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  1. Well the epic build is over - this took forever ( 6 months ), with a 3 month break while I had to source a replacement canopy. Built using the Kit decals (which weren't great being honest), Aires Cockpit which is nice and fits, Eduard External etch set which has some great bits and some pointless bits, Orion vinyl MDC cord which is great if very fiddly and finally HGW Fabric Remove Before Flight tags which are nice. It's a nice kit, but is very fiddly in parts and a bit of a pain to assemble. It's a nice size for a 1/32nd Jet though, not too big. Painted with Gunze Aqueous throughout, weathered with oils and true-earth and pigments. build thread is available here Comments welcomed as always Peter
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  2. As featured in this month's edition of Scale Aircraft Modelling. Cheers
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  3. This is based on the Model Airways kit, with a lot of scratch built updates. The kit doesn't have a metal cowling, or the 'hump' over the guns that gives the aircraft it's name, so I designed these in 3dsMax, and had them printed out. All the rigging points and cockpit instruments were designed in Photoshop and then made into a photo etch sheet. It took me about 10 month in total, and I'll admit to rushing some things towards the end. But I had fun making it, and I'll probably make another some day. The work in progress thread is here: http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234925788-116-sopwith-camel/
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  4. I have not put much on recently, but I thought I would submit this. It is a conversion using the 1980’s Airfix Lancaster and the DB Lincoln conversion in resin and vacform. I cannot remember what year I bought the conversion, but it must have been in the mid 80’s, so I thought I ought to get round to building it. In the conversion there are new wingtips, engines and nose in resin. A vacformed fuselage extension and outer engine nacelles with clear vacformed mid upper and rear gun turrets, bomb aimers transparency and H2S radome are also provided. The props had to be sourced separately if I recall and came from Aeroclub. Anything else had to be scratch built. This conversion turned out to be a bit of a challenge, partly of my own making. Most of the resin parts fit quite well, but apart from the wing tips everything is a butt joint and I used epoxy resin adhesives and for some parts I used P38 car body filler to fill joints for added strength. I had problems with two areas. The vacformed plug to extend the fuselage is too long (Guess how I found that out!) and the plastic on the outer engine nacelles is very thin. I used the original engine nacelles as a support for the resin engine nacelles and ended up using quite a lot of scrap plastic and filler to give some strength to vacform nacelles. The rudders were kit items with extensions from plastic card and the gun turrets had scratch built interiors suggestive of the real thing. Aeroclub provided the 20mm cannon and the rear 0.5 Brownings came from a Revell B17 being built as a RAF 100 Group Fortress III. The interior had detail added and as so much of the exterior detail was sanded off, a fair amount of secribing of panel lines etc was done. The new taller astrodome was plug moulded and Colin at Freightdog released his treaded Lancaster/Lincoln wheels at jus the right time. They fit well and I think were the easiest part of the build. The markings are from a Kits at War sheet for a 57 Sqn aircraft in 1950 finished in Medium Ses Grey and Black. Apparently at that time nose guns were not fitted (seems to be supported by the photos). The model lacks the exhaust stains which are always present on any photo of Lincolns and will be added shortly.
