Thanks Dave; I'll skid in there! grins.. (taking a break from a model
right now... it'll be done for the nats, but passersby will get a
contact high off it...)
--- Stephen
Well, it also helps to turn your nametag around so the name is
visible... ;-)
Chuck
--
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you know, I recall one year.. I think 1997.. that we had little stickers
for our name tags which meant we frequented one newsgroup or another.
You could see those red dots for RMS when in the elevator, or just
walking down the hall.. it worked quite well. I don't recall using it
much after that year though... we should!
-- Stephen
A friend of mine did that at the Mallcon where my daughter entered a
model car. Her reaction was, "Yes, that 'would' be one of your friends,
Dad." ;]
Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.
On 28 Jul 2006 05:15:34 -0700, snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com wrote:
We'll be there in the vendor room selling kits. We may be a day late
setting up, because we finally have all of the molds and everything
done to put our Eagles Talon Gemini/Titan 2 rocket kit back into
production, and Dad wants to cast as many rocket engines as possible
to take to Nationals for the re-release of this kit. We're discussing
now whether it is more important that we be there selling stuff all
week, or that we have plenty of rocket kits to sell for the time that
we are there. <grin>
Chuck
(getting ready to head back to the workshop and package up a bunch of
Salmson 2A2, Fokker D.XXI, and Bell X-2 kits that will be on special
sale this month)
--
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 18:14:49 -0700, Stephen Tontoni wrote:
Oops, I guess it would help if I fixed my .sig file so you could see
the link to our site...
Chuck
(I usually just lurk this group and don't post, since I am not much of
a modeler myself; my Dad does all of that, I just make and sell the
kits after he builds the molds/masters/etc.)
--
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www.donsmodelworks.com
See our online catalog with photos and info on:
- all Wings Models kits (including Eagles Talon kits)
- all Wings Models decals (now available individually)
- over 250+ rare and hard-to-find model kits,
including foreign and out-of-production kits.
Hot August Sale!
20% Off Selected Kits Thius Month Only!
These guys do some very nice vac-u-forms. I wish they would devote their
talents to more of the "Golden Age" U.S. Navy aircraft in 1/48. Their
Vought Corsair (the bi-plane cruiser scout) and Curtiss SOC are really
nice efforts.
Bill Shuey
satisfied customer.
On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:04:29 -0400, "William H. Shuey" wrote:
Thanks for the endorsement, Bill!
Dad's main work this summer has been getting the Eagles Talon X-1 kits
back into production. In the process of working on them he discovered
that some dimensions were wrong, so had to rebuild the masters to
correct dimensions. They look great now, and I think he is about ready
to make molds for them when we get back from Kansas City.
So sometime before the end of August we should be releasing 1/72 scale
cast resin kits of the X-1/XS-1, the X-1A/B, and X-1E. He has also
done some work on our 1/48 X-1 kits, and our 1/48 X-2 kit, but I'm not
sure when those will be ready for production.
The big push in recent weeks, and the reason that the X-1 kits were
temporarily set aside, is on getting two of the Eagles Talon rocket
kits back into production. When Dad bought Eagles Talon two years ago,
we did not receive molds for these kits, and it appeared that we did
not even have complete masters for the making of new molds. Then two
weeks ago Dad found a complete set of masters in an unlabeled box, so
has been making molds and putting together a plansheet for them. Molds
were finished yesterday, so today they should be cured and ready for
the smoke test and we'll start pouring resin to make some rocket kits
to take to Nationals tomorrow.
I'm not sure what he has in mind to work on after he gets all of the
X-1, X-2, and rocket kits in shape for me to take over producing and
selling them, but I know he has a long list of stuff that customers
have requested. Do you have any specific suggestions for Golden Age
kits you'd like to see? (When you say "Golden Age", is that the
between-the-wars period? Guessing so from your examples.)
Chuck
--
Don's Model Works
www.donsmodelworks.com
See our online catalog with photos and info on:
- all Wings Models kits (including Eagles Talon kits)
- all Wings Models decals (now available individually)
- over 250+ rare and hard-to-find model kits,
including foreign and out-of-production kits.
Hot August Sale!
20% Off Selected Kits This Month Only!
On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:04:29 -0400, "William H. Shuey" wrote:
Bill, we talked to a guy at Nationals who makes decals just for the
Golden Age between-the-wars period that you like (specifically
1930-1942 according to his website). His company is Yellow Wings
Decals, and his website is www.yellow-wingsdecals.com. (I figure you
probably already know about him, but just in case...) The examples we
saw looked pretty nice - printed by MicroScale.
Chuck
--
Don's Model Works
www.donsmodelworks.com
See our online catalog with photos and info on:
- all Wings Models kits (including Eagles Talon kits)
- all Wings Models decals (now available individually)
- over 250+ rare and hard-to-find model kits,
including foreign and out-of-production kits.
Hot August Sale!
20% Off Selected Kits This Month Only!
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