On Jul 29, 8:29=A0pm, willshak <wills...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> on 7/29/2008 4:08 PM eyeball said the following:
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> > On Jul 29, 2:48 pm, willshak <wills...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> on 7/29/2008 2:14 PM eyeball said the following:
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> >>> On Jul 29, 1:27 pm, willshak <wills...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>>> on 7/29/2008 9:58 AM eyeball said the following:
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> >>>>> On Jul 29, 9:30 am, Don Stauffer in Minnesota
<stauf...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>>>> wrote:
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> >>>>>> On Jul 29, 2:54 am, saus...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>>>>>> I've been away from Usenet and rec.scale.models for almost 4
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s,
> >>>>>>> and I'm amazed it's still around, and people are posting! I
loved=
this
> >>>>>>> group; a single place for all model talk, but sadly my ISP no
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ger
> >>>>>>> has a usenet server to grab news from. As it is now I'm reading
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rom
> >>>>>>> google groups.
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> >>>>>>> Does anyone know of any free nntp server that I can download
this
> >>>>>>> group from?
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> >>>>>> Well, I know I will take a lot of heat for this, but I will
mentio=
n
> >>>>>> Google Groups, a web-based interface to Usenet.
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> >>>>>> Also, in the last four years the biggest thing I have noticed is
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he
> >>>>>> drastic drop in daily message count :-(
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> >>>>> I just wonder how much of that is lack of interest, how many were
> >>>>> driven away by spam and off-topic arguments...and how many we lost
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> >>>>> the grim reaper! I'm 40 and sometimes feel like I'm one of the
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ger
> >>>>> posters.
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> >>>> You could be. I was building balsa wood models of WWII aircraft
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> >>>> they were still flying!
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> >>>> --
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> >>>> Bill
> >>>> In Hamptonburgh, NY
> >>>> in the original Orange County
> >>>> To email, remove the double zeroes after @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>> I take my hat off to you, sir. I attempted a balsa model once as a
> >>> teenager, but it required a much higher level of skill and patience
> >>> than I had available.
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> >> As long as you got the shape right enough that it was identifiable as
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> >> specific plane. The plans included templates that had to be cut out
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> >> make sure you got the shapes right. I don't remember if there were
any
> >> decals.
> >> They were no more detailed than the replica models the military pilot
> >> schools used for recognition, and probably were based on those
models.
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> >> --
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> >> Bill
> >> In Hamptonburgh, NY
> >> in the original Orange County
> >> To email, remove the double zeroes after @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Do you still have any of the models you built at that time?
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> I went off to the Navy and my younger brother destroyed them, including
> the half dozen Hudson Miniature cars that I had.
> He told me they burned easily.
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> --
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> Bill
> In Hamptonburgh, NY
> in the original Orange County
> To email, remove the double zeroes after @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
that must have hurt! I've given away a few and recycled a bunch
but I could never stand to destroy them. Except for the Titanic kit
that recreated the fate of the real one...
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