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VMA131Marine's Geedunk

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To US Marines the word geedunk means ice cream, candy, potato chips and other assorted snacks, or the place where they can be purchased.
WIP Hasegawa 1/72 Yak-3, Hasegawa 1/72 Polikarpov I-16 Type 24, Hasegawa 1/72 J2M3 Raiden, Hasegawa 1/72 Mosquito NF.2, Airfix 1/48 Mosquito NF.30
Last kit completed: Hasegawa 1/72 Yakovlev Yak-3
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My recently completed Airfix Hawker Hurricane Mk IIc. This is the new tooling, but I wasn't very happy with some aspects of the kit. I filled and rescribed the line for the elevator balances, added strip styrene to the horizontal stabiliser leading edges to improve their accuracy in plan view (I still think they are too small). I replaced the prop with the one from the Airfix Hurricane I/II kit (02042) and replaced the spinner with one leftover from a Hasegawa Mk II; it's better that the Airfix effort but may be too bulbous). I used True Details resin wheels and robbed a pitot mast from a the leftovers of a Revell Hurricane kit.

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WIP Hasegawa 1/72 Yak-3, Hasegawa 1/72 Polikarpov I-16 Type 24, Hasegawa 1/72 J2M3 Raiden, Hasegawa 1/72 Mosquito NF.2, Airfix 1/48 Mosquito NF.30
Last kit completed: Hasegawa 1/72 Yakovlev Yak-3
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The new Airfix Curtiss Hawk 81-A-2 built straight from the box:

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WIP Hasegawa 1/72 Yak-3, Hasegawa 1/72 Polikarpov I-16 Type 24, Hasegawa 1/72 J2M3 Raiden, Hasegawa 1/72 Mosquito NF.2, Airfix 1/48 Mosquito NF.30
Last kit completed: Hasegawa 1/72 Yakovlev Yak-3
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Nice things going on on that bench. I look forward to seeing more
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Work in progress: Accurate Miniatures 1/48 Yak-1 in Lilya Litvyak's markings. Paint is (mostly) 25-year old Humbrol.

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Last kit completed: Hasegawa 1/72 Yakovlev Yak-3
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Brews wrote:Ah, the Angel of Stalingrad. She scored what, 12 kills in those smoky skies?
Most likely 12, but also possibly 11 or 13.

Wikipedia to the rescue ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilya_Litvyak
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Ah.......great looking "Poggie bait".
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Can I ask, by the way, is it a hard or soft "g" at the start of "geedunk"?
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Brickie wrote:Can I ask, by the way, is it a hard or soft "g" at the start of "geedunk"?
Hard "g"
WIP Hasegawa 1/72 Yak-3, Hasegawa 1/72 Polikarpov I-16 Type 24, Hasegawa 1/72 J2M3 Raiden, Hasegawa 1/72 Mosquito NF.2, Airfix 1/48 Mosquito NF.30
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jssel wrote:Ah.......great looking "Poggie bait".
Pogey-bait

The Marines in China before WW II were issued candy (Baby Ruths, Tootsie Rolls, etc.) as part of their their ration supplements. At the time, sugar and other assorted sweets were rare commodities in China and much in demand by the Chinese, so the troops found the candy useful for barter in town.

The Chinese word for prostitute, roughly translated, is "pogey". Thus, Marines being Marines, candy became "Pogey Bait".
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Last kit completed: Hasegawa 1/72 Yakovlev Yak-3
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TMI guys, TMI! ;-)

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Another ongoing project, here's my Hasegawa/Revell 1/32 Spitfire Mk Ia. I'm nearly to the decalling stage, just need to add the Future gloss coat. The upper surfaces are post-shaded and the undersides are pre-shaded.

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1/32 Hasegawa Revell Spitfire Ia pre-shading by VMA131Marine, on Flickr
WIP Hasegawa 1/72 Yak-3, Hasegawa 1/72 Polikarpov I-16 Type 24, Hasegawa 1/72 J2M3 Raiden, Hasegawa 1/72 Mosquito NF.2, Airfix 1/48 Mosquito NF.30
Last kit completed: Hasegawa 1/72 Yakovlev Yak-3
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First two completions of 2012:

Here's a few of the Accurate Miniatures kit of Lilya Litvyak's Yak-1 that I posted in progress earlier:

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Yak-1-1 by VMA131Marine, on Flickr

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Yak-1-5 by VMA131Marine, on Flickr

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Yak-1-3 by VMA131Marine, on Flickr

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Yak-1-6 by VMA131Marine, on Flickr

And here's a DML/Dragon 1/72 Do335V-13 (Do335B-2 prototype) Pfeil:

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Do335B-2 (1) by VMA131Marine, on Flickr

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Do335B-2 (3) by VMA131Marine, on Flickr

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Do335B-2 (5) by VMA131Marine, on Flickr
WIP Hasegawa 1/72 Yak-3, Hasegawa 1/72 Polikarpov I-16 Type 24, Hasegawa 1/72 J2M3 Raiden, Hasegawa 1/72 Mosquito NF.2, Airfix 1/48 Mosquito NF.30
Last kit completed: Hasegawa 1/72 Yakovlev Yak-3
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realy cool stuf!
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I like your jobs
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