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P-51D Mustang by CDW - Dragon - 1:32 Scale
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Yes, even the metallic ones had the wing surfaces puttied and painted with aluminum paint (with the exception of removable panels). This was intended to get the maximum advantage from the newly introduced laminar wing sections. I don't know whether you might want to implement that at this stage. Very nice finish and I love the blue nose with its glossy finish. Cheers, Dan -
I am managing to sand most of the planked surfaces down to reasonably fresh wood, but there are some areas I wont be able to get at (eg. Internal hull planking between stifeners) and other areas that are made of such slender wood that to sand them risks damaging them (e.g. internal stanchions and rowers outfit). In order to see how much difference this would make to the varnished apearance I made up the test pieces (below) from some panking panels I made about 5 years ago to try out different trenails/ hole dimensions. 1. The one on the left was sanded down to "fresh" wood (350 grit followed by 600 grit) then cleaned with white spirit and coated with 5 coats of Ronseal, Ultra Tough Mattcoat Clear Varnish (polyurethene) - 1st coat thinned 50% with white spirit. 2. The one on the right was not sanded at all. Simply cleaned with white spirit and varnished. I was surprized at how little difference there was between the 5 year old and fresh surfaces (there are some pencil marks on the right hand panel which make it look a bit worse...). Im hoping that the difference wont be that noticable, particularly as it will be on different pieces of wood and there is natural variation accross the wood used anyway... The picture below is of a model I varnished (again , matt polyurethane varnish) 35 years ago (!) The hull planking is ash and is has darkened slilghtly over the years to quite a pleasing colour. Hopefully this aging effect will help to iron out any differences in wood preparation on my trireme.
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Gobsmack, I believe that's how you say it. Not sure if that's how you spell it though lol Great job mate! !
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A very warm welcome to MSW Mimmo Allan
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Welcome to MSW Johann. I have fond memories of Chile, especially Valparaiso, for the fishing, the Casino de Vina del Mar and other fun stuff. Allan
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Mimmo, welcome to MSW. Glad to have you aboard.
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... yes, you are right of course, I did not think of the heat that soldering creates! Uwe
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I love looking at your work OC, and I admire and agree with your pursuit of realism. It looks like you have abandoned the idea of representing the smoke from the firearms. Certainly, it is very hard to create smoke that is convincing. Also, if one is going to take realism to its full extent, one would have to include more than the smoke from the muskets and rifles. How to create the pall of smoke that would have been blowing over the whole battlefield, obscuring your beautifuuly painted figures?! Best to leave that to the paintings, like the one above of LHS. Nipper
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Thanks, dear friend, you remind me that I read about it a along time ago, somewhere on MSW. It can not be boring to me with me 😉🤪
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Steven, I would choose you, to make my carvings, over a 3D printer any day!
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