ScoobyDoo
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On 9/18/2022 at 12:52 AM, vince14 said:
RFID blocking wallets are a waste of money. Firstly, an attacker would need to place the card reader within 2cm of your card for it to work, so you’d probably notice them trying it on. Secondly, simply having two credit cards close together in your wallet also foils the attack as the card reader cannot identify which specific card is attempting to be read (you can see this by presenting to cards held together when doing a contactless payment, the reader will error out).
I can’t say I agree with the 2cm statement. Overall, I agree with your theory, but my wife had her purse scanned while at a Starbucks. We were shown the security footage asking if we recognized the person. An Asian male put a large bag (purse) next to my wife’s purse. It was further than 2cm away.Our bank called her within 15 minutes of detecting she was compromised and told her cards had been scanned. As far as we know no payments went through. We were impressed how fast the bank detected it.
They showed us the video they obtained a few months later. I asked questions although they wouldn’t answer any of them. I understood that too, they don’t want to reveal their security methods.
After this we turned off tap (touchless) and got RFID wallets. We didn’t even know we had tap.
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9 hours ago, Ryan said:
Perfect sir, thanks.
And only a few dollars less without tracking (worth the extra for the tracking). Looks like the shipping charge to Canada and the US is identical.I just preordered mine.
- Ryan, Gazzas and Archimedes
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23 hours ago, cbk57 said:
Sorry to rain on the parade but the show releases are out and there is no Tamiya 1/32. In fact the only plane release is the F-35 in 1/48. That was the only all new kit I have seen from Tamiya at the show. I have reviewed several videos in japanese from the show to see the show booths and that looks like all there is. I don't see any 1/32 kit announcement from any manufacturer at the show from what i can tell.
The second release hasn’t been announced yet, a Tamiya USA Rep at OrangeCon stated the second release will be announced later in the year. No word why they delayed it.I bet it is the 1/48 F-4C/D and they want to release it at a US venue.
- cbk57 and scvrobeson
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Wow, that is stunning. The instrument panel looks like it is 3D, it pops out at you.
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Beautiful!
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On 3/4/2022 at 9:50 PM, Pete Fleischmann said:
Turns out that knob adjusts the idle-
who knew? Never seen that before-
kinda like a choke, but different I guess-
not exactly sure where to set it..I rolled it back and forth and played with the idle speed, and set it back to where it was.
more to follow- My first diesel…so learning as I go-
cheers
Pete
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On 3/4/2022 at 6:58 PM, Pete Fleischmann said:
…took me a while to figure it out.
Any guesses?
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I knew it was coming out too, dating back to last year.
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RIP your Majesty, you served us well.
- Pete Roberts and Artful69
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Always fun to views these images/stories.
I pinned my 17-year-old sons wings on two weeks ago, he was awarded a Power Flying Scholarship with the Royal Canadian Air Cadets. This past Friday we went to the recruiters, he plans to follow my path and attend Royal Military College. Two proud moments for his parents.
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On 8/27/2022 at 4:47 AM, thierry laurent said:
Before leaving LSP Jennings clearly wrote they were working on another project. I think if it is not a Hellcat or a Wildcat this is a Lightning.
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On 6/2/2022 at 5:18 AM, ChuckD said:
Let's talk about the Firefly and tracks for a moment, as they were the part of the build that frustrated me the most.
First, the kit tracks are great, and once you get the hang of them, they're not too bad to assemble. No worse than any other individual link tracks anyway. The kicker is that they give you just enough links in the kit to make both runs. So, if any of your links are damaged in the box (like mine), you simply will not have enough parts to make both full track runs.
The AFV Club rubber band sets are too short. Even with the idler set at the most idle position, they weren't long enough to fit. I ended up buying the Asuka tracks, but never tested them as I then later realized that RFM sells the kit tracks separately. So, I bought another box of them and finished those.
So... in short... If you need extra sprues of kit tracks, shoot me a PM. I'll send you some no charge.
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Nice work, always a terrifying time to paint the exhaust on a Skyraider.
I want to build the same scheme again, I built it years ago and after a contest I had someone who gave me a cash proposal I could not say no to, he had a roll of $100 bills waiting for me.
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On 2/15/2022 at 10:02 AM, J.C. said:
You can actually purchase tickets to take a flight in the Hamilton Lancaster. Not cheap, but one insane experience!! The other aircraft in the museum are pretty awesome as well. Enjoy!
In the early 90s I got a ride in it for free. They were at our base for the 50th Anniversary of 419 Sqdn, a squadron mate and I charged their batteries one evening. My mate slipped and banged his head on a wet floor carrying the batteries out. They felt so bad for us (him) they got us up in the Lanc for the flypast. There is a popular image of this flypast and I’m in the Lanc at the time (with CF-5 Bruce the Moose in formation). -
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On 6/11/2021 at 8:54 AM, chuck540z3 said:
HobbyWorld USA, but it comes with a catch after ordering this paint 3 times and about 60 bottles of paint. Probably due to the pandemic and increased demand, you have to nag them to place your order after you have paid for it, and every order had back-ordered bottles of paint despite the fact that they were "in-stock" when I ordered them, which again I had to nag them to send later. Eventually I got what I wanted over several months, but it was a big fight every time with several emails. Still, they are the only game in town that will send MRP paint from the US or Canada due to our stupid Canada Post rules about shipping "volatile substances" across our borders, while we can still get paint through the mail if it originated in Canada. Did I mention that it's stupid!? Hopefully we get a Canadian supplier soon, to eliminate this hassle.
One thing I would recommend is to check out the other MRP retailers on their website below. HobbyWorld USA has been out of MRP-014 Sea Blue for months and I obviously need this paint bad for my model, since it covers most of it, including the rear wheel well before I could close up the fuselage. I started at the top and found that most of these retailers would not ship to Canada for the reasons given above, but some will, which is where I got my Blue paint. Good luck!
Cheers,
Chuck
Just going caught up on the build now, great stuff as per your norm.I'm in the same boat as you with Hobbyworld USA, used him for years but lately he has been less reliable. I don’t get my missing MRP paint sent to me. So sadly I stopped using him since he doesn’t return emails and doesn’t send product that I have paid for.
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3 hours ago, Dave Williams said:
I still can’t believe that Tamiya never released a glass nosed Mosquito bomber. I understand that maybe the Mosquito FB boxing may have lost money overall, but releasing a bomber would just seem to be the incremental cost of new parts (the molds for which may have already been cut), new decals, and new packaging. It would seem like a bomber release would at least make back the incremental cost, and any excess would go to reduce the overall loss of the series.Similarly, why not reissue the F-16 Thunderbirds kit as a regular Block 32? That’s just decals and packaging. Again, it seems like the incremental cost would be more than paid for. But, Tamiya has always worked in mysterious ways.
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7 hours ago, geedubelyer said:
Glad you got a good deal Viper. £495 is still alot of money but much more sensible than £620. Hopefully you'll share your build log in the In Progress forum?
The price I quoted was from the link that MARU shared.
Are any HKM Lancasters still available? How much do they retail out at?
My local shop has the HKM Dambuster version marked at $439 Cdn (£256).The had the first release at $499 Cdn (£290).
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E-books; can I get it printed at a copy shop?
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Not everyone prefers print. I love reading on my iPad. I can set it up anywhere, I don’t need a light on at night. I don’t need a bookshelf to stack my books. If the text or image is too small I can enlarge it. I don’t have to worry about dog ears.
I do get it why people like print. They don’t want change. Many of the printed books are high quality.