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Whifs in "Fine Scale Modeler"!!

Started by sequoiaranger, August 29, 2009, 12:35:38 PM

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sequoiaranger

August 29, 2009, 12:35:38 PM
OK--we have some "favorable press" in a big-time publication: "Fine-Scale Modeler". The latest issue had several in their Reader's Gallery. I attach two examples here:
A tri-motor P-38....


....and a YB-60
My mind is like a compost heap: both "fertile" and "rotten"!

Taiidantomcat

#1
August 29, 2009, 01:00:56 PM
I got this too Great article! That twin lightning looks outstanding  :wub:
"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality." -Jules de Gaultier

"My model is right! It's the real world that's wrong!" -global warming scientist

An armor guy, who builds airplanes almost exclusively, that he converts to space fighters-- all while admiring ship models.

Aircav

#2
August 30, 2009, 01:24:52 AM
Here's some more


"Subvert and convert" By Me  :-)

"Sophistication means complication, then escallation, cancellation and finally ruination."
Sir Sydney Camm

"Men do not stop playing because they grow old, they grow old because they stop playing" - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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seadude

#3
August 30, 2009, 06:46:25 AM
"Modeling the Air Force that never was." (March 1990 FSM)

That's the article!  :thumbsup: That's what helped get me into What If modeling. If it wasn't for that article, I probably wouldn't be doing WHIF's today. I'm glad someone else remembers that article!  :cheers:
Modeling isn't just about how good the gluing or painting, etc. looks. It's also about how creative and imaginative you can be with a subject.
My modeling philosophy is: Don't build what everyone else has done. Build instead what nobody has seen or done before.

Scooterman

#4
August 30, 2009, 04:59:04 PM
Quote from: seadude on August 30, 2009, 06:46:25 AM
"Modeling the Air Force that never was." (March 1990 FSM)

That's the article!  :thumbsup: That's what helped get me into What If modeling. If it wasn't for that article, I probably wouldn't be doing WHIF's today. I'm glad someone else remembers that article!  :cheers:

That article jump started my WHIF career also.  As so much as I built that XL Weasel a long time ago.  Sadly, not around anymore.  I think if i could find that article again, or at least a nice scan of it, I'd go as far as to frame it and hang it in the Scooterworks.  Seriously.

Weaver

#5
August 20, 2010, 02:21:29 PM
Just found this on FSM's website:



http://cs.finescale.com/FSMCS/media/p/1312547.aspx
"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."
 - Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Neil Gaiman

"I dunno, I'm making this up as I go."
 - Indiana Jones

Jschmus

#6
August 20, 2010, 02:38:26 PM
Somebody finally built a Navahawk.  How cool!
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dragon

#7
August 20, 2010, 02:51:03 PM
Just a thought:
What if we (the whiffers) become "mainstream"?
Oh No!  :o:blink:
"As long as people are going to call you a lunatic anyway, why not get the benefits of it?  It liberates you from convention."- from the novel WICKED by Gregory Maguire.
  
"I must really be crazy to be in a looney bin like this" - Jack Nicholson in the movie ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST

Martin H

#8
August 20, 2010, 03:35:09 PM
Quote from: dragon on August 20, 2010, 02:51:03 PM
Just a thought:
What if we (the whiffers) become "mainstream"?
Oh No!  :o:blink:


Its all ready happening on this side of the pond. Its not uncommon to see a few whiffs on club displays at UK shows these days. Plus the What if? sig get to most of the big shows around the country....so the mundane modellers cant miss us.
I always hope for the best.
Unfortunately,
experience has taught me to expect the worst.

Size (of the stash) matters.

IPMS (UK) What if? SIG Leader.
IPMS (UK) Project Cancelled SIG Member.

jcf

#9
August 20, 2010, 05:20:34 PM
Technically the Twin P-40 isn't a Whif as it actually existed.
'Tis a very nice build.

Jon

Weaver

#10
August 20, 2010, 06:02:00 PM
Quote from: joncarrfarrelly on August 20, 2010, 05:20:34 PM
Technically the Twin P-40 isn't a Whif as it actually existed.
'Tis a very nice build.

Jon

It was only a mockup though, wasn't it?
"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."
 - Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Neil Gaiman

"I dunno, I'm making this up as I go."
 - Indiana Jones

Taiidantomcat

#11
August 20, 2010, 07:28:33 PM
Awesome model.  :wub:
"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality." -Jules de Gaultier

"My model is right! It's the real world that's wrong!" -global warming scientist

An armor guy, who builds airplanes almost exclusively, that he converts to space fighters-- all while admiring ship models.

Weaver

#12
August 21, 2010, 02:37:53 AM
Here's another twin P-40 but a more "free" interpretation that actually looks a good deal more practical:

http://www.fantasyplanes.com/2010_03_01_archive.html


"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot."
 - Sandman: A Midsummer Night's Dream, by Neil Gaiman

"I dunno, I'm making this up as I go."
 - Indiana Jones

jcf

#13
August 21, 2010, 09:29:42 PM
Quote from: Weaver on August 21, 2010, 02:37:53 AM
Here's another twin P-40 but a more "free" interpretation that actually looks a good deal more practical:

http://www.fantasyplanes.com/2010_03_01_archive.html




He has some marvelously lunatic kit on that site.
Martin Pelicanus  :thumbsup:

rickshaw

#14
August 22, 2010, 01:23:45 AM
Has anybody extended an invitation to him?  He has some wonderful models there...
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