Lightningboy2000

Tried them without the liquid decal film & they're really sketchy, but worked fine after a couple of coats with a wide flat brush onto the decal sheet. I think it is a must with these old Microscale sheets. I've seen pics with & without, but just copying what would have been provided on the decal sheet. In fact I haven't found any actual photos of 675 to reference it.

Not a lot of people know this but Karl Bartos of Kraftwerk helped write some tracks from both first and second Electronic albums. Very much a supergroup what with Johnny Marr & The Pet shop Boys involved as well.

Just a few pics now I'm back home from work. Made a little bit of progress this morning. So the design of the SH tail planes has two stubs that line up with a hole & an indentation on the tail fin. I thought I'd redsign the fitting, cut off the forward stub & drill a hole for some brass rod. This will make for a stronger fitting & will go straight through the wing into the other tailplane. Better than a potentially messy butt fitting. 🙈 Drilled through the forward indent. Starboard side fitted.. That's done, now to do the same to the 20th (Wethersfield airframe) & will likely do the same to the Sword kit, when I get round to it. The other thing is I had a temporary aaarrrgh moment, when the front wheel mounting snapped off. It is really well moulded on the kit but it is very flexible due to the nature of the plastic & I don't think it would have lasted being transited around shows. So I would have drilled & pinned it but there's barely any plastic to drill through. I never throw away used etch metal frames & I just cut a couple of strips of brass & attached both sides where the break is & used some thick CA. Fixed & seems slightly stronger than before. Now all the decals are on; Special Hobby stencils, Microscale main markings, Extradecal stars & bars from sheet 72-112 & black pin stripe to border the red painted areas from Fantasy Printshop. Next will be a gloss coat to seal everything in & then a panel line wash. Jobs left to do; Decals for the tanks & wing pylons, paint the wheels & almost there. Attach all the sticky outy bits like canopy, gear doors, pitot etc then all that to the other SH kit on the go.

Superb! Really like the idea with the take off pose on that base. Would be good to see more models done like that. Martin

I put a list of most of what I would say were mostly Killer & no filler. All albums from the past 40 odd years. Not sure what other people would think of this but this is a live album & my personal opinion one of the best live albums I've ever heard. Every single track faultless. It shocked me that I only discovered them a few years ago. Onuka from Ukraine. This was put out on Vinyl in late 2019 & can go for up to £350. 19 songs played live & not one mediocre track. It's almost classical in style but mixed with heavy electronic sounds & ancient folk instruments, a couple of the songs are pretty powerful in a full on steam locomotive fashion. Can't say I can think of anyone else who has done similar. The only reference I can think of is as if Sinead O'Connor or Enya had joined Kraftwerk. Thought I'd add this as it's probably what she's most well known for via the Nissan adverts. This was recorded at the concert hall which was bombed in Mariupol.

I think I first started with the Stratosphere album from a friends fathers record collection, then I just had to collect the vast majority of the back catalogue.

Oh yes how can I miss that off my list. Came out the same year as Kraftwerks Computer World & Time was its rock and roll equivalent. Just as futuristic. The intro with that Cylon voice into Twilight is fantastic.

Music has always been essential for me, especially with the hobby. I would also say New Gold Dream by Simple Minds One of my all time favourites would be The Golden Age Of Wireless by Thomas Dolby who also helped produce Pyromania as Booker T Boffin Human League - Dare Propaganda - A Secret Wish Kraftwerk - Computer World Ultravox - Vienna Peter Gabriel - Car & So Pink Floyd - The Division Bell Yello - One Second Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene Tangerine Dream - Underwater Sunlight Any album by Ukrainian band Onuka.

Celebrating April 14th with this calm & peaceful tune from Cornish man Richard D James. AKA Aphex Twin.

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Just a little more progress today before I left for work. Applied a few of the Special Hobby stencils. The Stars & Bars are from the Xtradecal sheet & the tail markings from the Microscale sheet had been coated in liquid decal film. They went on well, but I have to be careful with anything too strong decal setting wise or the setter will react with the silver paint. Always a pain when you get that milky ghosting effect. That'l learn me for not applying a clear gloss before applying decals!

Just received some replacement stars in the post. May have to scratch another JATO set as well. 😉

Cheers buddy! 👍

That's the decals completed for 52-6570. Need to touch up the paint on the landing gear, then apply a gloss coat before a light pin wash. Also noticed something missing from the decal sheet. The triangle warning sign below the canopy on the port side which I'll hopefully be able to use from the Microscale sheet.

Finished with the decals on the "20th" Wethersfield jet & now onto this one. Succesfully applied one of the Microscale decals. I now know that i'll have to liberally apply liquid decal film to the sheet now as I know the rest of them will be a nightmare. Started using the black pinstripes from Fantasy Printshop & added the OD nose.