Group Build 6 month- open class (9-1-08) $$PRIZE

[razorboy]

Still looking for pilots, met a guy through ebay that is supposed to have some surplus 1:48 scale WWI pilots laying around, I'll check on some 1:32 for you too cyberia, as soon as he contacts me.

Thanks,
Dave

[Whiterook]

Wow Wolster...beautiful bird there, Mate! You're a fast modeler!!! Love the brush work you did on her.

[Whiterook]

I haven't started to look yet, but I'd be interested in some 1/72 figures for a WWI Biplane diorama...but I can't imagine painting figures in that scale!

[MAGNA]

Originally Posted by Whiterook

I haven't started to look yet, but I'd be interested in some 1/72 figures for a WWI Biplane diorama...but I can't imagine painting figures in that scale!

Figures in the 1/72nd scale are easy. You just have to remember to squint a bit.

[Geek44]

Maybe you should consider one of those circular magnifying lights.

[Whiterook]

Originally Posted by Geek44

Maybe you should consider one of those circular magnifying lights.

Not sure if you meant that for Magna or me, but funny thing about that: I picked up one with a 40% off coupon at a local craft store...magnifying lense built in, and a light bulb to illuminate. Nice adjustable arm lamp. Thing is, I use the light, but not the magnifying lens! I try looking through that foolish thing and my eyeballs go crosseyed! Really!!! Don't know if it's because I normally wear glasses all day anyway, and looking through it is like looking through binoculars...crosseyed! The other possibility is, as I'm dancing the old-fart line here, I have reading progressives, and that may just be screwwing with me. God getting old sucks...and I'm not old!

[Geek44]

Yeah I meant it for you Whiterook. You've got what I call 'Codger Eye' if you're wearing those combination lenses. I'm pretty lucky, I've been wearing glasses since I was 14 and I still take them off to read or build. My vision is 20/20 until things get more than a foot away from my face. The other option might be a pair of those magnifiers that you wear like a sun visor...they also take a little getting used to...or just build larger scale.

[Whiterook]

Hee heeeee...I "see" what you mean there, Mate! Actually, when I model, I usually wear the glasses OK, until I need to get up close and personal with fine tuning stuff, like glueing or painting real tiny detail stuff...was less of an issue with 1/35 armor than with the 1/800 aircraft carrier. The 1/72 biplanes ought to be a real treat...after I build them, I'm sticking to 1/35 vehicles and 1/48 aircraft. Don't plan on another ship for a very long time!

Yeah, been wearing glasses forever, and just started having reading issues a few years ago, but not too bad. The lenses are the nice pregressives that don't have the old-fart line that everyone can see and laugh at you for. My wife reads with her glasses off...never got how she could do that!

[Geek44]

Different eyes mate. When I look back at what I've spent my spare time doing, it's no wonder my eyes are the way they are. Modelling and drawing a foot from my face for 35 years has changed the shape of my eyeballs. When I got my first pair of glasses it was like I'd been miraculously healed. I nearly fell to my knees and shouted 'It's a miracle'!

[Wolster]

Progress report, First the Hurricane. Nearly done, just decals to go. This aircraft is depicted with white stripes on and under the wings and tail plane. These are supplied as decals but I know they are going to be crap. I am therefore thinking of masking and spraying the white on!