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Things I can't explain
Topic Started: Oct 29 2016, 02:27 AM (786 Views)
dknights
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The court of LAST RESORT!
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The Lancaster is ho hum, but I like the Lincoln.
The early Spits and the late Spits are attractive. The middle Spits (5 thru 9) are meh.
The F-102 is OK. The F-106 is the sexiest jet ever made.
The Jumo powered 109s are much more attractive then the DB powered a/c.
The SBD is cool. The SB2C is not.


I wonder why?
David M. Knights
Fortes fortuna adiuvat

14 Finished: Special Armor V-2, Airfix P-51
15 Finished: SBS Gladiator engine
16 Finished: Brengun C2 Wasserfall, Merit SS-N-2 Styx, World's smallest diorama, Airfix Hurricane.
17 Finished: Japanese Carrier Deck, Belcher SS-4, Italeri AB41, PLAN Type 039A (not 72nd scale)
18 Finished: NONE
The bench:Platz T-33, Trump. T-34/85, Meng F-106, Airfix P-51 #2, Airfix P-40
Revell MiG-21F-13, Ace Citroen V-11
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Mark Schynert
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dknights,Oct 29 2016
02:27 AM
The Lancaster is ho hum, but I like the Lincoln.
The early Spits and the late Spits are attractive.  The middle Spits (5 thru 9) are meh.
The F-102 is OK.  The F-106 is the sexiest jet ever made.
The Jumo powered 109s are much more attractive then the DB powered a/c.
The SBD is cool.  The SB2C is not.


I wonder why?

Can't say I like the Lincoln as much as the Lancaster, but I like the Shackleton better'n both.
The Griffon Spits excite me more than the Merlin ones, but I like the Merlin ones well enough.
Concur on F-102/F-106.
While I will grant the S-199 has a cool look, actual 109s are ugly. And the Ha-1109-K1L looks better than all of them.
Concur on SBD/SB2C.

I must like the Whirlwind better than anything, because I've enough models to build 4.46% of the production run. But I like the B-23 better still, and might buy a case of them if ever the scale saw fit to entertain a decent kit.
Or maybe I like the Spitfire better than anything, since I have close to thirty kits spanned across most of the Marks.
Or maybe I actually like 109s, because the last ten models I've finished included: a 109F, a 109E, an S-199, an Ha-1109-K1L, another 109E, and I've got an Ha-1112M going right now. I wonder why.

Well, no I don't. I had ten 109 variant kits, and decided to build or get rid of all of them. Because they're ugly. The ones I've built turn out to be not so ugly. The ones I gave away? They're gone--who knows?

I really should get back to that Whirlwind...
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Chuck1945
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La 5, yes, La 5F and FN, meh
F-105 yes, F-86 meh
Must like 109s since I have enough FM kits to build about 0.2% of the total production
Shackleton>Manchester>Lancaster>Lincoln
All Spitfires although I like the Griffon versions more than the Merlin ones
I prefer the reverse, SB2C over SBD. Nothing to do with effectiveness, just 'the look'
Chuck
Eastern WA, USA
Finished 2018:
Eduard Spitfire IXc, VIII, Monogram/Starfighter BFC-2
On the active bench:
Eduard Bf 110C, Hasegawa B-24D, SH P-40E
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jimmy brown
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Like the Lancaster & the Lincoln
Prefer the early P51 to the later bubble hood D model
Don't like razorback P47s as much as bubble hoods
Like all Spitfires but not so keen on the contra rotating prop models
Like the P39 & P63 despite them not being all that good as warplanes
Like the SBD but the SB2C looks out of proportion like something from an aircraft chop shop!
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stimpy
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Is It Safe?..... Nope
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Spitfire improved when it became a bubble top, the Mustang I prefer without the bubble top, the 109 has to be the K otherwise the B, in between it's boring.

Lancaster, an icon, it bombed the hell out of my mothers home in Koln, she doesn't care for them, not surprisingly, but I want a Manchester because I like 2 engine bombers, why I like the Wimpy and the underdog but ugly Whitley.

The B-26 is Godlike in design, the B-25 not, the B-17 looks terrible and the B-24 a dog, so give me a B-29.

The MiG-21 as it's a bullet in the true sense, the MiG-15 as it's a sausage in disguise and iconic. Not interested in the modern jets, they are like modern cars, all much of a muchness with too much computer design.

The 100 series, meh, but the F-104 will do.

The Mirage is fine but it's French and that won't do.

