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Progress so far..... Spent ages trying to track down some decent photos of the missiles to get the right colour... went with Humbrol 167 in the end, mostly based on this picture :
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TB.2 Bayraktar UAV Clear Props 1/48 - decals
IanHx replied to exdraken's topic in Made in Ukraine GB
Interesting to compare this with its 1:72 sibling. Some parts look identical but bigger, in other places you've got more complicated fiddly bits . Take for instance the tails and booms - you've got separate pieces for tailfin and boom , whereas the smaller scale has them as one piece. Watching with interest 🍿 -
It's not gone entirely to plan..... Preparing to attach the not-very-thick-at all nose landing gear door, when all of a sudden I find my tweezers holding half a nose landing gear door.... Much time later, I concede defeat to the Carpet Monster, and start looking for cut-off bits of decal backing paper. Just as I think I've found the perfect sized slivver, I lose sight of it. In the casting around trying to find it on the desktop again, come across..... half the nose wheel landing gear door ! Take that, CM !! I just hope exdraken has better luck with this kit's 1:48 big brother.....
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Apparently I am not the only Britmodeller in Rugby
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With dodgy wobbling sets and working teleporter ? (no Ian not the Blakes 7 Liberator..... not in 1:72....)
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Latest progress - wheels on. And propellor reattached..again... it's not the strongest of joins.....
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I hate this picture. I really hate this picture.... Anybody want to hazard a guess why ? Well it shows that there is a right way round and a wrong way round to put the propeller in its housing..... and that more teeny tiny painting is required on the blade edges ! <some dismantling later> well i suppose at least I spotted it before glueing it to the back of the airframe !
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Wings and tail on. Still looking at pictures on the internet and trying to decide what colour it should be (the Bayraktar, that is ). I'm pondering whether it should actually by a Compass-Ghost scheme. Humbrol 128 looks about right on top.
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There sure is ! One step required the adding of weights. Looked for the second smallest size I had (resting on paint tin for scale) : Have now got the main body closed up : The instructions called for Humbrol 129, but that wasn't blue enough compared to pictures of the real thing : So have gone with Humbrol 156 instead. Oh, and the bit I had to fight the carpet monster for ? One of the tiny pieces stuck horizontally across inside the tail , 1/3 down from where the V meets
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I'll put some pictures up tomorrow. Tonight, I'm too exhausted from a 30 minute epic battle with the Carpet Monster. Short version - in the ongoing struggle between Man and Carpet Monster, Man won. But the room was trashed and the magnifying lamp was fatally injured. A very pyrrhic victory indeed.
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Started. Thank goodness for Pixnor tweezers What's this ? It wants me to paint the tubing inside the teeny tiny wheel well ?? 😱 Ok a paintbrush isn't going to cut it. What have I got handy.... oh look a spare tube from an old glue bottle - that looks thin enough to apply paint with. Sorted.
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1/72 - Sukhoi T-4 Sotka 3D printed kit by Arma Models - in design
IanHx replied to Homebee's topic in The Rumourmonger
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Well, it's been a pretty 💩year for me so far, especially in terms of model building. Hoping to recapture some modelling mojo, I thought I'd gatecrash this Group Build. What to build ? I had a search through my stash for something Ukrainian. AModel ? Check. Art Model ? Check. ICM ? Check. Modelsvit ? Check. Ok, going to have to choose according to something other than kit manufacturer. I need something that screams 'Slava Ukraini' , while sat on Snake Island flipping off a cruiser and eating borscht. And then my eyes lit on this : To work ! Here's the 'I'm not cheating' picture of what's in the box. I have a horrible feeling the carpet monster is going to get well fed with this one !! It's TIDDLEY !!
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I was honestly expecting to see Black Knight post a picture of a bottle of HP sauce here.....
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce81rkg87w8o James Earl Jones has passed away at 93. RIP
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A Japanese man asked me what I knew about bonsai trees. I replied "very little"..
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It wasn't tomato ketchup, so I reckon you probably got away with it !
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Opposite the hotel ? Well played ! I thought I was doing well to get the missus to go on holiday in a hotel within 30 miles of Hannants
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Alternatively slap some plastic together, paint over the glue leaks, stand back and admire safe in the knowledge that it's still better than IanHx's attempt at the same kit
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For some reason my tablet is now humming dum didedi dum didedi dum dum dum dum.......
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Easy - it's some 3rd as yet unbought kit that you acquire between now and Oct 2nd
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Ah, Beatties... spent many a Saturday morning in the Birmingham Pallisades branch just above New St station, looking at the latest Hasegawa and Italeri kits (and buying a fair few too).
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Top tip : when answering "what do you do in your spare time", say "I do some modelling" not "I'm a modeller"
