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Ausfwerks Fenderbender
Gunny
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Posted: Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 05:40 AM UTC
Check out a review of this latest tool from Ausfwerks, The Fenderbender!

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If you have comments or questions please post them here.

Thanks!

~Gunny
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Posted: Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 08:33 AM UTC
Nice review Mark, objective, honest, and fair. Hopefully everyone who reads it will be able to look at it in the same way.

Cheers,
Mike
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Posted: Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 04:02 PM UTC
Hi Mark

I spend a lot of time reading your review and I have to say that this is by far your best review ever!
Congratulations

You really make an exhaustive analisys of it without turning "boring" - You have made an excellent review of the Fenderbender - it will provide a good benchmark for the Ausfwerks guys!

Once again, congratulations and thank you for sharing it with us

Skipper
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Posted: Thursday, June 01, 2006 - 07:03 PM UTC
Thanks for the kind words, mates,and Rui, I'm quite humbled by your remarks particularly...it's comments like these that makes me feel really good about helping to promote this hobby that we all share in...
~Mark
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Posted: Friday, June 02, 2006 - 04:25 AM UTC
I'll echo Rui's words. Personally, with a lot of experience in reviewing, this is one of the most difficult subjects one could ever tackle. It's an incredibly complex thing explaining how a tool like this actually works. Mark has done a superb job in both explaining and assessing this product. On reflection, if I built more than one warship a century, I'd have no hesitation in investing in one as I really feel that it's an item of more value (correct me if i'm wrong) for the warship builder. Whatever, it's an impressively thoughtful and useful review...Jim
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Posted: Friday, June 02, 2006 - 04:39 AM UTC

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I'll echo Rui's words. Personally, with a lot of experience in reviewing, this is one of the most difficult subjects one could ever tackle. It's an incredibly complex thing explaining how a tool like this actually works. Mark has done a superb job in both explaining and assessing this product. On reflection, if I built more than one warship a century, I'd have no hesitation in investing in one as I really feel that it's an item of more value (correct me if i'm wrong) for the warship builder. Whatever, it's an impressively thoughtful and useful review...Jim


Thanks Jim, I really do appreciate the kudo's, mate...and although the boy's at Ausfwerks originally designed and made this tool for bending PE armor fenders(hence the title!), I will agree with you that in shipbuilding, and scratching especially, this tool will be indispensable...although all phases and types of modeling will benefit from the fenderbender and it's abilities.
~Gunny
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