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Greg, You lucky man (temperature wise) Coming week we will see 5 C as high temperature, after Wednesday it won't be positive at all ... Robin, Thanks for sharing. I don't have the space within the house to spray, at least, it isn't practical. What cans do you use for primer? Cheers Carl
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That's a lovely job Grant. If ever I need to make a wheel, I'll know where to lookup the howto. Although, I wonder if I will ever get it half as good as yours ... Cheers
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You are quite right to take your time with hull planking Rexy. It will define how you, and others around you, will experience the end result. It sounds you do not like to show photographs of your process, like a heavy obligation pressing on your shoulders ... So far your build looks very promising. Steady as she goes! Cheers
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Morning Greg, I can imagine your head isn't looking forward to the double and single gun "compilations". I'm on the singles but it's a slow process. It is good to switch, and the airbrush is a new challenge, a fun one. there are numerous ways to improve on yourself. Presently I can't do anything with it. It's to cold and humid where I spray. In that respect downunder is a better place for airbrush. You'll enjoy that infinity. It realy is a pleasure to work with. Cheers
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Quite a row of new recrutes! You are ever so right. When you look closely at them you see all kinds of miniscule misalignments (especially when you made the part yourself), but with the naked eye, at a normal viewing distance ... not visible at all. Very impressive sight!!!
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Hello Buck, Welcome aboard! You could send that firy overseer to have her get some experience with the bling, bling. Good on her resume
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That's some marvelous crisp detail you got there. She starts to look like the real thing, not so much a model with that kind of detail Cheers
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22 more chances to get it right Greg. When I look at it without macro, it seems alright. When you get in close (macro/magnifier) suddenly it doesn't look that well anymore. The main problems are the delicacy of the material and the size (glad I'm not at 1/700) The first requires careful manipulation (bending it the wrong way initially makes you end up with a broken part - been there, done that), the latter making it hard to handle. I have to bend a 7mm long 3mm wide piece lengthwise ... doesn't leave much room for pliers/tweezers ... a whole new experience I might add How on earth can you tap any assembly at that size ...?
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Lemme tell ya popeye ... if you ever goin' to do sumthin' with small brass part'cles ... you'd better put them on mate ...
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Woodworm wood be a nice alternative for the name
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That looks very promising, Nils. I presume you will looking far ahead each time you take another step. Like with those worm drills
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Slog, I used insta-cure+ from Bob Smith Institute ( http://www.bsi-inc.com/hobby/hobby.html ) I've got both the insta-cure (blue bottle), and insta-cure+ (purple). The + is somewhat thicker which I found, worked better on those large sheets of brass ( enormous sheets ) I might have a try at the IC-Gel or the maxi-cure for larger area's. I need to get them from England (ebay), as they are not available in the Netherlands. You might get it from ebay.com.au. Cheers
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I'll send someone up with it, Piet. Any other requests your highness? Good to see you back at the building sites. Sit back and relax, it's going to take time these fuzzy guns I had a first piece that got away ... a triangular part 1 x 1.5 mm, can't find the bl**** thing anywhere ................. well, have to do without it .. the other three will do Cheers
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Hello Nigel, Last year August I bought these I've been working with the latter one on the turrets and the gun. It makes life a lot easier on the eyes. At least I do not get headaches!! Cheers
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Thanks Pat Which keyboards was that OC ... the one from your build log ... Right this is one evening of work - at least part of the evening ... 24 more to go, hope the next ones go a little faster ...
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My hands are in spasm, my eyes are cross sighted, and those half mm pieces won't stick to where I want them to stick ... Masochism is a weak expression to say what I'm going through!! You know ice speedway ... I feel like the ice
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Jason! You must have been busy ... and right now I can say you didn't miss it. Maybe a bit tarded, but present and accounted for Cheers
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As promised ... Yesterday's harvest Today I started on some other detail. Greg has done something likewise (tripple guns) It seems he is working on what I start with now. 25 single 25mm guns. At a scale of 1/350 the parts look a bit like this (get your magnifiers out) Wish me luck in keeping all parts on the table top ...
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Thanks, I'll have a go at it. Gave it a try, and it works well! The only downside is ... I can't sniff acetone anymore
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