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Hi Phil, seems to be more a paint log than a build log , as the construction phase seems to be almost finished. However, I will follow closely and hope to get some new ideas out of your painting and weathering. I have a basic Tamiya Jeep with a Legend SAS conversion set and some Alpine figures waiting, so count me in. Cheers Rob

Hi Phil, to me the Foxbat is not about being pretty. The fascination lays in a design which is about raw power and speed in the smallest possible frame, combined with some Soviet design madness. It's just a huge engine, made able to fly with the addition of some minor things like wings and tails and a tiny cockpit as well. I can remember my jaw dropping as a kid, when I first saw pictures of the beast. This bird's design is the ultimate neglection of fanciness. Cheers Rob

Great looking prop, should look great on your 109. Cheers Rob

Like it a lot, nice painting and weathering and the little Dio is spot on. Cheers Rob

Paint is looking great Gaz Is the angle of the wheel in picture one for real, due to relaxed fit Russian production tolerances maybe, or is it just not glued in place. Cheers Rob

Looking good, nice dusty weathering, specially around the wheels and tracks. Cheers Rob

Nice paintjob, that's the way to keep a monochrome surface from looking boring. Cheers Rob

Brilliant, the sepia toned ones look like taken from an old newspaper. Cheers Rob

IP is looking good. I will fasten my seat belt on the passenger seat and follow your build of this really interesting Heli. Cheers Rob

Your paintjob looks great Gus, the colours look convincing. You should render your Corsair into Martins Pic. For getting the different looks onto the panels you could try (scrap sheet first) to carefully work some matte areas in with a fiber pen. That would dull the paint a lot in these areas. Cheers Rob

Your Super Sherman looks how,..., just super, love it. Can't wait for the weathering. You can see clearly, that the design of the Sherman was maxed out by this time. Cheers Rob

Nice Martin, coming together. Never thought about using white glue as filler and saved that info on my brain-drive . Cheers Rob

Lucky you , on my little island of permanent spring, spring itself is the coldest and wettest time of the year. Good for the nature after a dry, sunny and long winter, but I'm in need of some sunrays. Anyway, enjoy the first blossoms and a nice spring Cheers Rob

Pardon my French Cheers Rob

If you want to close the Komet up (good choice for the Eric Brown 163 without the rocket engine and sans weapons) be careful to align everything right and test fit a lot. There is a hell lot of fuselage parts to get in sync and I stalled with mine. I destroyed lots of the work in the cockpit and inside the fuselage while doing so. There were some great pics and info provided in my building thread, mostly provided by Martin and Jeroen. https://forum.largescalemodeller.com/topic/5535-british-rocket-–-captured-me-163-meng-132/ Cheers Rob

And the last paint scheme plane took part in the Berlin Airlift, der Berliner Luftbrücke back in 1948. As a Berliner, that to me is some extra motivation. Cheers Rob

I saw this on the SH-page and immediately felt the urge to get me one. absolutely not my scale, but love that massive flying boat. Cheers Rob

Tons of, Harv, after building their TA-152, I'm still in a mild trauma state and not brave enough to even start the single seater . Cheers Rob

Whatever this is about, some nice music here. I own some thousand Vinyls, new and vintage and there are some very precious rare pressings of Massive Attack among them, one Heligoland, a dark and sinister gem even has a hand printed cover. There are some great German bands around, but I have to admit, that I hate Rammstein for their all out permanent crying for publicity and being risen in West Berlin I know them from their firs breath. If you look for some special German band, I would recommend 'Bohren und der Club of Gore or a with a little bit more electronic approach 'Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble' just for starts. Canada wise, I like the Sadies with or without Neko Case. Now I get it, you are reviving VIVA a defunct European music channel, but on the other hand you spoke about future Cheers Rob

That's an awful lot of kit parts, scratching and aftermarked put into the shaker of your craftmanship and talent to get this stunning result, Chapeau. Can't wait, how the hole thing turns out paired with the skeletal Fokker. Cheers Rob

Nie progress, Gaz, the bat is coming together. If you want to go steel finish, I can recommend Uschi van der Rosten pigments. Rubbed onto a primed surface gives a very convincing steel effect. There are only Iron, Steel and Chrome available, pity. These are the finest grained pigments I ever used. Congrats to your new booth, seems to be a Havox, right? I got the 80cm brother and will add two more LED strips to enhance lighting. Pity I can't get them here on my island, so this has to wait till my next visit in Germany. Cheers Rob

Thanks Gaz, and yes, both mouldings are perfect, the good to work with plastic of the ship and the heavy vinyl cast of the squid. The tentacles are only loosly fitted now, but it holds the submarine without problems and due to it's weight, everything is really stable. BTW: Aren't these 'Lange Kerls' from the Prussian army in your signature. They still do some ceremonial parades sometimes near my old hometown of Berlin. Cheers Rob

Wow, amazing result, everything blends in perfectly. I love how you handled the huge black areas, its black, it's flat, but it' not to black, hard to explain. The mottling looks fabulous too, great stuff. Cheers Rob

Hola compañheros submarinistas, Step by step I'm coming closer to solve the problems of installing everything in the correct place and style. I tinted the glass for the submarines bridge windows transparent yellow and cut some sheet triangles, which align the LED's beside the windows correctly and enable me to use the kit provided plastic lens in front of it. And that is how it looks when finished These photos were made to find the right spot, somewhere on the backside of the squid, to install the power cable, where I could hide it at best. They also give a good impression of how everything will look when finished. The squid is rigid enough to carry the submarine and it is designed to hold the Nautilus in place without the need for glue. With my Proxxon and a small grinding wheel I did something to the squid, I would normally do to it's smaller incarnations in a restaurant , I cut it. Actually I identified one of the backside arms to be ideal to hold the cable channel. The cable will be fixed with CA later and will be 99% invisible Cheers Rob

Thanks Harv Yeah Gus, my finger lingered sometimes above the buy-button of the Bandai stuff, but I'm not that deep into Star Wars. But there is other interesting stuff out there like Industriamechanika. They produce resin kits and I own some of them, because they have a great coolness factor. There will be another huge submarine dio project in future with one of their steam subs. There is no snap fit here, but clever engineering and very good fit. Didn't know that they do birds as well. If the Emil would be 1/32, it might be the answer to another thread right here . Gave that a thought too Wumm, but maybe I light the parrot like beak of the beast. Lighting the eye would look strange with the lights switched off and the beak is directed to the belly of the submarine. Cheers Rob