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Posts posted by Old Collingwood
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Coming along really niceley - yep that little boat is cute and looks nice and detailed, I'm loving your weathering - really authentic looking.
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Evening all, so we started the day of by insisting that the "spoiled pooch" must come out on a dog walk, we decided to go a slightly longer route that takes us along an old canal then we normaly take a short cut under a train bridge and into our local park, but we were stopped in our tracks (excuse the pun) by a flooded underpass under the train line - we had no choice but to turn back. This added quite a distance to our dog walk we found a bench rersted up than went home - got in knackered.
After dinner I decided I must do abit on the Chally - first off I decided to touch in using my acrylic Nato Green tin and brush - "upsss - very flat out of the tin" it stands out against the slight satin from the tamiya rattle can, so I made the drastic step of hand painting the whole thing (hull and turret) using the flat acrylic with a brush slightly watered down. It went on not too bad but I was having to mess witgh it a lot between the coats drying as I was getting brush marks on the larger flat areas, I decided in the end that these will probably polish out when the paint is hard using a soft cloth.
No pics again as I am not happy to show it yet.
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8 hours ago, wefalck said:
Ah those bygone days in the late 1970s/early 1980s cruising open top around southern France ...
At some stage I had to replace the front wings with a good pair from the breakers, but had to match the colour - was able to do quite a decent paint job with a mohair brush ... yes, car model builders spend quite a bit of effort on their paint jobs.
Yep used to do that job with my dad - Twice we hand painted a car using tekaloid paints and big brushes out doors in the sun.
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- Egilman, Canute, Landlubber Mike and 1 other
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1 hour ago, RGL said:
IPA’s for me
Old Speckled Hen for me - its an Ale.
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26 minutes ago, lmagna said:
I usually take my dog for his walk................ I don't do it for him.
Nah mate our dog is way to spoilt for that - she sits in the armchair filing her nails, and tells us to make notes of whats going on - what dogs are out walking thier keepers - we have to give her a full rundown when we get back - then even do her some dinner - its a good life for some.😁
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11 minutes ago, Jack12477 said:
Okay, Greg is back in! Where are the other 2 Musketeers? 🙂🙃😉
Munching on Marks Popcorn last time I saw them😁
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- Edwardkenway, Jack12477, Egilman and 4 others
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Evening all, right - paintwork rectified, I made a bridge support that was stuck spanning under the turret ring from a lolly stick, I then attached Two of my large plastic clemps and this afternoon went out onto our patio and did the first of Two layers, they both went on without incident and no dust this time as I wore a new glove, I then put them aside to dry outside while we went for our dog walk, when we got back I gave them a check over and still fine and was dry enough/de gased to bring them inside.
I will be doing some detail painting and building/painting the small sections tomorrow (I hope)?
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- Edwardkenway, mtaylor, Canute and 1 other
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Superb work Chris - really top notch workmanship.
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- ChrisSC, Canute and Ryland Craze
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3 hours ago, Egilman said:
But you have to have a taste for elephant as well.....
Apperntly nice - but they do have smelly feet........😁
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- Egilman, popeye the sailor, Canute and 3 others
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4 hours ago, cog said:
Kevin, you can, it just takes time. HMAS Vendetta is quite doable, the larger ships are a different matter as there are so many repetitive actions, e.g. making 28 tripple AA guns of a 32 parts gun. Getting older has it's problems too, because you get headaches more easily from staring at those minute pieces, but if you take a break at regular intervals, again it should be doable.
Or spending most of the time on the carpet looking for those tiny parts that went "ping"
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- Edwardkenway, Egilman, mtaylor and 2 others
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Thats better - I can see them now - Superb detail.
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- popeye the sailor, channell and Canute
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On 2/14/2021 at 10:52 PM, Edwardkenway said:
I totally missed this one Tim, abject apologies, it's a lovely little schooner 🙂
Same as Edward - sincerley sorry I missed your build log on this - atleast I have caught it now - loverly work indeed mate.
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- VTHokiEE and Edwardkenway
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Same with me - just the links but no pics.
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HMS Warspite by Lt. Biggles - Academy - 1/350 - Plastic - MK1 detail up set
in - Kit build logs for subjects built from 1901 - Present Day
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"Hey - thats the ticket" looking Nice........those should look Really nice under the camo, dont forget the squared raised peice of armour reinforcement at the top of the bow underneath the Fairleads - should come down about 8-9feet from the deck and be about 5/6feet wide.
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