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                        Battle For Germany 45 GB Starts Now - 08 May 06

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                        jboutin
                        • Member since
                          December 2004
                        • From: 288921 E, 5659868 N UTMz12, NAD83
                        Posted by jboutin on Tuesday, June 14, 2005 1:34 PM
                        Darren, the dates sound alright for both BoG and BoB. It gives me lots of time to prepare! For the next BoB GB I'm seriously thinking of the 1:48 fujimi bf-110 like in the BoB mag FSM just recently put out. Tongue [:P] CAN'T WAIT!
                        JAY - fighting evil since 2:15pm, July 8,1976 -
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                        rjkplasticmod
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: A Spartan in the Wolverine State
                        Posted by rjkplasticmod on Tuesday, June 14, 2005 1:45 PM
                        Darren the start dates for both GB's sounds good to me. Should be a lot of fun.

                        Regards, Rick
                        RICK At My Age, I've Seen It All, Done It All, But I Don't Remember It All...
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                        tho9900
                        • Member since
                          July 2004
                        • From: SETX. USA
                        Posted by tho9900 on Tuesday, June 14, 2005 8:39 PM
                        Jay - I've never quite finished mine, but only have fiddly prts to put on to be complete... but the Fujimi kit is sweet! fits together very well and although the surface detail is not that great it looks good. The canopy is a bit to mask though as it has recessed lines in it versus raised canopy braces. Other than that it is a nice build, very little complications!

                        I should be able to finish mine this summer and post up some shots to ya!
                        ---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, June 14, 2005 8:58 PM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by jboutin

                        Darren, the dates sound alright for both BoG and BoB. It gives me lots of time to prepare! For the next BoB GB I'm seriously thinking of the 1:48 fujimi bf-110 like in the BoB mag FSM just recently put out. Tongue [:P] CAN'T WAIT!


                        JB that the same kit I was thinking of doing, no probs though there are plenty of markings available for the 110. From what Tom says it's should be a pretty nice kit too, should build up well but I'll think I'll wimp out and go for some pre-cut masks for the canopy.

                        Cheers
                        Darren
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:11 PM
                        Darren,

                        You can count me in for this build. I'll take a look at what I might want to do. Thinking about a nmf Monogram B-17, but I also might like to do an armor piece... anyone know of a good Soviet JS 1 or JS2 kit?


                        Colonel
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 14, 2005 9:58 PM
                        Sean i have your email mateThumbs Up [tup]Thumbs Up [tup]

                        Jay Whats that A/C wreck in your sigQuestion [?] i can't make out the type.........
                        BTW i grabbed the latest Flightpath magazine cause it has lots of info on Aussie P-40's and there is an intersting site to do with finding and restoring wrecked WWII A/C.....www.pacificwrecks.com.............
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                        darson
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: Melbourne, Australia
                        Posted by darson on Tuesday, June 14, 2005 11:07 PM
                        Jules I am glad to hear that the kit arrived safely. I knew it would be fine, but there is always that niggling worry that it will get lost or worse. Oh yeah that issue of Flightpath is excellent isn't it Thumbs Up [tup].

                        Joe welcome aboard, I'll put you down in the list of definite absolutely maybes. I'm in the same bucket as you at the moment, is it going to be a tank or an aircraft???

                        Cheers
                        Darren
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 4:01 AM
                        Yeah Darren it's all in one peice or should i say all 108 peices are OKThumbs Up [tup]
                        BTW i already have a set of decals sussed for it, 15 kill Aussie ace John Waddy's A/C in the standard green/grey camo with white tail, spinner and wing leading edges....I'll be ordering the decal set from Red Roo tomorrow, Red Roo do quite a few decal sets for the P-40N including Atherton's a/c and Black Magic which is profiled in the flightpath magThumbs Up [tup]
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                        darson
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: Melbourne, Australia
                        Posted by darson on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 7:05 AM
                        Jules I got your money order in the mail today and thanks, but there is one small problem, you sent me too much!!!! I said not to worry about postage, it was only a couple of bucks Evil [}:)].

                        Alright then expect some disks inbound Tongue [:P]

                        Cheers
                        Darren
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                        pingtang
                        • Member since
                          April 2003
                        • From: NSW, Australia
                        Posted by pingtang on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 7:17 AM
                        Jules I'm building "Black magic" at the moment for the P-40 GB. I got the Red Roo decals for it. Only problem is, they're wrong according to the mag article. The decals have the code a HU*L and the serial as A29-563. They should be HU*E and A29-575. Doesn't matter too much, I still got the nose "art" and roundels. Some spare A-numbers and codes should sort it out.
                        -Daniel
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                        pmm736
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                          April 2004
                        Posted by pmm736 on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 7:51 AM
                        I'd like to jump in on this one with some piece of armor or other
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 7:56 AM
                        Darren, mate i gotta pay for postage, you've already gone to enough trouble getting it for meThumbs Up [tup]

                        Pingy You would think that Red Roo would have got it right eh.....I'll have to find a cross referance to make sure i get the right codes with Waddy's machine.....
                        BTW when are you planning on building itQuestion [?]
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                        darson
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: Melbourne, Australia
                        Posted by darson on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 8:31 AM
                        Pete welcome to the GB and I think you'll find there is quite a bit armor being done for this build even from us normally wingy things guys.

