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I agree Laurie, everyone's on some level of the learning curve - it'd be very boring to excel at everything!
However, competition is both natural & healthy, so I doubt you've any reason to worry about this thread.


We all seek to improve, learning from others along the way & as long as we can still laugh at ourselves we know we're not megalomaniacs with secret world-domination fantasies.


Now where did I put my copy of Mein Kampf? :P
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I'm looking right at mine as I speak!
 
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I just love this forum! Have thought of joining others and looked around a bit but they all seemed so technocratic and impersonal. There just wasn't that warm personal feeling there seems to be here, so here I'll stay! Have to make a conscious effort to be more active in my modeling now that the busy season is on but now that there are others to share with {besides the boy} I now know that I will be. Thank you ALL for rekindling my love for this hobby and I mean that from the very bottom of my heart! :smiling3: You Grumpy Jim
 
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You can't get much further away than America and Jersey Laurie :smiling3:
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Got to be careful Ian.


On a good day in Jersey (the real old one), no haze, on the top of the cliffs on the west side you can just glimpse the USA. This viewing spot is right next to a pub.:confused:


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You can love me Jim but only at a distance -- please. ;)
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As long as I live I will never get British humor, if that's what you call it.
 
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Now where did I put my copy of Mein Kampf? :P
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Did you know that there was Nazi plan to establish a Nationale Reichskirche? It would have little to do with any recognisable Christian church, partly due to the difficult (Jewish) origins of Christianity, at least to the Nazis.


Alfred Rosenberg, who led the aggressively anti-Christian movement within the Nazi party, along with such charming men as Himmler, Bormann and Heydrich, proposed a thirty point plan for the conversion of the existing German churches.


It is a fairly unsavoury list as you can imagine. Point number 19 leaves no doubt what sort of church this was to be.


'19. On the altars must be nothing but Mein Kamf (to the German nation and therefore to God the most sacred book) and to the left of the altar a sword.'


Point number 13 had already dealt with the Bible.


'13. The National Church demands immediate cessation of the publishing and dissemination of the Bible in Germany...'


'Nazi' has become a term that has become devalued in modern times, applied to groups or parties with right wing politics, some of whom might share some of the views of the original National Socialist movement. I think this is dangerous. We should all know what real Nazis were, not just what they were capable of.


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As long as I live I will never get British humor, if that's what you call it.
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You no thinka I no serious "Jim lad" :smiling3: Eeez no British Humour eat is miffed. Zee only umour we ave is Mr Mill E Band and eez balls wicher ee cally Eddy.


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Did you know that there was Nazi plan to establish a Nationale Reichskirche? It would have little to do with any recognisable Christian church, partly due to the difficult (Jewish) origins of Christianity, at least to the Nazis.
Alfred Rosenberg, who led the aggressively anti-Christian movement within the Nazi party, along with such charming men as Himmler, Bormann and Heydrich, proposed a thirty point plan for the conversion of the existing German churches.


It is a fairly unsavoury list as you can imagine. Point number 19 leaves no doubt what sort of church this was to be.


'19. On the altars must be nothing but Mein Kamf (to the German nation and therefore to God the most sacred book) and to the left of the altar a sword.'


Point number 13 had already dealt with the Bible.


'13. The National Church demands immediate cessation of the publishing and dissemination of the Bible in Germany...'


'Nazi' has become a term that has become devalued in modern times, applied to groups or parties with right wing politics, some of whom might share some of the views of the original National Socialist movement. I think this is dangerous. We should all know what real Nazis were, not just what they were capable of.


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The amazing point was that the German's got it right very early on.


He, Hitler that is was arrested for the “Beer Hall Putsch” and chucked in jail for 5 years. First mistake they let him write the first part of Mein Kamf while in jail. Second they let him out after I think from memory 9 months.


Can you just believe all of that.


Quite a difference. If we do not like our leaders we can be rude. If we do not like them, for instance Maggie, they are dismissed in double quick time. We moan about politics but keep it as it is equal. An escape clause. Not many countries in this world can do that. Including the USA. Even Nixon, a crook if ever there was one, took a lot dislodging. In the UK you do not have to be a crook to get your marching orders.


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You no thinka I no serious "Jim lad" :smiling3: Eeez no British Humour eat is miffed. Zee only umour we ave is Mr Mill E Band and eez balls wicher ee cally Eddy.
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Gee , and you always seemed to have such a command of the English language, too bad Bletchley Park is no longer decrypting, as I could use a bit of Ultra at the mo :confused:
 
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So getting back to the subject, who's willing to post two photos... One of the first kit they posted and one of their latest..
 
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OK Ian. A Typhoon was the first WW11 type. In the end i had to buy another to complete the mess I made of several parts. Over numerous hours it just missed the weight of two size sevens. Labour, not love, desperation to satisfy my determination which was in bundles but not matched by my skill. Part airbrushed with stinking enamels through a badger with the bottle underneath and a single stage brush. The remainder was hand brushed which was probably my best move in making this model. It is actually worse than the photo will have you believe. But it is there are on the shelf.


Second a Merlin latest aircraft. This a very enjoyable model and only one was purchased in the making. Some progress.


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So getting back to the subject, who's willing to post two photos... One of the first kit they posted and one of their latest..
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Nice point Ian!!!


Hope one day.....when you open all those boxes, you can show yours ;)


I will look for mine...:confused:
 
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I Agre with all above comments ,I have been modeling 40 years but it is only the last two have got back into military stuff and did not have a clue how to airbrush ,weathering , and shading .Its only thanks to you guys on this forum that i now have a idea how to go about it.


So thanks to all of you and long may it continue.
 
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So getting back to the subject, who's willing to post two photos... One of the first kit they posted and one of their latest..
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I think the first model I ever posted here was this Bf 109:


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And most recently:


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The presentation has improved more than the model making, partly because the way we show models now is very often online by a photograph :smiling3:


Cheers


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Promise not to laugh and I'll show you mine.


This was my first effort after decades of no modelling, it was the 1/72 Revel Tornado, an excellent kit spoilt by hand painting. Made this model the same way as I did decades ago.


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Next photo the last Aircraft I made with Air Brush etc. etc. This was the1/32 Trumpeter F-14B


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