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Model aircraft and aviation History and photography, Naval history and ship models, maritime and ships in general, Scratch building of models, Some military history
I have built models for the better part of thirty five years, have taken photographs of U.S. military aircraft and ships for about twenty five years and am currently scratch building a 1/72 nd scale model of the USS Petrof Bay (CVE-80).
Local IPMS
IPMS journal and local IPMS publication. Photos and drawing in Koku Fan, Deatil and Scale, et al.
I enjoy the challenge of tracking down esoteric information, locating information on topics of my interest and corresponding with others of similiar interests.
A great amount of both.
Many descriptions of well recorded subjects and events lack accuracy!
| User | Date | K | C | T | P | Comments |
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| Kenneth | 09/27/09 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | Thanks for the reply and comments! |
| Bill | 09/03/09 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | Thank you so much for your quick ..... |
| zac | 09/03/09 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | |
| Tim | 08/26/08 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | Thanks anyway Tim |
| Dan | 05/27/08 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | Thank you Clifford! That's a big help ..... |
Don, The problem with most printers is that the ink is somewhat translucent and will allow darker colors to show through. Short of buying an expensive printer like an Alps I would suggest printing
Rodrigo, My biggest concern with using an airbrush on photoetch is that the airflow might simply blow the parts off the model. That being said it is much easier to paint a model with an airbrush
Ken, The PM Models are a mixed batch, with the Ta-183 being fairly decent, while many of the others are mediocre. The F-86 is the old Hasegawa kit and is not too good. The F-100C is another ancient
Bill, Unfortunately I do not know of anybody that I could really commit to this build. However, you probably should contact John Estes at BagpipeJM@aol.com. John is retired and occasionally builds
Dan, Looking through my slides of the USS Constitution the paint used in the latest restoration has a gloss finish. However, after some time at sea and under the sun I imagine it would take on a more

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