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  1. amblypygid
    Looks brilliant, Sam, a very striking addition to your cabinet.
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    Some splendid Phantoms at Telford, but no Black Knights that I could see! I've been working on the crew, though my figure painting skills are rather rusty. I'm not sure about the hands; I've seen some photos of crew with yellow gloves, which may look better.
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    Thanks, Col. Yes, I did want something a little different on the loadout. I have the Eduard Rockin' Rhino boxing as well, that can be a bit more conventional when I get to building it.
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    Thanks for the advice and the great photos, chaps. Nope, not going near one for this build. If I'm putting the crew in, it seems a waste to cover up so much of the resin detail anyway. Also, now that it's autumn, any resin sanding needs to be done outside as ventilation in our house isn't great. Misbehave away, CC Are you heading to Telford this year? There are a couple of things that are going to prove challenging to me on this build: the metal tones on the exhaust and heat-shielding, the engine intakes, and weathering a white/grey bird. So please let me know what beers I should drink before I tackle the tricky stuff. Awesome photos, Dennis, thanks. I read that the Black Knights were frequent users of Zunis and napalm, but I felt that getting AM ordnance for both was a little excessive. So it'll just be the Brassin napalm canisters: Anyhoo, I've made a start on the cockpit with the hairy stick: Some touching up needed on the sills, and I really ought to put some colour on that prominent display for the RIO, I think. Here it is with the seat and headless pilot installed I think the crew figures are sufficiently well detailed that they'll look fine under some olive fatigue colour with white helmets. Might be replacing those ejection handles, though! Thanks Chris
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    Hi everyone. At the risk of becoming south Cambridgeshire's answer to @corsaircorp (I can but dream!), I've dragged another box out of my stash, keeping my gaze averted from the queue of kits waiting their turn for airbrush treatment. A/b time is limited right now, and the onset of autumn always seems to make me want to start a big project. This time it's one of the bigger boxes in my stash, Academy's well known Phantom, in the Grey Ghosts F-4B/N boxing. I love the Phantom in much the same way that I love the P-47: big, tough, powerful and capable. Yet I've never built one. About time I rectified that. I don't know all that much about the airframe, though, so if anyone has any helpful info, please let me know! Despite being a Gray Ghosts, only one of the three supplied schemes features that squadron. I want to build an earlier line bird and so I'm going for BuNo. 152274 from the Black Knights' 1966 deployment to Da Nang. Beautiful, eh? From what I can tell, the squadron flew almost exclusively CAS, and so any ordnance will be bomb-heavy. Academy provide Mk.82s, but otherwise I'm going after market with some Brassin napalm canisters. Different squadron, but here's a good pic of a napalm loaded F-4 with Marine CO: http://www.mofak.com/images/MooseNapeLoadRVN.jpg As Academy also provide crew, I think I'll give them a go and depict it ready for taxying.
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    That bomb bay looks absolutely great, Sam. Really sets off against the NMF. I hope you're putting it on a mirrored base!
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    I didn't think that there were that many issues with the B.III? The Merlin engined Halibag came in for a lot of criticism but much of that related to the engines; not an issue with this mould. The tires are skinny but otherwise this builds up into a perfectly decent representation, in my view.
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    OK, a window of opportunity for some a/b time opened, and so the Peshka has a first base coat of Vallejo AMT-7. I think it looks bluer in real life but will have to give it a chance to dry fully.
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    Lovely build, Jon. I agree with you that the two-tone grey is particularly fetching. Looking forward to see what you make of the Academy F4-N in particular, as that's next up from my stash.
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    That was the conclusion I came to for my Halifax III, but then I clean forgot to put the jump seat in. I think this is a very good kit indeed, virtually no filler required.
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    Looks very nice, Rodolfo.
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    Nice start, I've been tempted by the kit but feel I should build the Airfix 1/48 kit first.
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    I'd be delighted with them. Certainly nicer than the surprisingly thick kit decals that went on my Eduard Spit IX last night.
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    EA-6B Prowler

    amblypygid replied to Pappy's topic in Grumman GB

    Marvellous detailing, Pappy, those bays look terrific. I'm with you on the etch, it looks good at first but leaves me with a faint feeling of being not quite right.
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    Also following; I have one that's beckoning to me from the stash, though I'd like to source some alternate decals as the kit decals are misspelled. I didnt realise one could build a TRAM from the box, though, that opens up some new possibilities.
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    Soviet precision manufacturing! Lovely shot - from the caption I take it that's in Prague? Here's a neater looking effort housed in Norway:
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    The Sqn Ldr Kellett of 303 Squadron fame? Pavla do a vac-form canopy for the Matchbox kit; could that be useful as a back-up?
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    Looking great, PC!
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    I've test-fitted it, Gorby; you're right: it's not the easiest fit. It goes into the nacelle, but I'm not yet sure whether it goes far enough to fit the frame. It'll take a while to get that far; once I've finished masking the transparencies, it'll go into the airbrushing queue, but a/b time will be scarce for the next few weeks, I think.
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    I''m hedging my bets, or guaranteeing that I'm doing some of it the hard way. The port wing has the u/c installed, but I'll put the u/c in the starboard wing after paint. What else? I finally sealed the fuselage halves, at which point parts started falling out of the cockpit. Pretty close to paint, now, just some exterior detail to add and the remaining transparencies. The starboard wing is glued on, but the port wing is not as yet.
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    Cracking project, and a marvellous start. I'd have no inkling of where to start, and not the nerve to try, this sort of conversion, so I'm learning.
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    Lovely work, Ced, and also thanks for the Bob Monkhouse lines. I never appreciated how good he was until after he died; until then he'd always been the slick host of gameshows and, of course, Johnny Saveloy in Rex the Runt.
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    Thanks, El Barone! I am deeply impressed by the quality of the kit, esp. given the price. I love assembling, and this kit is one big assembly process. Certainly makes me keen to build the other Zvezda moulds in my stash (all of which are Revell reboxes), and I'm eyeing up some of their Lavochkin fighters in 1/48. I think it is, and I'm pretty sure I've read reviews where the reviewer has done that. However, I don't think it'll be too hard to mask around.
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    It's taken a while to get an even half-acceptable photo of the main u/c assembly. Turns out that my phone camera focusses best when there's an orange background (better than yellow or white, anyway). I guess contrast may play a role? Anyway, here it is. I painted the main grey base using Humbrol acrylics, which seem to have a satin sheen that I don't like much. Looks a lot better in r/l at a quarter of the size, but it gives an idea of how nicely Zvezda have moulded this (and the engineering makes it a cinch to get everything in the right position and aligned.)
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    Pfft. You're just upset because they ruled that chocolate dundees are chocolate covered biscuits, and thus standard rated.
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