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  1. Canute
    Mike, who is the manufacturer of the cowl flap PE? If Eduard, it is stainless. Some aftermarket model RR PE is stainless and you have to carefully plan all the required bends before doing any of them. The stainless is unforgiving. The slight bends you're doing should be easy. 😉
  2. Canute
    Cool, an IMSA style racer. I'm in.
  3. Canute
    OC, while I like the alliteration you used, Ekis is correct. My given name has no Latin language equivalent. In my high school Spanish class, I used my middle name, James or Jaime in Spanish. Kenneth is pretty pure Celtic Irish or Scottish. The Scots had a King or two by that name. The Irish version, Kainnet or Canice, was supposedly an Irish member of St Columba's disciples on Iona. Alexandre or Denis would be a better name for M. Cuirasier. 😁
  4. Canute
    Nice one. What's his name (or nom)?
  5. Canute
    They're "action figures", man. I said "doll" to a shop owner and got an earful for my offhand remark. Nicely done.
  6. Canute
    I'd like to read some ideas on what grade of CA to use on wood. My past experience makes me not want to use it as a glue. The black monofilament fishing line is a technique Chuck Passaro used in his 1/24 scale longboat, here on the site. His kit include 10 pound and 25 pound line for simulating bolts. The light line simulates bolts thru hull planking; the heavier line is used for the bolts in the boat's keel. I think it all comes down to the scale you are working in and how visible nail heads are in the scale. And too much of a color difference could make it look like a case of the measles.
  7. Canute
    Great looking car and an outstanding finish. Too bad the manufacturer didn't build a test model before the kit was released to see the discrepancy.
  8. Canute
    I'm not a fan of paid sites for info I may not access on more than an occasional basis. Thanks for the efforts for digging the info up.
  9. Canute
    Moab, it's now a drug pedaling site now. The site was saved on a Pintrest site now, which I'm not a follower.
  10. Canute
    Nice to see you back at it, Jack. How long a soak?
  11. Canute
    Do you have a link for Hubert's seizing?
  12. Canute
    Your work with the kit PE is nicely done. Looking forward to seeing some more of your work.
  13. Canute
    Dang, that is one busy cockpit, with the assorted panels you've got in there. Nicely done! 👍
  14. Canute
    Nice work with your camera. Almost feel like I was walking around the structures. Beautiful work.
  15. Canute
    Stellar work, Greg. The 3D stuff is beautiful and your PE work is superb.
  16. Canute
    Thank you, sir. Looks like a good color for some stainless passenger cars, too.
  17. Canute
    Absolutely gorgeous work, Grant. Beautiful car and outstanding execution of all the details.
  18. Canute
    Coming along nicely, Craig. Is that paint an acrylic or lacquer?
  19. Canute
    Yep, a dot of the clear over each of the gauges works really nice, but the trade-off is will it be visible to the casual observer.
  20. Canute
    Your FM-1 is progressing nicely, Mike. Love the details. As an old Weapons Officer, I wonder how they bore-sighted or synchronized the guns. The USAAF/USAF used firing in butts to take an a/c to and live fire to make sure all guns were shooting at the same piece of sky. How and where did they do that on carriers? As we transitioned to Vulcan 20mm Gatling guns, we used a bore-sight board, parked 1,000 inches from the muzzle of the rotating set of barrels. No live fire required. We usually fired at targets between 1 and 2 thousand feet away, using a lead computing optical sight using radar ranging when we could get a radar track of said target. Firing inside of a thousand feet could lead to coming back home with souvenirs from the target.Do not ask how I know that.
  21. Canute
    Some very interesting woods, Jack. Looking forward to that build. Hope your spirits improve wrt to returning to the modeling. Stay away from Lou's.
  22. Canute
    Strong light and magnification work well. Your "force" is turning out nicely, mate.
  23. Canute
    Look up papier-mache. I remember building model railroad tunnels with the stuff. I forget exactly what's in it, but it may have been flour. Big issues is, if it's not sealed, the bugs will feast on it.
  24. Canute
    You can also burn it off your applicator.
  25. Canute
    As your modeling skills grow, you get more comfortable with kit-bashing and scratchbuilding. Welcome to the Dark Side, mate.

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