Clunkmeister
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Neat trick, Mark. I like it. I’ve tried, say on a solid OD aircraft, to paint the entire thing the main color, then mist a slightly lightened shade of many n in the middle of panels, followed by a slightly darkened shade in depressions. It’s worked well for me, some iMessage brilliantly, but I’m inconsistent with it. I’ll give your method a try on my 109 test mule.
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We’re all here to help if we can. Try this: Instead of “black” use a very dark grey. Black on a model often shows way to stark, and you can get away with graying it out some. Real tires are more grey than black as well. I use Gunze RLM66 and mix it with Leveling Thinner to airbrush. RLM66 to me hits black perfectly in 1/32.
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Aaaah, ok.. around here if we get flies in a range vent it’s usually because of grease in the exhaust. But good to know.
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yep. Post it up, John, after all, it is a LARGE scale model.
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Gazz, like Krow said, flies are attracted to rotting protein, so is it possible you have a buildup of animal fat inside from the grease fumes and splatter coming off the range? Flies need a food source and I'd be going on a search and destroy mission until I found them. They don't just "happen". That said, nothing bothers me more than "indoor mosquitoes". I once traced them to the guest bedroom toilet bowl. It never got used so the water served as a nice pond for the little buggers.
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Modulating a solid color
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Thanks Harald! It’s certainly an overlooked part of North Atlantic defense. I still marvel at how the operated jet fighters and Trackers off those postage stamps. Hey must have been in hog heaven when they trapped onboard the Big US carriers.
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It’s amazing now long lived the Avenger turned out to be. They soldiered on into the early 60s, and then had new leases on life as mapping aircraft and firefighting aircraft. An overlooked design. Too pedestrian for some?
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Up until the 1970s. And the bleed air on the Felix was amazingly hilarious!
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Mostly operating from Magnificent and Bonaventure. And of course Shearwater. Trackers, Avengers, Banshees, Sea Furies, Seafires, H-19, Bell 47, and HUPs Cool pics. Big aircraft, little carriers. Some very interesting modeling ideas here. If you have some unique and/or seldom seen pics, let’s see them and get the juices flowing. Nationality unimportant, cool pics very important
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That must qualify as the understatement of the decade
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I’ve heard it a few times. Pocket Chopper, and little bird lots though.
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Hubert, good to see I’m not the only fan of resin kits.
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I actually prefer the ZM Mustang to the Tamiya kit. It’s got the British Mustang nailed perfectly!
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Yep. Dreadnoughts plus Bismarck, Hood, Arizona, and Yorktown.
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Carl, I love the Little Bird. Fascinated by the whole Blackhawk down fiasco. What a cluster that was.
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I’m not quite that bad. Not even close, but like everyone here, I’ve tried to consolidate the stash into what I really want to build someday. Mostly all high end stuff that we all lust after. Not just whatever’s around. So its 95% 1/32 scale, a few Airfix 1/24, and a smattering of 1/48 large or unavailable in big scale kits. There’s still about 50 Wingnut kits in the closet, plus all the SH, and full resin kits.
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Well said...
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Looks truly WOW! Those figures just set it off perfectly. -
Tamiya makes the CJ Block 50
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Another "Where did this come from?" thread...
Clunkmeister replied to ScottsGT's topic in General Discussion
I opened a cardboard box in my barn last weekend and found five 1/35 armor kits that I was absolutely sure that I had sold at the last Nats in Omaha. I had zero idea I had them, and back then I had zero idea how I had got them in the first place -
I'll take a pic or two tonight. LOL You know, one or two kits every now and then, followed by some trades, a few yard sales, and a glacial building timeline, and you get this...
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That’s awesome, man! Seriously. The only place you find pictures of me is at the Post Office and the Sheriff’s Office.
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I generally go to Angelo’s in White Settlement, but Tony and I frequent Tolbert in Grapevine. Close to D/FW, his home, and my shop. well, we’ll need to do Vegas if you make it. Trying to rope Karim and Tony into getting there.
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Smitty is a Marine, as in Navy. Their college is the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and their team is called Midshipmen. His niece is Army who’s team are the Black Knights at the US Military Academy in West Point, New York. The annual Army vs Navy football game is an American staple. Marines cheer Navy, and people with brains cheer Army. His niece has brains, unlike Smitty. But apparently, this year, the brain stem that Marines use to function and perform basic life skills has sprouted a few extra cells in his otherwise empty (jar) head.
