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Canute
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Dang, that is one busy cockpit, with the assorted panels you've got in there. Nicely done! 👍 -
Nice work with your camera. Almost feel like I was walking around the structures. Beautiful work.
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Delahaye 135 by CDW - FINISHED - Heller - 1:24 - PLASTIC
Canute replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Thank you, sir. Looks like a good color for some stainless passenger cars, too. -
Absolutely gorgeous work, Grant. Beautiful car and outstanding execution of all the details.
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Delahaye 135 by CDW - FINISHED - Heller - 1:24 - PLASTIC
Canute replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Coming along nicely, Craig. Is that paint an acrylic or lacquer? -
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.
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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.
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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.
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Strong light and magnification work well. Your "force" is turning out nicely, mate.
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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.
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You can also burn it off your applicator.
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As your modeling skills grow, you get more comfortable with kit-bashing and scratchbuilding. Welcome to the Dark Side, mate.
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Saw this on Hyperscale. These paints are a combination of acrylics and enamels. Most are for dry-brushing, although a couple are acrylic paints. Check these out at: http://www.missing-lynx.com/reviews/other/ammobymig7033bg_1.html
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Lots of small details that make it come alive. Good job, OC.
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Delahaye 135 by CDW - FINISHED - Heller - 1:24 - PLASTIC
Canute replied to CDW's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
The Thities really got into the Streamlined Era. I'll be in on this one, Craig. -
Old Floquil paints?
Canute replied to MEDDO's topic in Painting, finishing and weathering products and techniques
I personally haven't used them, but I did use their predecessor, Accupaint. For model railroad users, they seem to apply OK, although needing a primer on resin. The Tamiya fine primer is recommended. The railroad colors are reported as very good. Haven't seen any commentary on ship colors. We're talking 20th Century naval colors. -
Interesting. Like I said above, I have a Tamiya He219 Uhu in 1/48 scale. Tamiya includes a shaped insert to put the cockpit section inside and wrap the fuselage skin around.
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Should be an interesting build. I'll follow along.
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Nice and easy, brother. You and family first.
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Does the kit come with a weight or give you an idea of how much you will need to prevent this becoming a tail-sitter. It's too nice to need a prop of some kind in the tail area. Some of the newer kits come with a weight for the cockpit area.
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Wood glue
Canute replied to H March's topic in Building, Framing, Planking and plating a ships hull and deck
H, that should be a good glue. You'll find you may at times also use white glue. And sometimes super glue/CA. They all have their uses in wooden models. Read the various logs and see what others are using for a given situation. Ask them why they do what they do in a given situation. We all learn a lot by participation in these logs. -
EG, nice parts. Another tool for releasing the 3D parts from their matrices is this saw: http://umm-usa.com/onlinestore/product_info.php?cPath=21_28&products_id=35 Very fine teeth. And proceed slowly with cutting.
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Bob, wasn't sure of the model. Thanks for the update. I was in the Air National Guard at McGuire flying F-4s and later KC-135s. About 18 years. Moved to western NC back in 2009.
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Very cool aircraft. They flew a donated J model to McGuire back in the 80s. It's in NMF and stored flyable. It comes off the pedestal every few years to get a cleaning and have the engines run. It's painted up as Pudgy ?, McGuire's mount when he was shot down.
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