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  5. Hi everyone, Seeing as I`ve finished shifts this week, thought I`d show you some pic`s I`ve took today of a build I did a while back HiPMs 1/48 Mig-19 OOB build except for some work in the undercarriage bays which I detailed with some bits of copper wire as they were completely blank in the kit also carved quite a bit off the rear canopy fairing to get the open canopy to sit better quite a bit of Araldite and filler went into this one but I`m happy with the result Always liked the `Buck Rogers` comic strip look of these and might give the Trumpeter one a go one day Hope you enjoy, Thanks for looking, Russ
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  6. Two linked models leaving the bench this month, both Vought Corsairs, both Hasegawa 1/72, but also very different: The first is a Chance Vought F-4U Corsair Mk.1, from the British Delegation at Roosevelt Field, New York in the late summer of 1943. and alongside the rest of my growing fleet of Corsairs: The second is the A-7A Corsair, as used by VA153 US Navy onboard the USS ORISKANY on Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin toward the end of the Vietnam war. And alongside the Crusader that I built last month: FredT
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  7. Hey folks, this is the Airfix kit built with few modifications (shortened legs, replaced scissor links, wheels, cannon barrels, added spent ammo chutes and ammo boxes, FuG16/25 antennas, etc.); a build report should appear soon in Model Airplane Int. Cheers Libor
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  8. Hi everyone! Well, three and a half days of work and my latest model is ready to be used in a new book that will be released by ADH. As you can see, I elected to build the excellent Tamiya 1/72 Mosquito FB.VI, creating a full, step by step guide to it's construction and painting, along the way. Normally, I wouldn't have spent so little time on a model, but I needed a 1/72 build and so had to tackle this one at the last minute. These are some teaser shots that give some idea of the finish that I've applied to this model and the quality of the other models that will feature in what I hope will be, a very exciting addition to ADH's roster of modelling titles. I hope you like it! Spence
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  9. Hi The Boeing 767 is a nice plane, especially in the British Airways livery! Revell released there 767 in the 1990's, they included RB211's as an extra sprue. They released one of there kits with British Airways decals, the Gulf Air boxing. The Revell 767 has been out of production for a while now, but it's still knocking about. Your best bet to do a British Airways Boeing 767-300 is finding one of the Revell 767's as they have the correct engines, RB211's. The zvezda boxing doesn't have RB211's, it has CF6's. These power nearly every other 767 in the sky! So your choices are buying a revell 767 and building it out of the box or buying the Zvezda kit and after market engines. Braz models have released 1/144 RB211's for the 767. They are solid resin and will need a bit of work, but they are RB211's. You cant use or even mod the engines from the Zvezda, they are completely different! The RB211's on the 747-400 have different pylons i think. If you can get a set of Revell 767 RB211's you can use them on the zvezda kit, just fill the pylon gap on the wing and glue it on! Anyone who has built a Revell 767 with CF6's will have a spare set of RB211's. The Engines CF6's RB211's The engines are different shapes. The Kits Revell Boxing's Ace Models Boxing Zvezda Boxing Braz Engines http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/BZ4006 Liveries You have plenty of choice when it comes to doing a British Airways Boeing 767-300. You have the Landor, ethnic and chatham tails. Chatham The Current Livery The current livery (with the crest) The Crest - RichW will supply them Ethnic Tails Old Livery Landor Old Livery The Decals Several decal makers have provided the decals for you. If you want the Chatham livery you have a choice between Two Six and RichW. If you want the Landor livery you have Two Six again. Two Six - http://www.twosixdecals.co.uk/epages/62035508.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/62035508/Products/STS44178 & http://www.twosixdecals.co.uk/epages/62035508.sf/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/62035508/Products/STS44186 RichW - http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/user/7216-richw/ Boeing 767-200! For a short period in the 1990's US Airways operated a couple 767-200's in British Airways livery, these have the CF6 engines, so the engines in the Zvezda and Revell kit will be okay. Although it will require you to shorten the fuselage. The instructions are available on Draw Decals website. The decals for the 767-200 are also available by Draw Decals Draw Decals - http://www.shopdrawdecal.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=44-767-36 Other RB211 767 Options If you decide against doing a British Airways bird there are a couple other 767 operators who have RB211's. These are China Yunnan, China Eastern, Mongolian Airlines, Orient Thai, Saudi Arabian (Leased) and Qantas. Hope this all helps! Thanks Bradley
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  10. I greet all. This is my last model, set Eduard 1/48 profipack. Fast and simple job.
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  11. Moi? Mistreat a Dalek? Only starved when it came on board. Well treated since...
