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  1. AJohnson
    Hey Brian, I've just checked and although @Timmo is still active, he does not appear to be following his own build log, so might not have spotted your questions, maybe try PMing him, be a shame for you to miss out on some valuable input from him. Beautiful build and great presentation!
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    Nice save with making your own pewter parts! Good idea leaving them off until later, I wish I had done that with my Bounty! 😣
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    Congratulations, a really nice looking model! 👏
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    Small update probably the last before the "reveal" - Added the undercarriage, which was a pig to get in and also added the Torpedo/bomb bay door and the Torpedo itself. I've also started a little bit of weathering, but not going mad as 1/72 scale models can look pretty "scruffy" if overdone. Remaining tasks are adding the small glazed nose turret, three little aerials, finish the matt varnish, props and lastly the nerve wracking job of peeling back all the glazing masks to hopefully find a clear cockpit! Thanks for the likes and comments guys! 😁
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    Oh! Well on second thoughts, down the pub it is! 🍻
  6. AJohnson
    Very nice indeed 👏, feeling a bit seasick already looking at that scene! 🤢 pass the bucket!
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    I'll go fetch the Admiral's knitting needles! - Woolie jumper for Winter Anyone? 😆
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    Many years ago I had the Tamiya 1/48 version which was pretty basic. The after market parts will lift your build to a different level, nicely painted engine! 👏
  9. AJohnson
    Good to see you back working on the Tennessee Keith, really looking smart! 👍
  10. AJohnson
    Great work Graham, the extra details you are adding are making all the difference. 👏
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    Next batch of pictures are on the airbrushed painting done this weekend. I used "Colourcoats" by Sovereign Paints from here in the UK, I particularly like their Dark Earth / Dark Green, that to my eyes looks pretty close to the RAF camouflage colours. They are enamels, but I have learned to use lower pressures when painting and not blast high pressure aerosols all over the place and into my lungs, so it not that unpleasant and I have plenty of ventilation. A note on the masking, I tend to use paper cut outs that emulates how many (but not all) British aircraft were painted (using large fibre reinforced rubber mats). I have tried to use rolled blu-tack "snakes" to demark the camouflage patterns, but I found it hard to follow the patterns properly and the "feathering" too pronounced, particularly for 1/72 & 1/48 scale aircraft. Sources I have come across state that the ministry standard for even "freehand" spray painted aircraft was a 0.5 inch wide demarcations, so that at 1/72 that would look pretty much a hard line, not fuzzy. My paper masks are held down with little dots of blu-tack to stop the paper flapping about when using the airbrush; the trick with these little dots is patience and let the paint harden before plucking them off with a larger ball of blu-tack, they tend to leave no marks if clean. Thanks for looking in and the likes and stories/memories! 😁
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    Bulk of the building side of thing about done now. I did buy a set of canopy paint masks for this model. If I'm doing an aircraft with a simple canopy, then I will make my own masks to save a few pennies, but with these "Glasshouse" type canopies with loads a frames it seems a bit of a false economy and usually the results are better also. There was a bit of sanding and filling to do once the first undercoat went on, mostly around the cockpit windows and the rear turret fairing, which I needed to be careful with. Then I pre-shaded the panel lines prior to painting proper.
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    That's a nice looking Sabre, really coming together now with the Decals going on.! 👍
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    Oh , that must have been epic! I am lucky that Knaresborough is on the flight path for the BBMF Lancaster when she goes north each flying display season. Seen her twice this year, once almost overhead! 😀
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    The more I see the, more I want Micheal Caine and Robert Shaw as my wing men! Those naughty Yellow Nose’s! (Apologies to non BB film fan’s!)
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    Alan, absolutely no apologies needed, your mention of Sunderland bomb racks was an excuse to launch into more reminiscing! 🤣. The new Airfix Lancaster’s are good, I have built a merlin one and want to build a Mk. II (radial Hercules version) to honour the Canadians who flew from a local airbase at Linton-on-Ouse. Please all dive in with the stories, I think the “non-ship” sub-culture of MSW is one of the more relaxed sections. 😀
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    That's what would be my undoing, I'm forever holding things on kits that result in broken/bent/squashed bit! 😏
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    You mean these!? - And no mine don't move either! 😂 This is probably one of the oldest kits in my collection, you can tell as the white has yellowed somewhat. I built it for my late father in law decades ago before the admiral and me were married. There is a little Black Cat I painted on the nose takes a little explaining... Ron was from Sunderland and was a fanatical Sunderland AFC supporter (Football) Their mascot/nickname is the "Black Cats" and their colours are Red, white & Black, so that's why they are on the nose when I gifted him it. When I presented it to him I said "Here Ron, here's a kit that reminds me of you, its a SHORT(s) Sunderland!" - He was about 5'3" - fortunately he took that in good spirits and even mentioned in in his speech at our wedding. 😆 I have now been given it back to be the custodian of, like you say Alan these little bits of wood and plastic we build contain many great memories... 😁
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    Hi Chris, I’ve spotted them all, but only by comparing to my 1/24 Airfix version. Do you have any tips on how you get the card parts to “dome” and do you fill the void underneath each part at all, to stop them crushing flat again?
  20. AJohnson
    Hola! Welcome to MSW!
  21. AJohnson
    Some small detail parts bringing the build up to date. The "R2D2" looking rear gunner's turret and the "Tin fish" that spoiled Gneisenau's day. Interestingly the two machine guns in the rear turret are mounted with their axis at 90deg. to each other, I assume so they could be mounted closer together to save space. The ammo drums are flat disc types. I'm currently on with filling/sanding the final assembly and priming ready for painting, I will update more when I get chance to download the pictures. Thanks for looking in and the comments/likes. 😄
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    Engine update! I really enjoyed these mini kits, I painted the parts on the sprue first and assembled, I think adequate detail for the scale and so far the spindles the props go on still turn, so you can blow the props around - always an sense of achievement as a kid if you could build an Airfix and the props turned! There was always 'degrees' in judging this as a kid, the crème de la crème were the props that easily/freely turned if you blew on them, then there were the ones that moved a bit when you blew on them, then the ones you had to push with a finger as they were stiff, followed by the really tight ones that might just snap off if you tried it too much and then finally (the majority) the solid ones that would not budge because you managed to glue the whole lot together! 😂 - Happy days! 😁
  23. AJohnson
    Thank you Ron for going into such detail for your sail construction technique. Fascinating reading and definitely got me thinking on how to try that on my builds. 👏 Your work is very neat, your Camilla is looking stunning already with the sails test fitted.
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    They are a world away from the ones I used to build as a kid back in the 70's-early 80's. 😆 I have since bought a few of the old mould kits from fleabay for old times sake and they aren't worth building, but I just get them for the lovely box top artwork by the likes of Roy Cross. Something I think the box tops of US-Airfix kits lacked in the 1980's I have seen, because the box top 'had' to show the kit contents, not sure if this is still the case? Must be something to do with customer protection/rights? The new artwork on the current catalogue is more in the old style, but obviously digital/cgi. 🤖
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    Welcome to MSW

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