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My method is to use Tamiya tape wide enough to do the whole hull in a single run of tape. Then trace the came pattern onto the tape, using a sharp blade cut out the area to be painted blue. Burnish the tape edge a bit. Then pour a small amount of paint into one of those small egg carton style plastic palettes from Michaels or wherever, dip the brush in water first, pick up some paint from pallette brushing from tape onto hull so paint doesn't creep under tape edge, I fill in the camo area. Dipping the brush in water first then paints, thins it enough for my work. But your camo looks good to me. -
Yea, my son is a house painter, can't work outside in rain or when temperature gets to 40 F/4C
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Come join the hammock crowd! We are high enough we can shuck peanuts and toss the shells down below. 😁
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Enzo Ferrari by CDW - FINISHED - Tamiya 1:24 Scale
Jack12477 replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Hmm ! Florida = hurricanes, sink holes, alligators California = wild fires, earthquakes, landslides 😉😉😉😉 -
Me too !
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Enzo Ferrari by CDW - FINISHED - Tamiya 1:24 Scale
Jack12477 replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Wow! Classy looking car. Very nicely done Craig. -
Yea, it is a very good miniature plane. I have their entire collection. I just saw in their Christmas catalog that they introduced a Miniature bench vise to their collection. Very very tempted to add on to mine, should be pretty easy to adapt to miniature boat building.
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Hi Spinach Man, welcome to the party. Don't sound crazy to me. I don't get out much either these days, been bouncing off walls. Can't wait for snow and ice to arrive, if it arrives at all this year. I figure a outdoor space with a volume of 40-60 cubic miles and a constant wind of 5 -20 mph should be sufficient to dilute the plague. 😉
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The red on ours is a skin that peels off but is eatable... the nut is round but looks just like peanuts in color I just restocked at grocery store tonight $2.99 USD for 354 gram, 12.5 oz, can. Yours seem very pricey. Wonder if they are same nut. Anyway you could substitute regular peanuts for your sundae 😉
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@Edwardkenway just curious, but is this brand of peanuts available in UK ?
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Bon appetite!
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Me too on the honey roasted peanuts, also salted cashews. Try a Mexican Sundae, 2 or more scoops of vanilla ice cream, pour either Hersey's chocolate syrup or Hot Fudge syrup over ice cream, sprinkle generous amount of Planters Redskin Spanish peanuts over the combination, and enjoy. In some areas it is called a Tin Roof Sundae, origin of name(s) and dish is steeped in mystery. Where I grew up in Western New York, it was always called a Mexican Sundae and was always made with Redskin Spanish peanuts. Other variations exist. Yes. The kit supplies a generous amount of 0.5 mm x 5 mm strips of walnut and a cream colored wood veneer for a "white/cream" band at the wales.
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Me too ! Ditto the salted peanuts, especially the Redskin Spanish peanuts ( great over chocolate syrup or hot fudge over vanilla ice cream). The 2nd planking is a 0.5 mm thick walnut veneer, typical of AL kits. No hear bending needed.
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Well I finished planking the other side of the hull. Now the first planking is done. I guess it came out okay. Not too many errors visible. Planking is not my strong suit.
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Yes, Lou does like to lay in his hammock with his munchies. Must have spilled a few kernals. 😀
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Finished planking the one side and started planking the other side now. Looks like someone has been making late night raids on Mark's Popcorn Machine ! Lou, are you raiding the popcorn stash again ?
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No, more like they wanted y'all "stone cold sober" and not hung over around all that heavy artillary you were packing! 😃😃😃😃
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Me too, Roger. Still have in the original red metal box. Pretty beat up but still there
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I took down my layout when my youngest child, son, needed the space to setup his US 1Trucking (brand name) slot car/truck layout, HO scale as I recall. My layout was only partly started then, 3rd attempt. I repurposed hiss table for my shipyard workbench. I used the old L-girder construction which is easily modifiable. It is incredibly strong. I inherited Dad's more classic/collectible engines and passenger cars, few freight and a monstrously heavy wrecker crane all cast metal, plus some odd pieces of track. The Rapido track and switches were unigue in design, still have them. So yes I could rebuild an N scale layout, if I ever quit building ships, cars and planes. 😉😉😉😉 Starting new with your grandson would be fun. Dad always enjoyed "running the trains" for his grand children, one grandson took up the hobby and now his son is enjoying his trains, mostly Great-grandpa's trains. BTW Dad started with Lionel O, sold that when American Flyer introduced S-scale and went into S-scale. He skipped TT-scale, sold the S-scale and went into HO. I got the bug from him
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My Dad and I used cardboard strips stapled together to form a matrix then newspaper strips dipped in very watery plaster mix. Toe max hills it was also wadded up newspaper with the plaster strips over it.
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I learned model kit building and Model Railroading from my Dad after the war (WWII that is). He used to sit at dining room table and build HO gauge model RR rolling stock from kits - not much ready to run - in those days. Built a wood model Piper Cub float plane from kit, I asked him to let me build one and he got the same kit for me. Also built a moderate sized HO railroad layout in basement, still had one in townhouse when he sold the townhouse at age 98 (lived to be 102 years & 2 months), split the rolling stock between me and one of his grandsons. I went with N scale due to apartment living when Rapido Germany brought it out in the late 1960s . Dad's older brother next built a layout but built hundreds of freight cars and cabooses in HO. I still have my N scale track, switches rolling stock, engine, etc but no layout now.
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Stilts might be better
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I'm in too. Taking seat next to EG and Edward
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Before continuing on I decided to smooth out the joints where the planks abut one another. Dragging out my Veritas low angle Jack Plank, a few passes over the hull made short work of the rough edges and gave me a nice smooth hull. Oh did I forget to mention, the plane is a miniature version of their large Jack Plane and it is an actual working plane.
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Enzo Ferrari by CDW - FINISHED - Tamiya 1:24 Scale
Jack12477 replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Awesome car ! Guess I beat Lou to the rafters 😁
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