Old Collingwood

14 minutes ago, cog said:

looks a lot like the one I'm building well, but for the striping that is

Yep  - twins, told you we thought the same😊

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Loving those invasion stripes/bands, it had past my mind on mine as one of the schemes  - but mine would have had to be painted on by  hand  using dull white  Acrylic paint,   so I decided no to bother.

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Splendid work mate.

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Done a bit of art work in Paint  added the squadron codes I will  put on here  - 

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Looking great Carl  have to keep remembering the scale  1/72  does not give a very large canvas  to work on.

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Good day all  a bit more progress   - I dug out the spit out of the box  as it had enough time to de gas  and is now smell free, think it came up ok.

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Just now, RGL said:

Depends on what colour they are in real life (I airbrush mine, Primer, base colour then a rust wash). Otherwise it looks like cheap jewellery 

RN  used to be white I understand, and kept very clean from what I have seen on the net.

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Your Stuka will be an interesting Build Denis.

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13 minutes ago, RGL said:

As long as you paint it, the shiny chains really distract 

What  - dip it  and let it  dry  in what ever colour is appropriate, then fit it after?

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My rats  nearly sent me cross eyed  so difficult to keep them uniform  - but  you are doing a fine job.

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Just plain crazy good work at that scale  phil, so much scratch building  delight going on  - full credit to you mate  bringing her alive.

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Hello again All,    while sorting through my little box's  yesterday  for my other builds, I cam across  some scall metal (Black)  anchor chain that must have come with my other Pontos bits,  but went missing  - didn't  know I had it, anyway  "question -question"   is it worth me  removing the plastic kit chain  that was painted white, and replacing with this scale Black metal chain?

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PD would be cool   guess because its the newer of the Two   awsome plane though  gave some F15s a run for their money.

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3 hours ago, Canute said:

May have to ditch this Amodel kit for that, although it's the wrong scale for the rest of my Soviet era jets. I have some ICMs and a Kondor of Foxbats and Foxhounds.

Foxbat would be nice - would love to se a log on that.

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Evening all,    more progress  on the cockpit  I started by painting the instrument panel  this  had the sight added  then  shaded/highlighted, after it was glued to the main assembly  the whole thing was pushed in place in the fuselage.

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Very nice  - somthing  about early Suzi's   with that dropped down fairing style.

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I think a show has to be one thing  at max or another   - do a high speed fly through at near  supersonic   but also  do more graceful  wing  perfomances, the in betweens spoil it   modern jets just doing  wing slides and power turns are boring  to be honest.

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Very good display very tight   - not a lot of speed  but  the sound makes up for it.

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Have you seen the Swiss dispay team with theirs?

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Sounds like a good plan  - getting planks to sit down can be like an uphill battle its as if the little  blitters  have a will of their own, my mistake was being too impatient  not giving the wood glue enough time under pressure to set.

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Very  nice work   love F5's.

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Well done finishing her  - the sails really brought the kit to life.

Whats next?

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I know the wood has let you down my friend  - but you are doing a fine job of getting past  the hurdles, its credit to you  and your abilities  - keep up the great work Mark  you will crack it.

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As Edward and Gregory said  - she is looking really nice   well on track mate.

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Just got back on our internet has been down for about Two hours,  anyway  plan latter is to make the instrument consol - paint and weather it.

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