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  1. Old Collingwood
    Evening all - Day Three of my airbrush experience - after being more methodical and cleaning the plane with wet sanding, I think I got a better finish from my airbrush, just one tiny area that needs a bit more work - but I am more happy with it. OC.
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    Indeed Mark, you should see me today - mask on with my glasses and optovisor trying to stop them steaming up so I can see what I am doing. OC.
  3. Old Collingwood
    I too am finding airbrushing is a learning curve - mine has taught me it needs to be surgically clean, and the paint/primer needs to be the right consistency - looking forward to seeing more Kevin. OC.
  4. Old Collingwood
    Message to self - "Do not breath in Acrylic primer - ware a face mask it can play up ones breathing and cause a bad throat) sometimes difficult when you need both glasses and optovisor to see what you are doing. OC.
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    Not sure if these help from my old Greyhound build - OC.
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    Bill your are doing a Really fine job of you Vic, and so good you are using the wood dowels inside your masts (you will notice so much difference in tortional strength) if you can also replicate your spars as well with dowels - they to will reward your fine build and stop and sag or bend with the kit plastic spars/yardarms. OC.
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    All of that would be so cool - I have done Yeovilton FAA Musem and Cosford both Superb museums with a lot to see, and Bovington also does a live tank display in its grounds (think that sometimes included car crushing) not sure if its all year round (check their website for details mate). OC.
  8. Old Collingwood
    Indeed it was Alan, its a Fantastic Tank museum they have so many to look at there, when I went they had certain tanks open - but not all, guess they might rotate or decide what they want to open to the public. OC.
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    "sore fingers and muscle y arms" are appropriate terms for the result of the next stage. OC.
  10. Old Collingwood
    Thank you Alan. OC.
  11. Old Collingwood
    Evening all, spent more time at the bench today - first job was to wet sand areas where the first primer went down rough with splats and over sprays - actually took quite a bit off, then after wiping over I decided to give it a go again - my airbrush was now working as it should - but I am learning its about practice getting the right layer/s down without runs or build ups and also difficult placing the model - I had to sit it on a small box ontop of my rotating spray table spraying the top side first - drying with hairdryer then turning it over and spraying the underside - outcome - still some over sprays and marks from where the plane rested on the box. So some more light sanding to do and a bit of isolated spraying. Fun and games folks. No pictures as I am not happy showing it at this stage. Think I prefer my figure painting as I have more control over them with a hairy stick. OC.
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    Another interesting build Alan Thank you for including us Brits, I have actually been inside one of these at a Tank Museum over here, quite a best they are. OC.
  13. Old Collingwood
    I do like your weathering Alan - that looks Spot on to me - dont foreget the dust/mud can go on in different ways - I thought of spraying it but decided to dry brush it instead - there are tons of different ways we can achieve our weathering - I like yours mate. OC.
  14. Old Collingwood
    @king derelict Alan I have one of those spray jars with a sealed top that you can spray into to clean the airbrush, I use a mixture of warm destilled water and my cleaner usually by filling up the bowl a few times and spray into the jar till I get that sound telling me just air is running through it I then spray it against the side wall of my box booth to check if any liquid/water is stil coming out, I do that a few times. I think the culprit is the Vallejo Acrylic Surface primer as the small dried paint flecks that where in the nozzle where Black and thats the only Black thing thats been through my airbrush - wonder if I could thin the primer down a bit say 30% so it flows better even with my flow improver bottle (this gets a few drops per cup of paint) All a learning curve for me. OC.
  15. Old Collingwood
    Some excellent work there. OC.
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    Looking forward to this Kevin. OC.
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    Seen a few of these at airshows - very graceful planes. OC.
  18. Old Collingwood
    Evening all, so more bench time - I fitted the last of the small items then I reached primer time, my feeling at this time was😀 as I love using my airbrush, any way I mixed some of my primer along with some flow improver and first aimed it at the side wall of my cardboard spray booth and the airbrush was blowing bubbles with no paint coming out the nozzle, so I emptied it out and took my airbrush apart and cleaned it again, then I tried again - it was sparying agian but not at all smooth it was splattering - thank good ness it the primer and can be sanded. I decided it was best to do a full clean of the airbrush so I took every part of it out and using my cleaner I found little bits of tiny dried on paint flecks, after the deep clean I put it back together and ran some water through it - all good again more air was now running through it. Tell you what I spent about Five minutes spraying the model and about 2 hours cleaning the airbrush - they so need so much attention and not just by spraying through cleaner and water after paint - looks like it needs stripping down after every paint session. OC.
  19. Old Collingwood
    Thank you kindly Lou. OC.
  20. Old Collingwood
    Excellent work Chris - both look Amazing. OC.
  21. Old Collingwood
    Its just an off cut from a dio mat I got a couple of years a go that was attached to my Mossie dio, its got markings for a carrier on the other side - I keep my Sea Harrier on it. I got it from these fine people - https://www.coastalkits.co.uk/newstore/ OC.
  22. Old Collingwood
    Thank you Edward. OC.
  23. Old Collingwood
    As Jack said - its our yearly Bonfire Night - always a bad time for our dog as the banging really upsets her. OC.
  24. Old Collingwood
    Evening all, some more progress done in between trying to settle our little pooch who was terriefied by all the Fireworks going off around us, poor thing was trying to find somewhere to hide - we had to have the TV volume way up to try to help. So It was Flaps time - they are positionable up or down, the flap actuation arms come in Two different shapes in the kit, I decided to make them dropped - bit fiddly getting them ligned up, but after a bit of adjustment - they are on. OC.
  25. Old Collingwood
    Thank you kindly Patrick. OC.

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