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Looking for a new airbrush? One of the ones you've wanted for awhile, but the price was too high? Badger to the rescue!
Every year when Adepticon is on, Badger puts up an online store with the same prices being offered at the show to [...]
Good guy alert - Martin at Eduard.
Yesterday I had the very great pleasure of being given a guided tour of the Eduard facility at Obrnice. I am holidaying in the Czech Republic and decided to scoot over to their facility in the hope that [...]
I watched these guys make their two runs from my front yard yesterday afternoon. These runs were what blocked the Mandeville Canyon fire and kept it from coming over the mountains into Encino. Talk about some stainless steel cojones!
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Having gotten some queries from members here about how things are, I'll answer here for all.
The header photo was taken from atop my neighbor's roof at 5pm today, just before sunset. That's the Palisades Fire, which moved into Mandeville [...]
USS Edsall lost in combat on March 1, 1942, against the might of the Imperial Japanese Navy has been located some 200 miles east of Christmas Island. The discovery came last year with a survey carried out by the Royal Australian Navy but [...]
Last Weekend the Pacific Airshow came to my hometown. A mix of warbirds, aerobatics and the latest tech.
No descriptions - you'll know what these are I'm sure. Except maybe the Yak 110 - two Yak 55s joined together with a GE J-85 Jet [...]
Hello again everyone. The time has certainly flown by. The last time I mentioned this was about two weeks ago.
Now here we are... and today is the first official day of the start of the First World War. I have started a new group [...]
Hello again my friends. This is just a quick reminder that we will have a new group build starting in a little over two weeks from now.
It will be for anything that is somehow related to the First World War.
Aircraft, Armor, [...]
Shortly after his 100th birthday, legendary artist Roy Cross passed away on April 24th. Roy had a 75 year career as an prolific artist and illustrator and famously did much of the iconic box art for Airfix that many of us grew up with and [...]
