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his book of submarines and his book of ships are still out there
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Just built the Battleship which is said to be based on RN KGV. Reduced from unknown scale
to 70% of the unknown scale. Enhanced a little on the seaplane, added some simple rigging and used the sea base from ZIO's R.N. APE. The model was downloaded from the site, Papirove-modely.cz The original, by Rigby, should be from America's Greatest Comic Weekly dated April 6, 1941 before the Pearl Harbour attack. Papermate |
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Very nice work! A fitting tribute to a great designer and great man!
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Very cool! And I love the idea of framing vintage paper models as art...
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Fiddlersgreen has a few of these Wallis-Rigby models if any one is interested. wc
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I have never seen the “King George V” battleship kit before. It looks good. I built the Rigby “Queen Elizabeth” a few years ago. It builds up into a handsome model. One of these days I’ll try to build the battleship “North Carolina” from the Rigby naval ships book.
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A note on the Wheaties paper models. Wallis Rigby did NOT design those airplanes.
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Rigby Paper Model's
I've actually built most all of the Rigby's Paper Models. Sports Cars, Warplanes, Space Ships, and Boats & Ships, All except the large Ocean Liner, which I keep putting off......maybe soon???
Bob
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Hey, Bob! Great to hear from you and to know you are building. Hope we can see some images of those Rigby's.
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Ah, memories! In 1943, I believe (my dad had been drafted into the Army), my mother built a passenger ship printed in the comic section with me. Probably was the Queen Elizabeth that John Dell posted. I also remember a bomber and a tractor with a string of bomb carts with 2D bombs. I was 8 years old at the time. Guess paper modeling goes a long way back for me!
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