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Take a look here and you can see all of the details Mark. -
It is certainly larger, but to be honest I see little difference in quality over your build and display, certainly not $14K worth. At least when looking from an on line aspect. I think that if you were using a professional studio and lighting like they are then the differences would be even less pronounced.
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Good whisky, scotch, brandy, and even rum. In that environment any would do, but you would need the smoking jacket as well. If you are going to go for the cigar, then why not just break out the pipe? My father used to smoke an occasional pipe in the evenings when I was a child. Sometimes the tobacco he used was quite aromatic.
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You are probably right. Here are a few more possibilities for masking Denis. Not as expensive as the ones OC posted and different than Craig's https://www.eduard.com/Eduard/B-17F-1-72-1-1.html https://www.ebay.com/itm/Eduard-1-72-B-17F-Flying-Fortress-Pintura-Mascara-CX333/333392576326?hash=item4d9fbeff46:g:vmsAAOSwE91dx6cT They are still overseas though.
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Wow! The library is becoming quite detailed and quite comfortable. Don't forget the glass of 100 year old brandy for those of us who don't smoke.
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We ALL are!!😈
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Congratulations Yves This is one of the more impressive modeling renditions I have seen in a long time. The painting is the perfect display choice.
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You're evil Jack!
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SBD-3 Dauntless 1:48 Hasegawa - Edwardkenway-FINISHED
lmagna replied to Edwardkenway's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Let us know how your correspondence with Hasegawa goes. I hope it works out quickly. Like Craig's Avenger, I have always liked the Dauntless. A very effective platform in spite it's more advanced age and certainly a more petite and graceful looking plane. -
I need to quit stopping in here Craig Every time I do it seems to thin my wallet a little more. My wife is beginning to think I have a mistress! All of these high tek models and after market stuff seem to require a lot of high tek stuff to make the best use of them!
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Yeah one of those necessities of life after 65! I finally got a new set this last year, after something like seven or ten years or something, and I HATE them. I started hating them when the lady told me how much they were going to cost, and it has been going on ever since. They function OK I suppose. I only really need them for reading comfortably. I can even do that OK without them but it tires me out long before I get the stuff read that I want. Not that good for TV and I just take them off altogether on the rare trips to the movies. My wife is the TV person and cannot function without it on. I could live just fine without even owning one! But books, and now to include electronic books, that is a different matter. I have them stuffed in unbelievable places. I always wanted a real library like rich houses have in the Victorian movies, where you could go to the proper shelf and pull out the perfect book for the subject you were interested in at that moment.
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B-25J Mitchell by Tom E - Revell - 1:48 Scale - PLASTIC
lmagna replied to Tom E's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
Your'e a braver man than I Tom E. When I took the same plunge a few months ago, all I thought I could justify buying at the beginning stage was a $30 gun/pump. The gun looks like the clone in your first picture, but the pump is a tiny thing that sits on the bench, or in my case the table. So far it is doing everything asked of it But I am probably not experienced enough to strain it's probable limited abilities. I will be certain to hang out here and learn . -
Only a half an hour? You must be a much faster reader than I am Ken! But then while almost everything keeps me off of the streets, nothing keeps me out of trouble! I'm married so it is just a state of being anymore.
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Looking like things are moving along Mark. I have heard the same as OC. Apply a gloss coat then decals using Micro Sol & Microset. Then clear coat either dull or gloss and then your final dull or satin coat. BUT I am fairly certain those instructions were intended for people using an airbrush. I really hope Craig has some answers for you. I think I solved my problem with my Huey interior. All it took was more money. I hope you have better luck.
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Ours were even simpler. The only national marking was "UNITED STATES ARMY" on the tail boom and aircraft number on the tail rotor support. I can get away with either black or yellow, or even black and yellow numbers and that is about it. Many but not all had some kind of nose art usually the unit black jack crest, a few even had more personal additions like names or artwork put on by the pilots or crew. I would like to do some of that with mine. Face it, the stuff we flew in was pretty much just plain Jane functional.
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I looked up the two colors by number and the 34102 is OD and the 16440 is gloss Gull Gray. Am I doing something wrong? If your aircraft were like ours no two had the exact same color of OD anyway. Even some of the parts like doors and things were a slightly different color sometimes for the Hueys.
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See you can improve someone else's build. I would have never thought of painting the interior frame color from the outside! My Huey has much the same design in that the frame is clear and part of the windscreen. I was wondering how hard it was going to be to do the inside gray and the outside black. Now I know. Each picture you are taking of this plane makes it look more massive than the one before.
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Nice work Mark. It's nice to see at least one tooth bared and visible. What brand/type/name of OD are you using? It looks nice in the close-ups.
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Just what I need, another model car in my stash! Don't even think of going the yellow/black. The brown/tan has FAR more class and is much more distinguished.
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It was like that when as a teen when I first started driving. I lived in central California in the Redwoods. Nights could get pretty dark, especially in the rain! On the other hand on full moon nights when it was clear we used to try and see how far we could drive on the mountain roads with our lights turned off. Some nights when we did not come across other cars we could go quite far.
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I suspect the lights we do have are also sodium vapor as cities don't like high electrical bills. I could be wrong but as I said we don't really have that many street lights compared to some cities.
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I suspect that by 1934 most of the city lights in England and Europe where this car was primarily sold had switched to electric lighting. But even then, If it was anything like my street where several of the houses were built just prior to the turn of the century and the rest just after, there were not that many street lights. My block does not have even one street light. Strangely enough though we do have an alley light, though it is partly covered by the 100+ year old tree in my back yard and does not cast all that much light up or down the alley.
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It's interesting that you are going to go with the tan and chocolate brown coloring of the box top rather than the yellow/black of the kit. Yesterday while doing some chores and running around town, my attention was drawn to what must have been a restored VW Bug with that exact same color scheme. I was impressed enough to point it out to my wife. She was not impressed at all. It looked very refined and high end even on a Bug. It should really look good on a Mercedes.
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Turned out really nice Jack. I still like the Future coat over the model plastic to give a painted look. Did you ever think that back in those days many streets outside of major metropolitan cities were possibly not lit at all, and certainly not roads between towns and cities. It could probably get pretty dark out on a rainy night!
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What are you doing eating your dog's breakfast Denis. That's not very nice of you!
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