DocRob

That sharkmouth enhances the meanness factor of the Kittyhawk to badass heights. Great work on the masking and spraying. Cheers Rob

Nice work Kevin. Regarding the tools, I don't have a correct answer, but on my tanks, I paint them in wood and metal for esthetical reasons. They add more detail and attract the eye, by giving some contrast. Cheers Rob

Filters can do some magic and that's what happened here. The binding effect takes the paintjob to the next level Gaz. Cheers Rob

After a looooong drying time of more than a week, I gloss coated the PZL with Tamiya LP clear. The first coat was just misted onto the oil color, to reduce the possibility of unwanted reactions between the oil colors and the varnish. Then I sprayed two liberal coats of gloss coat, to finally seal the oil colors and let, guess what, dry for some time. Up to the decals now, which performed good, given the problematic surface with the corrugated texture. I used Micro Set to apply the decals and then half a litre of Micro Sol, to let them settle into the surface, accompanied by a hairdryer. The lower national insignia are really large and took some time to apply correctly. Then the wings were mounted onto the fuselage with the struts. That's where I am right now. I then refined the exhaust ring with various dabbed on pigments and will let it be until the final assembly, where it will be evaluated. Cheers Rob

Nice choice. I'm very eager to see what this will look like in the end. My Cyrillic knowledge is more than a bit shaky, but shouldn't it read 'Suvorov' on the tower, maybe called after General Alexander Suvorov (1729-1800). Cheers Rob

I built the Hasegawa carnation of the -D as Eduards Dottie Mae and should have the decals for the following version left. If you are interested, I look for the spares and if they are complete. Cheers Rob

The Jeep still is one of the coolest vehicles on this planet, guess how I know. Side steps looking mighty good and I like your matte hood as a glare reduced panel. Cheers Rob

In the end, you will forget about the hardness the kit threw at you for five month and you'll see a result, to be proud of, Gaz. Beside the lovely detail work with the parachute and the recliner chair, I especially like the paint- and decal job, as it looks like tattooed on, with no unwanted reflections and exactly the right matteness. Cheers Rob

What a nicely sorted bar, I I would do a lot of things to have access to something like this, but my island is behind the green door, or better, on the wrong side of it. Cheers Rob

If you linger any longer any longer in recovering, than your average building time, it would be bad news . Hope you will be better soon and fully heal. Cheers Rob

The dio looks great and suits the Mirage perfectly. Like Gaz said, the fleshtones are very believable and the figures add a lot of atmosphere. A bit more dust on the tarmac could help to get the same hot and sweaty ambient like on the pics of the real thing. Cheers Rob

Wow, that's a bunch of obstacles you were pushing ahead. I can understand your situation. Some builds are like that, the problems or at least felt problems amount to a mental barrier. Good that you pushed through Gaz, mostly it's a brain bug and not real. I often wonder, how little time and effort I spent on the parts of a build, I feared for weeks. All your detail work looks great to me, the parachute is beautiful and the MK. II chair looks comfy. Cheers Rob

Would have been a shame. All in all a very nice result Mark. I like the camo scheme, but honestly prefer single seater Mirages, as the second seat looks a bit like added in a field workshop later. Cheers Rob

Nice camo Gaz, I like it. Never made a free hand camo myself, a thing to keep in mind for one of my next builds. Can't wait to see the little rodent weathered. Cheers Rob

Nice detail work on the Henschel. She will be a stunner. Cheers Rob

Not sure, if I ever saw the Ewok parts in Star Wars. I saw only the first movie in cinema, when it came out. Where there any of the furry menaces in that one? In my dio, the AT-ST will be Russian owned and stomping on a Sd.Kfz. 251-D in winter camo. Cheers Rob

I build a real steam engine, when I was 16, maybe 17 in the early eighties, therefore no pics as I've left the engine stored back in Berlin, when I left. I started an apprenticeship as a light engineer then, in the workshop of a research institute. We, the pupil and the engineers, developed a steam machine together as a model for basic engineering training for us and later sold the concept. The idea was to use all the basic and advanced skills you achieve, to build a steam machine, each. After the final grading, you were allowed to use the paintbooth and galvanic to improve the looks of the machine, if desired. Mine was completely black based and chrome and nickel parts, the only one, not looking like a parrot. The final verdict about the machine was, how much pressure it needed to start to run, the lesser the better. Later we had a similar project, constructing a tiny CNC milling machine from scratch (mind, we are talking 1982 here, were some of our CNC machines still received punctured paper tape), including a PC as a steering unit. Yeah, I had a very thorough education as a light engineer, even complaining when there were more than four equal screws to shorten . Cheers Rob

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May you should take a look at the NAIM stuff. It's available through Sockelshop. One example: Front 46 No. MAIM35518 - Schwabenland Army - Hammerschlag #2 frühe Ausf. - Front46 / 1:35 _ Figuren (dersockelshop.de) Some interesting stuff here too, Industria Mechanik, I have some of their resin kits, but don't like the Mechas that much, but these steam punk submarines... Mecha - Industria Mechanika Shop Cheers Rob

Thanks Martin, this one will be painted 4BO. Cheers Rob