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  1. Canute
    They look very good, 👍
  2. Canute
    Nice build, Egilman. Had a buddy build that same scale E model while we sat air defense alert in the Florida panhandle. He was tracing all the little hydraulic and pneumatic lines, along with the wiring harnesses, in the wheel wells. Yeah, Mike had that prototype appearance bug. 🙄
  3. Canute
    Sure, but you can prime all those little soldiers in one fell swoop. After you practice a bit with the airbrush, though. 😁
  4. Canute
    I use the thinner for the brand I'm using for thinning/conditioning the paint. Some paints curdle with generic thinners. Additional ingredients in the proprietary thinner? Cleanup is a different matter. The branded thinners aren't cheap, but you can use some homemade cleaning thinners. Here's one take on a homemade thinner for acrylics: https://www.cybermodeler.com/tips/thinner.shtml My blogpost here has a link to a model RR site with another brew for homemade thinners. It's in post #1
  5. Canute
    That will certainly curtail your errant spray drops. Good luck.
  6. Canute
    Your build is progressing nicely. The cutout color works well.
  7. Canute
    Great hedgehog launcher. Little beauty.
  8. Canute
    May try putting an "old/used" nylon stocking over the exhaust duct to trap any particles. Several train buds do that, spraying acrylics.
  9. Canute
    I'm in Phil. I've been a fan of this medium bomber.
  10. Canute
    Yeah, Dennis, AHM went the way of the bison, but some of the cars are now sold by other companies. The brake wheel is easy to find in a good selection of detailing parts. Guess you even got some blocking for the tank load. May want to cut some stripwood to replace the plastic chocks, then tie the tank down with fine chain (A-Line 40 links per inch, pre-blackened). Have fun with that one. Wright Flyer #1, what a great find. 👍
  11. Canute
    Count me in too, Kevin. I'll join the big boys, over at the bar. 😁 Had a flashback to John Wayne's first starring role movie, "Stagecoach". Yeah, it's Hollywood, but it's highly entertaining. And I'm a fan of most of his flicks.
  12. Canute
    OC, you won't regret it. Practice is paramount, mate.
  13. Canute
    Great airbrush, that H&S. Practice with spraying water onto a surface to get the feel of operating the brush. Watch some of the videos Ron T posted in this forum: You're going to like using the brush.
  14. Canute
    Don't try to do them all at once. Take breaks. Repetitious builds are hard because you keep doing the same thing over and over. I've build N and Z scale structures with multiple multi-part windows. Very tedious.
  15. Canute
    Gives you a great appreciation for the conversion process undertaken by the Navy to build a usable aircraft carrier. The early tests with flying off decks fore and aft were oddities. This was one of the first truly functional ships.
  16. Canute
    Nicely done hearse, Kevin. Turned out great. Your stagecoach build will be another good one.
  17. Canute
    They've been used in some port cities for water tours of the port. Interesting build, all loaded out.
  18. Canute
    Sweet diorama, Gary.
  19. Canute
    Interesting build. Is this cutter named for Emlen the Gremlin, a long retired NY football Giants player?
  20. Canute
    Lightyears better, Greg
  21. Canute
    That's a real shame, Paul. Hope you don't give up on doing more plastic ships.
  22. Canute
    Coming together nicely, OC. Floors look good.👍
  23. Canute
    USS Tenacity looks like a Measure 12 Modified scheme. Here's the page on the Ship Camouflage website: https://shipcamouflage.com/measure_12_modified.htm It was an early war scheme, used on a number of USN ships.
  24. Canute
    Nice lineup, Chris. There is a cable/satellite TV channel here in the US called RFD-TV. It has several shows on a lot of this stuff.
  25. Canute
    I'm in, too. Always like the looks of this class.

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