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It's been released? Wow, I am slipping. All this home renovation business has totally interfered with my hobby the past few weeks. 🙂
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Thanks Mike. The week leading up to the storm event was much worse for rainfall than the actual storm itself.
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Bottom half of main mast. It’s important to temporarily align the mast legs in their appropriate deck locations as it’s glued together.
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The main mast platform provided a nice exercise in patience, eye strain, and photo etch folding. There is a lot more of this sort of exercise with this kit. The photo etch sheets add hundreds and hundreds of parts to deal with but they all add up to enhance the basic Trumpeter kit.
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Battle of Dryfe Sands, Lockerbie Scotland, 1593. Clan Caruthers and Clan Pollock (Polk) joined opposing forces of Clan Johnstone and Clan Maxwell in a deadly battle. John Pollock was killed in this battle. John Pollock was my 10th great grandfather. My grandmother Julia Polk is a direct descendant of John Pollock. My grandfather Percy Caruthers is a direct descendant of the Caruthers Clan. What are the odds that a young pair of farmer's children from these warring clans in Scotland would meet each other in a little town called Newberry Florida hundreds of years later, fall in love and marry? Whatever the odds, it happened.
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Glad to hear you got one Roger! Welcome. I am enjoying my kit.
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1/32 Yak 3 Special Hobby "Onward to Berlin" Finished
CDW replied to Javlin's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Great model, love the progress. Do you have any info on the pilot of the plane that carried these markings? They had some very good pilots from what I have read with victory counts that rivaled the German aces in many cases. -
For whatever it's worth, the kit color guide calls for Medium Gunship Gray for the sides above the waterline; Mr Color H305, Vallejo 868, Tamiya XF-58. Superstructure pieces Gray; Mr Color H308, Vallejo 990, Tamiya XF-19 They call for Cocoa Brown below the waterline, so their whole color callout may be "off" for all I know. I am going to do a shade of gray darker than Gunship Gray below the waterline in keeping with what OC said.
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Oh, I forgot to say: the storm named Ella passed by last night without hardly a wimper. I fell asleep around midnight and never woke up until 7 AM. Got up and looked around in the yard, found hardly a branch out of place so I guess we never got a whole lot of wind at all from it. Very thankful we were spared yet again.
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Despite all the dialogue that could go back and forth over a correct color of gray, I am going to take the easy way out and use a Mr Color gray modulation set to paint my Hood. It will allow me to start with a dark shade of gray then modulate to lighter shades of gray as I see fit to add depth and shading to my model. The gray modulation set consists of four shades of gray, from dark to light. Technically, it's labeled for German tanks. It might be a shade or hue off here and there but I am not enough of a purist to pursue a gray color down to the inth degree.
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In this case the photo etch is way too fragile for double sided tape. It breaks it when you try and pull it off something it’s attached to. Yes there are sometimes pre etched fold lines but in this case no. You get a very small straight section of rail that must be bent to a radius that fits the searchlight platform. It was completely bent to a round shape when I was adjusting the size of the radius to fit the platform. While doing that, it sprung away from the tweezers and was gone. Unfortunately, a plastic bag distorts the view of a small part like this to an extent that blurs vision of it.
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Another superstructure assembly, this one with the searchlight platforms. I dropped one of the top searchlight railing pieces and it must have went into the black hole of Calcutta. Will find a replacement piece from another photo etch sheet. starting to hear some gusts of wind now from Ella. It will increase through the night.
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Alan looks like one or both of us are getting some wind and rain in the next few days. It’s Already been like a monsoon here last week.
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Photo etch pieces are folded into ammo boxes. The ammo boxes are mounted to the quad .5 inch AA gun platforms.
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My internet has been down since Wednesday. Technician not due until tomorrow. Learned to use my cell phone which is okay except fat fingers. Cell phone eliminates a step or two as I have been using my cell phone for pics and only since internet malfunction learned to edit my photos using my phone. A silver lining I guess.
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That’s going to look awesome! Seems like the perfect venue for it but will defer to the Mods.
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Pz.Kpfw 1 Aust F Early by King Derelict - Flyhawk 1/72
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If I did not know it’s 1:72 scale, would think it’s 1:35 for sure. Excellent!
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