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alcm_b
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Time to introduce myself, I suppose 
I build models starting from childhood days, when I was a great fan of airlpanes:
I even attended our local flight school, where we'd been given lots of theory, and there was some practice as well
, the practice was mostly skydiving, however:
Then I started building 1/35 models too:
But still 1/48 is my favorite.
And then for some time I even worked in a company, that builds quite large-scale ready-made models for airline companies to put them in their offices and enjoy. :yipee
I made 'original master' models there, not sure, how it is properly named. That's when you photocopy drawings in suitable scale, then you take plain sheets of plastic and make a scale model from them using files, saws, calipers and tools like that. When the model is ready, you make molds and it is all put into production.
That was quite a cool job for a student. Since those times I'm, sort of, not afraid of anything regarding files, saws and sheets of plastic. :zen
That's it. I tried to make it short, honestly :laugh: Nice to meet all of you. Photos of the stuff are coming soon.
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Egor
I build models starting from childhood days, when I was a great fan of airlpanes:
I even attended our local flight school, where we'd been given lots of theory, and there was some practice as well
, the practice was mostly skydiving, however:
Then I started building 1/35 models too:
But still 1/48 is my favorite.
And then for some time I even worked in a company, that builds quite large-scale ready-made models for airline companies to put them in their offices and enjoy. :yipee
I made 'original master' models there, not sure, how it is properly named. That's when you photocopy drawings in suitable scale, then you take plain sheets of plastic and make a scale model from them using files, saws, calipers and tools like that. When the model is ready, you make molds and it is all put into production.
That was quite a cool job for a student. Since those times I'm, sort of, not afraid of anything regarding files, saws and sheets of plastic. :zen
That's it. I tried to make it short, honestly :laugh: Nice to meet all of you. Photos of the stuff are coming soon.
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Egor
) but not the modern stuff, lots have changed. The ALCM I loaded had the internal guidance as you mentioned. Once the missile was loaded we had to tell it where it was, we had Lon/Lat concordance for each alert pad location and we would have to key those numbers in the computer. Once the missile accepted it, it knew where in the world it was and would track it as long as it had power. Pretty amazing technology 30 years ago that we take for granted now. 
