Re: Wow... been away for a while and

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> <enzo55@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> someone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> someone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>> eyeball <eyeball2002308@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>> I just had fun doing a mild mod on an old 1/94 Lindberg F-4,
>>>>>> mainly just reshaping the nose and painting it as the prototype.
>>>>>> Accurate? Hell no, but fun. And finished in a matter of days.
>>>>>
>>>>> yep, them old kits is fun.
>>>>
>>>> I have a Trumpeter 1/72 Gannet in my stash.  I also have a couple
>>>> of old FROG/NOVO Gannets in my Deep Stash.  I'm considering
>>>> building the Trumpeter and FROG kits together to see if I can make
>>>> the FROG one match the Trumpeter one.
>>>>
>>>> After that, I suppose I'll have to build a Revell Gannet just to
>>>> make up the set!
>>>>
>>> what if you have to work to make the trumpy as good as the novo?
>>> couldn't it
>>> be possible that the novo is more accurate shaped or better
>>> detailed.?
>>
>>
>> LOL  From what I have seen, the Trumpy kit is very well shaped. It
>> needs extra detailing in the cockpit and gear and flap wells.  I
>> have a Pavla resin cockpit ready to go in it.  I might very well use
>> the Trumpy cockpit parts to build a basic cockpit for the NOVO kit.
>> If I recall correctly, the NOVO kit has a row of heads moulded into
>> place rather than any representation of a cockpit.
>>
>> I'm actually starting to look forward to building the NOVO kit.
>>
>>
>>> what impresses me most about trumpeter is the price. thei kits look
>>> like other's kits. i don't see much blatant superiority.
>>
>>
>>
>> It seems that the new Revell kit has better detail than the Trumpy
>> one, as well as a cimplete weapons bay, but is 56% of the price.
>>
>>
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>>> trumpeter makes lots of mistakes....like on their ****ps...
>>
>> Hopefully they won't on their forthcoming EE Lightnings. If the new
>> Lightnings are as good as the Gannet, I will be satisfied, even if
>> it means paying somewhat over the odds compared to other
>> manufacturers' kits.
>>
>
> i have to really love an ac or vehicle before i plunk down major cash.
> i've gotten good at kitba****ng and using othe kit's parts to keep
> down costs.
> being a major music junky means i supprt two collections. well,
> there's the
> coins, too, but ira's and other investors have really sodomized the
> real
> collectors. thought i'd be safe with 2,3 and large cents, but they
> are hot
> now, too. and being smaller series, coins i got for 50-100 bucks are
> up 25 to 100x now. in a mere 25 years or so.
> yeah, i could sell the coins to sup****t the other two, but what's the
> point to
> a collection?

Indeed.  We don't collect things as an investment. We collect them because

it's fun.


-- 
Enzo

I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.