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About CANicoll

  • Birthday September 21

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    Northern Va
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    Model building - mostly aircraft although I have quite a few 'other' kits in the stash as well - in a fairly wide variety of scales from 1/72 to 1/32. Other than that, nature photography, HPDE, and cooking.

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  1. CANicoll
    Thanks Martin, It is sooo smooth and, well, grown up. Pretty comfy...
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    Got tired of shifting (kinda) but mostly just the boy-racer thing with the WRX so traded it in. Got this 2021 A4 with only 24k miles on it. $10 + the WRX. Here's the thing, it is nearly half a second quicker 0-60 and has about the same top-end as the Subie. SOO much more comfortable and has all the modern car features (Apple Carplay and Android Auto) including excellent lane control and adaptive cruise control. On the highway and even around town I get in the mid-30s MPG. It is what Audi call a Mild Hybrid Electric Vehicle with a 12V electric system to assist the engine at starting, low speeds and cruising. From last winter...
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    Pulled together the cockpit and again, the fit is interesting. Not a lot of locating help. But seems to be working out. Cleaned up some of the detail in the cockpit. The cockpit tub looks pretty good and the tub concept fits much better than the Italeri cockpit, which has more detail at the rear of the cockpit. These are supposedly the same size. Also the Italeri kit does not show the second level of the cockpit at all. NONE of that detail will be seen, but cool to know it is there! These guys didn't' have a lot of headroom! I'd have spent more time on this but... Some of the pour gates are really big, but all are on back surfaces (so far anyway). I did finally find some pictures of this area. Would have been cool to detail. Working on the bomb bay we again get to strange misses on the part of the instructions: it doesn't show the assembly of the bomb racks! Part A6 is shown completed, but nowhere in the instructions is how to put it together. It will not be hard to figure out, however. Base coat is completed on the bombs. Will do a top coat of darker green, then some color bands. The plane will be suspended from the ceiling so will be paying some special attention here That's it for now! Thanks for hanging in with me. Keeps me motivated to keep working on this beast.
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    Quick update. Painted and did some dry brushing and some detail painting of the PE panels. It is not accurate, but this will not be seen anyway. Hate doing it this way...There is a lot of detail there, but more could easily have been added with some decals.
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    I'm diligent about cleaning my Iwata, but apparently much less so on my Grex. Ugh...
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    Amazing, isn't it? With all of the solvents and cleaners, sometimes you still have to use a brush or toothpick to scrape out the mess.
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    This is soo embarrassing. My usually trusty GREX Tritium airbrush was barely putting any paint out. Spitting and sputtering. I ran cleaner through it, lacquer thinner, etc. That seemed to work so started back painting and back to the spitting and sputtering. Even back flushing didn't do much. I thought there must be a clog. Little did I know... Took the needle out and saw that it was kind of gunky. Then took the nozzle protector off and realized I would have to take the nozzle off - something I have done thousands of times with my HP-CS. However, I had never taken the tool out of the GREX case to take off the nozzle. I figured back washing and using lacquer thinner probably took care of the mess in the nozzle. Not so much. This is what I cleaned out behind the nozzle. That is a standard toothpick which I used to help dig out the mess. How it the world so much paint built-up behind the nozzle is beyond me. Clearly I was not cleaning very well at all. Ugh. I figured I'd share to remind especially the Grex users that the nozzle needs to be removed periodically to facilitate proper cleaning.
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    Made a LITTLE progress mostly because I ran into major airbrush issues (please see my message "Well, THIS is embarrassing"). Have most of the two-tier cockpit (I didn't know the cockpit was two levels! The Italeri kit doesn't show this level of detail) in Light Gray and the Instrument racks and PE instrument panels in black. All the black areas and the seats have a gloss coat getting ready for washes and detail painting. The bombs have an initial coat of Green but not full coverage yet. Here is my motivation for the bombs. They are greener than I thought they would be. Notice how high up the side of the fuselage the black comes on the plane: And my first coat of green. Had airbrush issues so this was the best I could lay down. The issue is fixed now, so hope to make more progress tomorrow. Will be layering a few colors.
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    Super job!! Not an easy kit and the finishes are amazing. I cheated and did mine in SEA camo...
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    Rob, AWESOME build! I've missed a lot, but glad I found this beauty. Love it!
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    Beautiful work, John!!
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    Looking good John!
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    Making progress and showing some of the peculiarities of this kit: Many parts have no locating pins. Such as the cockpit instrument panel tub: The instruction sheet shows this as 1 piece. Took me a long time to realize this is actually two pieces. Very cool that there are PE instrument panels. Not cool that there are no decals to go over the panels. Going to paint the tub gray, then the PE panels Black and see what I can do from there. The PE fret has plastic over both sides. Interesting. Good detail but wish I had decals to go over them. Some really nice detail on the cockpit walls for the various stations. I probably should have painted these before assembling. Hmmm Location information from the instruction sheet means dry fitting is mandatory There is some minor flash to address and I've already figured out there is a fit problem with this next step. The floor is too long to fit the next step. More on that later.
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    Hi Mike! This one is going to a friend. He has maybe 200 diecast planes in his house. No B-52's however. He's already cleared out a space to hang this from the ceiling. I'm keeping in mind where to hang the monofilament line. At least this kit has a full bomb bay of bombs to show off.
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    You mean these ones? Even how grainy enlarging the picture is, I think Carl is right. Hmmm....
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