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  1. shoey
    looks great winenut! Cant wait to see it in person in the cabinet of glory... after a few beers that of course - then it will look even better
  2. shoey
    Not done a lot for a while, but lots of "pondering". Keen to get stuck back into it soon!
  3. shoey
    That's ok, lots of other names out there.... Rory, Roo, Tex.... I'm sure you will find one to suit. Once it arrives we could wet the head at the Alma?!
  4. shoey
    Are you going to find out what it is? Thought of names yet?!
  5. shoey
    Cheers Mate! Yours is a wee ripper too wine nut! they make a good couple!! My head is already big from exploding with frustration trying to get damn rib stitching and tape on the rudder of the wirraway
  6. shoey started following Academy P-39 Airacobra 1:72 Finished Done and Dusted! , CAC Wirraway , 1:72 Blohm and Voss 141....you know it....it's weird....and now finished! and 2 others
  7. shoey
    I am quietly chuckling away about where this thread has gone winenut! By the way, the plane is looking great!
  8. shoey
    Thanks Panoz, That is a great help. When you mentioned Pentland, i googled it and found the book on Wirraway markings and found a copy on ebay in australia.... so thanks that will help a lot! Wow Julien, that walkaround is fantastic! I plan on doing a fairly scale cockpit on the 1:7 scale model so this will help a lot! Dave, I have used WEM paints before and actually already have the RAAF sky blue. I have ordered a tin each of their foliage green and earth brown. Im actually going to be spraying with thinned down ordinary household latex paint so i will use these tins to do colour patches so dulux can match! Using this kind of paint in the RC scale field is quite popular as it is far more economical than buying 10 tiny tins and the results are really good. Thanks Troy, i will look into Aussimodeller and see if anyone there can help! Cheers all for your help, and if anyone else has anything to add feel free to chip in! Sandy
  9. shoey
    Hi all, Some of you may have followed a thread previously on the Hurricane my grandfather flew in Burma for 11 RAF squadron. Now that that build is done and dusted i am onto the next of the "planes my grandfather flew" series which is a CAC Wirraway he flew in Deniliquin, NSW, Australia at 7 SFTU. I have got some photos from his own album as well as others from the net i have found of planes i know he flew. Any information you could provide on what colour scheme these planes would most likely have been painted would be great... Here are the two photos i have from his album... Here are some others from the net of planes i know he flew (from his logbook)... Any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated! Cheers Sandy
  10. shoey
    Winenut, your lovely wife told me that "screams of anguish" don't correctly portray the actual words of the night!! Surprised we weren't woken up at the time! Great build overall though mate, looks great and great recovery. To make you feel better, when gravity wins on my planes the result is not so pretty!
  11. shoey
    Looking good winenut! Here's a link to my latest craziness!! http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2173691 Ill be following yours with interest!!
  12. shoey
    I thought i had finished with the hurri, but i was not happy with how the roundels and fin flashes turned out as i had rubbed them back with fine grade steel wool to take the sheen off and to weather them slightly.... it certainly weathered them and took the sheen off, but also took the colour off as well - the dark blue turned royal blue and the pale blue was virtually white. I decided to overpaint the roundels and fin flashes after masking, but with the WBPU surface, the enamel paint went quite cloudy. SO, i carfully pulled the vinyl decals off, did some repairs where they pulled some paint off, remasked and sprayed the roundels and fin flashes with the two blue colours, then on the weekend covered them with 3 coats of the matte WBPU and finally am really happy with how they turned out. For future builds i will definitely go straight to painting on the roundels as they look much better that way. The nose art from Callie which is a vinyl cut decal looks AWESOME!!
  13. shoey
    That last photo looks awesome nut! Can't wait to see them both together. I agree... A great project to be involved in!
  14. shoey
    Finally finished the "re-finishing"!! 3 coats of WBPU matte coat applied with a spray gun which worked a treat. Here is the before and after shots. I will post some more photos and video once i remaiden. Thanks for all your comments and suggestions along the way - it has definitely spurred me on! Before... After...
  15. shoey
    Thanks Richard, much appreciated mate! Papa came over for lunch today, so we had a bit of a photo shoot with myself and him with the Hurri. He was suitably impressed with the detail of the Hurri. Winenut also popped over from next door to meet my grandfather and show him his little 1/72 scale Hurri nearly completed and he thought that was great too!
  16. shoey
    Ok, so i was so appalled at how the canopy angle was so wrong on the photos that i went down to the shed, prized the canopy off, then cut a good 3 to 4 mm off the front of the canopy frame to get that sitting down a bit further, then reglued it back on - need to do a bit of filling and touchup painting, but MUCH happier now.... still not perfect, but much better
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