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    Today's effort ... if you can call it that ... first I made rigging rings for the rear funnel, when I saw them I knew I had to go smaller ... what I made were the shackles of the anchor chain for a Yamato class battleship! So I tried my hand at something smaller ... Some deck furniture ... cosey chairs to watch the paravanes splashing round ... minor touch up to do if you look well ...
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    Denis, Add some white to make it more "in scale", or mist it over with very diluted white, once you've applied it. You are going good. Hope your "super structure" isn't glued to the deck ... Keep these structures off, it will be so much easier when painting/spraying (really!)
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    I came across a site with a lot of interesting subjects, they also had drawings of which this one might be of interest to you: Corsaire - French Navy.pdf
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    In all honesty, I'd rather have the "Eduard improved" ones. To me you are doing the right thing. The shields behind the seats on the kit supplied ones are quite rough and heavy. I prefere the unbearable lightness of brass the detail up gives ... You want amazing trouble ... try the tripple AA guns on Yamato (RGL's build) or Musashi (my build) from either Pontos or Fly Hawk ... in fact any of the AA type guns on those builds are great fun Looking good KP
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    You passed me by RGL. I'm waiting on snail mail to arrive ... where is roadrunner when you need him ... I knw this was going to happen. A lot of silence at the start, not much to show and ... BOOM ... there is ship in full colour, with all the frills and bells available. Looks very sharp though. I would say: As per your usual! MArk, thanks for that remark on the aft gun turret ... I'll have another look at the plans ... it really makes that gun rather uselaess, which I cannot blieve to be the case ...
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    Marcus, I'm living in a 1920 build house, lots of mills even predate this one, the stone's facia is height 2" (5cm) width 8 3/8" (21cm) those are not present day standard sizes. When I look at the list that coincides. So It just depends on where you place you mill geographically ...
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    And he's off ... glue the blukhead in backwards ... what are you mate ... doing that is ... hmmm, I'm looking forward t your splashing paint all over the desk ... you'll need some extra masking sheets to work that way, tape won't be enough.
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    Denis, this may be of interest to you still, for us a bit late, and this post also
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    These speak for themselves ... Am working on the "Oliver" funnel, Hardy doesn't need quite so much attention ... must be the girth
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    Bigger pictures OC ? ... they are 1920x1280px maybe just click on them ... Greg she's turning out rather dressed up, and ready to go. How do you apply pastels on such a relatively small surface... medium, small sized soft or hard brush?
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    Thanks for pointing that out Sam, the first to mention that "little" detail which makes it more interesting ... (Chaos is in small things?) Had another look at the finished diorama ... marvelous Piet...
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    No jasta, just trying out my hand at the paint. I've got a few more in this size. So I can try some more. I would like to make the complete set of Jasta II ... a mere 30 plains ... I'm not yet certain about the scale 1/24 or 1/72 Nice paint ... apitty postage will make it a bit expensive ...
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    Off to a distractionless start ... Glad to see you at it Denis ... it got a bit lonesome ... paint ... I do "mix" enamels and acrylics ... the Dr 1 I'm at has Tamiya rattle can primer. On top of that is at the bottom Humbrol 49 (pale sky or whatever it's called), the upper and sides Humbrol 41 gloss (Ivory/off white), on top of that again Tamiya, brownish, and green. On top of that Vallejo, and some more tamiya and vallejo ...You do need to take into account if you are going to use an ordinairy brush (not air) you will mix the acrylic colours, which is what I intended to happen. So far for the brand and paint type mixins Hope to see you regularly
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    Easy for you to say with such a stunning vocabulairy! O so true ... fortunately I didn't do any plastic line cutting on the Dr I ... Deck furniture demands some preparations ... a lot of sprue bits to file off ... I got myself a new cutter for the plastic parts, this time a Tamiya, the older one started to wobble. Curious as to how long this one will remain in good working condition (no I didn't cut brass with the old one)
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    You could make it resemble stones ... the bottom part
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    They'll do me just fine Jose. You show us what you've got in your own way, we'll just have to enjoy the view .... well done
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    Must have taken you a while, very nicely done Thomas. You set yourself a real endurance challenge ...
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    I cut the plastic on Vendetta, and didn't find it to hard ... You jinxed me ... vallejo air clogged my airbrush!!! Fortunately I was only spraying the white patches on the Dr. 1's lower and upper wings, but still, very annoying, very much so!!
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    I'm making a tool to get the hull plating scratched onto it. After that, airbrushing the superstructure which is fixed to the deck, then adding parts of the wooden deck which will be impossible to add once the deck is fitted, subsequently mounting the decks to the hull, more masking and painting the hull ... wish I bought the new tool version, but that, my friend, is watching the cow in the hiney, as we say up here. Sorry, G class ... got it at not even half the price of this one ... you should know it, for you got the PE for it from white ensign models ...
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    Very nice, it may be small, but it has quite some detail to it ...
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    Or it's the climate. Hope the hull is big enough to keep you busy for a while. You'll be running out of space soon, if you continue with this pace. Besides, you may have complied to wifey's no-pub demand, I am most certain, you cannot fill up the house with models, grunged or not ... By the way, why don't you make your own hull, vacuum pulled, and than grunge that one, it will keep you busy for a while, so we can catch up with you ... North Star, bridge furniture, like a lazy couch for the cap'n, rocking chair for the bosun, slings for the monkeys, you know, the regular stuff ... I've got a G-type destroyer 1/350 coming in ... should arrive this week, another smallish build, trying to get my hand around details ... fortunately the Fokker Dr 1, it fits the palm of my hand, is hughe so that compensates.
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    Odd, I used my H&S with Vallejo without that problem. I do have a problem with their primer on plastic. It just doesn't adhere to it. Masking will rip it of as if it hasn't bonded ... I now use Tamiya for that, and I do not have any problems anymore. Denis, For the hull I used Valleyo AIr fire red 71.084 with a few drops of white, could have added a few more, however, if you'll overspray, thin the red down, and follow gregs lead in layers. The thinning makes the primer shine through, as you'll probably know, useful if you use a light or medium grey primer. Normally I would use dark grey or black primer beneath red or dark green colours, but I need to readjust with airbrushing, just like I am used to mixing colours - like with painting with gouache, which isn't always necessary or can even work against you when using an airbrush. The grey is Tamiya sky grey XF-19 RGL, Looking like a well used ship, luckily I do not have a lot of your detail ... at least, it only seems that way ... I found some cable reals PE in my drawer with lost items for 1/700 which I will use to replace the one a midships. The ones from Musashi are far to big. Nearly ready with the steam winches used to tow the paravanes (drawing post #1) a missing item in the kit. Got informed Yesterday some resin parts I ordered, are finally shipped, took them about a month to tell those items were OOS, I can sit and wait for the postman to ring twice ... P.s. I think Lou is right, Greg, you are way past emulating ...
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    You could just settle for an optivisor
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    That's easy, my painting is far less elaborate than yours

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