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I had similar effects with Mr. Hobby GX-100 gloss clear, mixed with leveling thinner in a plastic jar. Seems the mix dissolved the plastic.
Cheers Rob
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7 hours ago, KevinM said:
Really came out terrific Rob if only a way to get it on my shelf..............
Thank you Kevin, I think there are still some AEG´s out their, new and for the original price. That and some month work, et voila
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5 hours ago, Peterpools said:
Rob
I'm with carl, in that I do love figures and they are always the missing touch, but my skills are really poor at best. If I could only get half as close to yours, I would be a happy camper.
21 minutes ago, HubertB said:One piece of advice - which seemed blindingly obvious with hindsight - I read from Marion Ball, one of the GREAT figure painters of the time, is that the eyes of real people are rarely fully open, and always partially covered by eyelids. Hard to paint, but it makes all the difference when you succeed in representing it …
Worth a try on your moustached mechanic ?
Thank you Peter and Hubert. I know a lot about figure painting theoretically, but am not able to convert it onto my figures. I know about the eyes. My mechanic looks like he´d seen a bunch of Camels approaching with his bug eyes. I always fight with color consistency with figures. too dense and you have a blob, too thin and it doesn´t cover. What really helps are good brushes and I´m not only using the smallest, as color soaking capacity is also important.
Anyway, I added the second figure to my build and call the mighty bat FINISHED .
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15 hours ago, FullArmor said:
Impressive build😲. Details and colors are amazing.
14 hours ago, Martinnfb said:Only one word comes to mind , MASTERPIECE !!! Wrench and all
Thank you FA and Martin, the build was challenging at times, but somehow ever rewarding. Fortunately the Twins GB was enough of a kick a$$ to start this extensive project.
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11 hours ago, BlrwestSiR said:
Great job on the figure. I stay away from them as much as possible. The eyes are always a challenge to me.
Wise decision, Carl. I like to choose figures fitting for a build, which actually form a picture or tell a story, but I often shy away, when time comes for painting these. The eyes are terribly different and many of my attempts end cross eyed.
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Lots of fitting design elements there, Carl. The Super F-15 is coming together nicely.
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11 hours ago, belugawhaleman said:
First their ES-P Portable Electric Grinder.
Nice haul, Paul. I have the grinder as well and had hoped for a more universal collet for slow revolution drilling duties. It´s a nice tool, but a bit limited due to the 3mm shaft diameter.
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Stunning looking Jug, Peter. You chose a very attractive scheme and the decals let it pop. Bummer with the description. My decal sheet for the Burma Banshees seems to have a very decent documentation with measurements even for the painted bars.
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5 hours ago, Martinnfb said:
Beautiful details , his gnarly moustache and Rolex watch. You can say that everything is ready to go, by the way how he holds his hammer. I love it
Thank you Martin, I loved the figure, when I saw it first and in the GB-Finished section, you can see the other figure and that it is not a hammer, but a wrench, we are talking German engineering here
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The big bat is finished now, that I found the courage to paint the figures.
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Well, here are my feeble attempts in figure painting. I try to do one or two figures per build, but often shy away, because painting these is always like a burde for me. Nonetheless, i try to improve my skills and sometimes force myself to finish the figures.
The mechanic is painted with acrylic colors from Scale75, except for the skin, which was painted with oil colors.
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7 hours ago, Peterpools said:
Finally, your Magnetic Tumbler arrived and it's quite a machine. I would have thought the polishing steel pins would have been included but I'm wrong as usual.
The inks seemed to be another new adventure to learn and use and the Meng Triplane - looking forward to following your build as I have the kit in the stash.
Inks are definitely worth a look, Peter. For testing the effect you can dilute every high pigmented color, where after thinning no pigments show and ´varnish´ over painted areas. It´s like a wash, but with a lot more density, pigment wise.
The steel pins are included with some tumblers, with others not. I had to take what´s available and had to order extra pins, but that´s no problem, as I could order different sizes for experimenting.
I have some time until first testing, as I start a little week trip to Galicia in Northern Spain for having the finest seafood among other goodies.
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4 minutes ago, Martinnfb said:
Really interested in the ink application.
That´s where the bock in the background comes into play, Martin. Earnestly, I used inks over acrylic paints for figure painting, but there are many other possibilities. The inks are very thin in consistence, but have a lot of pigment and can be used brushed or sprayed.
One little example, I could remember were the boots of this shaving gent, where I used yellow and brown inks on his boots for color richness and depth.
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Yesterday arrived the big Fokker DR.I in 1/24 from Meng (WNW?). It seems to be a simple build, but includes fabric seat belts and brass gun jackets. My only AM will be an Aviattic decal set for Josef Jacobs all black DR.I. The set plasters the whole plane with fabric decal (nothing new to me
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I have a sparse ink set, which I really liked to use for figure painting, as a kind of wash or airbrushed for tonal accentuation. I bought the complete 14 color set from AK, as I want to dig deeper into the ink thing.
Lastly, my long awaited magnetic tumbler polisher arrived. It took a lot of effort, to get it sent to my remote part of the world, but now it worked.
