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  1. CDW
    No one will ever notice it as they are riding past on a galloping horse.
  2. CDW
    The good thing is, the final appearance of the effect is primarily achieved with your preferred hobby brush and the white spirits used to achieve it. Watch as many tutorial videos on it as you can to pick up many valuable hints.
  3. CDW
    The upgrade set offers two options for the tops of each funnel. One is a flat two dimensional piece seen to the right of my funnel, and the second option is the ant- leg sized three dimensional multi piece unit seen on top of my funnel. Makes me feel they are laughing at those who are foolish enough to try the multi piece unit. I am not completely happy with me feeble effort to finish this assembly but I refused to give in to the easy way out. 😊
  4. CDW
    Coming soon
  5. CDW
    Welcome aboard Ian.
  6. CDW
    Gorgeous!
  7. CDW
    Been going nuts this weekend with home remodeling. Started stripping everything out of our bedroom this past Friday. Removed the old flooring, stripped off the baseboards. Then did a little drywall work and repainted, had a tile man come out today and laid new ceramic tile. Will grout tomorrow then put in new baseboards Wednesday. Hopefully will get everything moved back inside the room before July 4. This real life stuff is getting in the way of modeling time!
  8. CDW
    I love the WW2 Russian fighters. For whatever reasons, I never recall seeing many photos or reading about Russian WW2 aircraft until more recent times. Growing up in the 50's and 60's, all we ever saw were American, British, Japanese, and German aircraft. Never French, Italian, Russian, Polish, etc.
  9. CDW
    beautiful cockpit!
  10. CDW
    So it looks like the streaking oil painters have a slightly longer and more pointed brush. Here are my oil brushes for comparison.
  11. CDW
    Is this the one you bought? If not, that may be the difference. Hope I did not steer you wrong.
  12. CDW
    I wonder if that’s something unique to the bare metal series? I have not tried those and all others I have used have the small pointed brush.
  13. CDW
    Whether it’s stainless or brass, use a butane mini torch to heat it up. It softens it up taking the “spring” out of the metal. Tends to stay in place much easier when it’s shaped to a curved surface.
  14. CDW
    It’s okay but not grand, it gets the job done with some extra detail parts whereas Flyhawk needs hardly any except railing. Some parts look rough all on their own. Funnels are a good example of what is lacking in the plastic all by itself.
  15. CDW
    Thanks. I’m struggling a bit with the photo etch domes that go on top of the funnels. Time and patience is what I tell myself.
  16. CDW
    Thanks. Cyanoacrylate
  17. CDW
    The photo etch walkways and railings inside the tops of the two funnels.
  18. CDW
    This is one of two funnels that are wrapped in photo etch. The photo etch is stainless but looks dark after I annealed it to conform to the funnel shape. Used CA glue and masking tape to hold the etch around the funnel while the glue set up.
  19. CDW
    Just an idea of how large and extensive the photo etch frets are in this kit.
  20. CDW
    Next task is to file down raised details on superstructure and funnels.
  21. CDW
    I started by examining the the first page of the update instruction photos to see what raised details needed to be removed from the deck pieces. Here are the deck pieces compared to the instruction photos. Everything marked in red has to be removed. After a couple of hours of cutting, filing, and sanding, the deck is ready.
  22. CDW
    I'm glad you saw that chain Greg used, it's beautiful. I started to order some as well but got distracted and never did.
  23. CDW
    I wonder how accurate the rocket launchers were and what the British thought of their combat capability. Seems like maybe they were used for stationary targets not moving targets.
  24. CDW
    Yes, it's too large.
  25. CDW
    Guess it all depends on how one defines it, but yes, I have plenty of space for 1:700 scale ship models.

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