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Jack12477
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Edward, Mike, Craig, Denis, Lou thanks. Denis, not sure what is next. I have 2 wood small boat kits, another 1:350 scale US Destroyer USS Sherman I think, sitting on the stash pile. Not sure if I want to do wood or plastic. And I still have the full scale 1:1 ice yacht restoration. Lou, do you really think a seasoned ice boater needs to put the top up to go for a ride on a sunny Feb or March day ? Especially after routinely gliding across the frozen ice of the Hudson river at 40 to 50 mph on a brisk sunny day with air temps between 20 and 30 Fahrenheit? You do need to come East and enjoy some real Winters ! -
B-25 Mitchell "Meet Miss Runyon" by Javlin-HK-1/32
Jack12477 replied to Javlin's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Kevin, thanks ! Don't have a biscuit cutter/joiner but I think I can improvise. I certainly have plenty of scrap lumber on hand. -
B-25 Mitchell "Meet Miss Runyon" by Javlin-HK-1/32
Jack12477 replied to Javlin's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Love it also. Would like to copy it. Could you provide some construction details please. Are the two bases glued together or just placed side by side in use ? What size are the dowels ? Thanks ! Plane is looking great ! -
Finished Windshield got a little messy - fell out twice on me - used Gator Grip Acrylic glue first time - 2nd time use G-S Hypo Cement - smudged it a bit putting it back in. Otherwise all came out okay - applied two coats of Pledge floor wax over the acrylic paint body before gluing on the chrome fiddly bits. Now to shrink the kids and take a ride in the Countryside
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Moving right along - we have some more progress to the model. Note the corrugated Chrome plated dual exhaust pipes. Man were they ever a bugger to get installed. Hood, trunk and side trim are just dry fitted for now. Stay tuned !
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Pirates !?!?!?! Here ??!?!?! I thought they had all been banished to that other ocean You know ! The one that shares the same acronym with that Classic American Military dish, "Cream Chipped Beef on Toast" or better known to American GIs as "Sheit on a Shingle"
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OC, yes I read about those storms. Europe even gave them names. Hope you were not affected by them.
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Oh the big storms keep coming, they just seem to miss my neck of the woods. Must be the mountains deflecting them or something like that; like maybe the weather people cannot calculate wind speed and direction
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It was 60 F today. Haven't seen snow since December. You must be reading about Rochester with 80.9 inches for the season. Maybe ! We have seen 10 to 12 inches all season.
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Or a bunch of military vets at the local watering hole aka pub
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And here I thought I had a contingent of Marines guarding the port ! Guess I should have asked my local Coast Guard unit to provide Port Security while I was out looking for fresh paint
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WOW. That was some GPS malfunction - we took quite a detour thru the forests Getting back on track. I primed the black plastic body parts with Tamiya Fine grey primer. Then repainted them in a Dark Chocolate. For the side panels (cast in yellow) I over painted them with a Sand color and for the seats and other interior upholstery I painted them Fawn color. Then started to assemble the pieces. Interestingly the transmission, engine oil pan are chrome plated. I would expect the engine head cover to be chrome but this is a new one for me. Note to Lou: The floor wax has not been applied to the Chocolate Brown fenders yet. That should deepen the color and provide a nice gloss look.
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Me too !
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Yep ! But he is still younger than me !
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I though pilots had to have 20/20 uncorrected vision to fly ! What happened ? Old age ?
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Being cursed with four eyes, aka nearsightedness, since the 3rd grade, as presbyopia set in with advancing age, I find I can cheat by either removing my glasses completely or just pull them down my nose a bit and look over the rims while bringing the book a liitle closer to my face. I do have so called reading glasses and I did try bifocals but cheating is far simpler. And I don't have to play trombone either !
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Mark, I use the MicroScale brand of products, Sol, Set, Flat and Gloss. If the surface is not glossy I brush on the Gloss first, let dry, apply decal using Set or Sol, let dry, then either brush on the Flat over the decal or use rattle can Testors Dullcote and spray entire surface. If you want the decal glossy brush the Gloss on instead. I think MicroMark carries the MicroScale products. I've used them for years with good results with airbrushed paint as well as hand brushed paint. Sol can be used to rescue an old decal that has dried out and is peeling off. Just brush on decal, use brush to press decal back down, then cover with Gloss or Flat when dry. The Flat and Gloss look milky in jar but dry clear.
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I have several completed kits from Hubley, Gabriel, et al, which I built 40 to 50 years ago. They are stored in storage containers because they have started to show their age. The rubber tires dried out and split apart. I may try to restore them some day.
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I also have these two kits in my stash Mike. Both are all metal with only a few plastic parts. Someday I will build them. Okay, guys You can stop drooling now !
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Thanks, Carl, I thought so too
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All I have to do to drive in total darkness is drive to the end of my street and head south on the main road, in less than a mile it is pitch black. Or even take a ride out toward Woodstock, complete darkness.
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My neighborhood was build in 1955 to 1960 when IBM opened their big plant in Kingston. When we moved here in 1972 they still did not have street lights at all, finally got them in the mid 1980s and then only on every 6th or 7th telephone pole. We have those sodium vapor lights.
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Yea, matching that chocalote brown is going to be fun. I have a coffee bean brown by Americana brand paint which might work. Or I may have to visit Michaels and what they have. Have to consult with my artist son, he had a tube of acrylic yellow that exactly matched the plastic yellow, in fact I think the yellow in the Mercedes kit is the same yellow as the Rolls Royce kit. Italeri made both kits so it would make sense to do both kits with the same color batch of plastic. I definitely do not like the molded black tho, okay for engine and undercarriage but not upper body. BTW both of these kits are available from Hobbylinc for $29.79 each.
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Thanks, Lou Even the cities were pretty dark back. Gaslites did not illuminate well. I left a couple lights off the model.
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Thanks, Denis
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