Fetch modellers - model cars, trains, lego, meccano, airfix etc. :-)
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Feb 2023
8:48pm, 14 Feb 2023
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HappyG(rrr)
Wow, that is enormous. How many pieces? Do you always make sets from instructions or have you ever constructed from scratch to your own design? Looks amazing.  G
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Feb 2023
9:00pm, 14 Feb 2023
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kstuart
9000 pieces or so and these ones are from the instructions. Have been known to dabble with brothers kids making random stuff from scratch though.
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Feb 2023
5:45pm, 27 Feb 2023
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kstuart
Latest construction pics in my blog here fetcheveryone.com/blog/6625/2023/2/463637
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Feb 2023
9:27pm, 27 Feb 2023
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HappyG(rrr)
Will have a look kstuart. I've had a thought about post retirement modelling idea. I like train sets. And radio control. One of problems with trains is continuous electrical contact. The second is controlling multiple trains on same track. Latter has been solved by digital control. Former requires careful track laying, good electrical contact. However I also like and know a bit about battery power and radio control. Sooo, small battery and receiver/ speed controller in each. It could then run on no track, or plastic or rusty. A wee project! G
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Mar 2023
2:52pm, 5 Mar 2023
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kstuart
I have finished it but not stuck the last bits on as i want to take pics of the minimalistic way it connects which is a job for tomorrow I did build the last two bits you remove to access the carry handle so they just need clicked in and then finally attaching the little ship onto the front end. |
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Mar 2023
9:26am, 7 Mar 2023
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kstuart
fetcheveryone.com/blog-share.php?id=464055 There we go with pics taken and put togeather fully. Totally not going into the Lego Discovery Centre at the trafford centre either
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Apr 2023
9:13am, 14 Apr 2023
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HappyG(rrr)
Wow kstuart - that's a lot of star wars lego! Is that star destroyer to tantive to scale? Shows how huge they are! Well 9 months after first investigation into model planes, I will finally be getting to try one tomorrow at local model club. A chap with a dual control trainer plane will let me try it out. Very excited! Hopefully after that I'll get my own. G
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Apr 2023
12:27pm, 14 Apr 2023
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Northern Exile
Electric or I/C ?
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Apr 2023
12:53pm, 14 Apr 2023
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HappyG(rrr)
They fly both, in planes and helicopters. I think most helicopters are ICE. The plane I'm looking to get will be electric though. G
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Apr 2023
5:41pm, 14 Apr 2023
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kstuart
HappyG(rrr) aye it's to scale More interestingly if the star destroyer was to mini figure scale (it comes with none btw other than the randoms on the bottom of the frame) it would be about 55 metres long |
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