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  1. Old Collingwood
    Hi all, spent some good time on the mossie today, I glued up the one wing after fitting the ailerons and flaps, then I cleaned up the seams. OC.
  2. Old Collingwood
    I heard - he pinches pop corn - oh and watch your pop, but I wont tell Lou. OC.
  3. Old Collingwood
    Get one of those garden hammocks you could share it with lou. OC.
  4. Old Collingwood
    Like me Lou we learn more about the art in making a kit look half decent as we go along, when I was masking and spraying yesterday it struck me that it was the first time I have ever done anything like this - all my painting of models has always been with hairy sticks. OC.
  5. Old Collingwood
    Thanks Lou, I think the Harrier was retired too soon - its one of those planes that just ooze character and so much ability. OC.
  6. Old Collingwood
    The year before the Falklands I tried to join up into the RN - did my test passed the medical/passed the interview but failed my entrance exam just by a few marks, I always wanted to be a WEM weapons engineering mech, I was told I needed to give it 12 months before re-applying but I never did. OC.
  7. Old Collingwood
    I see, I assumed they were Acrylic paints. OC.
  8. Old Collingwood
    Are you spraying the fuselage or hand painting Lou? OC.
  9. Old Collingwood
    Wonder if you can pop the nozzles of to clean them under hot water? OC.
  10. Old Collingwood
    Very nice work mate - love the sharp paint details. OC.
  11. Old Collingwood
    Just checked - Ebay are doing them - what an excellent tool. OC.
  12. Old Collingwood
    Very nice work mike. OC.
  13. Old Collingwood
    I also read - to heat them up slightly like sitting them in hot water for a few minutes - I have done that hot water out of the tap into a cup then sit the can in it. OC.
  14. Old Collingwood
    The reasoning behind these three kits - The Hawk in RN colours was the first fast jet that the admiral saw one day when we were walking through the countryside and it buzzed over us going very low and quite fast. The Sea Harrier is simply my all time fave plane, and the Chinook was the first Mil heli that I showed the admiral when one came over us where we used to live. OC.
  15. Old Collingwood
    Its not very easy with rattle cans - I found the surface primmer went on just fine, but the Black semi gloss came out a bit less even, but guess gloss or semi gloss is harder to spray esp by rattle cans? OC.
  16. Old Collingwood
    I managed to day to secure a few build investments in the shape of a few kits to keep me going certainly through out this year - possibly into next they are all 1/48 scale - Italeri Hawk Mkt.1A Building her as a Royal Navy version based at RNAS Culdrose. Kinetic Sea Harrier FRS.1 Royal Navy as working off HMS Hemes Falklands Conflict 1982. Italeri CH-47D Chinnok RAF. Will try and get some detail stuff to go with them through the year. Pics off the net as I havn't received them yet. OC.
  17. Old Collingwood
    Most welcome Ken. OC.
  18. Old Collingwood
    While waiting for daytime and a clear day - I carried on working on the wing sections/flaps and engine nacelles - firstly I cleaned up the seams on the nacelles, then I cut the two part flaps - test fitted them, and glued them together, the idea is they have a center bar that allows them to be drooped or left trimmed. Here are the pics showing one of the nacelles and the flaps dry fitted showing the two stages they can be set at. OC.
  19. Old Collingwood
    More than welcome. OC.
  20. Old Collingwood
    Masks are off - and more masking on, the mask for the Black went quite well, I gently rubbed the edges so that they could not be felt, then I did some brutal masking all over the Black ready for the camo on the top. OC.
  21. Old Collingwood
    Welcome jack. OC.
  22. Old Collingwood
    Thanks mate. OC.
  23. Old Collingwood
    Do you think the masking tape I put on mine yesterday can come off now after that Tamiya Rattle can black semi gloss. OC.
  24. Old Collingwood
    Look what arrived this morning - OC.
  25. Old Collingwood
    Looking fine craig, how long do you do you keep the masks on before removing them? OC.

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