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  12. If you had not guessed already I am planning to fill the neck with resin and again I want to reduce the amount of resin used by partially filling the cavities with old sprue. Here is most of my collection: I did a fit check and found the boxing round the switch was fouling the next section. The easiest way to fix this was to razor saw throught the stepped sector here and scribe and cut out the sides: After the long side was scribed through the surplus could be clicked off: This white hexagonal section sprue does not find many other uses and having flat sides should help it nest together so I chose to use that for the prefilling operation: About an hour and a half later I had had a lot of fun and created this amazing 3D sprue jigsaw: I could then glue on the next neck segment: I used superglue, with hindsight I wished I had used epoxy. One of the main reasons for filling with resin is to get this depression round the neck ring filled solid to better match reality. The other big reason is the stabilise the socket, giving it great strength: After about 20 minutes I checked the joint and it was not quite coming together and the glue was still quite liquid. I have to confess that I had slightly overfilled with sprue and it was preventing the segments form coming together (epoxy would have set by now and it would have sorted the issue). So I placed four milk bottle tops in the centre of the top segment to act as packers and applied this insane clamping arrangement: Incredibly it actually worked. With the glue set I did some electrical continuity tests and marked up what wires were for which LED: You will be relieved to hear that on the electrical front all was fine. In readyness for the forthcoming resin operation this flexible tripod system was devised: I had thought I was out of disposable containers but in court I remembered I had these plastic cups in the kitchen oddments drawer, ideal: There then followed the now routine resin mixing operation. I did not use too much filler to ensure the resin was nice and runny. I mixed exactly the same quantity as for the second base and dome filling affair, one scoup of resin to half a scoup of hardener: I then filled using one of my disposable syringes. When the resin was all used up it had just started to appear round the cut out for the switch box. If I mixed and added any more it would start to overflow so this is a good place to stop resin type operations for the day: Here you can make out the level of the dark resin: And no leaks, I think this is a good result. Here you can see the resin just starting to make an appearance around the socket: Looking for other jobs to do, I filled the dome pivot tube with black Milliput, I was going to make it flat but decided that a pan headed profile would look better, I will sand this to a better shape when it is set: The surplus Milliput (rule of modelling - there is always surplus Milliput) was used to make a better seal around the switch wires: My current thinking is that I should get a small tube of silicone sealant for all those potential leak paths before resin operations resume tomorrow. I did quite a bit of electronic work as well but the photos seem to have disappeared, you have had a lucky escape there. Bye for now, Nigel
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  13. Glad you liked the Halibag model fella`s and cheers for saying so,.....it probably looks better on a photo than `in the flesh'! I also meant to mention the Airborne Forces Halifax glider tugs from 38 Group which deployed to North Africa for the invasion of Sicily as these had Mid Stone and Dark Earth upper surfaces too. Some had Tollerton Fairings and some had the new clear nose cone,.....and off the top of my head some may have had faired over nose gun turrets too? Compared to the Airborne Halibags used a year later, the Sicily ones were quite a rag tag bunch with different mods and most if not all had the triangular fins. I love the desert scheme on a bomber, such as the Wimpey seen here; and have plans to build a Ventura Mk.I in this scheme for a magazine article,....having found a lovely photo! All the best Tony O
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  14. Hello Folks, Here is my second Hudson finished! Built straight from the box apart from the decals as the codes seemed incorrect and were replaced by some from the spares box instead. I have a feeling that the serial A16-123 my have been proved incorrect for this machine too, I`m still looking into it. Just like my recent RAF Hudson,.....this has to be one of the hardest kits that I have ever built and the eagle eyed amongst you will realise that some of the flap runners are missing,........the model has been sat on and off the shelf of doom for a couple of years and during that time these fragile parts have succumbed to the carpet monster who is unfortunately very prevalent in my house at the moment,,..or is it just my butter fingers? Anyway enough blurb,......it isn`t one of my best but here it is, warts and all,...my Aussie Hudson; [/url] I hope you like it and next up will be a couple of Vengeances,.....which I must crack on and finish, Cheers Tony O PS- Just realised that I lied,.....it isn`t straight from the box as the mid upper turret came from the Revell Halifax kit because it is a more accurate shape than the Italeri turret!
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  15. ...will portray a Libyan mechanic working on the rocket launcher. Now I am not so good with figures so I am working hard on trying to pant them to look right. I am still waiting for the mechanic figure. As it is the dio is about 98% ready. Hope you guys like it. Pics are not in any particular order.[/size]
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  16. Just finished a Gazelle I picked up cheap on fleabay, I've put a little detailing on such as the 'H' antenna - although the ventral anteena has fallen off !! First attempt at some scratch seat belts as well, quite enjoyed doing this I think helo's can be more challenging than fixed wing at times......all that glazing and masking !!! The grey camo colour may be a bit light as I had some difficulties with humbrol acrylics 127 - so used a tamiya MSG I had to hand(fading perhaps?) Main thing is I managed to put in enough lead to stop it tail sitting!!
