GazzaS
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Very nice progress, Carl... despite your 'helper'.
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Looks so awesome, Chris!
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Oh, that looks awesome. I find a lot of uncaptioned photos on farceb0ok. Only the last is known to be 9th Pz Bulge. Submitted for your casual perusal.
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Nice work, Guy. Here I am trying to motivate myself into building a ship and you're against it.
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Rob,
All of those metal shields look great. I don't think anyone will notice those missing triangles. Keep rocking it.
On a side note... I been watching Ron Calverly (the model ship) and I'm feeling it start to motivate me to get building on my warships that lie in wait.
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Looking good, John!
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Nice work, Guy! The main reason I prefer indy links is because I like to have a little variation in placement for road wheels and tracks on some piece of terrain. I've got a couple sets of friuls that migrate from model to model as I save the magic tracks for that model that deserves them. Teeny tiny pins suck.
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2 hours ago, Martinnfb said:
Looking real nice Peter. Check out the perforated tubular frame within the frame of Erla haube, it provided a flow of a hot air to defrost the canopy. But don't worry about that, nobody wants to know the perks of German engineering.
Don't forget that ZM omitted the canopy latch lever and the parts that hold the bulletproof glass to the hinged canopy.
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11 hours ago, Peterpools said:
Thanks Gaz, very much appreciated.
Looking at both photographs, I can see how you handled the edge seam and where ZM missed the boat on the actually to be seen details. I'm with you and wish ZM would have devoted a lot more time and effort into the correctly replicating the visible details and left almost all the hidden details out - a waste of time and money.
I'm almost ready to button up the fuselage, added all the fuselage details, which I painted then RLM 02 only for what little could be seen through the open access panel. I decided to add all the fuselage ribs as they are what align both halves otherwise it becomes one huge unsupported butt join, top and bottom.
I used the fuselage ribs as well.
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The interior looks excellent, Peter. One of my biggest hates of the model (thanks for reminding me) is the seam that will form once you put the tub into the fuselage. On both sides, just outside of the area you have devoted time and effort to, you will have a seam to fill.
Below is what mine looked like after putting the cockpit tub in and gluing on the windscreen.
But then... a little too late, I remembered it had to look like this: (don't pay any attention to the red arrow)
Note that there is no seam by his left shoulder. This is one of the things I wish zm had engineered cleverly.
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Ewww.
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Awesome!
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The Kit IP and cockpit is great with the decals provided and some UV gel for the glass gauges. Seat belts is really all you need.
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Looking good, John. There are some funny incongruities about the kit. They hyper-detailed engine and the detail-less Galland hood. The great fit of so many parts vs. that tail. Despite all of that, it's a better kit than anyone else has created.
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14 hours ago, PanzerWomble said:
Quite the Sim Pit for your flight simulator game.
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2 hours ago, Martinnfb said:
Gary, what if I make you a master of that eagle in epoxy? I would sculpt one and if you like it I can send it your way. Then you can cast him a little brothers.
Great idea Martin. Thank you for the offer. But it's an art I want to learn at least well enough to supplement my modelling hobby. I have dreams of making authentic looking battle damage. Not something that looks like a few pieces of twisted, drilled, or cracked plastic. But of punctured and twisted metal that suggests and aerial battle followed by either a crash landing, or a narrow escape to be gawked at by ground crews.
Who knows... Maybe I'll make some jewelry or something I can sell one day.
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On 3/21/2023 at 7:41 AM, Martinnfb said:
With the arrival of the Kotare Spit. everything else got put on hold. Now that I'm waiting on oils to dry and another stretch of workdays, I won't touch it until the weekend at the earliest.
Chasing and Repousse. That's pronounced Re-pooh-say.
My dearly beloved got me a cast iron pitch bowl and 2kgs (4.4 lbs) of pine pitch resin. The resin arrived in a rectangular tin and had to be smashed into bits and slowly melted into the bowl. This was done in the oven at around 220F... or 107C.
Here is my bowl and the red pitch:
Chasing and Repousse is how they make fantastic artworks like this:
Like Martin says... 3 clicks for best resolution.
Now, I spent part of this morning trying to make two brass eagles for my s-boat. They are only 12mm by 9mm. Or, 1/2 inch wide by 3/8 inch tall. There are a couple ways to work... you can work from the backside, or the front side. These little guys were from the backside and ended up just a little too big... and ugly.
The brown on them is leftover pitch. I tried to melt it off them, but it caught on fire. You can see dark flecks of it on top of the pitch bowl. I don't want to waste any of the pitch, because it ain't cheap. Apparently you can remove it with solvents, but that means any pitch you remove that way is lost for good. I was hoping not to have to buy another block of it.
Anyway... I'm still working on it... Martin.
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Wow, that Bofors looks great!
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wow, Rob, she's looking awesome! I'm so far behind in paying attention. You've really been smashing it out.
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Great rescribing, Carl. It's still my most hated model related task.
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Chris,
Great job attaching the wing. Looks like an airplane now!
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Great job on this. Polished plastic... who woulda thunk it.
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On 3/26/2023 at 3:58 AM, PanzerWomble said:
Ground to a halt here ...really struggling to find any joy with this build.......... tiny blobs of plastic pretending to be detailed ....so I'm parking it on SOD for now . I'll cycle back round in a bit and finish it off before the end of the GB but I need to go do something more intesting . It's answered my question as to whether 1/350 ships are for me ...so glad I didn't flash out $000's on a large Hood or some such . Bit like 1/72 for me - after two builds last year decided I wasn't interesting in the low levevels of detail offered by that scale either.
Sorry to see you docking this. i was looking forward to the result. i can tell you from personal experience that the dragon kits offer a lot more detail with less blob-fakery.
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5 hours ago, Martinnfb said:
Lovely work on the exhaust,( just like the real thing) Gary. This kit is making me droooool
(pictured Mk.V)
Thank you, Martin! You are the king of reference photos.
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Airfix 1/72 scale "E" boat.
in Let’s Get Wet Group Build.
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HI Guys and Gals... do we have any gals watching?
Anyway... during my club meet, I worked on the eagles. I took my pitch bowl and home-made tools and tapped three of them out. Not totally successfully... but enough for this scale and amount of commitment.
The swastikas were impossible to make. I tired numerous times... From front and back. The material is too soft, and too thin. It needed to be thin to enable me to shape it to the bulkhead to which it is attached.
I didn't have any brass polish either. And aluminum polish, the only kind I have, wasn't cutting it very fast. So, I just sanded them a bit with 12,000 grit to add some shine to the most raised parts.
I'm nearing the end of the build. I finally attached rudders and screws. ...which, I think I edited out of each photo... oops
So, anyway... After matte coating everything I filled all portholes and windows with micro crystal clear. You'll see through the photos that some haven't dried yet.
Immediately before the aft gun platform is a small readout for the engine, I'm guessing. I used a decal from the ZM 109 kit.
And I made the flag out of cigarette paper. It works a bit better in 1/350 scale because in that case you only make a one sided flag because the detail doesn't have to be that big. But in this scale, the swastika always has to turn clockwise. A single layer flag is then scrunched into a ball and then looks very natural on the yardarm.
But because I needed two layers I had to glue them together... and gluing them takes away the ability for it to look more natural.
What follows are just some gratuitous photos... I can't call it done. The upperworks are still only friction fitted and there are a few lines of rigging to do. Then there is that water base to bring it all together. And I still have to learn how to play with resins...
Happy modelling!