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    SQUADRON MAIL ORDER CLOSING ITS DOORS

    Sad to here that they are closing, I had to give up buying from them due to the excessive postage for Italy. Quite all the US shops are becoming too expensive for the European even if many of them have interesting offers. mike sierra
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    Aircraft operational life on WWII US NAVY carriers

    Greetings from Lake Como, I am curios to know what was the average "life" time of an aircraft abord a carrier during its depoyment. Reading here and there, the infomation are contradictory; what seems more reliable, is what i found on Colors of the US Navy 1941-1945 – Facts, Backgrounds . Any...
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    P-70 cockpit interior

    Hi Guys, Happy New Year fom Lake Como. About the kit: I decied to give a go to the Matchbox kit which is 1/72 scale. The "new" Revell kit seems to be a reboxing of the MPM famely, which are fine with more inside detals. but I would have to wait a while because no of my usual shops have it in...
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    P-70 cockpit interior

    Many thanks for the information. They increase my files. I am wondering if it could be avaiable something that gives an idea how the electronic devices were arranged in the rear cockpit of the P-70. I imagine that the rear operator was focused on a kind of screen to find out were was the boggy...
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    P-70 cockpit interior

    Hy Guys, This is my first in this Forum; First of all I would like to wish you a marry post Christmas day. I am planning to build a P-70; I have Matchbox kit in my stash and I am making uo my mind on it. There is quite a work to try to keep out something accetable to today standards. I am...
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    Mike Sierra

    Many thanks to everyone. I have a 12' international class gaff riged it is a 3.66 meter. I sail and race on every boat I am invited. I wish to every one all the best for this horrible period. Modelling will help us to stay calm and safe
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    Mike Sierra

    Hi Guys I just joined the comunty. I am from Italy, leaving on the shores of Lake Como. I am 64 and I am modeling, in a way or another, since I was a kid. My modelling is in 1/72 scale, I have no room to stock bigger scale, and i am particularly interested in WWII US Army and Navy aircrafats...
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