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Thanks, Rob. I haven't taken any natural light photos of him, yet. I like natural light the best.

Hi guys and gals. I want to get an airbrush with a broader coverage for priming and other applications. I hate trying to prime with coverage of only 3-5 mm wide strips. Of course... I have to buy what I can find here in Australia. What kind of setup should I get? Needle thickness? And what else should I know? I watched a Paul Budzick video on airbrushes once and he recommended an airgun for the purpose. Airguns seem to be quite expensive. What do y'all say.

Looks great,Kai. Very nicely done. I hate doing red lines myself. They seem to be straight until after they are dried.

Thank you!

Excellent reconstruction, Rodolfo! I really like the figure and the camouflaged uniform you've done.

Looks great, Ron. Love the weatheirng on the CAT engine.

Nick, Even though I've been using oils for a couple years now I found a lot of helpful information this post. Thank you very much. You work looks great!

That is really some great work, Mark! Everything looks fantastic!

Love the details, Mate! Not being a big student of the B-17 I didn't know it had a toilet!

Phil, Your work looks awesome! Love the engine and gun especially.

Thanks for the great pics and video, Martin. Fewer G-rated things look better on film than a sleek fighter aircraft. I've just run into an unhappy situation. I've realized two things about this 109 kit. The first is that the shape at the forward part of the wingroot and fuselage is all wrong. The wing comes up too much up front extending the fuselage area behind the oil cooler. But... I sanded a lot of it away. Worse still is discovering that both wings have a bow in them. So... port wing was worst, so I broke it apart and now it is clamped, glued, and taped, hopefully drying in a straight shape. This in one of those situations where I need a kit to ruin before I build one, right. Sadly, I spent too much on this one to justify binning it.

I think the blue is in keeping with the pics, Kai. Or course... if you were feeling bold, you could modulate it with some oils later. Besides... once you hit it with a matte coat, things will change. Keep up the excellent work!

Fifty... a great age. In Australia you get your first bowel screening test kit from the Gov't. Happy Birthday Carl!

Happy Birthday Carl!

Your decal work looks excellent, Kai! No flaws visible. Stunning!

Brilliant looking interior, Mark! Hope it all fits!

Love your work! I am a Silhouette portrait user. A lot of it is similar to working with MS paint. I never mess with the setting and use Oramask 810. I love the import function. You can import any jpeg or png file and then use the copy function. Then just drag and drop into the working area. I haven't seriously modelled any desert war aircraft before. I've always wondered how beat up they got from flying sand. Sadly. super close up photos of wing edges aren't plenmtiful.

Thank you, Kai. Is it me, or does his uniform look like velvet? Thank you Peter. It's all part of my plan to improve. Thank you, Martin! Damn, man! You certainly have a great collection of images!

After a uniform correction pointed out by a friend, and another dose of matte coat, our pilot's uniform looks much different: By eliminating the glare, my attempts at shading finally show. I just wish he had a younger face. He looks more like Geschwader Kommodore material. Heady stuff... wings and empennage on. I decided to look at Herr Weiroster's 109 and noticed that in photos, whether he's chilling in his custom lawn chair, leaning on vertical stab, or preparing to take off, the position of flaps and cooling flaps on his radiators is consistent. So... the point is that part of the wing root is visible. You can see I filled that joint with black CA and sanded it smooth. But I will have to paint test it tomorrow... or later. After work tomorrow, I'm on a four-day weekend. I hope to make major progress. ...We'll be in lockdown... I'll be short of excuses.

Beauty!!

My biggest problem with Trumpeter is the rivet holes. On both the P-40 and the 109F(G), many of the rivet holes are elongated because the riveter doesn;t always come from a direction perpendicular to the Aircraft's skin. So... you get some holes near the bottom and top of the fuselage that are very oval. Twice-bitten, permanently shy.

Very nice cockpit, Mark! Really love the way you've highlighted the rivets.

Nice work, John. You are flying!

Smart-clay-tablet?

Thank you for the very kind words, Hubert. I was actually trying to emulate the technique. But it just doesn't look the way I'd like. Perhaps my layers were too heavy. I just end up with textures I don't want.