Danstream Posted May 23 Share #31 Posted May 23 15 hours ago, gsdpic said: The reflections are just from sitting the model on a 8" x 12" piece of white or black glossy acrylic that I bought online specifically for that purpose. You gave me an idea to copy. I second the others, great model and beautiful photography. Cheers, Dan gsdpic, Egilman, Old Collingwood and 3 others 5 1 Quote Current build : Mayflower - AL 1:64 Completed non-ship builds : Spitfire MK I - 1:48, Arado 196B - 1:32, Sea Fury - 1:48, F-15C Eagle - 1:48, Hawker Tempest Mk.V - 1:48, F104S Starfighter - 1:48 "The most effective way to do it, is to do it" - Amelia Earhart Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocRob Posted May 23 Share #32 Posted May 23 Your Dino came out fantastic, Gary. Somehow, I missed your log, but read it now. These veneer Fujimi kits seam to be a very good base. I´m in the middle of their 1/20 McLaren MP4/6 and found the kit lacking in many aspects, very disappointing, but not unfixable. Cheers Rob Canute, Old Collingwood, gsdpic and 3 others 5 1 Quote Current builds: "Big Tank" Crocker OHV motorcycle by DocRob - Model Factory Hiro - 1/9 McLaren Mp4/6 - Ayrton Senna - Fujimi - 1/20 - paused Duchess of Kingston - paused Finished builds: F4U-1A Corsair - Tamiya 1/32 USS Arizona 1/350 Eduard Caudron C.561 French Racing Plane 1/48 Nachtigall on Speed Arado 234 B-2N by DocRob - 1/32 - Fly Renault RE20 Turbo - Tamiya - 1/12 P-38J Wicked Woman - Tamiya - 1/48 AEG G.IV Creature of the Night - WNW - 1/32 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canute Posted May 23 Share #33 Posted May 23 beautiful finish on a beautiful car. Well done. Old Collingwood, Jack12477, gsdpic and 2 others 4 1 Quote Ken Started: MS Bounty Longboat, On Hold: Heinkel USS Choctaw paper Down the road: Shipyard HMC Alert 1/96 paper, Mamoli Constitution Cross, MS USN Picket Boat #1 Scratchbuild: Echo Cross Section Member Nautical Research Guild Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gsdpic Posted May 23 Author Share #34 Posted May 23 Thanks for the additional comments. I meant to make more comments on the kit itself. Overall, it was good, especially considering the age. Generally stuff fit together well and it was well detailed. But as with other Fujimi kits I have built, there are always a few parts that they expect you to glue together without having much mating surface or any sort of locating pins or tabs. So there are always a few parts that are a challenge to figure out exactly where or how they should be positioned, or they are a challenge to figure out where or how to apply glue. There were also several instances where it seemed they made poor choices about how to attach the part to the sprue. This sometimes required extra delicate clean up of the part when removing it from the sprue. But, again, overall a good kit. I think I have 4 more Fujimi kits in my stash and hope they are all similar, but we'll see. mtaylor, DocRob, Canute and 3 others 6 Quote - Gary Current Build: Artesania Latina Sopwith Camel Completed Builds: Blue Jacket America 1/48th Annapolis Wherry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrandpaPhil Posted May 24 Share #35 Posted May 24 Very nicely done! Jack12477, gsdpic, Old Collingwood and 3 others 5 1 Quote Building: 1:64 HMS Revenge (Victory Models plans) 1:64 Cat Esther (17th Century Dutch Merchant Ships) On the building slip: 1:72 French Ironclad Magenta (original shipyard plans) On hold: 1:98 Mantua HMS Victory (kit bash), 1:96 Shipyard HMS Mercury Favorite finished builds: 1:60 Sampang Good Fortune (Amati plans), 1:200 Orel Ironclad Solferino, 1:72 Schooner Hannah (Hahn plans), 1:72 Privateer Prince de Neufchatel (Chapelle plans), Model Shipways Sultana, Heller La Reale, Encore USS Olympia Goal: Become better than I was yesterday "The hardest part is deciding to try." - me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landlubber Mike Posted June 6 Share #36 Posted June 6 Came out great Gary! Really well done! gsdpic, Old Collingwood, Egilman and 3 others 5 1 Quote Mike Current Wooden builds: Amati/Victory Pegasus MS Charles W. Morgan Euromodel La Renommèe Plastic builds: SB2U-1 Vindicator 1/48 Five Star Yaeyama 1/700 Pit Road Asashio and Akashi 1/700 diorama Walrus 1/48 and Albatross 1/700 Special Hobby Buffalo 1/32 Eduard Sikorsky JRS-1 1/72 IJN Notoro 1/700 Akitsu Maru 1/700 Completed builds : Caldercraft Brig Badger Amati Hannah - Ship in Bottle Pit Road Hatsuzakura 1/700 Hasegawa Shimakaze 1:350 F4B-4 and P-6E 1/72 Accurate Miniatures F3F-1/F3F-2 1/48 Tamiya F4F-4 Wildcat built as FM-1 1/48 Special Hobby Buffalo 1/48 Citroen 2CV 1/24 - Airfix and Tamiya Entex Morgan 3-wheeler 1/16 Terminated build: HMS Lyme (based on Corel Unicorn) On the shelf: Euromodel Friedrich Wilhelm zu Pferde; Caldercraft Victory; too many plastic ship, plane and car kits Future potential scratch builds: HMS Lyme (from NMM plans); Le Gros Ventre (from Ancre monographs), Dutch ship from Ab Hoving book, HMS Sussex from McCardle book, Philadelphia gunboat (Smithsonian plans) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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