Airfix 1:72 A-4 Skyhawk

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I won't be throwing away old credit cards any more :)
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Eric Mc wrote:I won't be throwing away old credit cards any more :)
Throw away credit cards? :shock:
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I normally shred the out of date ones. But it looks they could be put to better use.
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Hey! and you are telling me I'm a brave man and what are you then? Damn cool stuff you've done here!
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It needed a LOT more work, Martin.....
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The kit is what it is, probably considered not too bad back in 1958 when it was first released! But that was 1958.....

Excellent work on improving it Ian, lovely stuff, good to see.

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Wow,

Some ingenious scratching to make an old kit look superb! Excellent!

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Great work and q good bit of scratch building...I doubt I could do that well on the neq tool.

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Ian,

Just echoing the various comments you got; some really nice scratchbuilding going on there. Great job.

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With all these positive comments I'll have to start buying more crappy kits.......
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You could have another blitzbau minutebau go at the wonderful Revell P-51D!
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Eric Mc wrote:I normally shred the out of date ones. But it looks they could be put to better use.
I use them as plastic card, for spreading glue over large surfaces in paper modelling, for mixing paints/filler on, for holding filler while I apply it i.e. between tube/mixing and application...
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Sometimes you just have to beat 'em into submission! But, they will submit! Nice bit of modeling there,.
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Prisca wrote:You could have another blitzbau minutebau go at the wonderful Revell P-51D!
Noooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Gosh! Incredible, the Airfix skyhawk could be done to rappresenta a skyhawk...with a with A LOT of great works.
Well done .
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