Richmond

Looks good - that's a lot of decals and stencils  - I noticed Plasmo used a hair dryer to assist in decal conformance on a very tricky area on one of the motorcycles he was building  - I think there is a link on my Youtube channel. Will you be doing any panel washes?

Thank you for the clarification - wish I had seen this before I stuffed up my trawler build and had to purchase another kit! Irrespective as CDW remarks this seems a delicate operation requiring great skill.

Thanks - 'Ground' seems you are more than drilling - if so what are using to grind? as if you used drill bits to complete wouldn't the finish be uneven?

On another model I really struggled with cutting out rectangular windows in that I couldn't get something small enough to sand the edges. May I ask how did you achieve this? 

Looking really good, fantastic work, and great photography as well.

Thanks Slog -for a very detailed and interesting log and fine photography as well. 

One thing I noticed when placing Eduard pre-coloured PE onto my spitfire build was there was a problem using CA in that it tended to attack the paint maybe I just wasn't being careful enough.

Anyway after some research I have since gone over to micro crystal clear for attaching the PE - not sure if this will be robust enough over time. 

Love the console. Your dry brushing doesn't look bad to me - maybe a wash will darken it down if you are not happy with it?

Look forward to more

By the way I have located some links to other builds over at Scalemates 

https://www.scalemates.com/kits/eduard-11110-crusader--1067628

Jo - Chuck talks in detail about sanding frames in his logs - I think he uses a black marker or pencil which marks off areas to be sanded and not be sanded 

Love this guys videos

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG0ZCl2VfG9PcCJyucWJR3w

Another 'beginner' video - as step up from the first one I posted

This seems to be a very 'simplistic' painting method using dry brushing and washes.

Looking at this I think it will enable some new figure painters to do something reasonable - say picking out a part of the clothing and paint the 3 different coats to it - base, dry brush and wash all using the same base toned and diluted as required to achieve the light and shadow of the clothing item .

John - thank you for opening this topic up - I will post some further links as I work may way through them

ABANDONED

Dennis

This may be of interest

https://www.scalemates.com/profiles/mate.php?id=15819&p=albums&album=48489

Jo for the planking you may wish to have a look one Chucks builds maybe the one currently sitting in the group projects - he is very detailed with his explanations. Each ship is different but I find his explanations very good especially on planking.

How did you achieve the brass / black toning?

- apologies if I missed an explanation earlier.

Jo I recently built a large book case in pine recently and had to do a lot of staining - as it was a softwood I sanded and primed the wood before I stained which prevented the blotching effect. 

6 hours ago, CDW said:

It's their product number 87140. 

Essentially, it's a turpentine and dark ochre oil mix.  

 

(I should have said "burnt umber" mix)

Ahhh - you threw with wash - I am aware of their panel line accents -  I have only seen these used within panel lines using capillary action not as a panel wash per se.

I never knew Tamiya did a wash - what is the Tamiya product code?

6 hours ago, CDW said:

I'm going to be using inks and water colors (pencil water colors) to reproduce the plywood look of the Albatros airframe. I've seen master modelers do it and it looks quite convincing. Me?, who knows how it will come out but I'm going to give it a try anyway.

I'll first be laying down a primer coat of Tamiya flat white (I already did that tonight and let it dry), then the inks go on second with some fancy brush work, some stray water color pencil, then Tamiya clear yellow, then clear orange, then regular clear. Phew! 

I have seen this done as well  - look forward to see how it works out for you. I was thinking of trying out the wood grain stencils. Also there are decal options from Uschi and SWS

Really like the dry brush effect . I tried this for the first time yesterday on a Spitfire I am doing and it seemed a bit over done - however this looks perfect.

43 minutes ago, CDW said:

Oh no! Say it ain't so. I can't look...my budget is busted as it is for the rest of this month, and I won't spend any money on a credit card. For us in the USA, mid April is the filing deadline for our federal taxes and income tax return. Mine is due. 

Credit cards are the bane of man's existence - I ripped mine up when I was about 19 (many years ago)  

I will not get into my view of tax 

6 hours ago, CDW said:

Nice! I just ordered the Felixstowe and Hansa-Brandenburg combo. Squadron was offering a 25% discount on anything from their catalog and I couldn't resist. It's rare to ever find Wingnut Wings kits at a discount.

The Wingnut Wings Website https://shop.wingnutwings.com/ has massive discounts (many greater than the 25% you quote) for the whole of April while stocks last if you buy direct.

Some of the really expensive models such as the Felixstowe are now more reasonably priced.  I was tempted but I have 2 WNW in my stash and I want to keep to my strict annual budget and besides my stash is getting too big

Fantastic detail

Wonderful build

Fantastic work and fantastic photographs

Excellent work.

Would love to see someone tackle a water diorama in a build log.