GazzaS

Looks nice!

There once was a man from Nantuket... A wee bit dirty for publication though.... From Breaker Morant: There once was a man from Australia Who painted on his arse a Dahlia the color was fine.... Likewise the design.... But the smell! Ugh! that was a fail-yah!

Fantastic job, John!

Thank you, Sir!

Oh yeah!

I'd love a muscle car. But my favorite: Isn't practical at this point in my life.

Three replies to 1,000.... But I won't be a dick and make two more meaningless posts... lol

So nice, Ernie!!

Hi Everyone! A bit of color: (note: touch up is required) Thanks for looking! Gaz

Here's what I did: I went to Bunnings. I grabbed a cheap, tall, flexible head desk lamp. Then I walked to the next isle and grabbed their brightest LED bulb of some 1500 lumens (I'd have gotten brighter if they had one in stock that day) of cool white light that would fit. When the light comes on, you definitely get that "take me to your leader" feeling. I feel that having a magnifying lens on your desk lamp is useless. You are better off with an optivisor or reading specs and a powerfull-ass-bulb. Screw mail order... Gaz

Looks great! Love the screens under the nose panels.

I love the idea of Spue goo, but the time it takes to harden isn't worth it to me. I much prefer to use CA and baking soda or CA and accelerator. five minutes VS 5 days... true beauty.... Another 'sprue goo horror story: I wanted to do the filled and puttied panel line thing. So, I thinned my sprue goo a little more. It dried, and then I sanded off the excess... But lo and behold two weeks later I began to paint and realized that the sprue goo had continued to shrink the plastic causing shallow dpressions in all of my filled panel lines. Weren;t too happy bout that!

Heh... mine may prove the exception to the rule...

Thank you!

Heh.... I leave scraps of sandpaper everywhere. You are correct... it is the PCM kit. I won it in a raffle.

Thank you, Ernie! Honestly I probably wouldn’t have done it were there more schemes and markings available. But I’ve always wanted to do a 109 in NMF.

Thank you, Phil! As we don't have cricket in the US... or didn't when I left, anyway..., I haven't developed a taste for the game. It is pretty inescapable here, and I pay enough attention for conversational benefit. We have cable TV in my workplace break-room, so I do get to watch a bit now and again. I've always believed in being a hometown or home-nation fan. So, it's Aussie - Aussie - Aussie!!! Of course, being a hometown fan becomes more complicated during the Olympics when I have to consider I was born in Germany, raised in the US, and now reside in Australia. Gaz

Hello, Friends! One of my little quirks is that I like my models to be somewhat unique. Instead of building Hartmann, Barkhorn, Richtofen, or some other well known ace, I look for the plane less modelled. I won a kit in a raffle that is a one-off warplane. Just too late to enter production. So that left me with limited decal options. I could either do the one, or some fantasy wartime version. I'm not much one for Luft' 46 or paper panzers. so I decided to make a racing plane out of it. I've removed all of the gun related stuff: blisters, cartridge ejection ports, and holes that bullets would pass through... oh...and the Revi gunsight... no need for that. I also reworked the cooling flaps which were molded completely closed. The landing gear are just held in place by Blutack so that I could place the masks properly. And I made masks, too! Thanks for looking! GAz

I like the one light... makes it more cozy I think. I've ridden in both CH46 Sea Magnet and CH 53 Sea Stallion. I wonder how these guys dampened the noise. Gaz

Tres bon, Mon Cheri!

Thank you sir!

Looks sweet, John!

Looks great!

Damn that looks great!

That trolley looks excellent! The wood is done very nicely!