arrested on the news that had a stricking resemblene to Charlie... seems he was wandering around downtown, drunk as a skunk and propositioning every pair of fishnet stockings he ran across...
                        ---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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                        tweety1
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                          August 2003
                        • From: Alice Springs Australia
                        Posted by tweety1 on Sunday, May 1, 2005 7:19 AM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by j.s.harrison


                        BTW Tweets how about some pics.................


                        I was planning on taking some and posting them, but I really wanna leave it till it is complete.
                        I know thats a little stoopidDunce [D)], but I have some pics of what Academy offered, and when I'm done I'll post em side by side with my meagre effort at scratchbuilding for a total comparison, rather than in progress.

                        Like I said, it's sttopid, but I reckon it will be 'truer' to the kit.

                        Did any of that make senseConfused [%-)]Confused [%-)]?

                        ::edit:: Forgot to add, we do judge ourselves harsher than others, and I feel a tad 'iffy' bout how the whole thing looks at the momentEight Ball [8]
                        We'll see when it's done
                        --Sean-- If you are driving at the speed of light and you turn on the headlights, what happens???
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                        darson
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                        • From: Melbourne, Australia
                        Posted by darson on Sunday, May 1, 2005 7:09 AM
                        Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]
                        Thanks for asking, I sent him to Noosa for the weekend to get some extra R&R.

                        BTW, I think that the A-20G that Dave built was the AMT kit. Italeri have now re-released it with some Aussie decals included.

                        Cheers
                        Darren
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, May 1, 2005 6:57 AM
                        Well Darren it would be conjecture but i think a new member reading our posts would be thinking.........They're all nutcases
                        BTW hows "Charlie's" convalesence goingThumbs Up [tup]
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                        darson
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                          February 2003
                        • From: Melbourne, Australia
                        Posted by darson on Sunday, May 1, 2005 6:49 AM
                        Dave, I think you're right.

                        Jules, this is spooky I was just thinking the exact same thing. What the hell would a new member looking to join this build think Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]Laugh [(-D]

                        Cheers
                        Darren
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, May 1, 2005 6:48 AM
                        Hmmm you might be on to something there Dave, But i have a feeling it goes deeper than that, call it experience from following these guys around GB'sThumbs Up [tup]

                        BTW Dave that A -20 you built for last years GB, What kit was itQuestion [?]
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                        harvs73
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                          March 2003
                        • From: Melbourne, Victoria
                        Posted by harvs73 on Sunday, May 1, 2005 6:38 AM
                        Maybe they are just high on the thinner fumes? Big Smile [:D]

                        Dave Harvey

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                        Anonymous
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                        Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, May 1, 2005 6:26 AM
                        Hmmm the things we like to talk abut eh........Whats worse is i'm mental enough to understand what your yakking about,,, imagine if a new member were to read our conversations,,,they would be thinking what the hell are these guys on

                        BTW Tweets how about some pics.................
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                        tho9900
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                          July 2004
                        • From: SETX. USA
                        Posted by tho9900 on Saturday, April 30, 2005 8:39 PM
                        QUOTE: For us it takes a bottle, for her it takes a brewery


                        Sad but true my friend... and you can't say anything to her or she smacks you real hard... poor old bat... of course with a liver the size of hers, it has room to shrink... at least she's a sentimental drunk... cries in her beer about the "good old days" with the Czech resistance in WWII... all she can talk about when she is soused, is when she tore that Nazi limb from limb in a "gorilla" action against the Nazis... (that's right, I meant gorilla, not guerilla) Seems the local sewing club in her home town decided it was time to do something about these whippersnappers roaming in the streets...
                        ---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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                        tweety1
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                          August 2003
                        • From: Alice Springs Australia
                        Posted by tweety1 on Saturday, April 30, 2005 8:32 PM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by tho9900

                        an expensive and well crafted paperweight.. well if it blows to hell you can always start making a dio of a Bell 47 crash... Wink [;)]

                        Always got a back up plan eh TomSmile [:)]Wink [;)]

                        QUOTE:
                        Like Kremps said... when life hands you beets... trade them to the old lady down the street for a bottle of vodka and once you're drunk you can laugh about it!


                        For us it takes a bottle, for her it takes a brewerySleepy [|)]

                        --Sean-- If you are driving at the speed of light and you turn on the headlights, what happens???
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                        tho9900
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                        • From: SETX. USA
                        Posted by tho9900 on Saturday, April 30, 2005 6:17 PM
                        an expensive and well crafted paperweight.. well if it blows to hell you can always start making a dio of a Bell 47 crash... Wink [;)]

                        Like Kremps said... when life hands you beets... trade them to the old lady down the street for a bottle of vodka and once you're drunk you can laugh about it!
                        ---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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                        tweety1
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                          August 2003
                        • From: Alice Springs Australia
                        Posted by tweety1 on Saturday, April 30, 2005 6:12 PM
                        A knockout if things go well.

                        A paper weight if things go horribly wrong.
                        --Sean-- If you are driving at the speed of light and you turn on the headlights, what happens???
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                        tho9900
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                        • From: SETX. USA
                        Posted by tho9900 on Saturday, April 30, 2005 10:48 AM
                        Tweets - looking forward to it! from the pics awhile back you posted of your progress she's gonna be a knockout!!!
                        ---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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                        tweety1
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                          August 2003
                        • From: Alice Springs Australia
                        Posted by tweety1 on Saturday, April 30, 2005 10:46 AM
                        Well, the canopy idea was a bit of a wash outSad [:(]

                        I decided to use Krystal Clear instead of my usual CA effort, just for something different.

                        Krystal clear doesn't really form a decent bondSad [:(]
                        So while I was attaching a couple of scratch items, I bumped the canopy and she fell onto my knifeShock [:O]Evil [}:)]Censored [censored]

                        The scratch isn't to bad, so I'm gonna polish it out, and leave the canopy till last to attach.

                        But as for the engine detail, got a few wires to run, and have managed to scrape up some PE bits that look similar to the linkages on the Bell that I can use, so it isn't a total loss so far.
                        --Sean-- If you are driving at the speed of light and you turn on the headlights, what happens???
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