"Wake Atoll Project" Topic
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| Buckeye AKA Darryl | 25 Dec 2024 4:56 a.m. PST |
An update date on a Wake Atoll project: link |
Fitzovich  | 25 Dec 2024 6:18 a.m. PST |
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| HMS Exeter | 25 Dec 2024 7:37 a.m. PST |
Whle my experience with 600 scale aircraft is limited, I have observed that Pico and Tumbling Dice models are subtly dissimilar in scale terms. Tumbling models are a bit "beefier." This is unlikely to be a discernable issue vis a vis Wildats v. Mavis, but you might want to avoid mixing Nells from the 2 companies. Just sayin'. |
| Ferd45231 | 25 Dec 2024 9:14 a.m. PST |
Darryl
On the way to Vietnam we landed at Wake to refuel. It is a tiny group of islands. I look forward to seeing the results. H (6th OVI). |
| Buckeye AKA Darryl | 25 Dec 2024 9:35 a.m. PST |
Exeter – I have all the Nells I need from Pico if I decide to do 1/600. I also have the Buffaloes and Wildcats. I would buy Pico's Zeros, Vals, and Kates for consistency, but the Mavis would have to be from Tumbling Dice as Pico (Oddzial Osmy) does not make the Mavis. I have found $5.00 USD 1/285th scale Nells for just $5.00 USD each if I wanted to go larger, but then the Mavis would be six pounds from H&R, and the quality is lower on the H&R planes/ The other 1/300 or 1/285 companies charge about $15.00 USD per Mavis, so that would be 30 bucks just for a pair of those. Add in six Zeros, nine Vals, and nine Kates…starts to get a little pricey. Hank – I would love to visit there, but not under the same circumstances as you! |
| 14Bore | 25 Dec 2024 9:48 a.m. PST |
Ambitious project that will be useful over and over as there seems many what if possibilities. To me it never was a forgone conclusions |
 McKinstry  | 25 Dec 2024 2:12 p.m. PST |
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| HMS Exeter | 25 Dec 2024 4:10 p.m. PST |
I have flirted with doing a Wake Island game, but thought 10mm would be my chosen ground scale and 1200 ar sea and 300 airborne. It never got further than paper, perusing catalogs and imaginings. |
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