Black Knight
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Humbrol do a tin of instant camouflage but last time I went to my local model shop I couldn't see any.
You'll find its usually kept next to the 'Black Watch' tartan spray.
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Okay... so far we have a Tigercat, Bearcat and Tomcat. I'm in with a couple of Hellcats.
Who's up for a Wildcat? Can we complete all the Grumman cats with a Panther, Cougar, Tiger and Jaguar?
I have a Gmn. Wildcat I could throw together.
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Yup thats all the parts, and six of those are for the driver!
ohhhhh, I feel an itch coming on, ....need a scratch............a bit of scratching to add a few details on this.
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Now that is a an unexpected Navy subject!
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Could I join in too please. I have several candidates, but will choose something closer to the start date.
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If I dont have my MiG 21 built by the time this starts [very most likely] then I'd like to join in too....please.
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Anyone mind if i say hi to my wife?
Hello Kitty...
( No really, her names Cat...)
Funny you should say that....
My daughter's name is Kathleen, but she wants to be called Kitty for short
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JUST a bloke with the microphone ?!........ naw, your delivery must have been perfect
Well done that man.
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I'll start with this wee kit, just to get warmed up.
This is the ancient looking box; which is really from about the early 1990s. A MiniCraft re-hash of the G&G cars. It still has the G&G name and copyright date of 1954 on the base of the 'chassis'
A close up of the chosen model as depicted on the box;
And the plastic;
1/32 scale.
Its a left-hooker, I was going to convert over to rhd, but the kit has a depression in the left seat for the driver's bum! - Yup, really. Ah, it'll be no big job redoing the upholstery.
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That Manx two of us.
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to hi-jack your thread a wee bit - I use scalextric wheels on other 1/32 cars to customise them a bit. I'm currently doing an E-type Jaguar as a sports racer, and am making a VW Beetle [old type] into a convertible.
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Try wheels from Scalextric. One can find a variety of styles, and a lot of second hand/used/new spares through ebay.
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Invasion stripes......naw, thats OTT..........
OTT, and UTB too,
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Its brilliant. It'll look fun in wrap-around camo.
If it were mine I'd have WW1 type stripes on the rear tail surfaces, but in the more 'normal', ummm thingy, red leading instead of blue.
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I think; aluminium silver.
The preserved Luft Hansa 52 was always bare aluminium.
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I'm sure someone else has done it more recently than '79. I watched it live on TV with no.1 son when he was a teenager - he's now 27.
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Sure, its not long ago a pedal powered flying machine flew across the Channel [and back?]
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During the testing of markings which led to the Americans adding bars to their roundel, it was found that shape was seen earlier than colour. At a distance the two white stars, one on each wing, surrounded by blue, was seen to be similar in 'shape' to the new practice of the Germans, using a white outline cross. The addition of the side bars, took the shape seen from a 'square' to an elongated rectangle. to eliminate even more doubt the markings were reduced to one on one top wing.
One exception to this was the P47 which often carried a star'nbars on each wing surface, usually in oversize, as i.d.to AA and others.
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I've built the 'Aces' boxing and it was Airfix' Mk1, not the Heller IIC or the old 1/11B/IV.
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For the BBMF Hurricane, it is a IIC, without the cannon, so one wont need to re-scribe the top wing.
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I'm not 100% sure on this but I do believe the Smer boxing is the Heller kit.
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The Heller was a IIC.
Airfix sold it in its own boxing as 02096 in a blue box, with 'Battle of Britain 50th Anniversary,' on it, from 1990 to 2010 when this number [A02096] was used for the new mould IIC.
Any I got were un-boxed, from the BBMF set usually.
[info gleaned from the ATF forum]
HTH,
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I wish I was as 'clumsy' a painter [as you claim to be], then I could do maybe as good a job as you. These really are excellent.
and I agree, the white hi-light in the eyes does work
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A lot of modelling is 'perceived perception',
Amy, Amelia and some others did not look overtly female in their flying kit. The outside clothing covered it all.
For example; when Amelia did her trans-atlantic flight, landing near Londonderry, it wasnt until she removed her overalls that the wife of the cottager realised this small pilot was female.
I'm in a vintage sports car club. Many of our members wear leather flying helmets, Irvin jackets or overalls whilst racing. And to be honest, from a short distance away the females look just like the males.Its just when they're in their cars, or I see them from a closer distance can I recognise who is who. A worn Irvin looks like any other from a distance.
What this waffle is about is; if you put any pilot in kit, who is on the small-ish side, on an aeroplane and say it is Amy J, nobody is going to gainsay you.
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Painting camouflage
in Modelling Tips
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As for the OP. As the others have said; thinner coats of paint. Also, stir your paint very thoroughly. And rub the paintwork down a bit between coats. For rubbing down you can use a bit of denim, or get a painters rub down pad drom a car accesory shop - its like a green pot scrubber. Wven a green pot scrubber can be used. Just rub the paint over lightly, to remove and gritty feel to it.