                        Pingy and Jules I've got two sets of P-40 decals on order at the moment, one is Red Roo and the other is Aussie. One sheet features amongst others Bobby Gibbes P-40E with nose art and the other has some P-40Ns from the Pacific with some great nude nose art. When I pick them up I'll do a scan of what they look like.

                        Cheers
                        Darren
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                        jboutin
                        • Member since
                          December 2004
                        • From: 288921 E, 5659868 N UTMz12, NAD83
                        Posted by jboutin on Wednesday, June 15, 2005 10:01 AM
                        Jules, the wreck you see is an SBD, I found it on http://www.pacificghosts.com/pearlharbor.html
                        I'm in the 'after the battle' GB and I've got an old Monogram SBD I think would look kinda neat all rusted up and sitting in some bush like that photo. It will be my first 'real' diorama.
                        JAY - fighting evil since 2:15pm, July 8,1976 -
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                        pingtang
                        • Member since
                          April 2003
                        • From: NSW, Australia
                        Posted by pingtang on Thursday, June 16, 2005 2:47 AM
                        Jules I'm doing the Hasegawa P-40N at the moment. Still not sure if I'll do this one as Black Magic or wait and use the decals on the Mauve kit I'll build later on. Might do it for this one and do a foliage green N for the next Aussie GB, I like the look of those ones too.
                        -Daniel
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                        darson
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: Melbourne, Australia
                        Posted by darson on Thursday, June 16, 2005 7:15 PM
                        I'm was mucking around for a couple of hours last night trying to come up with a badge for this GB but so far I haven't found one that I like.
                        I came up with a couple of options, one was the wrecked Reichstag in 45 and the other is a Sherman advancing through a German town. Both are great photos but when reduced to GB badge size you can't actually tell what they are supposed to be Angry [:(!].
                        So, if anybody could help out and send me an image that typifies the battle for Germany (but would still be identifiable when shrunk down) I really would appreciate it.

                        Cheers
                        Darren
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Friday, June 17, 2005 1:07 AM
                        Darren i'll have a sniff around the net and see if i can get a decent image, i think the wrecked reichstag building is a great idea for a gb badgeThumbs Up [tup]
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Friday, June 17, 2005 1:24 AM
                        geez Pingy you sure do knock em up fast eh, I may have to ditch work and make models full time, just out of curiosity how many have you built in 05Question [?]
                        Oh and BTW make sure you tell us when you post up your finished P-40 will yaThumbs Up [tup]
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                        darson
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: Melbourne, Australia
                        Posted by darson on Friday, June 17, 2005 1:38 AM
                        Jules thanks very much for having a look for me, I've been hunting around for the last couple of days and nothing has grabbed me. I'll post a couple of test badges of what I have so far when I get home from work to show you what they look like.
                        Also, do you have the series Band of Brothers on DVD?

                        Cheers
                        Darren
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                        pingtang
                        • Member since
                          April 2003
                        • From: NSW, Australia
                        Posted by pingtang on Friday, June 17, 2005 3:16 AM
                        Jules I don't knock them together that quick. So far in '05 I have built:

                        1/48 Dragon FW-190A-5;
                        1/48 Tamiya BF-109E-3 (For the NA GB);
                        1/48 Tamiya Spitfire Mk.1 (For the BoB GB);
                        1/48 Acc. Min. SBD-3 (for the Midway GB);
                        1/12 Tamiya Honda RC211V (for the RC211v GB);
                        and a 1/48 Trumpeter P-40B (for the Aussie GB).

                        That's a model a month, which seems about right. It usually takes me about a month to finish a model. Even though I'm at home alot, I don't actually work on my models very much. I could probably do one a week if I did alot of work on them.

                        I'll probably post some pics of my P-40 on the aircraft forum when I finish it.

                        Darren I've got the Band of Brothers series on DVD mate. It's a very good series that one. BTW, I reckon the wrecked Reichstag building photo would do great for a GB badge.
                        -Daniel
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Friday, June 17, 2005 4:25 AM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by jboutin

                        Jules, the wreck you see is an SBD, I found it on http://www.pacificghosts.com/pearlharbor.html
                        I'm in the 'after the battle' GB and I've got an old Monogram SBD I think would look kinda neat all rusted up and sitting in some bush like that photo. It will be my first 'real' diorama.

