-
Posts
450 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Profile Information
-
Gender
Male
-
Location
Alabama, USA
-
Interests
My interests are aircraft modeling, science, military history and NFL football. I'm an instrument rated pilot but I'm grounded for medical reasons. I re-joined the hobby in June of '16 after a 30-year absence.
Recent Profile Visitors
3,374 profile views
-
AdamR reacted to a post in a topic: New 1/32 Hellcat from HK?
-
AdamR reacted to a post in a topic: Which spitfire to recommend?
-
patricksparks reacted to a post in a topic: 1:18 Scale B-17G Flying Fortress Forward Fuselage
-
AdamR reacted to a post in a topic: 1:18 Scale B-17G Flying Fortress Forward Fuselage
-
1:18 Scale B-17G Flying Fortress Forward Fuselage
AdamR replied to patricksparks's topic in Works in Progress
My word! Astonishingly ambitious project. Thanks for letting us watch. -
Martinnfb reacted to a post in a topic: Hawker Hurricane Mk IIb - Revell - 1/32
-
AdamR reacted to a post in a topic: Hawker Hurricane Mk IIb - Revell - 1/32
-
AdamR reacted to a post in a topic: Hawker Hurricane Mk IIb - Revell - 1/32
-
Nice work. How did you like the kit? I’m just finished with the cockpit on mine, and I’ve found the parts fit engineering vague and the mold quality only fair at best, with lots of flash and some mold lines that are "stepped." I know Revell can do better at this price point, because I’ve built their new-tool Spitfire Mk IIa and found it superior to this kit.
-
AdamR reacted to a post in a topic: Most Wanted Poll / Wish List 2022 (and beyond)
-
AdamR reacted to a post in a topic: What is your favorite thin CA adhesive? How about a reliable vendor to have fresh stock?
-
AdamR reacted to a post in a topic: What is your favorite thin CA adhesive? How about a reliable vendor to have fresh stock?
-
Woody V reacted to a post in a topic: What is your favorite thin CA adhesive? How about a reliable vendor to have fresh stock?
-
@Woody V That looks like a good idea. I will give that a try. Thanks.
- 12 replies
-
- cyanoacrylate
- thin ca
-
(and 1 more)
Tagged with:
-
AdamR reacted to a post in a topic: What is your favorite thin CA adhesive? How about a reliable vendor to have fresh stock?
-
AdamR reacted to a post in a topic: What is your favorite thin CA adhesive? How about a reliable vendor to have fresh stock?
-
I am especially interested in the thin type at the moment. I’ve tried the adhesives sold under Loctite and Gorilla Glue labels from the hardware stores with mixed results. I usually use Zap, but sometimes the stuff I get does not "fire" as easily as I would like, and I suspect it may have been sitting in stock too long. Would some of you folks be so kind as to recommend the brand/vendor of thin CA you like?
- 12 replies
-
- cyanoacrylate
- thin ca
-
(and 1 more)
Tagged with:
-
Hellcat, please! F6F-3, -5, either, or both. Whether by Tamiya or Hasegawa, this inexplicable omission by the two champions of 1/32 still tops my wish list to be filled.
-
Isn’t the lack of a new-design 1/32 WW2 kit from Hasegawa more troubling? As others have pointed out, the out-of-production kits will be available on eBay for a while, but where’s a new Hellcat? Hurricane? Etc.? If it is true that Hasegawa has abandoned LSPs, it is a tragedy.
-
daveculp reacted to a post in a topic: Months after charging my card €143.22, Mig finally got this nice stuff to my door yesterday:
-
Gerhard reacted to a post in a topic: Months after charging my card €143.22, Mig finally got this nice stuff to my door yesterday:
-
quang reacted to a post in a topic: Months after charging my card €143.22, Mig finally got this nice stuff to my door yesterday:
-
Thanks. I don’t mind the delay that much, because my modeling time has been cut short anyway, and the Revell P-51 has languished on the bench. I do mind being charged for goods months before they were shipped. Thanks for pointing me to the build threads; they will be very helpful. It’s especially useful to know in advance that the PE is poor, for example. It supports my plan to "dumb down" the build. The most important thing to me is having the early P-40 outline on the shelf (underslung "jaw" radiator, cowl .50s, etc.). A highly detailed model is not my goal with this one. I will probably build the closed cowl version and leave the engine parts on the trees. There are a lot of kits in the stash I want to get built and I’m running out of years to get them done!
-
LSP_K2 reacted to a post in a topic: Months after charging my card €143.22, Mig finally got this nice stuff to my door yesterday:
-
1 enormous box: …full of nice plastic stuff (beautiful clear parts), and… …more PE stuff than I will ever use, plus… …printed gun barrels (my first experience with parts made this way)… …all for building 1 of 5 different AVG subjects, and lastly… …a big-ass commemorative patch to sew on something. I can hardly wait to get started, but I’m going to be disciplined and finish the Revell P-51D first. No, really, I am. Seriously. Not kidding. Disciplined.
-
Nikola Topalov reacted to a post in a topic: Revell 1/32 P-51D-5NA Mustang
-
Thank you for these posts and pictures, Nikola. I’ve just begun one of these kits so I’ve binged your posts and found them most useful, particularly the trick to widen the windshield part with a toothpick. "Wizard!" as our Brit mates would say. Your work is very well done.
-
Excellent paint -- and no gun muzzle powder streaks! Yay!
-
discus reacted to a post in a topic: Spitfire Mk XIV [Tamyia + Conversion 1/32]
-
The best-looking of all Spitfires, IMO. Beautiful job.
-
Whatever Hasegawa is planning is un-knowable to me, an old modeler in the wilds of Lower Alabama. I do know I’ve loved the eight different Hasegawa 1/32 kits I’ve built. I had planned another of their P-47Ds and another P-40E, so the severe scarcity of their kits worried me, and I resorted to EBay for examples of each. They now reside safely in my stash, I am happy to say. If the story about the re-release of the ‘190D is true, I shall certainly snap up one of those, as well. Long live Hasegawa! (In 1/32 scale, of course.)
-
1/32 Bf 109 E-3, E-4 & E-7 trop from Hobby 2000 (Dragon rebox) - released
AdamR replied to barkhorn's topic in LSP Discussion
Ugh. I hate to hear that, because my Eduard kit has severe fit problems involving the cowling, if one makes the mistake of trying to build it with a closed cowl as I have done. I thought Eduard was more dependable, based on the couple of their 1/48 kits I have built. -
AdamR changed their profile photo
-
1/32 Bf 109 E-3, E-4 & E-7 trop from Hobby 2000 (Dragon rebox) - released
AdamR replied to barkhorn's topic in LSP Discussion
This isn’t the Emil re-boxed by Eduard, is it?