Landlubber Mike
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Landlubber Mike got a reaction from thibaultron in De Havilland Tiger Moth by Lt. Biggles - Airfix - 1/48 - PLASTIC
Wow, nice paint job! Tricky but you nailed it!
For custom decals, I think someone mentioned this, but you can design decals on your computer and print them out on your printer with special decal paper. I haven't had to go that route, but I can see trying it out in the future. From what I've seen from others, it doesn't sound as hard as it might seem. The one tricky thing is printing "white". You might need a special printer for that. There were these Alps printers that could print white, but maybe others now can print it as well.
Maybe an easier alternative would be to design your own stencils/masks for the lettering. You design it on your computer, then get something like a Cricut machine to cut them out. If you don't want to do it yourself, there are outfits out there that can help you like this one below:
https://kitmasx.com/pages/custom-mask-requests
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Landlubber Mike got a reaction from Lt. Biggles in De Havilland Tiger Moth by Lt. Biggles - Airfix - 1/48 - PLASTIC
Wow, nice paint job! Tricky but you nailed it!
For custom decals, I think someone mentioned this, but you can design decals on your computer and print them out on your printer with special decal paper. I haven't had to go that route, but I can see trying it out in the future. From what I've seen from others, it doesn't sound as hard as it might seem. The one tricky thing is printing "white". You might need a special printer for that. There were these Alps printers that could print white, but maybe others now can print it as well.
Maybe an easier alternative would be to design your own stencils/masks for the lettering. You design it on your computer, then get something like a Cricut machine to cut them out. If you don't want to do it yourself, there are outfits out there that can help you like this one below:
https://kitmasx.com/pages/custom-mask-requests
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Landlubber Mike got a reaction from Old Collingwood in De Havilland Tiger Moth by Lt. Biggles - Airfix - 1/48 - PLASTIC
Wow, nice paint job! Tricky but you nailed it!
For custom decals, I think someone mentioned this, but you can design decals on your computer and print them out on your printer with special decal paper. I haven't had to go that route, but I can see trying it out in the future. From what I've seen from others, it doesn't sound as hard as it might seem. The one tricky thing is printing "white". You might need a special printer for that. There were these Alps printers that could print white, but maybe others now can print it as well.
Maybe an easier alternative would be to design your own stencils/masks for the lettering. You design it on your computer, then get something like a Cricut machine to cut them out. If you don't want to do it yourself, there are outfits out there that can help you like this one below:
https://kitmasx.com/pages/custom-mask-requests
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Landlubber Mike reacted to Lt. Biggles in De Havilland Tiger Moth by Lt. Biggles - Airfix - 1/48 - PLASTIC
Managed to have some spare time so got into the Union Jack on the tail. Lots of taping. I had the reference picture on my computer and made is small till it matched the size of the real one. Then used a ruler on my screen to measure the colour bands thicknesses and cut tape to size.
Then managed to somehow put a white finger print on the red.. so will need to touch that up later. It’s hidden on the other side haha.
A few places need a touch up but for just taking the tape off it came out pretty good! Will do the job nicely I think!
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Landlubber Mike reacted to Lt. Biggles in De Havilland Tiger Moth by Lt. Biggles - Airfix - 1/48 - PLASTIC
Heading off again this afternoon for a week so managed to sit down and get abit more work on it completed.
Painted it straight red and then added abit of blue to bring it to a cherry colour. It’s abit of a challenge. The plane looks quite bright and I’m finding to get the right cherry colour comes at the cost of the brightness! So it’s the right shade of red in the sun now but I need to find a way to brighten it. I put a clear coat on it and that helped but still needs to brighten up. Maybe I’ll do a light coat of red on top to try freshen it up and clear coat that. Maybe just shoot it straight down for shadowing effect. Or a lighter shade of blue. Perhaps add some white with the blue. Colour mixing is fascinating with shades and tints.
Anyway I roughly put the wings on that I’ve painted so it’s starting to look like a plane!
Once it’s all together I’ll give it a very light wash as it’s a fairly new paint job so it’s in great condition.
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Landlubber Mike reacted to Lt. Biggles in De Havilland Tiger Moth by Lt. Biggles - Airfix - 1/48 - PLASTIC
I’m starting to think ahead and wonder how I’m going to do the custom decals.
i guess I can make/buy stencils and paint them on. Or send the details away for a company to print custom decals.
I’ve a feeling this part is the trickiest part of the build! But if anyone has any ideas or knows a company that does them I’d appreciate the into and ideas.
This one on the nose on one side will be tough as I’ll not be able to hand make a stencil at all so need it printed or laser cut.
For the rego, worst case I could make my own stencil but it won’t be as crisp and nice as a professional one. These will either make the final result or bring it down a few notches.
If there is a place that I can pay to print custom decals I’d go down that road
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Landlubber Mike got a reaction from king derelict in 1958 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa by CDW - FINISHED - Hasegawa - 1:24 scale - PLASTIC
Good choice in going red Craig. Your Ferrari is stunning! And thanks for posting pics of models from the show. You've got some talented people down there!
I really like your Bugatti - what kit/scale is it?
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Landlubber Mike got a reaction from Jack12477 in 1958 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa by CDW - FINISHED - Hasegawa - 1:24 scale - PLASTIC
Good choice in going red Craig. Your Ferrari is stunning! And thanks for posting pics of models from the show. You've got some talented people down there!
