TallBlondJohn
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Beautiful build - I want one.
Small story - spring 1987 I was flying out of Moscow on a Aeroflot flight to London (Tu-154 I think). For some reason the plane got diverted to taxi through the military part of the airport, past a row of Blinders. We all started taking photos. The cabin crew went white and starting running up and down pulling down the window blinds.
The joke was on us as most of the blinds then wouldn't go back up (it was Aeroflot) and we spent the flight back in partial darkness. And in final revenge, I got food poisoning (Aeroflot again).
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Lovely work. I'm doing the same thing in 1/72 but I've figured out its possible to have each in a different scheme. So far I've done... 3 (Hunter, Hawk, Bucc). But lots more in the stash!
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Superb. How did you do the masking? It looks very clean
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As somebody who studied typography and layout under two of the old masters, I have to point out that book layout and graphics design are two different things. The problem is proper layout is a dying art and publishers today keep hiring designers out of art school who don't know how to do it properly, thus the issues highlighted above (and all sorts of other horrors, don't get me started).
From the quality issues it sounds like the original design has been reproduced photographically and printed at medium resolution on a short-run press - thus the dithering and pixelation. The up-front costs still have to be covered by the print run, so you won't even get a low cost. But probably the only way the publisher thought they could get the book done at all.
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I've built this too so I know what a good job you've done. On mine the two fuselage halves could have been different aircraft.
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That's a handsome beast. I now want one.
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Hmmm, there must be something in the water this month for seaplane spitfires - Ed Nash posted this history on YT:
I have the Brengun boxing in the stash, I think its based on an Eduard Spit.
As this is confession time: I've never built a Spitfire before!
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On 21/01/2021 at 06:13, sroubos said:
Embarassing to see kits like this get re-released. There are so many good Tomcat kits on the market, in fact you'd be hard pressed to find a worse F-14 on the shelves than this one.
Especially because these kits are focussed at youngsters and other people who may be new to the hobby this is an awful way to introduce them to what it has to offer. Missed chance.Totally agree. Airfix keep pumping out ancient kits clearly marketed at beginner/younger modellers - starter sets etc - that ought to be called 'put them off sets'. Bad paints and moulds that should be taken outside, given a biscuit and shot. The brush is usually OK.
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Lovely work so far.
Airfix - scale this kit down to 1/72 immediately. And the Javelin while you are at it. I'll have two.
Thank you.
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20 minutes ago, ArnoldAmbrose said:
Gidday, as you suggested I looked these Gentlemen up. I'm wondering why the names of Von der Tann, Moltke, Goeben, Derfflinger and Hindenburg weren't proposed. These were all used for German battlecruisers in WW1. Also Seydlitz and Lutzow but these names were already taken.
Regards, Jeff.
Well - ask Hitler. He wasn't known for total rationality. Slightly more seriously, I think these names would probably have appeared on cruisers. Apart from Hindenburg there's nobody else in German history of Bismark's stature who wasn't a king. Politics had a lot to do with German ship naming - Raeder stood for tradition, but anything with strong monarchist ties wasn't popular with the Nazi leadership, so the various minor royalty of the WWI era wouldn't have been repeated and that probably counted against Hindenburg too.
Barbarossa and Frederick the Great would probably have been exceptions, so they can be put on other fictional Z-Plan battleships - but its all speculation.
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The Germans were starting to run out of famous personages - Hitler's dinnertime musings for the H class were Ulrich von Hutten and Götz von Berlichingen. Who? Medieval knights, worth a look on Wikipedia.
I suspect these battlecruisers might have been named after German states, like the old pre-dreadnoughts. They were deeply flawed, like most of the Z-Plan. This site has a very interesting set of essays:
http://www.avalanchepress.com/gamePlanZ.php
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11 hours ago, ArnoldAmbrose said:
Gidday @73north, I have a small book "German Surface Warships 1" from a series 'Navies of the Second World War' by Macdonald which I bought over 40 years ago and this class of ship rates a mention. I didn't know that the first, designated "O" was named Barbarossa. AFAIK none were even started, they were still in the design stage. She would have been an interesting warship. Regards, Jeff.
None were ever named, Barbarossa is a guess. But not a bad one. Still its a bit depressing to see these never-where's put out while there are real ships unkitted, especially in 1/350 - such as Sheffield, Victorious or Illustrious. But swastikas sell.
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Nest and Tinker? Nimitz and Tirpitz more like. They will appreciate this new toy.
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Beautiful models and great write-ups, thanks
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I'd love to see your Enterprise, the paper deck would work well on a carrier. Sort of hoping you didn't really build this in 3 1/2 hours... 😉
Did you scan the parts to get the deck plan, or measure it all out?
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Oh god, prepare to feel inadequate...
(as a GF said to me once)
😉
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Paper - that's brilliant and much better than wood in this scale. What glue are you using?
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Much better photo, doesn't she look good. Only thought - a CIWS on each bridge wing sponson would have enhanced the balanced look. Still very very pretty - unusual for the time period
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Very nice. What kit and how did you do the paneling?
Thanks
John (currently nervously awaiting a covid test result)
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The small rangefinders are probably air defence sights, or maybe searchlight sights (probably both). Beautiful work.
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8 hours ago, Putty Animal said:
Lord! I think some of those parts were meant to be optional. That thing is huge. Is that you standing on the front there?
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Please do if you can - not least as I have this to do at some point. The Revell kit is not a good place to start but I think its all we have in 1/72. When I do mine I expect to replace most of it using a 1/48 Eduard DH2 kit as a guide.
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Very nice. I remember this one fondly from my childhood, lots of weapons and easy to paint. Wrong stand of course but let's just move on shall we 😉
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She does look good. The weapons fit still gives my historicity OCD heebie-jeebies but who cares?
Did Tiger have any searchlights? Apart from signalling lamps I'm not sure modern ships use them.
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Batlle of Britain August 1940 Airfix diorama
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I was going to say "At last! A BoB diorama without a Spitfire!". Then I saw the Spitfire.
Superb work anyway!