Getting old!

I've had a lot of fun putting the stencils on my F-15A. I've done things the way they are done in real life - stencils first, squadron markings after. I'm using the Hasegawa Streak Eagle kit and so the stencils on the kit sheet are suitable for a very early F-15A. The key numbers on the decal sheet are perfectly legible as well.

As for the Luftwaffe RF-4E - all the main markings are on. I'm ready to apply the stencils using the Airdoc sheet ADS173003. Therein lies the problem. The instructions are perfectly legible. So are the key numbers on the decal sheet - for a man much younger than me who doesn't have to use bifocal spectacles!

So... on Monday morning, I'm going to have to go out in search of a magnifying glass. I bet George Clooney doesn't have these problems!

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Enzo Matrix
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Good to hear you've nearly finished your projects Enzo.

Also if it saves you time you could always take a picture of the instructions with a digital camera & print at a scale that is acceptable for your vision.

My own eyesight is fine at present for small items but I did recently get a magnyfing light that is useful.

Cheers, Stephen

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SL

The instructions are fine. It's just that the equivalent key numbers on the decals sheet itself are tiny. Too tiny for my poor eyesight!

I've photocopied the decal placement instructions. That way, when I place a decal, I can cross it off on the photocopied sheet. Not so green as I'm cabbage-looking, y'know! :-D

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Enzo Matrix

Possibly time to upscale to 32nd??

I'd definitely recommend lamp with inbuilt magnifier as that was certainly useful for decal placement on the recent 1/48 Henschel 129 I built.

I obviously picked you up wrongly (watching boxing fight - Amir Khan, one to look out for in the near future for world title).

Cheers, Stephen.

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SL

he wears reading glasses and doesn't build, enzo. so you are cooler. plus you know a lot more about the faa, so you win on collness points. but i woulf take his cash and conquests.....

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someone

those fuselage numbers that step up on the side of a 1/72 me110 are very hard for me.

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someone

Enzo Matrix said the following on 05/04/2008 21:52:

Yeah but he's got lack of good looks to contend with. Don't be hard on the fellah! :-)

Maybe something from the lower shelf, sir?

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Richard Brooks

Enzo, I've been using a graphic designer's type magnfier for months now. Guess I admitted my weaknesses;). Amazing how much you can pick out with a decent sable spotter on something like a resin cockpit. Decals wise, I also prefer stencils first, feels more.... correct?

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flak monkey

George Clooney and I are *exactly* the same age. I must admit that I'm quite envious of his fame and fortune, but he's equally envious of my good looks and boyish charm.

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Enzo Matrix

It's about time some of you guys admit that time is marching on - and having its effect upon us as it does so.

I feel it every time I read a post about someone building one of those "prehistoric" aircraft or ships from the '40's or '50's.

There was one recently, for example, that asked about the color scheme for that ancient plane, the Panther. Someone recommended that the builder look into the archives for some photos. Archives hell!!!! That aircraft was state of the art when I was in my early teens. I must be reeeeeelly old!!

While there are some drawbacks to our advancing age - like having to use a 500-watt light and a 20x magnifier to work on a model - there are also some benefits, like not hearing my wife when she hollers, "Are you going to work on that boxcar all afternoon?"

It all evens out in the end.....

Andy

flak m> > Enzo Matrix said the following on 05/04/2008 21:52:

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Andy

Boxcar? Are you building a C-119? Or are you are railway (railroad) modeller? There's a few of us about...

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Enzo Matrix

I'm doing the REAL boxcars - primarily B&M, MEC, and BAR. Actually, I'm not making them so much as simply weathering a batch of them.

Andy

Enzo Matrix wrote:

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Andy

Andy said the following on 06/04/2008 14:55:

Telling when most aircraft you flew in are now languishing in museums!

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Richard Brooks

i bet you are the more homest on age. dr who and i are the same age, but he has better press, i think.

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someone

boxcars are turning in my minds.

-rem

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someone

I've been up close and personal with Bock's car...close enough?

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eyeball

i bet you had the same whack of history and chills? ever heard the song enola gay by orchestral maneuvers in the dark? i did a 40th and 10 years later, 50th anniversary of the use of nuclear weapons radio programs, and all theses years later, hearing them again still is a traumatic iceburg looking for april 16h in my psyche. so yeah, close enough.

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someone

Watch those nasty corners! Wouldn't want anything torn in there.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

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Mad-Modeller

OK, Enzo, explain the use of brake vans to me.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

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Mad-Modeller

oops, 12th not 16th.

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someone

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