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Kevin
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Kevin reacted to popeye the sailor in D9R by Kevin - Meng - 1/35 - PLASTIC - started 2015
look'in MY-T fine Kevin.......nice work with the painting as well the more you use the airbrush, the better your gonna get.......by the time your finished with this project, I think you'll have no trouble carrying what you've learned over to other projects keep it up.......your doing fine! interesting idea with tightening the track. it'll never be noticed!
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Kevin got a reaction from Edwardkenway in D9R by Kevin - Meng - 1/35 - PLASTIC - started 2015
Good afternoon everyone
i continue to try and bring my airbrushing skill upto at least a sub standard, how ever i am wuite happy with the way things are going, even if it goes into the bin at the end of this i will have learned something
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Kevin got a reaction from Edwardkenway in D9R by Kevin - Meng - 1/35 - PLASTIC - started 2015
good evening
the D9R kit requires 43 links on the tracks 42 is to tight and 43 to loose, the looseness was solved by a simple solution i read about at the time in 2013 by cutting the wheel casing in 1/2 and putting a sliding tube in to enable the two halves to be moved in or out
each link is made up of three parts,
this was built up using pva glue and then the track was put on top with extra thin
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Kevin got a reaction from Edwardkenway in D9R by Kevin - Meng - 1/35 - PLASTIC - started 2015
Thanks guys
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Kevin got a reaction from Haliburton in D9R by Kevin - Meng - 1/35 - PLASTIC - started 2015
Good afternoon everyone
i continue to try and bring my airbrushing skill upto at least a sub standard, how ever i am wuite happy with the way things are going, even if it goes into the bin at the end of this i will have learned something
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Kevin got a reaction from Edwardkenway in D9R by Kevin - Meng - 1/35 - PLASTIC - started 2015
good evening everyone
please dont laugh
my first decent attempt at spray painting
not a complete disaster the green is far to light, it will act as a base coat, i wont be using the chipping method on here, but use the sponge method (even though i have no idea what i said there lol)
grey primer
Lifecolor metal LC-7001
i didnt like the results
lifecolor dark IDF LC-UA437 to light i will add brown on the top coat
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Kevin got a reaction from reklein in D9R by Kevin - Meng - 1/35 - PLASTIC - started 2015
good evening
the D9R kit requires 43 links on the tracks 42 is to tight and 43 to loose, the looseness was solved by a simple solution i read about at the time in 2013 by cutting the wheel casing in 1/2 and putting a sliding tube in to enable the two halves to be moved in or out
each link is made up of three parts,
this was built up using pva glue and then the track was put on top with extra thin
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Kevin got a reaction from Edwardkenway in D9R by Kevin - Meng - 1/35 - PLASTIC - started 2015
Good evening everyone
as i mentioned earlier, to proceed with the Bluebell build, i needed to get my airbrushing up to speed, the other day i thought i had made leaps and bounds, today no such luck
eventually i kind of made it work, but after lots of messing about and 3 brush strips
it maybe down to old paint, this primer is over 10 years old, also it could be the AB needles they do look bent, so i took the hit and bought another brush from Amazon, should be here tomorrow, along with new paints and a replacement coolant vent PE set
i did however get some primer of most of the build
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Kevin got a reaction from Edwardkenway in D9R by Kevin - Meng - 1/35 - PLASTIC - started 2015
2021
everything was put away safe, was still a big mess on opening it up today
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Kevin got a reaction from Edwardkenway in D9R by Kevin - Meng - 1/35 - PLASTIC - started 2015
i abandoned this build back in 2015, as i just could not airbrush
anyway today i taught myself to do it and got a satisfactory result, time after time, so this is on the table for now as i plan to practise and hopefully get better to then complete the HMS Bluebell and ready for the next big build hopefully starting in the new year,
2014
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Kevin got a reaction from popeye the sailor in D9R by Kevin - Meng - 1/35 - PLASTIC - started 2015
Good afternoon everyone
i continue to try and bring my airbrushing skill upto at least a sub standard, how ever i am wuite happy with the way things are going, even if it goes into the bin at the end of this i will have learned something
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Kevin got a reaction from mtaylor in D9R by Kevin - Meng - 1/35 - PLASTIC - started 2015
Thanks guys
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Kevin got a reaction from popeye the sailor in D9R by Kevin - Meng - 1/35 - PLASTIC - started 2015
Thanks guys
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Kevin got a reaction from yvesvidal in D9R by Kevin - Meng - 1/35 - PLASTIC - started 2015
Good afternoon everyone
i continue to try and bring my airbrushing skill upto at least a sub standard, how ever i am wuite happy with the way things are going, even if it goes into the bin at the end of this i will have learned something
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Kevin reacted to Old Collingwood in D9R by Kevin - Meng - 1/35 - PLASTIC - started 2015
I agree with Mark mate - excellent weathering work - really looks spot on.
