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Modelling WWII esp Battle of Britain, North Africa and Czechoslovakia. Military history: mostly WWII, WWI and The Napoleonic Wars. In the "real world": going to gym (weights & rowing), tennis, rugby (used to play). Sport: rugby, cricket, American Football, tennis. At home: DIY, farming, gardening. And of course my wife whom I do not deserve, and our 3 cats Spitfire, Hurricane, and Monty!
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nmayhew reacted to a post in a topic: P-47D Thunderbolt - Hasegawa 1/32
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Such a cool looking aircraft and then I remember that I follow a very talented modeller building the Me410 on FB and f******ck me it’s a dog. so absolutely no chance unless they are pretty much giving it away
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surprised the sales of 1/48 Zeros were meant to be disappointing though - I thought everyone raved about them? the Spit IX would sell poorly; it’s not a very glamorous marque in terms of variety of markings, and sorry but I just don’t think any IX Eduard would release in 1/32 would be as good as Tamiya’s A6M3 would be worth a shot - no-one else does one early 190 series would be a good seller, provided they go together well, and they have the advantage that no-one else does them (A-1,2,3) and that many won’t touch the one A-4 readily available (Zoukei-mura). But the tone sounds like they are just getting excuses ready to not do it
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If you go onto the Airfix groups on Facebook you would think it’s 1980 - a huge number of people on there still use enamel paints. Outside of the UK (because that’s 99% of the Airfix group’s membership by the look of it), the Vallejo acrylic tide appears to have washed nearly all before it, with only the barnicle-like enamel users clinging to the rock! but my feeble metaphors aside (or was it a simile?), there is a significant minority - an enlightened one I like to think - that has discovered the sun-lit uplands of lacquer land if you can ventilate appropriately, lacquers such as MRP (my paint of choice) are superior in every respect where air brushing is concerned to any acrylic out there, as well as enamels if you haven’t tried lacquers you are missing out
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If you have had a defective set (or sets) let them know and get them to send a replacement to you. generally they have been pretty responsive
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nmayhew replied to RicardoD's topic in LSP Discussion
oh don't worry i'm with you on those completely unacceptable print lines (for my money, anyway) i guess the humour is more directed at those who think that it's ok -
1/32 Hobby Boss B-24J Liberator Assembly Ship Tubarao
nmayhew replied to monthebiff's topic in LSP Silver Jubilee
were they not retracted when on ground anyway? am I talking b*ll*cks? lol -
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1/32 Hobby Boss B-24J Liberator Assembly Ship Tubarao
nmayhew replied to monthebiff's topic in LSP Silver Jubilee
I have pics which clearly show front, middle and rear turrets with guns when painted as an assembly ship i did a lot of research on this bird a few years back as I was specifically looking for an assembly ship which was not ‘toothless’, and they are hard to find. from memory, the guns are shown early on in its assembly ship ‘transition’, and the paint scheme evolved in the end it just went back on the ‘file it away’ shelf, mainly because although I like the shark mouth, I don’t like the name so the whole project got parked. -
Fantastic work Paolo, both on the result and the blog itself, which was a joy to read through the reference photos are also super helpful all the best Nick
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[edit: sorry just managed to read the whole thread and saw the ban thing…so back to Eduard]
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The name might be alive, but the venture into injection moulded 1/32 kits is not, which as I have said before is a shame. But to repeat what they have done thus far with the Helldiver and then the volte face with the Kate would be just throwing money down the drain. The Helldiver was the wrong subject, and badly executed, which is not a great combination! And by the time they get to subjects the 1/32 market has been asking for for a generation, they can’t recover from the hole they got into with the Helldiver, take the strangest decision ever re resin main parts and IM details (I mean…wtf?), and have to price it so high that I just can’t see anyone but a Kate devotee buying one. The whole endeavour could be used as a text book ‘how (not) to…’ for other potential entrants. I know this sounds like I’m trashing them - I guess I am - but I can assure you I wanted them to succeed and am particularly interested in the Japanese subjects they did / might have done. I’m just sad about it all more than anything else.
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As much as I welcome new blood in our scale, if they do come back in to 1/32 with anything even close to their old Bf109 they will likely be laughed at, and even scaling up their 1/48 stuff just won't fly in my book. They make pretty looking kits but I think that Eduard's engineering choices in 1/48 - given they are meant to be at the forefront of the hobby - are often not great, often really poor... watching a few YouTube vids of very good modellers building some of their new kits and they are saying things along the lines of "well, the fit and engineering is nowhere near Arma Hobby, but it's still ok". If Eduard were a new outfit, they maybe get a pass, but they've been going for years now; that they have been outstripped by a complete newbie like Arma speaks volumes. Whether they like it or not they are going to be judged against Tamiya and now Kotare... they better get ready for some brutal honesty, but I seem to recall that they tended not to like that...
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My thoughts on this now are that the price point is just too much for a basic kit - and that’s before you get to all the upgrades They will price out all but the true devotees to this type, and the casual ‘quite like it’ crowd will just buy something else such a great shame but I can see how the whole Infinity / HpH foray into injection moulded models has been a short and unsuccessful one
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1/32 Trumpeter P-51B Mustang with Aerocraft corrections
nmayhew replied to Tolga ULGUR's topic in Works in Progress
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A Birdcage in Paradise - An F4U-1 Corsair diorama
nmayhew replied to ChuckD's topic in Ready for Inspection
I really like this - very brave to take on that weathering, and it’s come out pretty good i need to do my research on those red surrounds because they have always appealed to me, but I’ve never gotten to the bottom of when they were used etc. the dio looks really good as well - thanks for sharing the journey and the build Nick -
Very helpful build log David, thank you.
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