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- From: johnm@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com (John Mosbarger)
- Subject: Re: Hasegawa's 1/32 F6F
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- Longshot (rray@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:
- : Well, Bert Kinzey was rather complimentary of it in his Detail & Scale book.
- : You might look for a copy of that book. Besides being a good ref to thereal
- : thing, Kinzey covers all known models of the aircraft at the time of publishing
- : (so the new Minicraft kit won't be covered) and goes over their pitfalls and
- : inaccuracies, if there are any.
-
- I have the Detail & Scale book, and have almost worn it out :-). There
- was a review in an old Scale Modeler magazine shortly after the first release,
- 1970 or '71, and it also described the engine as being a kit in itself.
-
- Just as an afterthought, could that engine be grafted onto Revell's
- Corsair?
-
- : And when you finish the 1/32 scale one, you can go for Combat Models' 1/24
- : scale vac-form. :-)
-
- And is 1:1 the next step? (I wish!)
-
- : Randy
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- : Longshot is sometimes known as Randy J. Ray rray@nyx.cs.du.edu
- : "It's not denial. I'm just very selective about the reality I accept." --Calvin
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