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| Subject: | Re: Milestone Events in Military Modelling |  |
| Date: | Jan 13, 2008 |
| From: | Gary Cooper | |
Real competition like we see now with all the Asian manufacturers that just was not there in the 70's.
I don't know who it was with the first but photo etch.
Also don't know who was first, but the idea that instead of each individual scratch building details for kits; to make masters and molds then cast resin detail sets to sell to us that are less able.
Newer adhesives beyond the old testors tube glue. I remember gluing pieces together and then not being able to do anything else for 2-5 hours until the glue set. Then in the mid to early 80's I discoverd Micro Sol. Wow what a diffrence. Also with this was the explosion of the diffrent super glues and accellerators
Also one that I have said that I would like to slowly strangle would be whomever it was that had the idea that it would be better to have to construct your tanks tracks one link at a time. >: - {
I don't know about any one else but I truly hate link to link tracks. I know that they are better detailed than polyvinyl tracks, but I don't like the idea that the tracks take as much time to assemble as the rest of the kit, I do use them; and like the way look; bit I hate them. And if you are talking aftermarket tracks, that they cost as much as the kit. And did I mention that I truly hate them. Give me a set of original Tamiya Panther tracks with a coating of mud dirt and grass any day of the week over a set of DML Sherman 4 parts to each link set of tracks. By the way I must say that indeed I do hate them.
Lastly would be I.P.M.S. and then all the other similar clubs that are out there that I learned so much from that I could have never learned from a magazine or web site. There is just nothing like being face to face to have someone explain or actually show you in person how they did a certain technique or tip.
I know that there are more that I have not remembered but these are some that stick out in my mind right now. |
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 | Milestone Events in Military Modelling - Paul A. Owen - Jan 13, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Milestone Events in Military Modelling - David Manning - Jan 13, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Milestone Events in Military Modelling - Tim Streeter - Jan 13, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Dry transfers - Letraset - Paul A. Owen - Jan 13, 2008 |
| . . . . . . The Internet - Paul A. Owen - Jan 13, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Milestone Events in Military Modelling - John Steinman - Jan 13, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Military Modeler - the first issue - Paul A. Owen - Jan 13, 2008 |
| . . . Tamiya - Bruce Probst - Jan 13, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Milestone Events in Military Modelling - Johannes Allert - Jan 13, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: Milestone Events in Military Modelling - Julian Marles - Jan 13, 2008 |
| . . . . . . The resurgence of slide mold technology - Saul Garcia - Jan 13, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: Milestone Events in Military Modelling - Al Bowie - Jan 13, 2008 |
| . . . 1989 Tamiya Late Tiger I - Roy Chow - Jan 13, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Milestone Events in Military Modelling - Gary Cooper - Jan 13, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Milestone Events in Military Modelling - Gary Cooper - Jan 13, 2008 |
| . . . . . . the local hobby shop / toy shop - Alex Borsboom - Jan 14, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Milestone Events in Military Modelling - Chris Oldfield - Jan 14, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Milestone Events in Military Modelling - Bob A - Jan 14, 2008 |
| . . . . . . FSM Tamiya Panther A article - Paul A. Owen - Jan 14, 2008 |
| . . . Reference Materials - Charles Harrison - Jan 14, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Quantity: I remember when I was ahead of the curve - roy chow - Jan 14, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Quantity: I remember when I was ahead of the curve - Rex Ross - Jan 24, 2008 |
| . . . World War 2... - Kip Rudge - Jan 14, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: World War 2... - roy chow - Jan 14, 2008 |
| . . . One visit to the LHS... - Andrew Herbert - Jan 14, 2008 |
| . . . Acrliyc Model Paints - John Steinman - Jan 14, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Milestones... - christopher benjamin - Jan 14, 2008 |
| . . . . . . Re: Milestones and History of the Same - Edward hall - Jan 15, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . Re: Milestones and History of the Same - Tim Streeter - Jan 15, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . New modellers - Paul A. Owen - Jan 17, 2008 |
| . . . . . . . . . . . . Re: Discovery (Paul) - Edward Hall - Jan 21, 2008 |
| . . . Re: Milestone Events in Military Modelling - Arun Bauer - Jan 15, 2008 |
| . . . . . . 3D printing - Roy Chow - Jan 17, 2008 |
| . . . Hornet Heads - Glenn Bartolotti - Jan 16, 2008 |
| . . . How far back? - Michael Bedard - Jan 24, 2008 |
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