The Spadgent

From two years ago to right up to date. 🫣😍 Looks like you have a perfect fit with that scratch fire wall. I don’t know how but I’ll try and keep up to date. Hope you’re well my friend. Johnny

How am I two years late for this beauty???? Stunning CC. The out side family shot in formation is exquisite! Johnny.

Snared by the Perdu net! Like a moth to the flame. I have been away for a while as this time of year is always super busy at work. But drinking a cuppa and catching up with this is just what the doctor ordered. Thanks Bill. 🤩 The Lynx looks ace! The wires and straps are my favourite parts but I’m very much looking forward to your diorama of the deck, even though your club base looked fine to me. I’m not 100 % sure what’s going on with the new kits but what I do know is that it’s made me hanker for some bench time. I have a couple of builds I need to finish off. Carry on with what you’re doing. It’s amazing to watch. 🙌🙌🙌 Johnny

Lovely catch up Simon. The canopy masking has turned out particularly well. Bravo that man. Nearly done. 😍 Johnny

Loving the new sight parts. I think everything you have added looks wonderful and will make this build a real stunner. I keep picking up Corsair kits at the LHS then putting them down again as I can’t remember which ones are meant to have the cloth wings. I’m such a plum. Johnny

Oh yes you do. 🤩🤩🤩

An absolute stunner. Great work with lots of very different surface types going on. Looks great. I bet it looks even better on display. 🙌

Lovely work! 🤩

Thanks. Yes he is a lovely gent. Why thank you. 🧐 Thanks G. Nowt wrong with us chickens. 🐓 Thanks Bill. 🦜 Thanks James. 😍 🥁🛢️🪘🍗 oh no. Have I missed something? And thank you. 🤩 Thank you. Yeas I kinda like it. Yes I went to see him at the Birmingham Symphony halls a few days ago. Stunning show. 🥰🥰🥰

That’s some mighty progress Alain. Pain about the stripe though. I think the yellow looks ok. You might be able to re factor the black edging and get away with blue murder? I’ll keep everything crossed. Johnny

Loving this Bill. Like you said, it’s all about the “story” and this one has that in spades. Looking forward to the damaged paintwork around the blast and all that goes with it. Really enjoying this. 😇 Johnny

Blimey it’s been a few days. Work, life and the back garden is taking up lots of my time but bits have been done here and there. 🤩 The garden has got a whole lot bigger but now looks a right state. I do wish it would stop raining for five seconds. The rounds are a good 70cm or more. I do have quite a good axe and the chopping is actually good for my back. well the fences are in and I need to clear the wood so we can get on with landscaping. Any hoo, enough of the 1:1 scale exploits. Back to the kit. I tested the Aqua gloss on a mule. I used light mists but it gave me a really grainy look. I decided not to use it this time and go back to the Tamiya that had worked previously. Gloss was sprayed and dried. I used my compass cutter to make masks based off the decals. @giemme will be pleased. 🤞 Masks in place. Things just got serious. 😬 I used my trusty liquid mask to…. Well mask off the bits I wanted to be chipped. Now it’s horribly close to paint. Right nothing else for it. Psssssst! I used red mixed with a little black. Then did a trad of highlighting. Same for the underside. Aaaaand drum roll. 🥁 oooh! I like that. let’s see the other side. I took the pic a bit early as there’s more to rub off but it looks good. Here’s the other underside and both top ones. Wow. It actually worked. 🥰🥰🥰 I feel almost as proud as Rick Wakeman having a Keytar battle with his son wearing a sequin cape!!! weeeelllllll almost. (Great gig by the way) More sooooon. Thanks for dropping in. Comments always welcomed. Happy modelling. Johnny.

Thanks Simon. 😇 Ha! I wish. So much wood to chop but at least I’ll have supplies for the next few years. 🪵 Thanks James. The Back is slowly recovering thanks. Now I’ve got a cold. Lords what next? 🤪 Thankyou. Thanks G. Next painted decals. Is that an oxy Moron? Thank you. Yes I kind of like it. I went over the top on my black cat build a few years ago. I didn’t want to make the same mistake. I think I used salt back then. Eugh, I didn’t like the way that worked at all. 😖

The masking worked a real treat! And now you have everything varnished, decals. 😍 Pity about the Finn debacle but I’m sure you’ll fix that, no problem at all. Bravo. Johnny

Looking good Simon. Glad to hear you got your phone sorted too. One can’t do too long without your device. 😉