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I'm leaning towards...   Magnifico !  Has that been done?

 

Fantastico then ?

 

Could always do a cropped version like Mike.....' Nifico !

 

I know its been a Riveting watch...Farsands of 'em !

 

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Helo crisp,

you're doing a wunderbar job, I try to get my back in its due place.:gobsmacked:

Ezali kitoko peeeeeenza !! Did the superlative work in lingala ??

Seriously, congratulations.

Sincerely.

Corsaircorp

 

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On 6/2/2017 at 5:34 AM, Kirk said:

 

Nah - it's just the Kiwi pronunciation. Replace all vowels other than "E" with "I". Try it with your favourite word. :)

They do it with "E" too. The only way I can tell a Kiwi from an Aussie is ask him to say "sex" - if he says "6" he's a Kiwi!

 

Ian

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On 08/05/2017 at 09:28, perdu said:

Ian you have discovered how BM charms us all, everyone has a voice

 

Every voice has a bit of knowledge

 

Every bit of knowledge makes our community work

 

For the best of it you need join us at one of our traditional bun-fests, Telford is high on the ladder

 

Been checking out a few of the shows and have discovered that I am working or away for Telford and most of the others so will bide my time and may actually get to do some modelling after I have worked my way through some of the items on the house and garden improvement  list of SWMBO.  

 

In in the meantime, I shall look at some of the WIPs and drool unreservedly, especially Crisp's amazing builds!

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On 6/4/2017 at 10:17 AM, limeypilot said:

They do it with "E" too. The only way I can tell a Kiwi from an Aussie is ask him to say "sex" - if he says "6" he's a Kiwi!

 

Ian

Today's lesson:

"The Beginners Guide to Kiwi Vowels".

A: Say "ahhhh" like at the doctors when he gets his tongue depressor out.

E: This sounds a lot like "air".

I:  "eeeh" or probably closer to the letter "E".

O: "ooor" The word "or" but with emphasis on the o.

U: "oough" Similar to "glue".

 

If you see a Wh in a word, just swap it with an "f".

 

There. Clean and simple!

Not bad for a language that does not have a written history whatsoever...

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Returning from Kiwi vowels-sounds to modelling, sorry for silence over past week: real life stuff.

 

As I get ever closer to completing the rivet work, my thoughts are turning to how to weather this - which will be a crucial step in toning down the rivets and harmonising the finish so it looks realistic.  Just as did with the Vixen, my plan is to weather using variations on the "oil dot" technique which is used by our AFV cousins.  Experience has taught me that (unsurprisingly) the oils behave differently depending on whether they're added to a gloss surface or a matt, and I am not sure which I want.  So I am doing some trial runs.

 

Long-term followers will recognise my faithful Fulmar wing.  I've given it a squirt of my RAF BG mixture, sealed it with gloss, and added a few representative rivets and a roundel; I then sealed the whole lot with matt on one wing:

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...and gloss on the other:

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[Ignore the red bits on the gloss wing; they are left over from when I tested various shades of red for the masked markings].

 

So far nothing else has been done - though it is interesting to see that even with no filters or weathering at all, the two wings look radically different.

 

Watch this space.

 

BTW, I used rattle can Mr Super Clear UV Cut in both cases - one matt, one gloss (obviously!). 

 

More soon

 

Crisp

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The underside of the boat hull is now mostly complete - still a few details to do at the back end, plus under the nose.

 

Getting there.

 

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More soon

 

Crisp

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44 minutes ago, Ex-FAAWAFU said:

Thanks, everyone; just trying to replicate this:

 

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[Hmmm.  Nice body strike dent just by the sonar well, eh @MarkdipXV711?]

 

More soon

 

Crisp

 

Terrible way to treat a Sea King, never catch me doing that when raising the body !! Emphasis on " catch " :-)

Build is exceptional btw 

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I am kind of getting sold on the rivets on this build, probably because this model is looking so splendid.

 

Martian

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I understand why you are still not completely sold on the rivets, Martian - I still get cold feet occasionally and wonder whether it's OTT.

 

However, when I compare this:

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...with this:

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..then the un-riveted version just looks toy-like and way too smooth.

 

 

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