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Published: 2008-01-19 01:48:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 1011; Favourites: 29; Downloads: 12
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overall shot of the Old Cat,s USN Blue Angels history collection......standing next to the F/A-18 Hornet is a certain NROTC Midshipman we know who inspired the creation of it all. i swear,the damn crazy things i do sometimes....! oh,the co$t and time i went through to create all of this....................!!!!!!!!Related content
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but you don,t scare me enough yet....work on it!
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so,show me your War Face....!
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you don,t scare me! work on it some more!
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BAH! Guess I'm not exactly cut out to be a soldier, then... O_o
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all it takes is training....!
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yes yes, very VICIOUS training...
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experienced cat is experienced
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at least old cat has two tails, you see!
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and 8 of my 9 lives are already used up....gotta be careful nowadays.
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Nah, you're just getting old...
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hey! did i say that is a bad thing?! old cats are the best type of cats... they behave... uhm... moderately...
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old cats...eating and sleeping do hold a lot of interest for us.
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just the nature of the beast......!
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Wow! Nice collection you got there! oh!... you have Connie! awww.... how cute.... I like Lockheed Constellations...
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and it,s not the only one in my gallery either. this one was the logistics/support plane for the US Navy Blue Angels team,they used to call her "The Building",due to her size!
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Ohmigawd! I'd never have the heart to do so many models. Well, I can never afford to buy this many kits, anyway.
What's the scale?
You should do the same with the Thunderbirds. lol
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all 1/72. got a whole basement{Thy Dungeon} full of the horrid little things,1000s of them.....! it,s good to be a Glorified Bus Driver......
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How do you manage to do so much?! If I do so much, I'd only end up getting tired of the color scheme and mess 'em up!
I envy your collection of models and model kits. I mean, 1000 of them! I only get like, 1 kit per year as 1/32 Tamiyas are too expensive.
-is shocked- XD
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all it takes is cash......i make a pretty good salary.
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a certain Midshipman has me just wrapped around her little finger.......!
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one and all! it was the only scale that everythging was available in at all.
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I prefer 1/48th. 72 is a bit too small for me. Mark 1's ain't what they used to be.
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no choice here. it was a bit frustrating to backdate the Cutlass,and there are no other kits for most of these planes in 1/48. Lindberg made an F11F Tiger,but it was a very early prototype not used by the Blues,and forget finding a Connie! and Revell,s old kit of the Cougar jet was in one of those GdDm "Box Scales" too.
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Fujimi has an F-11F and I believe it's 1/72nd. Needs a cockpit but it's got pretty decent detail. I think it's still out there. I believe they also put out a Cutlass in both scales in the mid-90's. Minicraft has a nice Connie and there's another airliner scale Connie that came out just a couple of years ago. I forget who makes it but I read that it's pretty nice. Ever look at resin kits?
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Fujimi? OK,i think you mean Hasegawa. Fujimi did make a superb family of later Cutlasses,but didn,t include an early type as used by the Blues.
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Possibly, but I'm pretty sure it was Fujimi.
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F11F Tiger,Hasegawa 1/72,came out about 1979-80,along with a superb little Panther and Cougar. Lindberg had made one back in the 50s ,1/48,as a very early prototype and Monogram used to make a set of 4 {scale unkn}as a set in diamond formation,Blue Angels.
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I remember building the Lindberg kit when I was a kid (around 1966). I didn't know any better. I just liked the Blue Angels markings.
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i had the set by Monogram.....i wish they,d reissue it.
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they,ve got the molds stashed away somewhere.
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Probably. I think it's a matter of how much will it cost to clean them up compared to how much they'll make selling the reissue.
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as i remember,the Monogram set was a very well-done mold,no cleaning up needed. i,d buy one{or more!} if they issued it again.
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never say never..........remenber the SSP reissues?
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Yup. Who knows, maybe someone there will remove their head from their tailpipe and have the kit reissued.
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along with lots more we haven,t seen in a long time!
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just a matter of demand. one thing mfgrs should do is spy on Ebay,and see what OOP kits are fetching the Big Bucks! that Otaki/Entex/Revell-CEJI 1/144 C-5 Galaxy always seems to go for triple-digits!
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Yeah, but that makes too much sense and sense is not prized in the corporate world.
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