DocRob

Noice Gaz, if I would be a wood worm, I would choose your prop for dinner. I have to try this hand painting technique of yours, it looks great. BTW. do you use acrylics or/and pencils for the job? Cheers Rob

What's the focus and who are 'we'? Interesting to see the detailed outcome. I have the ZM MK.IV boxing and hope for a trouble less buttoned up build soon. Cheers Rob

Count yourself lucky, you have only to think about shipping costs from Hannants. Since the end of last year, I'm not able to purchase from them, first because of Brexit and now, because they need to enhance their systems to include the necessary tax number for Spain. Cheers Rob

Like Kai said, you are breezing through your Albatros build. I've never used Roden decals, but read about their reputation. Nice job on the masking which looks great. Makes me thinking about a mask cutter for myself. Cheers Rob

Can't be long John, that the Helldiver hits the US-Stores. It's available in some European shops as well as one of my favorite German retailers. Cheers Rob

I continued with the 48 scale Hellcat and built up the Brassin engine. It has lots of parts, Resin and fiddly PE. Not all went well, but in the end it will be ok enough. I also started with some painting and PE-ing in the cockpit area. The printed PE does not look to good, but seen through the tiny canopy it will work. I want to emphasize on the paintjob with the Hellcat and not so much on the pit. Cheers Rob

Nice and tidy with a great adjustment of the canopy fit. My builds never look as clean as yours in the pre painting stage. You could produce step by step build documentations with that clean style. Cheers Rob

Love the silk thread work, Gaz. I consider shaving away the chord on my next WNW build and use your method as it looks more real. Cheers Rob

Me too, thanks for sharing. I hate it, when tiny PE bits fly away, while airbrushing a model, when they weren't properly attached. Your method could ensure a better placement and therefore a better bond. Cheers Rob

That's mainly caused by the ME-109 E, being their only 1/32 kit, with the only addition of the Me-108 lately, which was originally produced by someone else. At least I contributed two 1/48 scale WIP's from Eduards SSW's to LSM last year . Cheers Rob

Nice and delicate work, Gaz. The Spandaus's will look good with a matte black coat and the fuselage with it's innards looks great. I also think, it's a good decision not to use all PE possible. I went the same way with my WNW Pfalz. If I would have used all the PE, handling the plane would have been challenging. I always opt for a bit more durability, which pays off while painting, masking, decaling and rigging these fragile birds. Cheers Rob

I started one some years ago and liked what I saw. It's indeed an Eduard production. I'm not knowledgeable enough to have seen shape issues and don't care too much, if it looks about 109nish. I have a Brassin engine, cockpit and gun set along some figures for mine, which I think is non essential, if you want to build her buttoned up. I plan a rare (for me) maintenance dio with the cowlings off. Thanks for reminding me to continue with mine Phil . It's this boxing with the same plastic. Cheers Rob

t This is the saw, a normal razor saw, made by JLC. The box includes a spacer set for scribing parallel lines with a second blade. This type of saw, is perfect for resin cutting and straight cuts in plastic and will be useful for my future wooden ship projects too. An inexpensive tool, where I can't say today, how I could have lived without. I added a small mitre box by the same company for precise profile cutting. Cheers Rob

Very nice and clean build of an interesting vehicle. I believe it would have had more of a psychological effect, than physical. Cheers Rob

Like the others said, your pit is looking great and the detailing is spot on. It's good to see, that the tub is fitting the fuselage seemingly good. Cheers Rob

Nice and clean build Carl, you are breezing through this build. Seeing your radial, there is no real need for a resin replacement. Cheers Rob

Great work Gus, the pit looks nice and busy. I haven't noticed until yet, that LSM is transforming to a maso-club, seeing the third Italeri Mirage been build at the same time. Is it cult thing or a kind of initiation rite ? Earnestly, I can understand your will to suffer, it's a nice plane, with so many interesting derivates and schemes, that even attracts to me, being more of a non jet guy, luckily. Keep the fire burning. Cheers Rob

Today, I thought, I would prime the Hellcat engine and interior, but the PE framings for the cowlings were delicate and time consuming to add, as they were glued flat onto the plastic, without attachment points. Cheers Rob

Not exactly large scale, but fits my hunger for obscure flying objects. Luckily my hobby shop from the Spanish mainland had one Loire 130 left. The mold looks not too bad, there is some resin for the interior and the engine area included and even a vac canopy for the aft station is supplied, which has to be used for three of the four schemes, sided with beautiful Cartograph decals.7 I found my trumpeter riveting tool not good enough, especially by blocking the sight onto the area to rivet and the big diameter of the wheel made it hard to rivet near corners, therefore I helped myself to two Dousek riveters with different tooth spacing. The liquid mask Sol-R will be tested now, after I had slight blinding effects with Sol-Neo after having it applied for a longer time onto a Future coated Canopy. I read, that Sol-R is water based and less aggresive. Cheers Rob

I started a little side project, as a mojo refueler. It's an Eduard 1/48 F6F3 Hellcat almost oob, beside the juicy Brassin engine and some HGW wet transfers. As always, surgery first, I cut the cowling panels according to the resin substitutes and cleaned all the resin engine parts. For panel cutting, I used my new razor saw and I really don't know, how I could have lived without one. There is nearly no sanding necessary after cutting and the cuts are so precise and fine, I could use the removed parts as a substitute again. Cheers Rob

This behemoth looks almost like it sprung from a steampunk fantasy and that's why I nearly bought it. You made it look great with your paintjob and decaling. Cheers Rob

Your work on this iconic plane looks stellar Peter. She will be a beauty. Cheers Rob

Wow, great detailing, what is the scale? The fingers must be oversized Cheers Rob

On the British Amazon site I found a lot of these with the search term 'automatic belt punch'. I bought mine from German Amazon for six Euros and it includes six punches from 1,5-4 mm diameter and a rod to clean the circles out of the punch tool. The punched holes are perfectly round and you can produce discs as well. Until now, it's the perfect cheapo substitute to one of these expensive sets, as I use it seldom. I used it to cut away carrier film from bezel decals, with styrene card, to produce ammunition counters for the Fokker 08/15's and with tin foil and the tool never failed. Cheers Rob

I have something like this and for the few occasions, it worked good with decals and 0,5 mm styrene. The punches are sharpened and the brass part is a spindle to turn the punch, when pressing the handle. It was very cheap, but is useful. Cheers Rob