I really like your Bugatti - what kit/scale is it?
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Landlubber Mike got a reaction from Canute in 1958 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa by CDW - FINISHED - Hasegawa - 1:24 scale - PLASTIC
Good choice in going red Craig. Your Ferrari is stunning! And thanks for posting pics of models from the show. You've got some talented people down there!
I really like your Bugatti - what kit/scale is it?
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Landlubber Mike reacted to CDW in 1958 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa by CDW - FINISHED - Hasegawa - 1:24 scale - PLASTIC
These are the last photos I’ll post for this one until I finish my aftermarket wheels and tires.
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Landlubber Mike reacted to CDW in 1958 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa by CDW - FINISHED - Hasegawa - 1:24 scale - PLASTIC
Bugatti is 1:12 Italeri
Thanks for the kind words.
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Landlubber Mike reacted to CDW in 1958 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa by CDW - FINISHED - Hasegawa - 1:24 scale - PLASTIC
Big Daddy Ed Roth and Rat Fink stopped by the garage just in time to see the exhaust system that got installed.
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Landlubber Mike reacted to CDW in 1958 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa by CDW - FINISHED - Hasegawa - 1:24 scale - PLASTIC
First time body has been fitted to the chassis.
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Landlubber Mike reacted to CDW in 1958 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa by CDW - FINISHED - Hasegawa - 1:24 scale - PLASTIC
An interesting note about the wheels and tires; the wheels are labeled front and rear, the tires are 6.00 - 16 (front) and 6.50 - 16 (rear). That slight difference in size, front and rear) is reflected in the parts.
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Landlubber Mike reacted to CDW in 1958 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa by CDW - FINISHED - Hasegawa - 1:24 scale - PLASTIC
A set of period-correct wheels and tires for the Testa Rossa. Tires are branded Pirelli Stelvio 6.00 - 16.
Will paint the wheels with Revell Chrom spray.
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Landlubber Mike reacted to CDW in 1958 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa by CDW - FINISHED - Hasegawa - 1:24 scale - PLASTIC
Decals are Cartograph, clear coat is Mr Color Super Clear III lacquer reduced with Mr Color leveling thinner.
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Landlubber Mike reacted to CDW in 1958 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa by CDW - FINISHED - Hasegawa - 1:24 scale - PLASTIC
Thanks for the kind comments, all.
The small raffle tickets were $1 each, I bought 20. The big raffle tickets were $5 each, I bought 6. After you bought your tickets, you could drop as many as you wanted into each category bucket. The categories were divided between automotive, armor, aircraft, ships, or supplies. All the proceeds from the raffle go to support the host club while the prizes were donated by individual members and local businesses, some national businesses. I don't know why, but I'm mostly always lucky when it comes to these type raffles. Lotto, not so much.
Here are some select photos of the myriads of scale models that were on display.
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Landlubber Mike reacted to CDW in 1958 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa by CDW - FINISHED - Hasegawa - 1:24 scale - PLASTIC
The Pelicon 2025 show was a blast! Many, many, high quality models on didplay. Hundreds of people attended. There were raffle drawings every hour in numerous categories with a grand prize raffle at the final hour with some excellent prizes. I managed to win six of the smaller hourly raffles and two of the grand raffles! I felt like a bandit.
I managed to win one silver and two bronze medals with my four entries, for which I was grateful. I took a ton of photos but won’t post all of them now at this late hour. What I will post are photographs of Nestor Espinoza’s Nationals winner, the Maserati 250F by MFH. An extraordinary, beautiful build. Nestor is a resident of Tampa who has published work from Mig Ammo.
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Landlubber Mike got a reaction from Nirvana in HMS Iron Duke by king derelict - Flyhawk- 1/700 - PLASTIC
Oh yes, now I remember your log! Such a great build, love it!
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Landlubber Mike got a reaction from Kevin in Euromodel Como = possibly closing doors
Oh no, that is terrible news! I've dealt with them on a couple of occasions and they were incredibly nice. Hope they can sell their business - they really put out some beautiful kits of some very nice subjects.
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Landlubber Mike reacted to Kevin in Euromodel Como = possibly closing doors
looking at the Royal William again yesterday and the opening banner reads this,
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Landlubber Mike got a reaction from Old Collingwood in HMS Iron Duke by king derelict - Flyhawk- 1/700 - PLASTIC
Oh yes, now I remember your log! Such a great build, love it!
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Landlubber Mike got a reaction from Old Collingwood in HMS Iron Duke by king derelict - Flyhawk- 1/700 - PLASTIC
Oh wow, even cooler! Hope you can figure out the linking - that seems like a cool model. I remember Yves beautiful work.
I have the Revell 1/144 kit with the Pontos set, along with the 1/72 kit with the full David Parkins upgrades that someone here on MSW was building at one point. I love the Flower Class corvettes - just want to get my skill level up to do the two kits justice!
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Landlubber Mike got a reaction from Old Collingwood in HMS Iron Duke by king derelict - Flyhawk- 1/700 - PLASTIC
Alan is that the Revell 1/72 Flower Class kit? Apologies if I forgot that you built it, but it’s a nice model, wow!
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