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Wayne Argabright

any 1/72 model builders on here?

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Am currently building a Mig-23 and a Mig -27 finishing up the painting. It was warm enough last week that i was able to use the airbrush. however i messed up and painted the canopies the wrong colors. The Mig-27 is painted in standard Russian 3 color green/brown/tan camo. while i opted for a more modern air superiority grey camo scheme for the Mig-23. problem is i got the canopies mixed up and i just cant swap them as they are from different kit manufacturers. Ack i HATE painting canopies particularly ones that have a bunch of fine details that i have to mask off!! 

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Not so much model buiding, a few tanks and jeeps etc but i have *hundreds* of 1.72/20mm scale lead soldiers for wargaming with.

 

I've a full company of wwii british airborne (on a 1 man is 1 man scale) with support weapons, jeeps, tetrarch light tanks, field guns and a single horsa glider.

 

I've also got a platoon of heer and a platoon of luftwaffe field division with supporting vehicles and flak (most of it plastic or metal kits)

 

I stopped making plastic and metal kit vehicles so much when 'dragon' made amazing pre paint 1/72 scale vehicles.

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Yes they do. The Moebius viper is so much better than the older toolings. Much crisper details and very accurate. I am going to get a Raider (original series) eventually but my wife told me i have to finish my Yamato ships and Mobile suits first *L*

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I feel your pain. I've got a huge line to workthrough, too. But, but, they look so shiny and cooollll I can't help it...

 

1/350 HMS Warspite

1/700 HIJMS Nagato, Mutsu, Yamato, Takao, I-400, HMS Malaya

1/144 Jegan, Kampfer, Delta Plus, Qubeley Papillion, kitbash Gundam

1/72 Lanstag

Plus my HMS Hood and USS Yorktown are in need of repairs.

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I have to keep track of my kits via a spread sheet. otherwise I see a kit i like and think hey that's kind of rare only to discover that i have one stuck on a shelf behind a dozen other kits. I think my total of un-built kits right now is around 340...  Yes i am a model hoarder!!   but i do keep them in neat stacks, not tossed around in the garage or some other seldom used space.

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I just finished up my FineMolds 1:72 Y wing.  I started it about 2 years ago as the first model I've done as an adult, and then at the 98% completion mark, I got distracted repainting my 1:270 X wing miniatures.  I finally went back and finished it up on Sunday, and now I've got the bug again to do my FineMolds X wing, and do it even better because I'm a much better painter now... Not to mention if I can fit electronics into a 1:270 Falcon, I shouldn't have a problem doing the same for an 1:72 X wing.  

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I hadn't built a model or painted a mini in a long time because of vision issues so i went a bit over board when i got that fixed. Ill catch up eventually. My Hasegawa first and second Arcadias are probably top of the list since they are both half completed.

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I have to keep track of my kits via a spread sheet. otherwise I see a kit i like and think hey that's kind of rare only to discover that i have one stuck on a shelf behind a dozen other kits. I think my total of un-built kits right now is around 340...  Yes i am a model hoarder!!   but i do keep them in neat stacks, not tossed around in the garage or some other seldom used space.

Something like this stack?

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Or: "Our paint brushes can't cover surfaces of that magnitude!"

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I have to keep track of my kits via a spread sheet. otherwise I see a kit i like and think hey that's kind of rare only to discover that i have one stuck on a shelf behind a dozen other kits. I think my total of un-built kits right now is around 340...  Yes i am a model hoarder!!   but i do keep them in neat stacks, not tossed around in the garage or some other seldom used space.

Something like this stack?

mm.jpg

Or: "Our paint brushes can't cover surfaces of that magnitude!"

 

that looks like the back room at my Local game store..lol

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