I'll stop there before I get into trouble.
No more plastic
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Big Kohona
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MDriskill
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Very interesting indeed! I have long wondered why the shape of some aircraft is instantly and permanently appealing, and others not. But I have been that way since childhood.

It is probably the overall "look" of the real aircraft--that subconsciously infectious combination of line, angle, form, and proportion--that draws me to modeling, more than anything else.

My favorites:

1. Fw 190A, my eternal no. 1. I mostly blame fevered youthful builds of the classic Monogram 1/48 kit for this.
2. Late "refined-cowl" 109's. All those unique 109 lines and angles with an extra dose of weird lumpy sleekness.
3. Macchi 200, 202, and 205. I may be the only guy in the world who thinks the Saetta is pretty (especially the early ones with full canopy).
4. F4F Wildcat/Martlet. An "A" for originality to Grumman.
5. Hawker Hurricane. More adolescent Monogram residue, and influenced by an encounter with a wartime mechanic, who described her as "a man's aeroplane" (as opposed to "those prissy little things"...Spitfires)! :D

Tied for 6th: early Spitfires, Hawker Typhoon, Allison Mustangs, and just about every single- or small twin-engined aircraft made in Japan in WW2.

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dixieflyer
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I will add:

"To each, his own."

"There's no accounting for taste."

"Sometimes the only taste people have is in their mouth." (My sis-in-law's mother, who, incidentally, was in the wedding of the bombardier of the Enola Gay. so there. One of the last true dames of the Old South IMHO. God rest her soul.)

"If we were all the same, it'd be so boring."

Warren
"History is the lie we all agree upon."
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Greenshirt
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Tim Holland, Southern MD - USA
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dknights,Oct 28 2016
10:27 PM

I wonder why?


That's like asking why I prefer cask ales, but not beer.

Tim Holland

I'm a "green shirt" because I work on the carrier's flight deck and maintain US Navy aircraft. Safe sorties are my life so we can be anywhere, anytime -- from the Sea.

http://greenshirt-modeler.blogspot.com/
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Harold K
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dknights,Oct 28 2016
10:27 PM
I wonder why?

A friend at college/uni had a stock answer for such questions:

"That's just the way things are."
Box-shaker; hater of all things resin and photoetched.
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RexTN
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Accidental CAG
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What is even more fascinating to me is the idea that I can spend hours looking at other people's models, even though they aren't anything close to what I want to build myself.

I will go to a show, and look at all the "off topic scale" 109's and Spitfires, the large scale tanks, and ships that I never had any interest in building. One will draw my eye, and I will peer in at the details, looking as closely as I can without threatening the model.

But, it never inspires me to go home and build something "off topic" or "off scale."

As for my preference for certain aircraft in my own collection,,,,,,Anne has the answer. "You're just weird, Rex" And I'm okay with that. The "weird" comment came out when I had the trucks and tractors scattered around looking to see what I had to kit bash what I "needed" for my display.
yep, one of each USN squadron

http://hangardeckview.blogspot.com/
http://z15.invisionfree.com/Hangar_Deck_Re...dex.php?act=idx
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Big Kohona
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dknights
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1. Y'all are funny.
2. It clearly has something to do with a "look" that I find appealing. As an example, the Lanc looks out of proportion, but to me the Lincoln looks perfectly proportioned.
3. Another I should have added, B-24D is awesome. The turret nose B-24s are ugly. Same goes for B-17s.
4. I think I'll have a drink now.
David M. Knights
Fortes fortuna adiuvat

14 Finished: Special Armor V-2, Airfix P-51
15 Finished: SBS Gladiator engine
16 Finished: Brengun C2 Wasserfall, Merit SS-N-2 Styx, World's smallest diorama, Airfix Hurricane.
17 Finished: Japanese Carrier Deck, Belcher SS-4, Italeri AB41, PLAN Type 039A (not 72nd scale)
18 Finished: NONE
The bench:Platz T-33, Trump. T-34/85, Meng F-106, Airfix P-51 #2, Airfix P-40
Revell MiG-21F-13, Ace Citroen V-11
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Aaron_w
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Toady
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jimmy brown,Oct 29 2016
12:06 AM

Like the P39 & P63 despite them not being all that good as warplanes

Don't that to Alexander Pokryshkin, he had 48 victories while flying the P39 which makes it the highest scoring Allied fighter of the war.
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jimmy brown
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Don't that to Alexander Pokryshkin, he had 48 victories while flying the P39 which makes it the highest scoring Allied fighter of the war.

Never knew that! The air war on the eastern front was mostly fought at low altitudes which the P39 was best at.
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