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  17. A new MirageHobby Flower class corvette HMS "Zinnia". Actually OOB model with only some old PE parts from other kits.
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  18. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2441319/The-man-keeps-Harrier-Jump-Jet-garden-Builder-spends-years-10-000-restoring-Falklands-plane-bought-eBay-telling-wife-first.html
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  19. A little pic of my latest project. The Monogram/Revell 1/72 B-52D. I will be building this one as a B-52C using a Microscale decal sheet. Rescribing this beastie was quite challenging at times due to limited space on the workbench.
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  20. Hi all This is my first post on here and I have just got back into modelling after a 35 year break, due to my illness which keeps me firmly at home. The last time I actually built a model I didn't use any paint and was quite happy just gluing and putting the "stickers" on. I was only 10 at the time and didn't know any better I recently received a 1/24 scale Spitfire (Airfix) as a present but after inspecting the kit and seeing the amount of flash on it, I simply had to email Airfix and complain. As a result of this email, they kindly sent me a 1/48 BF109 kit and I was told it has been made using brand new tooling. So I decided to use this kit as a get to know my new airbrush and old skills and hoped they were still there. I tried out a whole bunch of new things, mainly from reading this forum and trolling Youtube. I used Micro Set and Sol for the first time, weathering using Pastels, Panel Line wash using oils, used my new Airbrush for the first time, you get the picture. The kit was totally free of flash and the fit was brilliant with only a hint of sanding required. After reading previous horror stories about Airfix kits and the state of the 1/24 kit in the loft, I expected the worst. Although there are a few things I could have done better and have learnt from my mistakes, overall I am pleased with my fist try using so many new skills. I am currently building a Hasegawa P-51D 1/32 and will show this in a week or so, hopefully my skills will have improved somewhat. All criticism and tips are welcome as I have firmly got the bug again and need to brush up on my skills.
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  21. That's a very comprehensive response to a question Bradley. Nice to see someone going the extra mile to help out a fellow modeller. Well done Fella. Chris.
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  22. acrylics would be easier to use ..
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  23. Slightly off topic, I lived near the circuit for Hucknall from 1963 to when the Rolls Royce closed the airfield and saw the Spitfire on several occasions as well as the Meteor and the VC10 RB211 test bed was a regular. At school once in about '68 the Spitfire practiced aerobatics whilst we were having games. PE teacher knew I was no good at cricket, but as I could identify it as a Spitfire XIV he let me watch. Also remember being told for watching Harriers during an English lesson in '69 or 70 when they were obviously doing an off base exercise. My school was between Gedling and Burton Joyce near Nottingham. Sorry to have somewhat hijacked the thread, but seeing pictures of GLT bought a lot back.
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  24. Looks like a cool scheme. I will be watching your build with interest
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  26. Hello everyone! Okay, so this is the first model I've ever made and pretty much the first thing I've painted since I was 16.. It's the Airfix 1/72 starter spitfire kit. The model is brush painted since i don't have an airbrush. I was terrified at the prospect of painting a camo, but I'm pretty happy with the result. It's not been weathered since i couldn't find clear coat anywhere here. Wondering if i can do an oil wash over acrylic paint without giving it a clear coat. Anyway, on with the pics.. hope you guys like it. P.S.- still need to add the antenna wire.. That's about it.. All criticism is much appreciated..
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  27. cool mark just a thought mate.. cant wait to see it started so c`mon ...
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  28. ....now I *could* spend ages looking thjrough all the topics on BM [that I've already contributed to - and give answers]....but I'm not going to....
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  29. Everything is closed now and I should put some pictures tonight. Patrick
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  30. Nicley done. As for weight in the nose, i packed the radio operators compartment with lead and it was a hair trigger on the tail sitter.
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  31. Very nice Marauder and great scheme !
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  32. Yes those guys at Hogwarts make it look so much easier.
