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Brilliant result, Kevin! Really well done!

Phil, thank you. I really want to do more naval stuff... but it all takes so effing long. I know the boat isn't really far from done... but the figures and the water base... all still gotta be done. I used to be 12 kits a year. Now I'm down to like 4 or 5. Honestly, I don't know how I'll ever complete any of my ship models.

Thank you, Peter. I have a few nice brushes for detail painting and a lot of beat-up brushes for everything else. Some I bought on gift vouchers are worth a king's ransom. I heave an unhappy sigh when the paint reaches the ferrule.

How did you avoid the saw teeth from grabbing and jerking the tube around?

I have thought of putting up the wind breaks or whatever they're called. Canvas dodgers? But in this scale I would have to represent whatever held them to the railings... and that would be a PITA to get right.

Cool! That bridge looks rather dodgy.

Thanks Chris. SLT is really great for making Tamiya paint more brushable. You don't use Tamiya paints? I doubt it will work very much with aqueous acrylics... since you need other water based products for them.

Very nice progress, Peter. Sometimes... Revell just makes me shake my head sometimes. I hope my Kotare Spitfire is less troublesome and requires no AM. About the 109 G6 ppl say: "buy Revell, it's so much cheaper". But then the totally necessary AM costs three times as much as the kit. I didn't see the savings.

Awesome paint and decals work.

The 190 A5's are pretty sparse and expensive, too.

No, it's not some plantation of deadly potato masher grenades ready for harvest... It's the brass stanchion's for the boats railings. After seeing others talk about brass stanchions and mitre boxes for round stock... I bought one. However, mine has a weakness... the butt piece that keeps your stock from sliding is plastic. And the movement caused by the razor saw caused the moving brass to wear away the corner of the butt piece causing my .9mm tube to get longer than the 1.5mm it should have been. I tried various ways to hold the tube in place... fingertip... wooden block... but those teeth going over the round tube just caused movement. I needed .9mm tube to fill the .9mm holes made by Airfix to fit their clunky plastic railings. And because the .9mm tube has a .7mm inner diameter, it was a nice fit for .5mm brass rod which is still a little thick for scale... but will have to do. One benefit of the larger tube at the base is that it gives a natural look to the bottom of the stanchion... It's not just some piece of metal sticking out form the deck... it has a proper bolted flange... or looks like it does, anyway. Painting them was a two-step affair. First, I dipped the base end into some thinned Tamiya paint and stuck the top end into a blob of blutack so that the base could dry and my paintbrush would not need to accidentally touch the deck. And once all of the stanchions were firmly stuck to the deck with CA I painted the rest with thinned Tamiya paint. I thin it with Mr. Color Self-levelling for brush painting. I have a spool of silk thread that I use for ropes. It's pretty nice to represent any kind of cord. If you work it alot, it can become fuzzy... but the slightest lick of flame will get rid of the fuzzies, even after you seal it with CA. I have used it to represent bungee cords on WWI fighters. Using Mr. Color on Tamiya paint really slows down the drying process. I'm gonna let it sit overnight at least before I consider doing oiling and adding the 'chains' between the stanchions... Hopefully it doesn't become some CA sodden nightmare.

Thank you very much!

Cool... always wanted to see one of these built.

Man, looks great! Yes, daylight pics are awesome.

That gun looks pretty cool. Nice work.

Wow... that's a lot of firepower. it's amazing what you can do when there is a lack of aerial opposition.

I know some ppl like ugly things... but Fairey never even tried to make things look good.

Last time I saw an Anigrand WIP, it involved lots of putty and sanding. I hope yours doesn't.

Nice start John. Interesting aircraft for sure. It’s one on my to-foil list. I never quite understood why this bird got the same designation as the very cigar shaped bomber. I look forward to seeing what you make of it.

Uh... what's a PBJ-1h? My early morning mind is just thinking of peanut butter and jelly. Goggled it... a Mitchell.

Those guns look great! That 37 looks like it could kick ass.

Your S-boat looks great Kev... low slung and deadly.

Ern, Decals looks great! I'd love to see a truly weathered, beat up, and well-used model that isn't a Corsair flying from some coral atoll.

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As rickety as they look, Rob... the boats look great. Massive progress are you making.