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  2. Gorgeous paInt and decal work! Nicely lined up on the bottom!
  3. The crazy exhaust heat exchanger helped us crazy Canucks not freeze to death in the Great White North. The Harvard had a similar one.
  4. Stickers on! Gloss coat of Humbrol acrylic straight from the rattle can, I know shock horror what a heathen! An upside to AFVs very few markings to apply. 30 min before work one morning, dish of warm water, micro sol and set and voila.... The decal for the name Briton is a little to tall to fit where it should but I wont tell anyone if you don't. The white and yellow markings are a touch translucent, however they are nice and thin, conform nicely and are quite happy to be moved around until positioned correctly. (The last time I tried using AFV Club decals every one shattered and were completely unusable). A sealing gloss coat is the next job prior to panel line wash. Thanks for looking Darryl
  5. The top surfaces were done in RLM82/83. The fuselage features a mottled edge to the camouflage which was just freehand with an airbrush. Given that I'm used to maximising visibility of gliders, putting camouflage on it feels all sorts of wrong! I think it looks great though. The struts were brush painted and the glider rigged... assembled. I might make a couple of adjustments to the camouflage before I gloss coat it.
  6. Keeps getting better, just as well after spending so long on the operating table! Super and irritating in equal measures I'm afraid Keith. Super build, paintwork and weathering but.....everytime I look I keep thinking I should get one! Then again i keep thinking that of the real thing, have you seen the price of a real one these days! Particularly like the finish on the seats btw. I'm going to be really picky now and I apologise, one very minor point for the future. The tyres; weathering in the tread and rolling surface great but the sidewalls look too black. (It could just be the way its photographed and catching the light). Look at a tyre today, unless it's been valeted and treated, it'll look a very dark grey, worn tyres can be a variety of shades and that's before dirt gets involved. However, as I say, I apologise for nitpicking. Doing some great work. Darryl
  7. Well, back to this thread again. After a very busy period at uni, I'm finally home for Easter and I decided to finish off XA-BK. First job was to add some primer. It was raining outside so I decided not to use my white spray can primer and just start from an airbrush-applied black primer. It took a couple of layers to build up a good coverage of the cream undersides.
  8. Hi all A bit more progress on the Nomad. Decals on, they are very thin and some cracked and folded, oddly the simplist decals were the large underwing serials and the Fuselage roundels. I lost the six in the fuselage serial number so gonna have to paint that possibly as there is not another one in the other options the right size Got to paint the yellow portions of the serial to match, but it confirmed the stripes are in the right locations, phew. The lovely kit 4 piece prop, painted with tge AK True Metals pastes. I love these, you polish them up after painting, got a few colours now, Recommended to all. The crazy exhaust, with I presume a heat exchanger? Reminds me of a old Fizzy (Yamaga FS1E) micron exhaust, just need some Ace bars, mag wheels and going back to the mid 80s and my teens 😉. Needs more steel paste it has rubbed off with the handling whits paintingvthe front section with Humbrol 98 and a dry brush with some AK copper paste Getting there now. Chris
  9. A Martian building a Martian Mariner.... What's not to be loved ??? Now that you had a look at the brilliant job of @Snafu35, you no longer can do it OOB Well, start at will my Dear Alien !! @LorenSharp is definitely right, Rhymes of the ancient Mariner is the perfect sound to build it... I hope that Mrs Martian enjoy Iron Maiden... What ?? No paint yet ??? Did you have a Shin Meywa to go with the Mariner ?? Sincerely. Le Wibble
  10. Built the Hull. It fitted like a dream. I used super glue just to "close" the last .1mm gap while I applied hand pressure. One frustrating thing is compared to the Fuso, the tabs connecting the hull halfs to the sprue aren't hidden. So quite a bit of sanding to a slight angle to make the deck flush -it isn't a 90 degree join - is needed. Here the assembled hull is vs Hood For once thinking ahead, I'm not particularly keen on the very pale wood of the Pontos deck so have been trying some stains: Left Tamiya black panel liner (orange from an Abteilung 502 mix of rust and ocher in lacquer thinner) centre is normal Pontos deck and right is actually three stains: middle Abteilung 502 ocher, bottom ocher and rust, top ocher and more rust. it looked horrid when applied but seems to have dried and doesn't look as terrible as I thought. I think I'm likely to just do the whole deck with one mix (panels always look too large on 1/350), but may play around more. Currently working on how to put all the PE on the funnels half way through one funnel and my patience ran out. Will try again tomorrow:
  11. The Fokker is done! I will be creating an RFI soon. Now it is time work on the T-38.
  12. Many thanks! Power-tower glued in: Regards J-W
  13. Great work Alistair... Now I'm eager to buy an Eduard cat, or 2.... And look, I made it page 2 so, I can enjoy your build !! Sincerely. CC
  14. More work done on the Waffenträger. Chipping effects using XF-9 hull red. Idea is to create wet rust marks. Last post before Easter. Have a good one lads. 🐰
  15. Nice progress, it all looks very nice indeed. Does it really have a choice of four different windscreens? Regards, Adrian
  16. Cheers Andy, we might try again July time but none are available around here at present
  17. A couple more shots of some detail and then a flyover video As mentioned I am modelling at that point of 'special sea duty men' closing up to enter harbour so I can model a couple of quirky details like the ceremonial name boards being hung. Another was the ships bell. With mast and all the signal deck equipment fitted. Still have to finish off the guard rails (plan on doing a big spray of all the stanchion and hard railed sections and get some fine black fish line to rig the others with. The 965 is on its way (I went with a 3d printed one as the photo etch scared me)
  18. Alistair, Coming along nicely - the red nacelle is rather natty! Cheers, Roger
  19. Thats magnificent, the 757 is such great looking jet. Eng
  20. I've got a angle-poise magnifying glass that I began to use on my last build. It's made life a whole lot easier for the small fiddly bits. As for the decals, they seemed to be OK despite the surface. Although I have no idea how.
  21. Hello Martian, Here's a job that's going to be very interesting. Good luck with the rest. I built the PBM Mariner Mach2: (It's perhaps a little too deep in the water. OK, we'll say it's full petrol! And the two shades of blue merge, unfortunately.) You can imagine that you can't see anything when you close the fuselage! I built the interior and the first floor: The stairs go up between the navigator's table and the electronic cabinets on the left side. I was also inspired by the photos of Eduard 73499 PBM-5/PBM-5A interior S.A. Minicraft: I couldn't find a photo of this staircase, just a model maker's interpretation: I dropped the diorama a few months ago (two kilos of transparent resin to represent the sea, that's heavy!). I can see the kitchen again, which I haven't finished fitting out: That still leaves me with fish: Have fun in modelling! Regards, Eric-Snafu35
  22. Working on the backend at the moment. Added more to the tail, some small vent thrusters either side of the main engine and heat sheld on top on the main engine, then a few widgets, I think we will call then "defusing outlets" to the upper stabilisation engine. I think a few pipes are needed next.
  23. Gloss coating done: I used Alclad's Aqua Gloss, which I generally reserve for those occasions where I'm concerned that a solvent-based clear coat might affect the decals - which is the case whenever they're laser-printed, like here. I'll leave this for at least 48 hours now, before going anywhere near it with masking tape! I've also discovered some errors and omissions, some of which I also plan to attend to. The most visible one is that I got the colour of the engine pylons wrong. I assumed they'd be white like the engines themselves, but they are in fact the same light grey as the wings, so I'll be attempting to correct that, at least. Kev
  24. Thanks, tried few profile tools, they were like so so, yes worked but damn fuzz. Then damn gold eye and experiance here, love it. damn i go back to my lego brick B-17G lol....more experiance for me to work out then. :). myself im a novis in building. keep yore work with updates, ill be wathing this for sure, as you got my attention and i like it alot sir. /Mal
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