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  33. I think I might make do with a broomstick and some duct tape for now
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  34. But with RAF roundels...See - http://www.spyflight.co.uk/yar.htm which has one photo of an 'RAF' B-45. Also: http://i957.photobucket.com/albums/ae59/VIProds/RAFCrewsRB-45Cs.jpg
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  35. Haggis, tatties and neeps........mmmm Trevor
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  36. On the real thing i use Halfords Zinc Primer which is a very good match. .
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  37. and they're going to be completely different colors too !.. and mine is going to be a MkIII I don't know where you even begin to see any similarity between the two!
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  38. I added the straps on the seat.
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  39. You do realise, I trust, that in a few months they'll turn up on a Russian (or French) website as authentic WWII airframes and colour schemes?
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  40. Cracking job, and great to see those rare markings.
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  41. Nice job on a scheme you don't see very often, although with Italeri's new 1/48th Jug having a Brazilian option (fnarr fnarr) we might see some more. Pete
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  42. Thank you. Today I started paint the cockpit in rlm 02. after, I painted small parts and did toning.
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  43. coming along beautifully Kev, I love this new kinda modelling Never tackled anything resin cast except the few bits I knocked up to make the Sherpas engines and sponsons from plastic padding b
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  44. 1/72 sentinel R1 .. thomas
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  45. Sorry, but: no. How will it be less capable than a Hunter, which, with the best will in the world, couldn't compete in terms of precision weapons delivery and which had a built in avionics suite of which the most advanced aspect was arguably Brain, Human, Mk1? And how will it be 'a lot less capable than a Harrier'? And both of them would stand rock all chance of survival against the sort of GBAD threat you're positing there. The USAF has no intention of using the F-35 for low level attack in a high-threat area, or for low level work generally. The low level area still has some relevance, but the USAF was moving towards medium level ops long before the RAF did (there is an article by ACM Sir Stuart Peach, current VCDS, in an old RAF AIr Power Review where he makes this point; can't recall which edition). As an illustration, I could point you in the direction of a former F-111 driver who over a beer or three at Bracknell suggested that the only reason he was there talking to me was because he egressed one particular target at M1.4 which rather spoiled the AAA gunners' aim (and, he realised later, reduced the risk from the unguided fire simply being poured into the air in the hope a round or two might hit something). He was a much happier bunny at medium level, particularly when he moved onto the F-15E. While there are all sorts of issues with the F-35 in terms of the value and durability of the capability compared to the cost of getting it, let's not go to the extent of using hyperbolic comparisons with older platforms which'd face serious survivability questions in a non-permissive air environment and which could only be claimed to be more capable than a F-35 if we're talking about an F-35 with the avionics switched off...
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  46. Sharp build! Always nice to see another Ali-cat in the pipe. sounds like the HB kit builds up easy enough. I've got an F-14D version in the stash I'll probably break out in a year or so. One tiny detail I noticed is that the TACAN antenna (the blade antenna just aft of the canopy) is the taller version used by USN tomcats after about 1989 or so... the version on the earlier jets (including the IRIAF ones) would be the same height as the rear-most antenna (the UHF one) on the back of the fuselage. Just a couple of random details FYI (because discussing Ali-Cats is fun), You were partly right about the IFR door. The first batch were delivered with them on and had them promptly removed upon arrival (this from one of the pilots who helped ferry the initial airplanes over) while the second round had them deleted at the factory. (which begs the question... is there a batch of 40 or so IFR doors floating around the cavernous storage areas of Calverton? LOL) Second, the Iranian jets were not delivered with fuel tanks. (or the TCS system for that matter, which Iran expressed interest in, but had yet to reach maturity before the fall of the Shah) Their new F-14AM upgrade "boasts" a whole new list of upgrades and capabilities (how much is true is another story), it also has a really wicked splinter scheme version of the original southwest asia camo that you're putting on yours!
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  47. few in progress shots tonight. almost finished with weathering and about to start on the final details like glass and the radar array. i found out that the actual plane was based some miles from where i grew up, so that gives a nice touch to it. thanks for looking jw
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  48. Well, once the blue is taken out of the picture, looks to me like white distemper applied over a dark surface. White distemper was common. Although references on Luftwaffe comouflage do note use of 65 and 76, in addition to white distemper.
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