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Looks sweet, John!
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Hubert,
Enjoying your WIP! Love the spats and inner detail work. That chain is wonderful!
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Nice looking weapons bay, John!
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Glad to see paint on it... Looks most excellent, thus far!
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Flies. Well... A fly. First he landed on the figure I had been working on. But by the time I had grabbed the camera he was on the cupola. I tried to shoo him towards the figure, but he didn't follow orders.
He even landed for a ha;lf a second on the face of another figure that was standing up... but before I could swing the camera, he was off again.
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I have a prominent. narrow nose. Paper masks just don't work for me. I have to wear a proper, rubber sealed mask, otherwise dust and air just flow down into the gaps in front of my eyes and into my nostrils or mouth.
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Although I really like the shape of the plane... I really don't want to have to deal with resin dust. I just don;t want to wear a mask.
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Looks fantastic, Phil! Well done. Gonna try the pigments with water, too!
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Very nice, John!
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Of course we will.
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So... for those of you who have built Lukgraph kits before I pose this question:
What are the struts made of? I can't imagine trusting much weight on resin struts.
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Resin!
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IM or resin?
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1 hour ago, krow113 said:
Nicely done!
And to my eye you can see the glider influence on some of these earlier airframes.
Thank you! I've always liked the Dornier shape.
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16 hours ago, Bomber_County said:
Gaz, in my opinion you’ve nailed the weathered black, when you remove the canopy mask that’s when it will all sing......intriguing on what sanding you are going to be doing.........
Thank you, Phil. Sanding is my 'new' thing in all models. It's actually wet sanding done with very fine grit paper or micromesh. Usually about 6000 grit or above. The hoped-for results of the sanding are:
Distresses the camo paint.
Reduces 1/1 scale overspray.
Gets rid of matte texture which can cause weathering effects to wick across the surface uncontrollably.
It has to be done carefully, of course without a sanding block, and a drop of liquid soap in the water for lubrication. Truth be told, I'd rather none of my paints were matte. It would save me a step, and a layer. Tamiya acrylics are just head and shoulders above everything else. MRP lacquers spray nice... but they're not as tough as Tamiya Acrylics.
Gaz
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YOu must have inspired the artwork, Harv!
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12 hours ago, Gaming Dragon32 said:
Personally I'm in the uk.
Hannants in the UK (love em'!) is my go to place when I can;t find it here in Australia. And they have this new Tamiya release:
https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/TA35372
And you can see a video review of it here:
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46 minutes ago, krow113 said:
lol
sorry i dont think in terms of those things
i would be happy to supply a set to a competent modeller who was keen to try as it helps prove the method
Well... don't know if I'm competent. But I'll let you know when I start my next WNW bird.
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Just now, krow113 said:
I have at least 2 of those.
Lozenge would be easy layout , just watched a guy do a multiple full mask lozenge on fpratbook , there were overlaps on the colors , my method has the color edges mating. A BIG diff to me.
For an experienced modeller , banks of properly scaled and numbered lozenges would be easy to cut to shape and apply.
I'll do my best to set aside some time for A Gotha in the near future.
My trouble would be having a machine that only cuts. Numbering them would have to be with a sharpie...lol
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1 hour ago, krow113 said:
Which kit were you thinking of?
If I have it I can layout masks to suit. Lozenge would be dead easy after polygons!
It really is a viable method in my view , having someone else try it out will help to prove that.
Fokker D.VII, Hannover Cl.II. ,Halberstadt Cl.II. But who knows when I'll actually get to them.
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Looking forward to seeing more of this. After seeing your lozenge work, I'm tempted to try my own. I don't really care for huge decals, and I've never been totally happy with the way the decals came out. They get wrinkles near the wing tips, or even worse, blisters as you use a hair dryer to shrink them.
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Welcome back, John! Err... John's mossie. Heck, you've done all of the hard work. Now you're at the fun stage.
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Zoukei-Mura P51D Mustang SWS No 4.
in LSM 1/35 and Larger Work In Progress
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Some nice, tidy work, Phil!