colin

Seen his dioramas quite a few time over the years and they never fail to impress

I don't think Tamiya do a Aqueous range do they, do you mean Gunze

I have tried the AK 3rd Gen for brush painting, and although they thin well with water with added flow improver and brush reasonably well, their nowhere as good, imho, as Vallejo. They seem to dry far to quickly even when on a wet pallet

Very nice Beefy, you certainly didn't hang around getting that one finished, like the chair being utilised for a photo booth 😉

You tend to find this on older Eduard kits, especially on the smaller parts. The D9 is not helped, imho, being designed to have the hatches for the guns as being open

Very nicely painted figures 👌

Well your pain was worth it (I hope), you've finished up with a great looking model and the paint work is impeccable, nice job on the pilot figure also Almost jumped at buying one but the build reviews weren't that great, and I'm a really lazy modeller nowadays and can be bothered by poorly engineered new kits, life's too short 😆

Seems they are a darker grey

Border are producing some fantastically detailed kits, but their instructions are woefully bad and don't seem to be getting any better with subsequent releases, unfortunately

What a brilliant build, the ship and water/wake all superb

Well at least they are a recycling company 😄

Because share price is king within Boeing, safety coming behind that and has been for a long time. It's not going to change until those at the very top are replaced I fear

I've looked at a few Mini art instructions on these 1/35 kits, they look a nightmare to paint, as unlike the normal car kits with mostly single moulded bodies they come multi parts all to fit at different build stages. Look to be nicely detailed though

To be honest they never did have much of a model kit stock, but if your into Railways there looks to be a good selection on offer

OK for me, not a lot on offer models wise at the moment

So what was Border Models FW190/JU87 a copy of then

This happens a lot with online shops, your item has been dispatched, no it hasn't you've just printed the address label and paid the couriers. Two days later another text this time from the couriers we have your parcel 🙄🤪

Might be better to leave the part off until you finish the painting/masking if that's possible

How strong does it need to be, Klear should hold it ok if nothing else needs attaching to it UV resin or PVA modelling glue

Now that 'shelf friendly' idea would be a game changer if 1/35 catches on for aircraft and other manufactures follow suit. With the detail that companies can get now with their 1/48 1/35 scale kits perhaps the writings on the wall with 1/32, well when was Tamiya's last 1/32 🤔😉

2 Films with Blade Runner, both good but the 1982 is the best imho, Blade runner 2049 is the other Watch the 1982 one first though 😉

Well that's two more than me I think, and two ship models too boot, lovely builds all of them. One of the ship ones would take me forever to build 😄

Well they keep putting out kits at this scale so they must be selling them 🙄 Suppose we could blame Tamiya for starting the damn 1/35 scale with their AFV 😀

Had this boxed up half finished for over 3yrs, sprayed with Alclad Mil-Spec purchased from SMW in 2019 and that's were it started to go wrong, the paint dried very matt and gritty. Went over with micromesh trying to get it smoothed out. Anyway managed to finish it and sort of weathered, can't do much chipping on these for good reason, and most photos show them faded but quite clean, well the ones I found anyway is my excuse 🙂 Thanks for looking

Brilliant build and paint job. I feel your pain with the build side, mines back in the box awaiting my return to finish it. Not one Eduard's best, too many options to open stuff up on it, and if you don't want it open closing it up starts the fiddly bit with fit issues. I think Eduard only intended it to be built open 🙂 You won the fight with it though 👍