... Has anyone noticed that the supposedly smaller EVA figures (1:35 scale) are significantly larger than the 1:32 scale figures included in the CSM kit? At...
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Kevin D. Drake
kddrake@...
Sep 1, 1998 12:28 pm
Hi Mike, <<moving X-15s back to aircraft. Afterwards, I was told that at some regionals put them in Real Space. But by the same reasoning that brings V-2s to...
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Ricardo Salamé
ricardo.salame@...
Sep 1, 1998 12:56 pm
Hey Karl Can we se the pictures of MESA, and the interior of the Quad II? Ricardo Salamé Páez Aplicaciones Técnicas Avanzadas Eniac C.A. Telf: 5746711, FAX:...
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Rick DeNatale
denatale@...
Sep 1, 1998 1:40 pm
Rick, I'd be interested in these as well. Didn't want to clutter the list so I'm sending this direct to you. Another Rick! ... Rick DeNatale Still Looking for...
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Rick DeNatale
denatale@...
Sep 1, 1998 1:40 pm
... I think that EVAs figures are all 1:32 rather than 1:35. The lunar Rover kit is marked as 1:32. Rick DeNatale Still Looking for a cool signature ...
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Rick DeNatale
denatale@...
Sep 1, 1998 1:51 pm
... The Flight Design's decal sheet instructions claim to have carefully researched markings for 46-062 Glamorous Glennis on her first Mach 1+ flight. On the...
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Rick DeNatale
denatale@...
Sep 1, 1998 2:07 pm
... It depends, to some extent, on if you accept the Air Forces definition of 50 miles as being 'space', maybe because they really wanted to have some ...
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Mike J. Idacavage
midacava@...
Sep 1, 1998 2:40 pm
Sven: Over the many years I have been in this hobby, the results you saw does not strike me as unusual. The inconsistencies extend right to the Nationals at...
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Stewart Bailey
Stewart_Bailey@...
Sep 1, 1998 2:44 pm
I too, agree that there needs to be more specific rulings in the IPMS rule book as to what constitutes "Real Space." I agree that the X-15 should be in...
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Mike Mackowski
Mike_Mackowski-SC1426...
Sep 1, 1998 3:23 pm
My biggest beef, even as a head category judge in IPMS, is inconsistancy. The concensus of the national contest committee was that V-2s (civil or weapons) ...
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Mike Mackowski
Mike_Mackowski-SC1426...
Sep 1, 1998 3:28 pm
I don't recall what we did with the EVA figures of real astronauts - I think they all wound up in figures. That is where I would put them, not in Real Space ...
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Mike Mackowski
Mike_Mackowski-SC1426...
Sep 1, 1998 3:31 pm
... I snipped a bunch of things - very pertinent, but no time to reply to all points this morning. I agree the missiles are a problem. Mainly because we get...
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Ricardo Salamé
ricardo.salame@...
Sep 1, 1998 3:55 pm
To Everybody: I don't think that we have to accept that. In my country in Venezuela we have the same problems and we are only about 600 people in all the ...
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Glenn Johnson
realspace@...
Sep 1, 1998 6:36 pm
Stewart - I spent last year talking with Walter Fink at IPMS about the inclusion of warhead tipped rockets in the real spacecraft category. He said that they...
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JMChladek@...
Sep 1, 1998 7:25 pm
In a message dated 98-09-01 11:23:32 EDT, you write: << On the other hand, I've had senior guys in IPMS suggest the X-15s should stay in Real Space because...
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Glenn Johnson
realspace@...
Sep 1, 1998 7:37 pm
Ricardo - You stated "...My argument was that the V2 was a German project never build, an the X 15 was a rocket an it flow 199 times. " In fact the V-2 flew...
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Ricardo Salamé
ricardo.salame@...
Sep 1, 1998 7:45 pm
That's right Glenn, but the Manned V2, I don't remember its designation right know, to my knowledge never flow and that why its SF to me. And I support you, if...
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Mike Mackowski
Mike_Mackowski-SC1426...
Sep 1, 1998 8:32 pm
So far, my attempts to convince the IPMS contest committee to use warhead-vs-research (markings, essentially, much like civil vs military aircraft) as a...
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Doug Geiger
dgeiger@...
Sep 1, 1998 8:34 pm
... where to ... confusion ... Santa ... it ... Mike: where should Shuttle models go? If its just the Orbiter, should it be in aircraft? But what if its got...
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Mike Mackowski
Mike_Mackowski-SC1426...
Sep 1, 1998 8:40 pm
Jay, I agree completely. Placing a model in a category based upon giving it a better chance at winning is not the way to do it. But I think the guy who said...
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Rick Sternbach
rsternbach@...
Sep 1, 1998 10:23 pm
Rick: I'll let the gang know as well, but since you asked... My wife took the Lockheed HST blueprints to Kinko's, and our particular local branch didn't have...
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Dr. Ken Patterson
k.j.patterson@...
Sep 1, 1998 10:44 pm
Hi guys, I've watched your arguments with interest. To obviate the problem why not have a category called rockets and missiles and have done with it....
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Mike Mackowski
Mike_Mackowski-SC1426...
Sep 2, 1998 12:17 am
Where should a Shuttle Orbiter on a 747 SCA go? We put them in civilian aircraft last time I saw one (two, actually, a pair of 1/100th efforts). Mike M ... ...
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Mike J. Idacavage
midacava@...
Sep 2, 1998 1:11 am
Rick: I would tend to agree with you in regards to the selection of modeling categories. Although the purist in me would like to have all of the Real Space in...
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Karl D. Dodenhoff
spacey@...
Sep 2, 1998 1:12 am
How about anything that was used primarily as a weapon in the configuration it is being displayed in go somewhere BESIDES Real Space? that's my 2 cents! Karl ...
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James Corley
jdcorley@...
Sep 2, 1998 2:21 am
... Maybe a few of us IPMS National Judges should get together and come up with a set of rules regarding missiles and rockets and force the issue with the ...
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Knucles2@...
Sep 2, 1998 2:58 am
I don't know if this is the right place to post this but here goes.. I'm looking for space and or sci-fi modeling groups in the Northeast NJ area.I'm just...
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TCNXFILE@...
Sep 2, 1998 3:39 am
I think the reason that 1:35th figures cant fit inside of the csm is that the figures in that kit are at 1:32 proportional to the size of the space craft not...
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Steve Johnston
sljohnst@...
Sep 2, 1998 11:30 am
Did the space suits worn by the astronauts expand at all when they were pressurized? If so, that might explain things if the EVA models don't fit width-wise...
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TSgt Karl Dodenhoff
DodenhoffK@...
Sep 2, 1998 12:46 pm
** High Priority ** Well, think about it: the inside of the suit was basically a rubber balloon. You fill it with pressurized O2, and, VOILA!! You've got a...
