Black Knight

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Leave the paint be for at least a few days to allow it to cure Then wet 'sand' using toothpaste on a cloth 'sand' in a circular fashion rather than straight line

Very nice indeedy The Austrians re-did this one with ordinary interplane struts and came up with Phoenix* D.I, D.II & D,III (* Spelt Phonix in Austrian, with an umlaut over the o)

I was just sorting this to get started. The main colour is crimson so I've been sorting out my crimson paints No two are alike, not even similar. I'll show you later

Another week gone by already ! The interior is just about finished. Just a couple of details to do then this can be installed Masking of the outside of the windows and curtains on the inside The engine pods are getting painted white ready for the special flash on them. I'm not sure what way I'll do them. I'm thinking of making one good shape, scanning it and copying it and printing it out as decals, or making one good one, copying it and making painting masks on Tamiya tape. The decal option may be easier I still need to make the pilots' control columns, and a 1/2 bulkhead for the rear of the cabin Then I can get all the bits into the fuselage and get it closed up

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Not eyes, as they have a pupil. Look for clear cabochons or watch glasses or https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/274476403175?hash=item3fe81189e7:g:O7kAAOSwHjNV99zt

Can you just turn the tyres around ? eg, outside to inside I did that on a few cars, (even real ones)

Recently I bought an Airfix 1/43 Pagani Huayra I liked the look of its parts and went and bought the 1/43 Bugatti Chiron. I'm still awaiting delivery of it I'll get the 1/43 Jaguar E-Type 2+2 when it comes out For an up-coming GB on the ATF I've bought in 2, thats two, 1/43 Jaguar XJS. Watch this space I'm on a 1/43 cars notion right now So many spares for diecasts can be fitted to the kits

Nice work on these afair these are based on suits of armour in a museum in Vienna Its interesting that this one has a main-fer on his left hand

The wing did flex badly in early Lancasters Enough to pop rivets and panels to come off partially or wholly It was exacerbated by the flush riveting. To do that the rivet holes in the skin panels were countersunk, thus thinning the aluminium skinning. A stiffened wing and surface riveting cured most of the problem

Outside temperature has been in the 22* - 24* range this last week or more. About 5* to 6* above normal That's bad enough but my flat faces south and has a very large window so its been like being in a garden green house. I've no idea what the actual temperature is cos my dopey wee thermometer is stuck at 21* ! My modelling desks are next to the window. Its just been too uncomfortable to get any modelling done. It doesn't get and cooler until about 04.00, then the sun is up at 05.55 and even though the sun is not directly on my flat the heat and light is reflected off the flats opposite mine so my flat starts to heat up again from early morning

I do believe you are winning through on these

It is possible to criticise a model build in a very polite way One must always be careful though as so many people quickly take offence I find a lot of people on the internet do not fully read through what others have written and they jump straight to being offended On my leatherwork forum we have two sort of 'galleries'. One is just to show off your latest work. No criticism is really allowed there The second 'gallery' is where you can put your latest work and ask for critique, and that's where we let loose with both barrels of an 18" gun You can put your work in either gallery or both, its up to you. But expect some honest hitting in the 'Critique my work' gallery

Sopwith Schneider or Tabloid 'ere did you know that Sopwith was taken to law over the name 'Tabloid'. A pharmaceutical company said that 'Tabloid' sounded too much like 'tablet' and people would get confused !

Not a new kit but some improvements to existing kits Aeroplane modellers now get a lot more detailing parts in their kits so why not ship modellers getting the same with ship models? In particular I'd like to see kits of sailing ships get the necessary blocks, dead-eyes etc to do the full rigging You can buy plastic dead-eyes, bocks etc so they can be moulded. But its a mine field trying to sort out the sizes and amount needed. Kit makers could do the correct sizes, in the correct number This would of course cause an increase in kit prices, but not to the extent of the prices the packs of rigging blocks go for. The handiness of having the necessaries in the kit outweigh that price increase I think

I had to look it up too. I still don't understand it That person's writings and ideas reminded me of a chap I once had to work with. It brought back some very painful memories. His antics brought in the PSNI Any ways, back on topic. I did come across snobbery in archery. Especially regarding long bows. Mine are single piece lemonwood. But I got snobbery from others that they are not yew, not proper long bows. I politely either ignored them or informed them that the very original famous long bows were of Welsh Elm wood. I could still out shoot most of them 'uns using their yew bows and when I did, I once had a complaint lodged with the judges that my long bow was not a 'proper' one therefore I should be disqualified.

A builder's merchant I used to buy from used the 'metric foot' and the 'metric pound' (weight). They had to sell in metric measure but farmers & builders still ordered in Imperial Thus a 'metric foot' of timber was 30cm and a 'metric pound' was 500g. So if you needed 120 feet of wood you had to add on a couple of feet for the 5mm per foot you would loose, and on the other if you wanted 600 pounds of flaked maize feed you got, and were charged for, almost 10% more In the early 20th C the RAC had a weird way of working out car engine horsepower based on the diameter of the piston. Thus, the Austin 7, 7 being its RAC h/p, and in fact the engine gives 22 to 24 h/p. The lower number, the RAC h/p, was used to rate the road tax for the vehicle Up to the middle of the 17th century accounts were written up using Roman numbers and until about 1665 (afair) there was no 0 for nothing, If you had nothing for a column you either left it blank or put a - The 0 was imported from India and the last i in a row of Roman numbers was written j, eg 4 was written iiij 6 was vj Adding up and checking medieval accounts is a double-mind-bender

I think the 'Brumowski' type camouflage on the decals of this kit are a rather coarse Hannants does this sheet of Brumowski swirls. They are much finer on it and much closer to the real look https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/PSL011

I've had some success just leaving the kit in a strong bath of caustic soda solution Removes a lot of paint as well, But if the solution is too strong it will eat the kit plastic

Its a pity these two are all-tracked. I fancy building them I've already built an armoured Ford Model T A/c This type; But there is still this; or

A small bit of detail added to the roof of the wheel wells The flight crew are ready and seated. I need to make their control columns I painted the dark blue stripe around the windows so I wont have to mask them later The interior is coming on. This is just a test fit. The pencil lines are where partitions are fitted. The seat placement is about right. Each passenger has a full window beside them. I'll copy this arrangement onto another piece of plastic card, then redo this one, copying the second. Two interiors as I plan to do Prince Philip's Heron as well and the seating arrangement was exactly the same. The Ford 5-AT seats are just about perfect. They are very close in shape to the Heron seats, just the backs need cutting down a bit, and they should be made a bit thicker, but I may miss that out. The floor of the Ford and the Heron are exactly the same width And a bit of square U shaped tube plastic to box in the front wheel well

That is the 601 squadron 'Winged Sword'

No, I've not tried to look them up but they appear to have done just a few wagon kits, this one and maybe just 4 others eg, a hay wain, a Royal Mail stage coach

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