Hello!

[Dubar1]

Hey folks,
I mainly collect 1/6 Dragon figures and lately I've gotten the bug to collect only air force figures.

Way back in the 70s I did some RC flying and have always been interested in warbird modeling. I still have a 1/6 Fokker DVIII.

My dad was in the USAF during WW2 and I grew up on a diet of stories about his part of the war. My mom was Welsh and a nurse and survived the bombing of Coventry.

Dubar is my "handle" on a variety of online forums so I chose to use it here too.

Hope to peruse thru the posts in the next few days and I may chime in from time to time.

I'll be picking up a 1/48 TA-152 soon at the Dragon DX08 show in Virginia Beach in August which will be my first WW2 model in a long time (I have a few 1/48 WWI planes in my collection).

Bob

 

[Heinz]

Welcome mate.

 

[AVRoe]

Bob, Hello wellcome

 

[Wurger]

Hallo Bob,

Nice to read you here.Please, stay with us longer and enjoy.

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Welcome to the forum.

 

[ccheese]

Hey Bob... Where in Virginia Beach ?? I live here.... in Windsor Woods.

Welcome to the forum...

Charles

 

[DOUGRD]

Welcome Bob. Hope you enjoy it here.

 

[Dubar1]

Thanks folks!

Charles, I live in P'town. The IPMS and Dragon DX08 show will be at the Convention center. I think tomorrow midnight is the deadline for signing up for the DX08 as a "conventioneer", but they'll have a daily entrance fee for those that don't sign up as a "conventioneer". The $80 for the DX08 includes 2 figures (Omar Bradley and a jeep driver) at no additional charge and the opportunity to get first dibs on a couple of items (Bradley's 1/6 scale jeep for one!!!). Here's the link:

http://www.dxpo.com/dx/08/news.asp

I've never been to one but from what all the old hands say there's a lot to see and get at these shows. Plus with the IPMS there'll be plenty of displays and vendors to look over.

Right now I'm trying to build a 1/6 (or so) FW-190 A8 cockpit. The framework is easy but finding all the small gauges and other instruments may take some leg work or turn them on my mini-lathe. The TA-152 I'm getting is the plane Willi Reschke flew at the end of the war. Dragon will also have a 1/6 figure of him that can be pre-ordered and picked up at the show (also on the link).

Bob

 

[Njaco]

Welcome to the forum from a little further north on the East Coast!

 

[Wayne Little]

Hi Bob, welcome to the forum mate!

 

[pete_madi]

echos of same from down under.

 

[seesul]

Hello Dubar!
Welcome to the forum!
Greeting from the Czech Republic
Have you ever seen this figure?http://www.dxpo.com/dx/08/exclusives/exclusives-willi.asp

 

[<simon>]

Hi Dunbar
Greetings from "down under"

Welcome!

 

[Thorlifter]

Welcome to the site

 

[hunter0f2]

Hi welcome , lots of chat info on here---- Enjoy

 

[ccheese]

Hi Bob:

Was in Portsmouth last night. Visit a friend in Churchland quite often.
Maybe the next time NAS Norva or Oceana have an air show, we can
hook up. Cheers and enjoy the place....

Charles

 

[Gnomey]

Welcome.