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  1. jean
    Hi, for a first chopper, it is a winner. I've still never built an helicopter either. Great show. JR
  2. jean
    Hi Pat, this kit may be 40 years old, but it appears well molded and crisp. Just like well born kits should be. You will have a lot of fun with your Tiger. But for next time, please clean the remnants of haggis that maculate the table top. Miam miam... Cheers mate. JR
  3. jean
    Hi Dermot, this kit builds beautifully. Fantastic job so far! JR
  4. jean
    Hi Pat, well, at last you have spilled first glue. Things are moving in the right direction! Remind me: are you going to open the cockpit and insert a cockpit crafted by your fairy's fingers? Or just display a black hole? So far, so good. Cheers, mate. JR
  5. jean
    Hi Pat, you've done it again! Brilliant!!! I had all but forgotten about these kits. They were all the rage in my youth, when it was deemed very cool to smoke weed and listen to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young while building Huma kits . I let you imagine what the finished kits looked like... No doubt you will find some aromatic herbs in your back garden. Have a lot of fun! JR
  6. jean
    Hi Alex, glad I could be of help. We have reached the same conclusion concerning the front windscreen. On my side, the rigging will simply be glued into holes I have already drilled. I admire you for all this microsurgery! I have a question: what is the make of these drill bits you are using. I have never been able to find them. Keep enjoying your Tiger. JR
  7. jean
    Hi Alex, you may be correct as far as the front cockpit being covered when not in use. I don't claim to be a Tiger Moth boffin. But it would appear too that among the initial batch, quite a few of them were built as single seats aerobatic specials, a bunch of them finding their way to the Central Flying School aerobatic team. Here are two references to enter into the search section of the Getty Images site: 78969465 and 159136891. You are doing a fine job. Have fun. JR
  8. jean
    Hi Alex, for some unexplained reason, my build of the same Tiger Moth stalled when it was over 80% done. Build to be resumed in 2024, so all is not lost. I did quite a bit of research and the main t hing is that these early Tigers did not have any front cockpit, nor any anti-spin thingies at the tail end. Here is what I got to, and I should not be too far from the real thing. There are some photos on Getty images that I can PM you if you are interested. It is a great kit! JR.
  9. jean
    Hi everyone, this is a boring post, mainly here to show you the state of the forty-odd years old paint I have used. There is a lot more rubbish than paint and it is nothing short of a miracle that I had enough for the underside. There should even be enough left for the odd touch ups after I remove the masking tape. But thereafter it will be curtains and the pot will go to the Humbrol paradise. Here is a photo of the jam jar top used for the paint. But I am still amazed the paint was usable at all. Long live Humbrol. I am busy masking the underside prior to painting the top grey. Following the wise advice of @stevehnz, I will use the medium sea grey, albeit with a bit of white and a point of blue. There will be a pile of rotten tomatoes available for you to throw at me after you have looked at my ocean grey Ersatz. Cheers and thanks for watching. JR.
  10. jean
    Great job! JR
  11. jean
    Bonsoir Patrice, this build has been going beautifully and the result so far is smashing. You must be very close to the finish line. Well done. JR.
  12. jean
    Hello everyone, Despite some busy days, I have managed to start painting the Mustang. Panic stations, as I realized the only paint I had was the RAF dark green. Then the gods answered my modelling prayers, and I found a dust-covered, rust-stained Humbrol tinlet of medium sea grey, dating of the early eighties or so... Amazingly, the 4 mm of semi-hard paint at the bottom ended up being usable after a massive stirring... and a lot of turpentine. It took 3 coats to reach a decent finish. Here is the photo of the underside painted: Unfortunately I am out of ocean grey. Nada. So I am going to have to cobble something possibly using neutral grey and dark sea grey. Or whatever I can think of. If any of you has a better idea as to which paint could be approaching ocean grey, please feel free to let me know. Enjoy your build. JR.
  13. jean
    Another great cosmic law: if it does not want to go in from the front, try from the side... In France we learn that at kindergarten. Great Mustang Enzo. JR
  14. jean
    Super quick and excellent build. I'll second Patrice: what will your second build be? Have fun. JR
  15. jean
    Great build so far. I will definitely try the pink under the yellow. JR
  16. jean
    Go for a classic plastic build. Build it OOB, make it look nice, paint it like the real thing, add some decals if you want,. It will be a testimony to what masochist modelers buy. when self flagellation is not enough any longer I am sure you'll enjoy. JR
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    Hi everyone, this evening I splashed some paint on the P-51. A first coat of yellow and a first and final coat of what I have the audacity to call Azure Blue... I may not sleep tonight, as I am in unchartered territory. Anyway, I will take some photos in natural light tomorrow, but I would nevertheless appreciate your opinion on the blue. Oh, and on bottom left corner is my light blue spinner. There again, I am working without a net! Thanks for watching. JR.
  18. jean
    Hi, after a good clean up with Methylated Spirit, I sprayed some Tamiya primer: grey primer overall, and then white primer on the tail and the outer wings' leading edges. The wings will receive the yellow identification bands on the leading edge, and the rudder is to be painted Azure blue. As luck would have it, I don't have any Azure blue (and never had...), so I will try mixing a few paints hoping I get something close to what it should be. The Illuminati among you can tell me if I end up light years away! In the meantime, here is a photo of the primed model. I will go over it with a very fine grained polishing cloth before bringing the paint roller out. I will hang the 75 gallons tanks under the wings. I was going to use the bombs, but the fins are too coarse in my opinion. I have no idea whether these P-51B ever carried underwing tanks (more than likely they did not), but I do not want to scratch the stabilizing bars on the underwing pylons. ergo I will follow the easy route. Cheers and have fun taming your own Mustang. JR
  19. jean
    Hi everyone, the canopy has been masked. This is definitely not my strong suit, so we shall see when all the masking tape has been removed... A coat of interior green has been applied. Next will come the primer before the camouflage. Thanks for watching. JR
  20. jean
    Hi everyone, the canopy is finally glued and its fit was rather good. Next comes masking, which may be interesting as the corner of the various windows are rounded as opposed to right angles. So cutting the masking tape without cutting the transparencies will be a great exercise in patience. Almost at the paint stage. Have fun! JR
  21. jean
    Hi everyone, well, I promised to do something shamefully useless, and I have done it. I removed the dwarfish appendix on the kit supposed to be a gunsight, and replaced it by an after market one, slightly bigger, but not by much... Not only dies it look like the correct gunsight under a microscope, but you have to glue an acetate glass... Real fun. What is fantastic is that when the windscreen is in place, nobody would know there is an after market part in there! I just do not tell my wife... much safer that way. Whatever, I am getting closer to the finish line, and I am enjoying this build. So all is well. JR.
  22. jean
    Extremely impressive build! I am in awe of the work you have done on such a big kit! Congratulations for a superlative work. JR
  23. jean
    Quite an intricate camo. Well done to see it through. It is rather impressive, but then the Italian had great artistic taste, even on their war planes. Great job. JR
  24. jean
    Hi Pat, this time around I salute you for a very wise choice! I have enjoyed each and every Esci tanks I built in the (distant) past. They look great and I'd build one tomorrow if I found such a kit in a steaming pile of elephant dung while patrolling in the bush. So enjoy, and I shall follow. Cheers mate. JR
  25. jean
    ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT! JR
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