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RE: 1/7th Scale Composite Warbird P-40E Warhawk Build - 4/1/2008 4:53:21 PM   
fokke


 

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Nice video ,but what you wait ,come on ,make one fuse

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RE: 1/7th Scale Composite Warbird P-40E Warhawk Build - 4/1/2008 5:14:23 PM   
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Status: offline 		hey I know you - your the voice of temptation that resides in my head -
I'm waiting for cloth Fokke and I don't want to run out before I get the other side done.
But you never know when I might give in....

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RE: 1/7th Scale Composite Warbird P-40E Warhawk Build - 4/1/2008 5:50:48 PM   
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Status: offline 		James NOYB, how do you pronounce that NYOB? lol Cool video man. I see the Tony Tiger has got you up and going! are you gonna mold the wing too?

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RE: 1/7th Scale Composite Warbird P-40E Warhawk Build - 4/1/2008 5:57:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		You bet skull! No point in doing half a job; that's what the boss always said anyway

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RE: 1/7th Scale Composite Warbird P-40E Warhawk Build - 4/2/2008 12:39:13 AM   
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Status: offline 		Very nice work! Great video too.

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RE: 1/7th Scale Composite Warbird P-40E Warhawk Build - 4/2/2008 12:59:07 AM   
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Status: offline 		hey thanks Beechbum - hang around, there's more on the way - glad you liked the video - I'm still a little apprehensive about putting myself out there! It's good to hear that I'm not freikin' people out lol

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RE: 1/7th Scale Composite Warbird P-40E Warhawk Build - 4/2/2008 1:14:37 AM   
Beechbum


 

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Status: offline 		Hey, man kudos where they belong! I wish I had half the gumption you do. I have the top-flite P-40 framed up and almost ready to glass. Just love the P-40s. Keep up the good work.

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RE: 1/7th Scale Composite Warbird P-40E Warhawk Build - 4/4/2008 1:27:05 AM   
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Status: offline 		In today's update I get the fuselage assembled into the first half of the mould, and then mount it back into the parting board. It's all clayed up and almost ready to start showing you the layup process in detail.

http://www.youtube.com/user/b1heqh54



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RE: 1/7th Scale Composite Warbird P-40E Warhawk Build - 4/5/2008 4:09:52 PM   
LDM


 

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Status: offline 		I am sure you have been told this before but I figured the easiest way to get your golden work in mass production is to sell your efforts to a major company . For example taking the project to great planes so they can have a supplier in China mass produce the kits off a high end mold that you produced .
Sure they can do it themselves but there so slow to react to the market that there gold edition P40 will disappear before its every made into an ARf .

Horizon has sold a ton of P40 , as well as VQ , all cuuting into gold edition sales on the P40 .Yes we all know the kit is superior to the ARfs but the arfs are selling the kit priced has dropped year after year .Its average sell on e-bay is under $100.

Even finished versions are selling in the low $200 range , so just a suggestion and really a compliment on having what you I would describe as simply excellance in your work , possibly mass produced for all to enjoy .

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RE: 1/7th Scale Composite Warbird P-40E Warhawk Build - 4/5/2008 6:06:07 PM   
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Status: offline 		LDM - Firstly and most importantly - thank you for the post, I can see that there is a legitimate air of good intentions in your kind words.
I must admit that the mandate of this project is not to maximize profit. I'm sure that you have seen on my youtube channel here
http://www.youtube.com/user/b1heqh54 that although I am fortunate enough to now be retired, I did spend 10-15 years engineering highly automated, high volume machining and assembly, production systems in the North American automotive industry. I know all to well how to exploit the desparity of today's social and economic climate in order maximize corporate return on investment.
I've undertaken this excercise for two reasons...
#1 - the art - there's something in me that drives me to creativity - I don't have to tell any of you builders out there that - you have it too!!
#2 - there's something wrong with the world today - Because corporations are legally bound to maximize ROI in the workplace, it has become an acceptable part of our culture to abandon longterm foresight and prudent reason for the short term gains to be made in exploiting others - some call it globalization - I call it underdeveloped societal conciousness.

The intention of this project is to demonstrate that the average "joe" has within him, the abilitiy to rise above the temptation of instant gratification and maximized profit that is so easily obtained by abandoning long term self development and sending more of our hard earned currency too far from home to build more ARF's. For the price of all those ARF's that people subject to risks that they would never submit a self-built model to, they could have a beautiful fleet of birds at a cost of their time and about $20 worth of materials in each one. I can hear eveyone now - I don't have the time, I don't have the patience, I don't, I don't, I don't....but I do, and so I will.

- no disrespect - I mean that - hell I'm part of the problem too

this is my hobby - and I think Einstein said it best "Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."

OK - let the comments fly!

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RE: 1/7th Scale Composite Warbird P-40E Warhawk Build - 4/5/2008 6:35:49 PM   
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Status: offline 		All of that being said - I enjoy the relationships that I have with people in this hobby, and I will have the mould in the end.
My email is b1heqh54@rogers.com

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RE: 1/7th Scale Composite Warbird P-40E Warhawk Build - 4/5/2008 6:47:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		No problem , yes I know all too well of what you speak , at 47 I am a VP of sales , and I know live in a world of IPC-initial profit contribution and VPC -varied profit contribution , I used to live in a world of "customer intimacy "
so sad , but that is reality .
As far as P40 , I can tell you that I love them and what they stand for , the underdog , the slow guy that could survive and the renagade pilots that flew them .
I have in my collection that I have build or waiting to build a TF Red Box , Gulliow P40 , Sportman Avaiation P40 , Pica 1/6 P40 , Balsa Products P40 , TF Gold Edition and a CMP P40 73" , so as you can see I admire this plane and its real history .

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RE: 1/7th Scale Composite Warbird P-40E Warhawk Build - 4/5/2008 7:07:31 PM   
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Status: offline 		I share the same appreciation for the underdog! Lt. George Welch deserves a mention here as well. It wasn't an E model, but still a P40 none the less - out gunned at Pearl harbour. For those who don't know Welch's nomination for the medal of honour was struck down by his superiors because he and Lt. Kenneth Taylor took off that day in their P-40's without authorization while everyone else ran around wondering what to do. He then went on to break the sound barrier only days before Chuck Yeager - again no mention because it wasn't in "level flight".

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RE: 1/7th Scale Composite Warbird P-40E Warhawk Build - 4/5/2008 8:34:31 PM   
LDM


 

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RE: 1/7th Scale Composite Warbird P-40E Warhawk Build - 4/7/2008 7:37:10 AM   
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Status: offline 		What you are doing I find really neat! I am subscribng to this one.

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RE: 1/7th Scale Composite Warbird P-40E Warhawk Build - 4/7/2008 7:45:02 AM