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  1. Canute
    Good move, OC. Paints do go "off" after a while.
  2. Canute
    Nicely done on that oily floor. Great effect.
  3. Canute
    Great save by you and Jeroen.
  4. Canute
    yep, boxtop/instruction sheet colors should be taken with a grain of salt. Good references are the stop for that. I accumulated a decent library of RAF and Luftwaffe a/c, but now many are out of date, thanks to a lot of good research. Your paint job looks good.
  5. Canute
    Very good to know about the color matching, Kurt. Thanks.
  6. Canute
    Nice crisp side wall. Very nice build.
  7. Canute
    brushing the varnish leaves an uneven coat, compared to more complete airbrush spray. Painting a second coat should fix it right up. Good luck with the water testing, OC.
  8. Canute
    That side looks very good, Yves. This was state of the art for the 60-70s. Lasers were just entering the workplace back then. Hospitals and the military were early users. We needed smaller, faster computers to effectively control laser cutters. If you can draw up something in STL format, a laser cutter can use it to cut your patterns.
  9. Canute
    Good lock with the eye surgery, Alan. The castle is looking good.
  10. Canute
    There are vendors selling Floquil paint. Google is your assistant for them. Although I suspect the Marine colors are even more scarce than the railroad colors. You could also look at Tru Color Paint, an acetone based paint. It has some marine colors at: https://trucolorpaint.com/military-ships/ They're mostly for airbrush, but they do make brushable formulations.
  11. Canute
    All too true, OC. At one time I had 39 first cousins; now I have 18 and a few of them I'm not too sure about. Travel for many of them is a thing of the past. C'est la vie.
  12. Canute
    Progressing nicely, Yves. 👍 Back in the day, the Rio Grande plow trains could get up to 7 cars with 2 extra water cars, a cook's car and a couple of bunk cars for the crews.
  13. Canute
    Very nice recovery.
  14. Canute
    Those exhaust pipes look great.
  15. Canute
    EE Lightning would be cool or maybe a Hunter.
  16. Canute
    Powder monkey maybe?
  17. Canute
    Hop back into the "game", OC. Your brush painting skills are some of the best I've seen.
  18. Canute
    They must be related to the Coca Cola bears. They're trotted out every year around Christmas.
  19. Canute
    Very well done, Dan. Excellent techniques. 👍
  20. Canute
    Yves, very nice work. Your build is proceeding nicely. I have an HO one and will be using this as a build guide. One question; did you spring the trucks? Kind of dark in the photos, so I couldn't tell.
  21. Canute
    Very interesting experiments in NMF aircraft. I'm in.
  22. Canute
    Sign me up! A very cool vintage racer.
  23. Canute
    Another option is Mt Albert Scale Lumber on the Fast Tracks webite, here at: https://handlaidtrack.com/shop/?v=7516fd43adaa&wpf_filter_cat_list_0=2902
  24. Canute
    Tamiya makes good primers in rattle cans/spray bombs. I believe they're lacquer based. Tamiya have figured out how to make good spray nozzles. I'd use the Fine gray primer under both yellow and red. As a heads up, they make 2 different grays. A gray and a fine gray. The fine will show blemishes, the plain gray is more of a filling primer. Choose accordingly.
  25. Canute
    She's a beautiful beast, Rob. Your finish is spectacular. Superb! 👍

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