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As I said earlier in the thread I will not purchase from Amazon or Ebay for my own personal reasons - in addition, I have already made the purchase of the new airbrush, so with respect, your comment is a couple of weeks too late! I will request that the mods lock the thread as it is no longer required,

Ask 100 modellers, you'll probably get 100 answers! Everyone has their own way of doing things and that includes thinning paint and varnish products. There are a lot of variables in play at the best of times, heat and humidity, air pressure in your compressor, nozzle and needle size, etc. I have never used Humbrol Satin Cote so would not normaly be able to suggest a starting point, I only use acrylic paints, and 'hybrid' acrylics such as Tamiya - they are alcohol based, but brushes will clean up in water, and will thin (to a certain extent) with water, but I only use their own thinners (X20a). After doing a quick Google search.. 'recommended thinning ratio Humbrol Satin cote' the web comes up with 2:1 - 2 parts varnish to 1 part thinner. Maybe start with this and adjust as required, based on your own circumstances. There are no hard and fast rules you need to learn what works best for you. Have a paint mule and experiment a little.

In the middle of an italeri/esci ES-3A Shadow, and hadn't realised just how low some of my paint stocks had got. Needed Dark Gull Grey for the cockpit, and went to the pot only to find it bare!!! Obviously used the last of it on a previous project and hadn't spotted I didn't have another pot of the colour! Off I trot this morning to The Model Shop in Northampton. £54 later, along with some glue and 46ml Tamiya mixing pots... Now stocked up again. 24 pots of Tamiya paint!

Resistance Is Futile... You will Be assimilated!

Thank you for the offer, but I personally don't use any resin in any of my kits. I personally don't see the point in adding detail that won't be seen. As I said, other than replacing damaged, or dodgy decals, I'm very much an OOB builder.

Of which I also have one.... Which will not see the light of day

Sadly won't happen. Due to not working (medical reasons) I have a very limited income, and so don't buy any resin aftermarket items. I only change the decals if I have to, or there is a compelling reason (damaged, old, or I have a link to the a/c I'm modelling). I'm very much an OOB builder 95% of the time.

As mentioned in the airbrush forum, I finally pulled the trigger on getting a new toy to play with. H & S Evolution 2 in 1 Silverline. And seems very nice indeed. Not had chance to try it out properly yet, just shot some thinner through. But very nice. Very fine lines with the 0.2 needle and some fine control possible, and swapped over to the 0.4 needle produced very good coverage. Arrived on next day delivery, so can't complain with that, and within the budget I had set myself (well, the budget SWMBO had set for me....)All in all a very decent purchase. Now to get back to the workbench once this damn humid and hot weather buggers off!🥵

Just picked one of these large buggers up! I knew it was big, bit hadn't realised just how big the blooming thing actually was!!!!! However, I'm not allowed to touch it any further until September. It was an early birthday present from the out-laws!!😜

Have now ordered my new airbrush, however, have ordered from graphics direct.co.uk as it worked out to be much cheaper. As it was my first order with them, got a small discount, which then meant I could pay for next day delivery. So total spent including carriage was under my budget! Did check out aircraft.net, and prices were just that little too much, especially when adding carriage on top!

Must admit I like that one as well. Hope the follow up Forbidden West comes out on PC in due course!

Apart from modelling, I'm a massive PC gamer, and have a self built dedicated gaming rig. Way too big to take anywhere, but... Last year bought a gaming laptop to allow me to take my gaming on the road! I have reasons why I need to keep being stimulated, and this helps. It also helps that SWMBO is also a gamer!!!!

Sadly with the advent of edge to edge screens, notification lights seem to have gone the way of the dodo! Whilst useful, makers seem to have decided that they didn't want them! After a quick Google search, nothing comes up for 2023, but there were a few in 2021 and prior especially in the Samsung galaxy line, but nothing more recent.

@kiwimodellerif using a computer or tablet click on the 3 little dots in the corner of your post. You will get a little pop up menu. One of the options will be 'report post'. Once you have posted a thread in the wrong area, the only way to move it is to report the thread and ask the mods to move it. I think this one should be in the 'tools & tips' area, 'techniques' sub-forum. I've been nice and done it for you.

Bought the following when it originally came out If you have not seen it - please do so! It's a brilliant bit of documentary film making. Very evocative, and very emotional as you will see that a lot of the participants are sadly no longer with us, having made their final flights to be with their wartime colleagues. Anyway, over the last couple of days the wife had been saying that she needed to pop into the city centre to pick something up from HMV. No problem, we'll do that today, as we have several errands to run in that area. unbeknownst to me she had decided to buy something that I had been talking about for quite a while. It was rather a nice surprise! I think I know what my weekend will entail.....