                        Ahhhh thanks Jay, i sat here for ages thinking "I know those lines i know those lines" but i couldn't put my finger on it, as soon as you told me it was "Ahhh of course i should have known"..........
                        BTW your dio sounds coolCool [8D], don't forget to show the rest of us "Usuals when you finish itThumbs Up [tup]

                        Pingy 6 for the year is pretty good going when you consider the amount of time you spend on the builds, I've only managed 3 so far for 2005 but the Spit VIII for the Aussie GB should be done in a couple of weeksThumbs Up [tup]

                        [b]Darren[b] I did see the Band of Brothers on TV but i havn't gotten around to buying the DVD set yet..............
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                        pingtang
                        • Member since
                          April 2003
                        • From: NSW, Australia
                        Posted by pingtang on Friday, June 17, 2005 8:30 AM
                        QUOTE: Ahhhh thanks Jay, i sat here for ages thinking "I know those lines i know those lines" but i couldn't put my finger on it, as soon as you told me it was "Ahhh of course i should have known"..........


                        me too.....as soon as I saw that roll-over hoop on the top, I thought "I know what that is", but couldn't figure it out until you told us. Seems so obvious now.

                        Jules I have a feeling I've built a few more than that this year, but can't quite remember which ones.....BTW, that Band of brothers is well worth checking out. If it wasn't illegal, I'd make you a copy and send it to you Wink [;)]Wink [;)].
                        -Daniel
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                        KINGTHAD
                        • Member since
                          May 2004
                        • From: Dallas
                        Posted by KINGTHAD on Friday, June 17, 2005 8:32 AM
                        Darren, Band of Bothres is a good series, If you cant buy the DVD they show it every once in a while on the history chanel.

                        Thad
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                        Anonymous
                        • Member since
                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Friday, June 17, 2005 2:28 PM
                        I defenitely might be interested in this one...with what...I dont know,But im defenitely interested
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                        Anonymous
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                          November 2005
                        Posted by Anonymous on Friday, June 17, 2005 6:48 PM
                        Yeah Pingy it's a shame that burning DVD's is illegal, of course it's something that i wouldn't even consider doingThumbs Up [tup]

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                        tho9900
                        • Member since
                          July 2004
                        • From: SETX. USA
                        Posted by tho9900 on Friday, June 17, 2005 6:59 PM
                        Me either Jules... just back ups of my existing DVD's in case one fails... Big Smile [:D]
                        ---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 Saturday, June 18, 2005 7:21 PM
                        Jules can you shoot me an email with your address on it please? I lost the bit of paper I wrote it down on last time. I have some reference material I need to send you.

                        Thad thanks but I do own it, I think I must have watched it about nine times so far, great show.

                        Nick welcome aboard, I'll put you done on page one in the list of definite maybes.

                        Tom Nothing wrong with a backup of a purchased disk, just in case.

                        Cheers
                        Darren
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                        rjkplasticmod
                        • Member since
                          February 2003
                        • From: A Spartan in the Wolverine State
                        Posted by rjkplasticmod on Saturday, June 18, 2005 8:47 PM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by tho9900

                        Me either Jules... just back ups of my existing DVD's in case one fails... Big Smile [:D]


                        I wondered where Kremps was getting all those DVD's & now I know Smile [:)]. Have to say your choice of video is a little shocking Blush [:I]

                        Regards, Rick
                        RICK At My Age, I've Seen It All, Done It All, But I Don't Remember It All...
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                        tho9900
                        • Member since
                          July 2004
                        • From: SETX. USA
                        Posted by tho9900 on Saturday, June 18, 2005 9:02 PM
                        Rick - let's just say Kremps choice of videos is a little "eccentric"..... Disapprove [V]

                        I just burn them for her because the dogs like to curl up in her back hair and sleep and it keeps them quiet for awhile! Wink [;)]
                        ---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 Sunday, June 19, 2005 2:49 AM
                        QUOTE: Originally posted by tho9900

                        Rick - let's just say Kremps choice of videos is a little "eccentric"..... Disapprove [V]

                        I just burn them for her because the dogs like to curl up in her back hair and sleep and it keeps them quiet for awhile! Wink [;)]


                        Yeah Rick i know what you mean mate, Apparently old "KREMPS" suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome from time to time, you see the Soviets used to have her hang upside down from their Tank gun with weights attached to her back hair and use her as kinda of a feild modification anti mine flail..............
                        BTW did you see the one of her trying to milk that Yak in TibetQuestion [?]

                        Darren Email inboundThumbs Up [tup]
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