Old Collingwood

3 hours ago, king derelict said:

All Best Wishes for Christmas 

alan

Thank  you  Alan.

OC.

3 hours ago, Canute said:

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, OC.

Thanks  Ken.

OC.

3 hours ago, CDW said:

Merry Christmas OC

Thank you   kindly.

OC.

Just a  quick visit to wish Everyone  Happy Holidays   - Happy Chrsitmas,   hope  Every one  has a   great time.

OC.

Hi buddy,  glad  your back  safe and well  -  sorry  to hear  about  your  super  flu,   vit  c  d  zinc   etc   is  what   you need   to  boost the  immune  system,  love  what  you  picked  up   used  to  love  Hermes  missed seing her  at  Pompy   when I went there  for  the  Navy Days  show   way back when.

Take care  of your self  hope  you have a  great chrsitmas  mate.

OC.

Lovely work Mike  -  thats  some great  improvements  going on there,  I  once built  the  Airfix  600 scale  Graf Spee  many many years  ago.

OC.

She is  coming on a  treat  Greg   -  some  lovely  detail work mate.

OC.

Take it easy   Alan   -  safe travels  my friend.

OC.

17 hours ago, ccoyle said:

I'm working on the lower wing -- nothing exciting enough to warrant a picture -- but I thought I'd share a funny story about one of the agonies of being a card modeler. This year, just as I have done many times for past Christmases and birthdays, I put some card models on my wish list. And today, nine days before Christmas, my wife informed me that the family is "having some trouble" ordering stuff on my wish list -- I knew instantly what kind of "trouble" they were having, and this even after I spelled out in painful detail exactly which sites to visit and how to make purchases at them. To no avail -- it looks as if this year I will once again be ordering my own Christmas presents and receiving them well after Christmas. The family simply cannot get past the Great Wall of Polish eCommerce. Oh, well! Good thing I am used to this by now. 😅

We  are  not  doing Christmas  this  year  so  guess  it takes  this  problem out of  the  equation.

OC.

Same  from me  Craig.

OC.

Excelllent  work  Harry   she has  come out  a   real beauty.

OC.

Richard  just following on from your  glue  woes  -  could  you not use  Revell  Pro  glue its the  one  in the  shaped  Yellow and Blue bottles  that  sit on their  bottoms  and have a  metal  needle  for their applicator,  they  are  very good  and if the  needle  blocks  easy to clean  with  fine  wire.

OC.

Looking forward  to following this  very fine  kit, I will  bring my  chair  and  nibbles,   these ships  remind me of  the  British  Navys  past advanced  Destroyer  HMS Bristol,  she  was  our  days  visit  ship   when  I   spent a week  with the  Navy  for   work experience as a  teenager.

OC.

Is it  Airfix   re  tooling  jobby?   if it is  then I imagine  it will   build  really well.

OC.

Really liking what you are  doing Richard   -  looking very  realistic  - loving the  scenery.

OC.

I'm here  too  Chris.

OC.

Firstly  -  have a  Great  vacation  (yes  rap up  warm and  dry).

Now   for  your  figures  -  they are looking  really good  especially  considering the  scale   10mm       I would  try  a  light wash  over   with  either  of the   Army Painter  Acrylic  washes  or even the  Citadel Shade  Agrax Earthshade,  they are so thin  that they can be  brushed  over  and  any areas of excess  can just  be  brushed off  with  a  clean brush  -  you will  be  supprissed  how well  they  bring out  the details.

OC.

2 hours ago, Keith_W said:

I was told that the movie is a hot mess. Apparently they tried to rewrite the story so that it's all about Napoleon's love for Josephine and how she motivated him to conquer most of Europe. Too much screen time devoted to those two and major battles and strategic planning is glossed over or skimmed. Apparently the acting isn't great either, as if everybody "turned up and did the bare minimum to avoid getting fired" and so they all look oddly indifferent. 

What a way to ruin what could be an interesting movie by injecting a love story that nobody cares about. We turn up to watch Napoleon, not Josephine. 

Thank  you  for that  Keith,  one   deffo  Not   to  watch  then  -  when   we  going  to  se  an  accurate  film  on Waterloo   -  so far   Nothing.

OC.

Alan,  is  this  for  the  built up areas  of  terrain   where  its  quite a  slope  or  the  more  flatter  areas  inside the  curtain wall?

Could  you  not  use  some  trim able  sponge  of foam that you could  trim to  shape   - they  type  model scenery  builders  use,   if its  for  the  inner  areas  - if there are  some  raised areas  to  be  built  up,  couldn't    foam sponge  again  be used  and  trimmed  to  size and shape.

For  the  surface  -  stones  -  dirt  -  grass   etc    you  can get  these types  of  spray glues    (I have used them  on my dio  to fix down the  grass  sheet  that  had a  kind  of  cardboard underneath)    https://www.ebay.co.uk/str/warworldscenics/Glues/_i.html?store_cat=41576272016

They  also  do  all  sorts  of  scenery products.

OC.

Excellent work  Craig.

OC.

Superb finish   Chris   - Top Notch  build.

OC.

Hi all,   I haven't  done  anything  of late   to be honest  we  try  to  rash-ion  the  electricity  usage in the winter  by not using any unnecessary  items  like my  modelling  light,  even our  table lamps  we try to keep  off  at night  and  just  rely on light  from our tv and a  candle,  it isn't   too bad  when I can model  with  daylight through  our  door in the  Spring - Summer,   that's  why I tend  to  do  reading and commenting   on other  builds  and  messing with  my photos.

OC.

Really coming on well Craig.

OC.

That is  looking Superb Alan   -  just  think  for  a  minute  -  you have  built  it   brick by brick,  its   a credit  to  all  your hard  work  with a  project that  could have  driven anyone  up the  wall.

I think the  idea  to  support  the  main  block  is  a  very good  idea  as  it wont been seen.

Loving this  build  mate.

OC.

4 hours ago, Canute said:

That movie debuts tomorrow in the US. Its already playing in the UK.

Yes  indeed  mate  -  it looks   excellent.

OC.