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It sure is fun watching you turn this old model into something remarkable. A real pleasure to see.

Walmart has it. Like Chris said, it's a waterproof glue with a flexible bond that dries completely clear. I believe it's a form of contact cement and works well as household use, particularly well when repairing a cracked or broken ceramic item where other glues don't work so well. Bonds well to just about anything I have tried using it on. Here's what it looks like:

Today I made a trip to my local hobby paint supplier for a few things I wanted to try out on the Triumph project, some other items for future projects, and stock replacement. Spray Gunner is a huge mail order warehouse for hobby paints, airbrushes, compressors, and related supplies. For those who haven't tried them out, you will be pleasantly surprised with the stock inventory and excellent service you'll get from Spray Gunner. Fast and efficient mail order. For me, the warehouse is only 20 minutes away and sometimes I go there direct if I'm going to be in the area anyway. In the front row on the far left is a green filter liquid. This is what I plan to use to "lighten up" the black-green base paint on the Triumph. In the middle of the back row is solvent 110. That product is used to wipe down the green filter after it's dry as it is an enamel based product. The super metallic paints are buff-able and a replacement for the old metalizer paints that were once sold by Testors. Mr,. Color leveling thinner is also pictured on the back row and is something I frequently mention using to reduce Tamiya and Mr. Color paints for air brushing. Typical water-based reducers will not work with Tamiya or Mr. Color paints. There are other paints that work well with this reducer, such as the AK line of paints. As you might imagine from the Japanese and RAF color sets, I have some Japanese and RAF subjects as future projects. 🙂

I like the looks of your B-17 a lot. Very nice indeed.

No problem at all with the tubing fit here, unlike what we've experienced with other kits. I'm gluing the tubing to the pins with that E6000 glue. Works like a charm.

Been a long long time since I heard that name, Matchless. Totally forgot about the Matchless.

What a cool project, Denis! Don't know how I managed to miss this until now. Glad I found your project.

Steps 6 and 7. The "FS" number called for in the instructions equates to Tamiya Black-Green and that's what I'm using, along with Mr.Color leveling thinner. In the end, a dry brushing with a lighter shade of green will be used to lighten the whole thing us just a bit. The black-green should work well to accent the shadows.

Pictured here is the remainder of step 2, then the whole of steps 3, 4, and 5.

Thanks Patrick. I now realize they had a motorcycle helmet and it looks like the one in our model kit is right on the money. Up until now, I only had seen the Brodie helmets that are so distinctive in their look, and that's what threw me off when I saw the kit helmet.

That looks really nice, Mike.

Your Triumph came out super nice! Looks like the real thing. Something I was thinking about last night and your model reminded me of it...the helmet carried on the back of the motorcycle does not appear to be a standard British issue, or was it?

Very nicely executed technique with that black monofilament. In all my years around fishing, I don't recall ever seeing black monofilament. Is it hard to find?

1:9 scale is an Italian thing. Back in the 70's, a company called ESCI came out with a series of WW2 service motorcycles, this Triumph being one of them. In addition, there were Harley Davidson's, BMW's, Zundap's, and even a Kettenkrad. Since then, several other companies have re-released these iconic machines. Also, there is an Italian company called Protar who produce 1:9 scale street and racing motorcycles.

Thanks Denis. What's odd to me is that Eduard provided a stencil sheet/s in the Big Ed photo etch set, but it was only to mask the wheels. Why they didn't provide a mask for the camouflage seemed disappointing. If i had it to do all over again, I would save the money for the photo etch and buy a good reference book instead. The Trumpeter kit has about all the detail one needs IMHO.

Here we go with step 1 and part of step 2, with assembly of the engine. Colors are Tamiya gloss black reduced with Mr Color leveling thinner, and AK Extreme Metal flat aluminum. Simple and straight forward.

Thanks OC. I think that's a little later model Triumph than my kit version. Notice that the front forks on the reference photo are hydraulic where the kit version are the "springer" forks. Hydraulic front forks were a later development. The colors look like what the kit calls for and yes, that does help quite a bit. I believe that is the exact same engine and frame based on a cursory look at it.

For my next project, I'll be building the WW2 vintage Triumph 3 HW motorcycle and taking a break from the railroad genre. At the start of WW2, Great Britain did not have all the technical equipment needed for such a conflict, therefore a lot of vehicles were ordered urgently. Motorcycles, mainly used by the well known DR "dispatch riders" for communication between different units, were converted from civilian bikes with small changes, like military colors and the addition of frames for canvas bags. Triumph proposed in short time the model 3 HW, based on the civilian Tiger 80, with an overhead valve engine and parallel forks. This model served on all fronts where the British Armed Forces fought, such as Africa, Europe and Asia. After WW2 these motorcycles were delivered to many other nations such as Italy and Greece where the Triumph served for a long time thanks to their reliability and robustness. Following are the instruction pages and a photo of the parts bag inside the box. I plan to finish mine as a "Factory Fresh Model" as seen on the upper left of the next-to-last photo page.

Thanks OC.

Thank you for looking in and the kind comments. It will eventually be based on rails and displayed with a Leopold rail gun and an anti aircraft gondola. Lots more construction to do.

Steps 4 and 5 of the coal tender With steps 4 and 5 complete, all that's left are decals and some weathering of the coal tender. I'll get some decals and weathering in place, then present some final pictures of the locomotive and tender combination.

Not a heck of a lot to report, but I did apply the camouflage pattern to the coal tender. I like the Trumpeter attention to detail as can be seen in the coal tender suspension and brake system.

I'll have to research it as I really don't know. I've seen illustrations of one quad mount, but maybe that's not accurate? The devil is always in the details.

Less than 30 minutes from Denis is Scale Hobbyist, one of the best online hobby shops on the planet, in Nashua New Hampshire. They are mail order only though. I order from them all the time and the products get here to me in Florida F-A-S-T. Great prices, great selection, excellent customer service.

1st rate work Dan, Really nice.