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Bummer, but you can't blame the dog for it this time, at least not the decal. I hope you find a solution. Isn't there a second canopy for an opened display? Cheers Rob

Carl you need help, If my bench would look like yours (and mine is not very tidy) I would start a fire and call the insurance afterwards. BTW, do you now, where you left your decal tweezers? Cheers Rob

Do what's best for you and your family Phil, there is nothing won with feeling guilty, because of what... ? These are weird times and we should look and care for the people which are important to us and when there is time left, have some FUN. Cheers Rob

Progress is slow on the Hellcat, due to drying times and lots of 1/1 scale modelling on the house . The basic paintjob is done so far, this time with Gunze colors, a first for me. They sprayed well onto the 3D enhancing black and white base coat, which still shows a little. After applying the three camo colors, I used heavy thinned variants of them for panel accentuation and a little shading and lighting. Then I added the wings and tail, because it was way easier to apply the camo freehand, without the wings. Next will be an oil treatment as a pre weathering and to get the blues a bit more vibrant and then it's decaling / wet transfer time. Cheers Rob

I like your shadowing Gaz, the green hue is part of the palette of colors used, so that's fine by me. I experimented a lot with oil colors and pigments year the last year and found, it's best to stay in the array of colors used for shading or use vibrant often contrary colors, which involved pink orange and violet tones in some cases. You can learn a lot about color techniques and shading from good figure painters, some of them seem to have found the holy grail of color rendition. Another important thought is always 'go with the imagined lighting', nothing looks worse than false shadows. Cheers Rob

Congrats Kai, the detailing payed off, the landing gears look like the real thing. Wish you fun with the painting. Cheers Rob

Awesome progress Peter, the pit looks beautiful with all the added detail. Cheers Rob

That's a truly beautiful ignition harness, great attention to detail and well described. Cheers Rob

The oil treatment turned out great. It results in a very realistic look. I like the little differences in the three camo colors, which enhances the realism to my eye. Cheers Rob

Absolutely stunning in every aspect. Cheers Rob

Wildcats, Hellcats and some untidy cats, sounds like a zoo here . I primed my Hellcat and chose a new approach with using black and white gloss paint to emphasize a little 3D effect as a base layer for the paintjob, which will naturally need to be a little translucent. As I will freehand the three tone camo, I will join the tail and wings later with the fuselage, for an easy workflow.. It took me some time to find the matching red color for the cat mouth. The sides with the fangs will either be decals (left on the pic) or wet transfers from HGW (right) The best matching color was Scale 75's 'Baal Crimson', which I dotted onto the transfer material to test. Interestingly the HGW transfers doesn't cover the bloodshots in the eyes, where the Eduard decals have an extra decal to apply onto the eye decal. Cheers Rob

The tractor is looking great. I have a soft spot for strange looking vehicles too and sometimes thought about building one. If you are planning to blacken the Friul's chemically, it's best to clean them with some alcohol and a brush before. When soaking in the bath, it's a good idea to move them, as the process produces bubbles, which will hinder the blackening at the spot. The end result looks better than painted tracks, it has the perfect black brown hue and with a petite rub you have some metal shining through. Cheers Rob

Great work at the intakes Gus, they blend in smoothly now. With all the heavy resin and tons of filler, you might not have to think about producing a tailsitter. On the other hand, maybe a stronger undercarriage is needed. Cheers Rob

Exactly like the others said, you are on the way to produce a gem with all the added detail and scratchwork. Cheers Rob

If there is no proof, how the skull looked and if it was there at all, then it's up to your liking. It should be 'Die grüne Maus', maybe this helps searching. Cheers Rob

I love the shine of brass in the morning. Nice work Jeroen. When I made PE flaps, the most important thing was to plan ahead the bending sequence, to not corner yourself. You mastered yours obviously. Cheers Rob

You have twenty seconds to start a WIP, Carl,.... Cheers Rob

Whoa, nice haul, I had a vinyl ED-209 back in the days in 1/9 scale, but lost it somehow (maybe a party incident ). I've seen the Moderoid kit and was VERY tempted for sentimental reasons. The stop motion scene with ED-209 on the stairs in Robocop 1 is one of my favorite bot scenes in the movies. I'm still undecided, because 90€ is lot of dough for some plastic, but yeah the old times... Cheers Rob

My postwoman was busy today. After a long wait, I received some goodies. 1/32: Nails for my Albatros, seatbelts for my Uhu an d Bristol M.1C, which are especially important, as the PE ones from the Special Hobby kit are wrong, all from HGW 1/48: A Tamiya KI-64, which will be a relaxed in between build, were I want to test the HGW wet transfer camo on NMF. !/72 I never knew, that I would be interested into the big Breguet Atlantic 1, until I saw that scheme. I was immediately sold and had to order one. The plastic looks good for a Revell kit, but the paintjob will be hard to realize. Wide areas of the near black eagle are to be airbrushed, with the help of 1:1 stencils in the manual, which will be used to cut my own masks and then the decals are to be added. The decals are beautifully printed, but it will be difficult to match the color. Cheers Rob

And what a nice addition this is. All the detail work combined with the interesting and not often seen paint scheme, make her a real stunner. Cheers Rob

Definitely John, you created another beauty. The Spit looks great all around. I like your clean work with the airbrush specially, not to easy with the invasion stripes and freehand camo. Cheers Rob

Nice progress Peter, with all the shiny brass galore. I hope the overall fit of the kit is ok enough, to have fun with the build. The seat should be rigid enough, without soldering, there is no 100kg pilot sitting in, CA should be fine . I have a Special Hobby P-39 in stash, which I pulled out of the shelf several times in the last weeks, which could possibly mean... Cheers Rob

I love Massive Attack, the music is great and they appeal the vinyl junky in me, as they have so many rare and special pressings. I have an issue of Heligoland with a hand printed cover and other rare stuff issued by them. But as always in my collection , it's about hearing the vinyl. I would never sell one of my records or leave it sealed to raise the value. I bought them for their main purpose, which is generating vibrations in the air, which will hit my ear with MUSIC. Cheers Rob

They look like they actually might work. Great attention to detail, Jeroen Cheers Rob

Gracias Amigos, I closed the fuselage on the mediocre cockpit, but I didn't want to spend more time on it. The engine is only loosely fitted by now, lacking some of the exhausts. Cheers Rob