GazzaS
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I'll be interested in seeing what happens at the seams. Keep up the great work!
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Really Awesome, Martin! I like a shiny plane covered with dimples and rivulets.
Digital photography really changes the way the props look, too.
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1 hour ago, Clunkmeister said:
OK, I put the last one in, just because
I like both P-39 and P-63.... but couldn't really find a pretty enough pic of them in NMF.
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12 minutes ago, HubertB said:
And just for the fun
Hubert
What in the heck is that?
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Nice Work! Love the effect that paper masks give. It's my go-to method, anymore.
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I respect you for your devotion. I have fasted before... but never been restricted on water. I work in a physically demanding job, and probably drink a litre each hour I work. I would need to take a vacation to even try going without water.
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On 4/24/2020 at 4:08 AM, Dekenba said:
A-10?!
I'd go with pretty much any inter-war US aircraft.
For me, most interwar planes suffer from too much "Tubby-ness". Whether it's Siemen's Schuckert, or I-16 RATA. Short, squat fuselages just don't do much for me. Even great photography cannot do enough for them.
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10 hours ago, Dekenba said:
"A man's gotta know his limitations".
I'm enjoying it - thanks for the light touch you show around here.
Limitations? haha Very Impressive stash!
I actually had to get up and get a serviette to absorb the drool....
Anyway... gotta go back... I'm only up to "M"....
And I agree.... about the light touch.
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Nice start!
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That looks awesome Dale!
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1 minute ago, Dekenba said:
Those scalloped leading edges look pretty damned good - was that airbrushed?
Thank you! I made 80mm long masks with my Silhouette Portrait, then airbrushed em. I'm hoping that by simple enlargement I can use them for 1/32 scale/
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Fantastic! Love em both!
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One of the toughest aspects of painting camouflage is trying to get it as close to the historical version as possible.
In this shot, I made my best so far attempt at the scalloped leading edges common to Messerschmitt wings:
And in this second shot you can see what the mottle looks like when distressed with wet 8000 grit micromesh:
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PE rigging is terrifying. I resolve the issue by not building anything that uses ovoid wires. Be2c? No thank you! I;ll just wander off now.
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Well let;s see... they might not put a Nazi Swastika on the box... so they can sell it in places where is outlawed.... Finns, Bulgars, and others flew them... So... issues solved! You can build as many as you want, Hubert!
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6 hours ago, smitty44 said:
True that, but those 25's needed very little of it!
I think that might change with a full fuel load (plus auxiliary tank), and a bellyful of 500 pounders.
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Good Luck, Maru!
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Great video, thanks for sharing! For the curious, Carl Vincent is 200 feet or so longer than the Lexington.
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Aye Caramba! That's a lot of paints, Carl.
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50 minutes ago, Dekenba said:
Steady on!
I'd not say they were "dumb". They'd still be beavering away now, if it were not for a virus that is causing - according to the Bank of England - the worst recession in centuries.
It was simply PJ enjoying his hobby in the most grandiose style imaginable. He wanted a DFW C.V, he wanted a Gotha on floats, he wanted 4 types of Eindecker & 6 boxing's of Fokker D.VII's & 5 types of Camels, he wanted two massive HP O series bomber types to go with the three Gotha's & two AEG's, to say nothing of a pair of Felixstowe's.
We were lucky that he decided to share his hobby with us.
Personally, I thought it was glorious. If WNW has been run as a profitable business, it would have kitted maybe one or two boxing's a year, mainly of single seater stuff, it would have probably reduced mould quality & detail somewhat to reduce costs, whilst still being the best 1/32 WWI modeller out there, prices may well have been higher - at least initially - the fancy artwork may have never been commissioned, the instruction booklet may have been predominantly black & white, they'd never have offered free shipping for 5 years, etc.
PJ, with half a billion dollars of wealth behind him, put his tastes - and fellow modellers ability to share his hobby - ahead of profits.
We'll never see it's like again.
PS I have a spare Pfalz, once we return to semi normality I'd be happy to ship it over to Oz.
Perhaps my view will come around once my period of mourning is over.
Thank you for the kind offer! I'll look forward to normality, then. It's a sweet build of a kit, if you haven't had the opportunity, yet.
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It's all just one huge disappointment. What were they thinking? The list of slow sellers is pretty big. Whatever they were doing, it wasn't about making money. Dumb, dumb, dumb. Ernie has listed many of the Turkeys. so I won't repeat it.
I don't care if the Czechs or Chinese re-pop everything that was produced. I have enough of the ones I wanted. (unless you have an unwanted Pfalz D.III sitting around) But now I feel bereft of hope. There is no tomorrow when a new WWI aircraft model will be released. Let alone 2-3 a year.
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Just now, krow113 said:
yes even longer , some posts go back to 2014
thats why I'm wary of the 1/48 177 kit , it is a serious model
I would build it... I just wouldn't know what to do with it once done.
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6 hours ago, krow113 said:
A 1/32 177?
help me Jebus!
I have the 1/48 Hi-Tech from Special HobWaby , I look in the box once and a while and then I carefully close it back up and put it back on the shelf.
Wait, aren't you the guy who's spent the last two years on the Gotha?
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Hobby Boss F-84E
in LSM 1/35 and Larger Work In Progress
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Oooohh! Color me interested!