OC.
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Kevin reacted to mtaylor in D9R by Kevin - Meng - 1/35 - PLASTIC - started 2015
The weathering on the blade is striking. Keep going, you're showing mad skills at this.
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Kevin reacted to Jack12477 in D9R by Kevin - Meng - 1/35 - PLASTIC - started 2015
I agree too. Weathering looks great.
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Kevin got a reaction from Egilman in D9R by Kevin - Meng - 1/35 - PLASTIC - started 2015
Good afternoon everyone
i continue to try and bring my airbrushing skill upto at least a sub standard, how ever i am wuite happy with the way things are going, even if it goes into the bin at the end of this i will have learned something
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Kevin got a reaction from oneslim in D9R by Kevin - Meng - 1/35 - PLASTIC - started 2015
Good afternoon everyone
i continue to try and bring my airbrushing skill upto at least a sub standard, how ever i am wuite happy with the way things are going, even if it goes into the bin at the end of this i will have learned something
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Kevin got a reaction from king derelict in D9R by Kevin - Meng - 1/35 - PLASTIC - started 2015
Good afternoon everyone
i continue to try and bring my airbrushing skill upto at least a sub standard, how ever i am wuite happy with the way things are going, even if it goes into the bin at the end of this i will have learned something
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Kevin got a reaction from Canute in D9R by Kevin - Meng - 1/35 - PLASTIC - started 2015
Good afternoon everyone
i continue to try and bring my airbrushing skill upto at least a sub standard, how ever i am wuite happy with the way things are going, even if it goes into the bin at the end of this i will have learned something
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Kevin got a reaction from Jack12477 in D9R by Kevin - Meng - 1/35 - PLASTIC - started 2015
Good afternoon everyone
i continue to try and bring my airbrushing skill upto at least a sub standard, how ever i am wuite happy with the way things are going, even if it goes into the bin at the end of this i will have learned something
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Kevin got a reaction from Old Collingwood in D9R by Kevin - Meng - 1/35 - PLASTIC - started 2015
Good afternoon everyone
i continue to try and bring my airbrushing skill upto at least a sub standard, how ever i am wuite happy with the way things are going, even if it goes into the bin at the end of this i will have learned something
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Kevin reacted to chris watton in Chris Watton and Vanguard Models news and updates
Of course!
In the meantime, I am working on my next little kit (or maybe 2, don't know yet, may save one for later...)
I have attached a couple of pics of the pre-prototype builds. I show them so you can see the amount I take off when sanding the bulkheads (both just took me just a little over 30 minutes with an improvised sanding stick). I notice on some build logs that some leave way too much un sanded/unbevelled bulkhead edges at the bow and (especially) at the stern, and then wonder why certain parts do not fit as well as they should, almost as if they are too afraid of sanding too much off.
If you use a long-ish sanding stick (in my case, just a scrap length of 0.8mm ply with sandpaper wrapped around it), there is little chance of digging into any one bulkhead, as you are sanding across 3, 4 or 5 at a time. I usually sand the whole lot for these small hulls, but for much larger ones, I just make sure bow and stern are properly sanded to follow the run of the planks, with much lighter sanding at the middle section of the hull.
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