Yep..... Very slippery! I started with just the odd one or two that I was building, soon became 10, that soon became 30 or so, and before I knew it, just under 200 in the stash!!!! In my defense, for about 15 to 18 months I didn't build a single kit, but still bought on a regular basis. That probably added about 20 or 30 kits to the stash, and up to 20 or so not built in the same period that I had been averaging ove the same period prior to that. So it's a very slippery slope (restarted the hobby back in 2011 also in my defense so that stash of 200, has taken 12 years to accumulate!)

That's often the best way to go. Build up in as many sub-assemblies as possible, paint similar colours together etc. But then you can always sand back the mating edges before gluing together Do you brush paint or use an airbrush? That could be where the extra thickness is coming from. With an airbrush, you are putting down microns of paint, where-as with a brush it's much thicker! Anyway, good effort so far, I built one of these when they first cam out. Really enjoyed the build. I also built the Revell version that came out at the same time, I've also built the Airfix MR2 version. Didn't come out quite as well though! I have another in 5he stash to have another go.... And a Revell MR3 phase 3, so you could say I kind of like the Shackleton a little bit!

So do you also have an issue with the website that I have also posted as an additional source? If you do not then do not pick and choose where you criticise. I was trying to assist with information that shows a profile in multiple locations. I am no expert and rely on books for information- in your "expert" view what are the perfect books that have the precise information that show perfect plans etc for all hurricanes?

There is a profile picture of P3114 in the Valiant Wings airframe & Miniature no 16. EDSG/Dark Slate Grey uppers, White lowers, high demarcation. Only this time with Night spinner, codes and serial. This time stated as being RNAS Gosport in 1940. (I will not post a picture of it due to the copyright of the owner of the publication) (Edit - the same profile can be found further down this page : http://www.postcards-from-slough.co.uk/home/hawker-hurricane-langley-airfield/)

The version that was ordered was the model 322, a varient of the p-38E, which did not have the supercharger fitted. This had poor performance at the height the RAF required. Thus was inferior to their already existing fighters. There are articles online explaining in more detail. And experts on here that will be able to give a lot more info.

Just realised that there is a bit missing from the declaration.... I have no live rounds, empty cases or misfires in my possession sir!

Not sure if I was lucky or unlucky.... As a cadet I was lucky enough to get to shoot the 7.62 SLR on camp which was a beast of a rifle to fire (at the time, it was almost as tall as me!) The recoil was absolutely hell to deal with, all I can say is (even after nearly 40 years) is OUCH! I was amongst some of the last to pass out of recruit training and into mainstream service life to still be using the SLR in general usage, the RAF was just transitioning over to the SA-80/L85-A1 as it was then. There were some SWO's who had some resistance to the transition, and sadly in my role (discip....) I encountered some severe resistance which really held up my in-service training. In a lot of ways, once I had converted to the SA-80, I preferred the weapon, as it suited my short stature John EX RAF Admin (TG 10)

That's a phrase that is certainly burned in the back of my brain! 5 years as an ATC cadet and having to do a range declaration, getting to shoot on ATC camps, and giving the declaration, and then when doing LAG range qual as well when serving! @Mancunian airman that looks so much like ranges I have spent many hours on in the years as a cadet, and whilst in the RAF! Well done looks so accurate! (ps I notice the range is live as the red flags are flying letting everyone know that live firing is happening!)

Able to check some off line references - Haynes manual on B29 and variants (1942-1960 - all marks) "B-29A Similar to the B-29 in all respects except in wing construction and manner of attachment to the fuselage. The inboard wing of the B-29 is continuous through the fuselage, whereas the inboard wing of the B-29A is joined at the centre section, which is a complete and separate assembly and the wings are bolted to this at station 47.75. The different construction means that only three fuel cells can be fitted in the wing centre section, being able to hold 1,120 gallons. This reduction in fuel capacity by some 200 gallons, was not popular and prompted General LeMay to tell Colonel Irving (XXI BC Deputy Chief Of Staff for Supply & Maintenance) to "write Washington and tell them that we don't like the Renton airplane". Despite these reservations the B-29As continued to arrive and made up a sizable proportion of all B-29 types in the pacific theatre. Many publications state that because of the differing method of connecting the wing to the fuselage, the b-29A had a wingspan 1ft greater than the B-29. This is a fallacy, with all USAAF official documentation quoting only a single wingspan for BOTH the B-29 & B-29A. All B-29As were produced by Boeing at the Renton plant. Early planes were equipped with the transfer fuel system, whilst subsequent ones had the manifold system. These later aircraft also had formation sticks added to the C-1 autopilot to facilitate formation flying. The very latest planes (Blocks 70 & 75) had the forward upper four-gun turret redesigned as a streamlined teardrop shape similar to those fitted to b-50's" (Naturally, if we assume (e.g. after Joe Baugher) that the span has not changed - this was one of the on line refs that I looked at earlier and stated that the differences were all internal)

According to various online sources (which I need to double check as it was only a quick look) they all say the same thing. The differences were internal to the wing structure and there were no to very little external visual differences to the aircraft.