This will be used, to clean white metal parts from my recent Model Factory Hiro kits (One more is due to arrive soon). You put the parts into the jar add water and some tiny polishing steel pins (which still need to a arrive) and the tumbler swirls the needles around the white metal parts due to a rotating magnet in the base. This cleans and betters the surface quality of the parts.
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Fantastic model and ultra dynamic display, Congratulations Mark, you show jets, where they look best, in action.
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The V1 looks great Martin, love the camo and the trailer. I see you have a ZM Marsden base as well. I have three different, great for a quick presentation.
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While waiting for my decals to arrive, your Jug is half finished Peter
. Your paintjob came out fantastic, love the contrast between yellow and OD. Like Mike said, can´t wait for the decals.
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3 hours ago, Peterpools said:
I do have the meng 1/24 Foker in my thinned out stash and maybe someday - just not sure I'm up to the task and the scale. I know I would frustrate myself trying to even do half as good as yours, as I surely lack the skills for a WWI aircraft build.
Don´t sell yourself short, Peter, with your skillset, the DR.I will be an easy build. If you want to get around wood painting, you could use either a Quinta set or Aviattic decals for the exterior, which include interior woodgrain decals as well. Rigging is only six lines, which are not very visible. Done with elastic rigging line, there should be no problems. The scale, well, I guess the 1/24 Fokker is smaller than a 1/32 Spitfire.
I stand to be corrected, but I see the big Meng DR.I as an easy in between build kit. Reflecting my WWI plane builds, all have been easier than thought before and more rewarding then most of my other plane builds, but that is of course a very personal view.
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17 hours ago, Landlubber Mike said:
If WnW was still in business, this should be the marketing image for the kit. Well done!!
He he, thank you for the praise, Mike. For such a huge and demanding kit, there are astonishingly many builds to find, with great results. WNW could have chosen from a lot. That said, I´m thinking about getting another AEG, this time the earlier day bomber version, they can still be found for relatively fair prices.
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18 hours ago, Peterpools said:
WOW - brilliant work - absolutely perfection. 🏆🏆🏆
Beyond the work itself were so many how to - mini tutorials, I can't thank you enough. Maybe someday I'll attempt to build a WNW kit and will surely use your rigging tutorial as my guide.
Thank you Peter, I´m blushing. You should try a WNW kit, possibly a German fighter, these are easy to rig and great to learn the needed techniques. Besides there are so many colorful choices. Only yesterday, I found a 40% off deal on the Meng (WNW?) 1/24 Fokker DR.I and couldn´t resist. By the way, an ideal beginner kit, when it comes to WWI planes. I opted for Aviattic decals to plaster the whole crate to depict the all black DR.I of Josef Jacobs. This will be a nice in between build.
Documenting my work is not only altruism, it helps me to remember used techniques and develop them further to my liking over the years.
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Done so far, phew. I have to continue to paint the figures and to clean up my bench, which I guess will take longer than the build itself
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Final steps ahead, luckily. The huge airframe and the delicate details make working on the big bat more and more difficult. The issues fixed to parts torn loose ratio turns worse
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I assembled the elevators and the rudder and added steering cables for the rudder. the fittings were made from split brass rod to add some more detail.
Finally, I reassembled the guns, the worst part of the build and installed them into the gun mounts onto the gun rings.
There will be a lot of final touch ups and then the big bat is finished.
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5 hours ago, Peterpools said:
WOW, looking so good. No question the left had prop looks so much better to my eye as the laminations add so much more interest and visual effect.
Yikes, not good news "... where all the guns fell apart, which were only temporarily fitted..." I can only imagine how you felt and the frustration level. Glad you are sorting though it as it surely must be a boat load of work to fix.
Fingers crossed, all goes well.
3 hours ago, Landlubber Mike said:Hey Rob, just caught up on your build. Wow, this is really spectacular! I'm so clumsy with my builds that I'm sure I'd be constantly busting off things on it. The props look fantastic by the way - I've got those pencils and have been meaning to try them out. Delineating the lamination lines by pencil seems must easier than by brush.
Hope your back is feeling better my friend!
Muchas gracias amigos and thanks for the being well wishes for my back. The pain is almost gone and tomorrow I may will be body surfing if the waves permit.
The most frustrating part of the build were indeed the Parabellum MG´s. The one which fell out of the fuselage was a pain to reinstall and it took me a lot of time and cursing to get the magazines to glue in position. Sounds easy, but wasn´t, I don´t know why. If you´re not sure, how to align the guns, this calls for trouble. The gun rings sport a gun holding bow, movable of course, which holds the also movable gun posts
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Today, I fixed all these issues, but as you say Mike, with a large delicate build like this, I felt more and more clumsy and thought twice about every movement. Luckily the airframe itself is sturdy due to great WNW engineering.
I masked and airbrushed lamination on earlier builds and the pencil method proved much easier and more flexible.
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Nice choice Peter and glad to hear the decals seem to be of good quality. Mine are on the way too, but like always, it takes a while.
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Eduard P-51D Mustang Shu Shu; UPDATE: 5/18/24: THE FRONT OFFICE
in LSM 1/48 Work in Progress
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Your interior looks great, Peter. Good to hear about the quality of Eduard´s Mustangs. I´m considering buying the P-51 Royal Class boxing of their P-51-B
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