Fleet Air Arm Group Build

mike, your on the list. 

Roy

Sounds like a good idea.  What is everyone has there exchange name by Mid November, say the 15th?  That would give everyone a few weeks to shop and have it in the mail by December 1st.  Do we need to set a max. price?  Any and all ideas will help.

Roy

Roy, I think that with all the overseas shipping that might be involved (England, Australia etc.)you should bump up that deadline a bit as parcels should be in the mail around Dec. 1st to arrive in time.  Unless you can somehow orchestrate it so that peolple in similar locales exchange with each other and cut down on shipping costs.  Just a thought.

Attention on deck!  Alain (chestor101) is the first to officially signup for our Christmas gift exchange.  Men you have five months to add your name to the list.  I would like to have all the names by December 1^st to allow time for the name exchange and mailing time.  Please address all inquiries to Roy (wyoroy).  That is all, dismissed.

Roy

(Rank undecided, However Major or Colonel will do)

FAA Corsair (it's in the shop)

Darren-

Cool!  I think you should build it here and at the Spitfire GB as well!  I really want to build the 46, without the folding wings.  The vacu-form canopies I picked up from Squadron are for the 47 (different front windscreen), but may use the kit front with new rear piece.  The decals in mine are pretty much un-usable, the yellow is so far out of register that the "1" of the "104" decal is completely off of the decal!  Not sure what I am going to do about it yet, may end up masking and painting the markings on it.  Which one are you gonna build?

Nice one Frank, I recently picked up the same kit and thought it would be a good idea to builld it here and share it on the Spitfire GB as well. It will be good to compare notes!

Any idea which markings you will use? 

Thought I'd add another aircraft to my list to build here, the Airfix 1/48 Seafire 46/47.  It's the one I'm gonna build for next months Spitfire GB, thought I might post pics of it's progress here as well.

As requested, here is the first bunch of images form the Melbourne Expo 2007. This is the aircraft page with more to follow in the next few days.

http://www.aussiemodeller.com/pages/Readyarticles/Expo2007_P1.html

(Trust me to forget the link)

TANGO 1 wrote:

Gentlemen, wherever you are in the world, take time to eat, drink and be merry. CHEERS!!

I will, Darren....right after I vacuum the house, finish the laundry, and cut the lawn.

Its the Weekend!

Gentlemen, wherever you are in the world, take time to eat, drink and be merry.

CHEERS!!

Darren, Dave,

Good luck at the show lads! If you get the chance, shoot some nice piccies for us will you?

I've spent the day catching up with some gardening and some rest after a busy week at work, I'll be starting to weather my corsair over the weekend, and hopefully get that much closer to finishing her.

razordws wrote:

ruddratt wrote:  Daywalker wrote: Darren- Good luck at the show!  Hopefully, you and Dave will have some photos to share with us next week. Absolutely! That would be awesome!

Roy

ruddratt wrote:

Daywalker wrote: Darren- Good luck at the show!  Hopefully, you and Dave will have some photos to share with us next week. Absolutely! That would be awesome!

Daywalker wrote:

Darren- Good luck at the show!  Hopefully, you and Dave will have some photos to share with us next week.

Absolutely! That would be awesome!

Darren-

Good luck at the show!  Hopefully, you and Dave will have some photos to share with us next week.

Daywalker wrote:

LOL... Yep, it's been Subway, McD.'s and Culvers all week!

Seriously I couldn't think of anything worse, well actually I could but not in terms of food.

Just letting you guys know that I'm still alive and kicking on this build but I haven't progressed very far to date.  This weekend is the Australian Model Expo held here in Melbourne and I have been going flat out preparing my entries.  Hopefully after this weekend I can start building for fun again.

Cheers

LOL... Yep, it's been Subway, McD.'s and Culvers all week!

I put the Sky on the bottom on the Corsair today, glad to finally be building again!

Daywalker wrote:

My model bench is mostly set up, but I still don't have a kitchen!  At lease I have my priorities in order...

Sounds like your doing fine, Frank! There's always McDonalds, Pizza Hut, & KFC!

I feel your pain, Roy!  I've had about as much moving as I can stand.  After working 11 hour days, I go to the old place to pack and load then deliver and unload it at the new house.  Worse part is, my g/f is in Missouri this week, my bro is in Iowa, and my parents are in South Dakota!  Except for the REALLY heavy stuff, I have been doing it all myself.

My model bench is mostly set up, but I still don't have a kitchen!  At lease I have my priorities in order...

What makes it hard is that all my paints and supplies are boxed up.  All I have out are a few kits and a few X-acto knives and sand paper.  I'm excited about the idea of creating a work area hence asking you guys what yours looks like.  By the way our next house will be bigger than this one so that's a plus.

Roy

Only starting to dislike it?

That is something I hope I never have to do again. Each time my wife says we need a bigger house (and she says that a lot!), I cringe and reply "let's just build on to this one." LOL!

All I have done is clean the parts up.  Yet it feels good to do something other then prepare the house to go on the market and for the move.  I'm starting to really dislike moving

Roy

wyoroy wrote:

Dave, hope the knee operation goes well and have fun at the Expo. Roy

Thanks for checking in, Dave! Modeling time has been lacking for me as well (home projects) but I hope to be back at the bench soon.

Roy, nice to see you modeling again my friend! Can't wait to see some pics of that Corsair!

wyoroy wrote:

Dave, hope the knee operation goes well and have fun at the Expo. Roy

Good luck Dave!

wyoroy wrote:

Thank you very much Frank.  Speaking of those who served how many of us have been or still in the military?  For myself I spent 12 years in the military.  Outside of my meeting my wife and the birth of my son it was the best time of my life.  The best unit I served with was the 187th Infantry regiment of the 101st, I was an infantryman.  My model build was on hold during that time and I didn't get back into it until college. Roy

I spent a year and a half in the norwegian navy as a draftee, and a good 14 months in tha army in the norwegian army as a UN soldier in Lebanon. So all sums up to two and a half year in uniform for me

Dave, hope the knee operation goes well and have fun at the Expo.

Roy