Cool dio

See it here.  I recommend this blog for all Japanese aircraft enthusiasts.

LMAO

Iowahawk strikes again.

Better living thru science

Story here.

2012 Nats 72nd Hellcats

One thing I noted at the Orlando Nats was how popular the Hellcat was in the 72nd single engine aircraft category.  With both a new Cybermodeler and Eduard Hellcat, this was to be expected.  It also bring up an interesting idea, that will be the subject of my next post.

On to the models.

Hellcat

and

Hellcat

and

Hellcat

 

 

 

Hmmm

I’ll bet this makes for an awkard Thanksgiving dinner.

Neil Armstrong

Here is the best of the many tributes I’ve read.  God that we would have more like Mr. Armstrong.

Is Hyperscale dying?

Not just Hyperscale, but all of the general modeling forums.  Hyperscale is the grandaddy of all modeling forums. If you have been modeling for any amount of time and have been at all internet savy, then I’m sure you visited Hyperscale.  When it started, it was a great place to go an exchange  info and see great models.  For a long time there weren’t that many forums and when they came along, they also tended to be general modeling forums. ARC, Missing-Lynx, etc.

However, like lots of other places on the internet, these forums drew in trolls.  People whose life outside the internet or outside of modeling must have been somehow unfufilling.  They grew to dominate Hyperscale and the other general forums.  The posted on every topic, many time going out of their way to be obnoxious.  It became harder and harder to wade thru the cr#p to find anything of interest.

At the same time, specialist forums started to appear.  Forums dedicated to a particular modeling subject. (i.e. 72nd scale forum, UAMF forum, Italian and Japanese a/c forums, etc)  I thin the trolls on the big forums drove people to the specialist forums, where a reader could be more likely to find a higher number of posts that suited their particular interest.

I’ve noticed over the past year, that the number of posts on Hyperscale have been declining.  This means the number of troll posts grows in proportion to the number of useful ones, which I think drives even more people away.  This leads me to my question.  Is Hyperscale (and the other general forums) dying?

The latest 7th Cir. FDCPA case

It is here.  I think the decision is probably right, though it is pretty harsh.

2012 Nats 72nd Brit and Commonwealth

Here you go.

Defiant

and

Hurricane

and

Spit.

and

Spit

and

Swordfish

and

F6F

and

Typhoon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chinese economic news

This is certainly worrisome.