Recent content by lunde

On second thought, I posted to the Type ID Board of the Typophile Forum on your behalf, given that I am a registered member there. See: Potentially difficult type ID

I have been in Type Development at Adobe for over twenty years, but my area of expertise is not Western type. Although my heritage is not Asian, I specialize in CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) type. Anyway, the C (its terminals), R (its leg), and W (its center portion) are the key letters...

re: ** New Members: Please Introduce Yourselves Here! ** I have been a lurker, and made my first posts a few days ago. I was heavily into modeling during my youth, including scratch-built spaceships. Well, 30 years later, only one such spaceship, built when I was 15, survived. I mainly...

I thought that Ol' Painless was the 5.56mm version of the mini-gun, whereas the M134 was 7.62mm. XM214?

Have you tried the typeface-identifying feature at Fonts.com yet?

This certainly brings back a lot of memories. I would buy 1/8th or 1/16th inch sheet styrene plastic for building these models. I would even make my own glue, by using thinner to melt leftover plastic struts.

When these were available, which was not for long, they sold for $1500. The last time I saw one for sale, it was going for upwards of $5000. Yikes! This version is the non-firing one.

Hmm. I don't recall ever buying a B-29 model kit. I should have kept notes…

Thanks, Rob, for jogging my memory. I did have a Cylon Raider kit, so it makes sense that I used the stand.

I found the schematics of the attack-style spaceship that didn't survive:

Some memory is coming back in terms of where some of the parts came from. A few panel-like parts came from the interior of an original Flying Sub model kit. I also used some parts from a V8 engine model kit. I also built an accompanying spaceship of the same basic size, but sadly it did not...

Of course, the $20 bill was included in one of the photos for scale.

Four more photos:

Here are some better photos:

The name of the company that made this is Toytec. It is full-size (1:1 scale), and weighs about 20 pounds. It is actually a kit with about 50 parts that needs to be assembled.