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4 hours ago, CANicoll said:

Gary, you are THE wizard when it comes to foiling!  Not sure I have the patience for doing this panel by panel.  I'm sure you've already answered this, but what do you use for adhesive for the foil?

Chris

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Thank you, Chris!

 

 

 

 

 

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On 1/29/2023 at 3:01 AM, GazzaS said:

I spent more time foiling the fuselage and the leading edges.  Luckily for me, these planes had fabric covered control surfaces.  Doing the P-47 with it's metal covered surfaces...   would be a bear.  The last picture...   is my bench with the accoutrements and detritus of foiling.

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Gaz

OMG - awesome doesn't come close.

 

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Doing the underside is easier and quicker than the rest.

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And sometimes several wing panels can sometimes be done at once...  if circumstances permit.

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And seemingly go down in minutes.

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But sometimes you wanna do the single-panel game.

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And sometimes it's nice to see your work in a different light.

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13 minutes ago, Peterpools said:

Dennis

Looking mighty good -= just keep going and I'm sure you are planning number five.

Thank you Peter it will probably be a C202, but I will still buy the Italeri one if it has good reviews just to try and encourage them to build more Italian WW2 subjects.

Cheers

Dennis

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Dennis

Perfect and we should all think about doing the same with other kits and manufactures.

While the Kingfisher stress cracks are being repaired and drying, I started doing the prep work on my next build:

The Revell Spitfire Mk IIa. I accumulated a good deal of Barracuda resin detail sets, the Quinta cockpit set and Eagle Cal decals. Been cleaning up mold lines and now I'm at the opposite end of the plastic scale: Monogram Kingfisher plastic: brittle and hard as a rock while the Revell's Spit plastic is almost butter soft.   😉  

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Hi Peter, the Revell Spitfire while not in the same class as the Tamiya Spitfires is a nice build, the Barracuda stuff is great for enhancing it, I think I used a YAHU IP on mine.

A lot of the information I used on the build was from the late Edgar Brooks who reviewed the kit when it first came out, here's a link to the Britmodeller thread containing Edgar's summary.

https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234962817-new-revell-132-spitfire/

Cheers

Dennis

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1 hour ago, Spitfire said:

Hi Peter, the Revell Spitfire while not in the same class as the Tamiya Spitfires is a nice build, the Barracuda stuff is great for enhancing it, I think I used a YAHU IP on mine.

A lot of the information I used on the build was from the late Edgar Brooks who reviewed the kit when it first came out, here's a link to the Britmodeller thread containing Edgar's summary.

https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234962817-new-revell-132-spitfire/

Cheers

Dennis

Dennis

Thanks for the link. Heading over in a few

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5 hours ago, Spitfire said:

Yes he was always very helpful, answered a lot of my questions and not just on Spitfires, luckily I copied a lot of his information.

I was looking into foiling a model and I read on a forum that Edgar sold a home made foil glue from available household products. I reached out to him only to find out that he had passed a month or so earlier.  Apparently he took his recipe to the grave with him. 

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On 2/12/2023 at 2:24 PM, BlrwestSiR said:

Yup, it's great getting our kids into the hobby.

I tried with my boys.  Just didn’t take with the competition from all the video games that were coming to age in the ‘90’s and early 2000’s.   At least the youngest got bit by the car bug.  Oldest is a 1LT. In the Army and wants to get back into building another off-road truck.  I had a Suzuki Samurai I handed down to him as his first car. He’s got a transfer coming up at the end of the year to Captain’s training and then off to a new duty station where he‘ll probably start looking for a project car. 
 

My grandson is not quite 2 yet, so no modeling yet.  Kid eats like a horse.  I’d have better luck teaching him how to grill a steak or smoke a butt. 

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