Merlin
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#017
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Posted: Saturday, November 18, 2006 - 08:50 PM UTC

Armando Jorge Soares describes how he built his wonderfully detailed 1/72 scale Fiat G50, based on the old Airfix kit.
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Grumpyoldman
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Posted: Sunday, November 19, 2006 - 05:27 AM UTC
Very nice model, Armando.
Nice to see such a good job, on one of these older Airfix kits.
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Posted: Sunday, November 19, 2006 - 07:18 AM UTC
Greetings, Armando,
A great article on a great job of creating a diamond from a lump of coal! I am very pleased that this is a part of my campaign Fighters Under the Midnight Sun!
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Posted: Monday, November 20, 2006 - 01:11 AM UTC
I knew there was a reason I seem to keep snapping up old Airfix and Heller kits.....results like this! Those old kits, while certainly not the "shake the box and out pops a contest winner" material, still have their value (IMHO). They are also the ultimate excuse to excercise my obssessive-compulsive disorders in hobby form...they take alot of scratch work to build!!!! Good job.
[i will now go kick my own [auto-censored] for having thrown away that very same Eduard etch set for the Airfix G.50]