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  1. amblypygid
    Once more reaffirming your general good taste and gentlemanly qualities.
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    Oh, wow, that's some haul. Two FE.2bs?!
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    Yes, happy birthday, PC. Ced, I think you'd fit right in to my team at work, if you miss the humdrum weekday slog. Anyway, may your day be anything but humdrum, PC!
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    What a project, Rob. How did you get involved - Nuthampstead is hardly local to you - and I'm curious as to why that particular airframe was selected (given that the museum has a lot of relevant photos, you'd think they'd select one that is well attested)? I'll have a look through my refs but the 398th BG is not a group on which I have any "special" documents, so I'm not at all hopeful that I'd find anything of use to you. There is a photo on the 398th's Memorial Association page but I can't see what additional value it would hold for you, as it's very similar to some of those you've already got: https://www.398th.org/Images/Images_Aircraft_B-17/index.html
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    Nice job, Giorgio, despite the frustrations. Hopefully straightforward to touch up the lifted areas.
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    May your holiday come along quickly and pass slowly!
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    Good gourd, Tony. I'm normally weeks behind on your build but I've finally caught up and feel able to post. That turret framework is something special.
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    Not a great deal of progress this week but I found time to do some of those odd irritating jobs, like decalling the AIM-7 and varnishing the rest of the ordnance. This morning I hit the drop tanks with their first coat of white, and glossed the undersides. Later on I'll gloss the upper sides and then it can be more decalling fun! Here it is with ordnance (the AIM-7 is just placed there).
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    Nice project, with the personal history. Made me think how the bad experiences seem to stick with us longer than the good!
  10. amblypygid
    Oooh, looks really nice, that, Christer.
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    I liked the idea of Parafilm, bought some, but by the time I got around to using it, it had lost its stretch and tack properties. Please keep going with the Jug, and apologies for not commenting more!
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    Yes! (Which one of us will finish theirs first?)
  13. amblypygid
    Always keen to watch a Lancaster come together, Iain.
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    That's odd, you'd expect that to be picked up before it left the factory.
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    Please don't go to any extra trouble on my account! The secret is probably in the doing, I just need to give it a go and learn, but it's very helpful to have an idea of how others do it, otherwise I tend to come up with some wildly impractical techniques that don't work very well. The NMM work that you've done is also very convincing, and I think it suits the sculpt, which appears relatively plain compared to some of the stuff that GW is putting out these days. I like the face as well, particularly the work around the eyes.
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    Thanks, Andrew. The details are very clear, but the photos hint at the unveiling of a great secret. I've got a 40K Chaos Lord (or somesuch, I'm hazy on the details as I don't play, just paint) with an unfeasibly large cloak that would look very plain if left undecorated. Probably too late to replace it with a copper foil cloak, but you've inspired me to have a go at doing a simple design. I do have a question, though: you mentioned using metal foil as you can paint it while flat, then bend it into shape, but you don't seem to have done that. I'd have expected the paint to start flaking off when the metal is bent. Is there a way around that?
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    Marvellous work, Andrew (and good to see someone here from my home town, to boot!) I'd love to see some more in progress shots of the banner: such neat work.
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    Excellent! I've been holding out for this one, though I doubt I'll have reduced my stash sufficiently by April to justify acquiring a large box.
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    That's a very nice 'pit, Steve: pleasingly dusty and lived in.
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    Thanks, Christer. It took a week's worth of modelling, mainly because it seemed to take about five minutes before the decals would separate from the backing paper. That's a lot of sitting around and waiting, but I did not dare to have more than one on the go in case of confusion. I'm taking a mini-break from stencilling before I tackle the upper sides. Last night I dealt with the bombs, including repainting the napalm in aluminium, since I'd randomly decided to paint them olive drab along with the Mk.82s. The latter have been stencilled and I hand-painted the yellow stripes; Academy supply decals for this (though the double-stripe variety that would indicate a thermally-protected USN bomb), but I tried one and it didn't really wrap around neatly in the right place. A slightly wobbly hand-painted stripe is something I hope to get away with, though I think I might need to make them a bit wider than they are. Perhaps I should stop being lazy/miserly and use some masking tape! I also slapped on a load of panel line wash (MiG's dark grey) and used some of the excess to add some grubbiness to the unrelieved whiteness of it all. Next step is to start getting the dangly airframe bits on.
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    Lovely Jug! I like the white cowled schemes, very fetching.
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    Ah, stencilling. What fun! I've put quite a lot on; other than those on the dangly bits, the whole of the underside is done. I can't claim that they're all in the right place, and I'm pretty sure that the decal sheet doesn't quite have the right number of some stencils. But there it is, and who's really inspecting it that closely?
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    Seconded. Looks like there's some really nice detail on this kit, though it's not my cup of tea.
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    The pilot he defended, Paddy Byrne, was in fact also in Stalag Lift III, though he made it back to the UK in 1944 by taking insanity. The other pilot, John Freeborn, was defended by another lawyer (I had the privilege of meeting John a few times before his death, an interesting chap.) Interesting idea for a build. I'm afraid I have no experience of the kit or of modelling battle damage so I cannot give any more than encouragement from the sidelines!
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    I've just realised that I never posted on your thread, Konrad. Thank you very much, and thanks also to your Dad for sharing those photos with us. Really lovely build.
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