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Cookenbacher

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  1. Torn between the desire to do 1/700 ships and the desire not to do something that looks insanely difficult and frustrating.

    1. Cookenbacher

      Cookenbacher

      You should build a Procopian super-dreadnought from RTW2 in 1/700 - 12 16" gun in an all forward arrangement.

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  2. I feel the need to tell you all I actually built something today, in fact that’s not accurate! Somethings!

     

    they are nothing special but I got them buttoned up... not my finest work but fun!

     

    I’m back in the game!!

  3. Today in 1940, the Luftwaffe launched Adlertag, the beginning of Unternehmen ADLERANGRIFF.

     

     

  4. I don't suppose anyone knows of a source for the Airfix Lancaster B.II? They seem to have become rarer than hen's teeth.

  5. It sometimes feels like every recent Airfix 1/72 new-tool kit is like HMS Hood: splendid to look at, but with a hidden flaw*:

     

    Typhoon: too short, rear fuselage too slender

    Hurricane: Incorrect canopy framing, erroneous fabric behind the guns

    P-40: too tall canopy

    P-51: Incorrect tailplanes

    Bf109: Canopy framing again

    Spitfire 22: Nothing comes to mind

    Blenheim: Nacelles too portly, Bolingbrooke details 

    Harrier GR3: Too short tailfin

    Wildcat/Martlet: Some sort of endemic shape problem

    Fw190: Who cares, Fw190s suck. 

    Lightning F.6: A right bitch to put together.

     

    I mean, obviously, their track record might be pretty good if you were to compare it to other manufacturers' clangers in the same timespan. But Airfix makes a large proportion of the kits I want to build, so I feel it more.

     

     

     

     

     

    * I know the loss of the Hood was the result of a confluence of factors and had little to do with a design flaw per se, but bear with me here.

    1. Cookenbacher

      Cookenbacher

      Spitfire 22: the nose may be just a little slim in width

      Wildcat/Martlet: the spine is too shallow - apparently the Smithsonian did Airfix no favors and sent the prototype dimensions - it's on BM somewhere.

       

      Tell me more about the Bolingbrooke details on the Blenheim kit, an Alaskan based RCAF Bolingbrooke is on my list and this 'flaw' could work out well for Cookie.

       

       

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  6. What's with all the Yanks, my fellow Britainlanders?

  7. Too tired to accomplish anything beyond continuing to age. Have turned 33, feel considerably older in my joints.

    1. Cookenbacher

      Cookenbacher

      Happy Birthday PC! No running means no joint pain. That's my secret.

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  8. If you could only visit one of the three aviation museums in San Diego, which would it be? Have a work trip there in February.

    1. Cookenbacher

      Cookenbacher

      Midway all the way PC. The Balboa park one is really well done, but it's small like Dave says. The USMC museum has lot of old cold war jets parked outside, really neat, but again, pretty small.

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  9. I have decided to dishonour myself and do something I swore I would never do. I am going to build 1.35 armour models.

    1. Cookenbacher

      Cookenbacher

      This is momentous news indeed, as I often end up following your modelling lead. The M10 'Wolverine' TD has always intrigued me.

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  10. Winston Thomas is eight pounds and two ounces, and looks like a garden gnome.

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