Terry1954

Long live Gull Grey over white with colourful markings! Not a Phantom, but still up there in the charts .......... Hoping to get around to starting this one later this year. T.

That looks so neat Cookie, it was worth the effort in fighting that decal! Love the way this is looking. T.

Simply outstanding work Alan, in every regard. The nose especially so looks the part, with all that subtle fastener detail. And the rest, absolutely superb. T AKA, our man in Croatia!

Beautiful Barracuda progress Ced, as seen from Croatia! Hope I will see this at Telford? T.

Wow! Just discovered these builds Cookie. Fantastic metallic methods. I will have to try these myself Beautiful work! T.

I'm having a long overdue catch up on this one Heather, and in much admiration of all your hard work. Especially like that last picture of the cockpit. Beautiful work as ever! T.

What's this, another update......... Thanks Ced. I was rather pleased with the finish. AK Extreme delivers it seems........ Thank you Bill. I was rather pleased with the Bus find. Now all I need to do is find the time to build them all! Thanks Giorgio. Tone variation you say ..........? See below Thanks James. I must confess I am feeling a bit like Steve on the holiday front this year, but suspect he'll have a few more than me, before the end of the year! Thank you Cookie, and please, copy away ........... after all, I followed the concept that Giorgio did on his Mustang! I have a spare few hours this afternoon and decided to mask up and airbrush some tonal variations. The usual process.......... I used a slightly darker aluminium for the nose area, but initially it didn't appear dark enough, so I followed through with a light dusting of Tamiya smoke .... I think that worked. The elevators got some semi-matt aluminium ......... I did get one noticeable but very small lift, when I removed the masking tape, right on the tip area. No idea why that happened as everything else came off cleanly. Then, as I was placing it in its box, it slipped off the support it was resting on, and the clips holding the sponge support seemed to make a few minor scratches on the bottom of both elevators. Very annoying! On the real deal, this area was painted, so I might get away with calling them paint chips from wear and tear ................ 🤔 Anyway, no more on this now as we are off to Croatia first thing Monday morning, returning early July. Lots to do before we are off! Happy modelling folks! T.

Wow Johnny, this is coming along a real treat. It'll be quite a scene when done. He is definitely a winker................ 😉 T.

Beautiful work Alan. This particular Otter is quite a looker actually. Love that last picture. T.

Well, I possibly saw you (in either direction), as from one of our bedroom windows, we can see the ships in and out of Poole. Regularly see most ferries! Hope you had a good time, but sorry to hear that your car broke! Seems to be catching as I hear a certain lawyer of this parish also had some automotive challenges recently ........ 🤔 Hope you get it sorted soon. T.

More great progress Ced. Well done for getting all that stuff inside where it belongs. That under fuselage seam should fill and sand ok with some good putty. All looking good. T.

Nice work on this one Martian. Nice fix to the cyclics ............ I'm hoping you mean collectives to get the same treatment as the cyclics! Just to show I'm paying attention. T.

Looks like a nightmare getting all those parts in place inside the cockpit, Ced and that's even assuming they actually fit! The other builds are all interesting too, showing that there are many different approaches to building the same model! T.

Another busy week catching up on life stuff, and sorting arrangements for the next holiday, in just over a weeks time, but I did get time to get the NMF on the Mustang. Thanks Giorgio, I think it might have paid off, see later! Anticipate no longer Bill, metallisation has occurred ......... Wonders indeed. I found an old collectables shop in Ryde and buried deep in the rear of the shop were these...... The are now safely back on the mainland, with some other similar models in the stash. Fear not James, it appears to have worked! All these crossed fingers have helped They worked! Patience Cookie, patience! I don't know, you guys ........... 😁 Well, after all that finger crossing (and angst on my part), I can reveal the following., after a couple of very light coats of AK Extreme Aluminium: It's difficult to see in the photographs but on the model it looks like two different types of NMF have been used, one on the bare metal area of the aircraft, and the other less shiny and more grey in tone on the wing parts that were painted on the real deal. This picture shows it best at the wing root. Hard to believe there is just one single coat of aluminium on the whole airframe. Thanks most go to @giemme for the original idea, which was tweaked just a little, but largely based on the approach he took on his Museum build P-51. As an aside, early on in the testing process for which NMF to use, I tested out Mig Ammo's A-Stand lacquer paints and was very impressed with these. This is their Polished Aluminium, on the flaps. Same gloss black undercoat. I'll probably leave these as they are, to offer some contrast to the eye. A quick shot of some of the other parts being NMF'd up........ And finally the current state of the main wheels and legs, after some dull aluminium paint, plus a dab of chrome on the oleos from a Molotow pen: The chrome doesn't show that well in the pictures, so may try some minute strips of metal foil wrapped around that part. Legs and other parts yet to be sealed and weathered. I'm planning to concentrate on some tonal variation on the elevators, rudder and one or two other panels, before sealing the whole lot with varnish. More soon. T.

Lovely work there Bill, and quite amazing results on the canopy fit and fix. The blue, the blue, oh yes ..... the blue 🤔 T.