GusMac

Really nice finish Ernie, especially after the glue disaster. The camo has a great looking feathered edge to it.

Evenin' all, some more progress. Got the top coat on the underside. 3 coats of highly thinned Ammo FS36622 Gray. I'm pretty happy with how the mottling in the myriad colours shows through. My gut was saying 'go another thin coat' but I stuck with my head which said 'stop now, once everything else is painted the contrast will settle out'. Glad I did as I think another coat may have lost too much of the mottling. Next job is masking this off and moving on to the upper colours. Will revisit this as I want to try and simulate some worn fibreglass effects on the rear gondola between the rear gear bays like I've seen in photos. However, I just want to get the bulk colours on first. As ever, comments and critiques welcome. Gus

Think that chain may chafe a bit after a while!

Will be very interested to see how your experiments go with the Xtreme metals.

My dad set himself this project when he retired and now about 10 years later he's back to the 1760s in all 4 main branches of the family and GOD is it mostly boring!! You could bicycle round most of the locations my ancestors have stayed in an afternoon, easy! Most of them are within a 20 mile radius of my home town and were farm workers or carpenters. I'm a positive freak having gone away to Uni, worked in England for a few years and then moved back about 60 miles from our home area. The interesting bit is seeing those who've served their country as we cover both World Wars, plus Korea, Crimea and the Napoleonic era. My grandfather's brother lied about his age to join up in 1917 and died in late September 1918 aged just 17. His name is on the memorial at Thiepval. My son is the same age now and it's frightening to think of him in that situation, mainly as he's a complete goofball.

Been some interesting stuff from Siberia recently about black snow falling due to the failure of the anti-pollution filters on the coal fired power stations and mining infrastructure. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/15/toxic-black-snow-covers-siberian-coalmining-region

Have a look at the Livescience and Sciencenews websites. You may well have Native Indian ancestry - the reproducibility of these home DNA tests is appalling and it's borderline whether they should be done for false advertising.

Nice solution Martin. Looks great once rivetted etc.

Once you've seen it to scale with the fuse it's just even more astonishing! I'm not sure I could see parts that small never mind manufacture them.

Great NMF as everyone has said Rob. I do like the durability of the Metal Colours but as you say the grain is a little prominent with some colours. However they don't stink like Alclad so that's a massive plus for me. Really like the effect with the photos on the mirror.

Ha ha Free. I was going to post that too, but you beat me to it. Love a bit of Zappa. Snow doesn't always look white but put your 'white' dogs in the snow and you realise the snow is considerably whiter than the dogs!

Looks great Jeroen, very lifelike.

Hey Wumm, thanks for the concern. I have a respirator and paint booth, so I'm mitigating as much as I can. It's the residual odour my wife objects to. I also run to work everyday through town so I get regular pulmonary function checks which are always well above my age predicted normal, so all seems to be well.

Thanks for the reply Peter. I pondered them for my Greek A-7 as they do make dedicated Hellenic sets but I bottled it and stuck with the Ammo acrylics I've used for the last few builds. Might give them a try for the next project.

How do the lacquer smell Peter? That's always my (or my wife's) issue with lacquers and Mr Color got vetoed a while back. I'm hoping once our younger one goes to Uni in September I can 'convert' his bedroom and get some peace

As Hubert says it get harder to tell which are the pics of the real thing!

Niiiice!

Eh???

Hope you get back safe Harv. Some colleagues were in Seattle for a conference last week and had a nightmare getting back - some baggage is still 'en-route'! The unusual amounts of snow there has even made the news here in the UK

Looking great Mark but I'm not sure I envy you having to add all those rivets.

The lozenge material on the seat and back panel is stunning.

Just the thought gives me a headache. I've never mastered the art of getting small enough amounts of CA to glue PE effectively without big blobs all over it, so I take my hat off to you for the pristine finish.

Hope it goes well Rich and look forward to this getting a reboot.

Good grief Danny that AA mount would suck all the joy out of me on it's own.

Hopefully the way I intend.......