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Our club (The Des Moines IPMS Plastic Surgeons) has our 11th annual
show on April 2. Its a well attended event as we're centrally located
and draw from the Quad Cities, Omaha, KC, Minneapolis, and Rochester.
Same venue as last year and there are a couple of very good hobby shops

Is there any good HD kit`s around...`?

The 1/72 Roden Pfalz D.IIIa kit is designed with the fuselage broken
into three pieces: left, right, and upper forward. The kit comes with
two upper forward parts, one apparently intended for the DIII and the
other for the D.IIIa The D.IIIa upper forward fuselage part has a

Chaps,
A question to all those who may have shipped Future from the States to other
places.  How did you do it?  My little bro's tried UPS and they won't play
the game, 'cause of the chemical thing.  Any suggestions?  I'd like to try

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/4261641.stm
BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | Sunday, 13 February, 2005, 11:18 GMT  
Singer Christina Aguilera to wed  
Pop star Christina Aguilera is to marry music executive Jordan Bratman,

I am new to airbrush painting, so I bought cheap single action Badger
airbrush
with propellant cans sort for testing it out. The whole package only
costed me

Hi, can anyone can give me some suggestions on what paint would work on
this GI Joe field radio (top right of photo)?  I believe its vinyl...
http://mikonos.globat.com/~joeworld-online.com/news/publish/article_6.shtml#7813

I don't do a lot of Japanese aircraft and I hope this doesn't start an
enormous "go-round" or anything but I have a question on Japanese aircraft
colors.  I just picked up the new 1/32 scale Hasegawa Ki-84 Frank kit.  In
the box it looks quite nice and pretty well detailed.  My ...

    Amazingly, our problems have caught the attention of Strategy
Page and Instapundit!  Maybe there's hope for us yet...
    http://instapundit.com/archives/020960.php

Saturday April 2, 2005 at Valley Church, 4343 Fuller Road, West Des
Moines, Iowa. Theme is "Welcome to the Zoo", theme award going to the
best model named after an animal (I suppose there might be something
noteworthy besides Grumman aircraft, but I sure can't think of any!).

So I hear the IPMS has yet to balance the budget!
i hear the boys in Phoenix have YET to give IPMS a detailed account of
the massive loss they took during the NATS!
Get ready for another membership price increase!

any kits of the jap giants?

    Just saw some small (1 - 2 gallon) Pancake Air Compressors on Ebay
and I was wondering if anyone out there was using similiar with there
Airbrush.
Thanks

I was wondering if the Italeri 1/24 Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider is a
new mold or a repop of the Revell kit (07316).  Does anyone know?
Any info gratefully received,
Dave.

I am currently building a Hasegawa F-4G Wild Weasel and am painting it in
the colors of the 23rd TFS 52nd TFW two tone green and gray, the
instructions call for Green FS34102, Dark Green FS34079 and Dark Gray
FS36081 my question is that the Green FS34102 refered to as medium green ...