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    Hello All, It's been a long time - Sweet's 1/144 P-51B/C modified to a RAF recon Mustang. Thanks for looking. Ian
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    Hello Roman, Very nice work. What colour Gunze Acrylic paint did you use as the base colour green if I may ask? Regards from Australia, Ian
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    Hello All, This was part of a GB for the 100 Anniversary of the RAF. The kit is the 1963 pop of the Avro Anson from Airfix in its 1970's boxing guise. A bit of a labour of love and is no show winner, but she was bought second hand unbuilt and saved from the rubbish dump. Thanks for looking and Happy Modelling, Ian
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    Hello All, This was progressing excellently till I removed the canopy masking and found that I'd cracked the canopy.... Grrrr it's only a hobby (repeat 50x) Apologies for the rubbish formatting - still getting used to embedding from flickr. Ian
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    No not quite up to the standard of needing an electron microscope although a pair of $10 reading glasses does wonders!
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    Hello All, after an enforced layoff from modelling I have recovered these from the shelf of shame and completed the builds. Questions and comments welcome. Gee hope this works, not used to using Flickr after the photobucket debacle last year..... Happy Modelling Ian
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    Yes that is pretty darned good. have one in the stash and might camo mine too Ian
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    Hello Paul, Roundels and empennage flash are from Kits World 1/144 spitfire set. The rest are from the ebay 1/144 direct store. Not sure if they are in print still. Thanks for the comment and it would be good to see your spitty. Ian
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    A kitbash of the eduard 1/144 Spitfire. Fun Build ... Depicting a RAAF plane from 452 Sqn 1945. Thanks for looking. Ian
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    A few weeks ago I posted a Star destroyer from Bandai. So much fun I thought I'd give another a go and try a slightly different approach to the paint finish. Below is the result. A final pic with her sister ship. Thanks for looking Ian
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    Hello All, First time in this section of the forum. Saw one of these a couple of weeks ago on another forum. Was impressed enough to try to track a couple down on online for a quick fun build. So I present Bandai's diminutive non scale Star destroyer. It's about as big as your palm. Superb snap fit engineering although I did use tamiya ultra thin cement to ensure a good fit. - a smidgen of filler was needed to fill a couple of smallish gaps but overall good fun to do. Paint is tamiya primer then gunze acrylic light aircraft gray H332 and some gunze very pale gray H331 and off white H2. Finish this off with some USN white H316 highlights on raised panels and some dappling. a pin wash of varying shades of artists acrylic eye mixed grey and MiG filters and oils from their winter camo set. Apologies for the iphone pics - doesn't really show up the tones very well. Happy Modelling All Ian
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    Yeah good stuff... Wow I don't think I have anything left from even a decade ago....... Happy Modelling. Ian
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    Hello All, The latest completions - Nashorn, Panther G and a kitbashed Jagdpanzer IV L/70 all 1/144 scale from DML's armour series. Finished in Gunze Acrylics and MiG acrylics. Weathering in oils, inks, pigments and Tamiyas weathering compacts. Thanks for looking. Thanks for looking, Ian
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    As someone who does a lot of 1/144 builds that is serous quality! Like that a lot. Cheers Ian
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    Hello All, Dragon Models Panzer Korps Series Early Hetzer and Jagdpanzer IV A-0 in 1/144 scale. Good detail for the size but the rubber tracks are abysmal.... Happy Modelling all, Hope all goes well on the modelling front in 2017! Ian
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    Hello All, While you lot in the Northern Hemisphere rug up and spend those long hours of darkness undertaking quality time at the bench, we in Southern climes sweat it out! Tamiya's 1/72 scale offering - My interpretation of the Kagero folio of Brown 18. Gunze and Tamiya Acrylics, Alclad II and some Games workshop paints and finished off with some oils. Hope Sanite is good to you and there is some plastic goodness under the tree or in the stocking. Happy Modelling all Ian
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    Hey Celt, Platz kits are somewhat difficult to find. They occasionally re issue the good ones. (FW190D, Thunderbolts Hellcats Skyhawks, N1K2 Shiden and P-51D) Once again ebay is a source or Hobby search in Japan.
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    Hello All, After 6 months, a change of airbrush, a lot of swearing and lots of "what the heck am I doing"? here is my interpretation of Hans Dortenmann's mount in 1/144 scale. This is not the first one of these I have done and they are exceptional kit to build. oooops forgot to remove the canopy mask..... Happy modelling all, Happy to take questions. Ian
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    Hello Celt, I'm in Oz and managed to track them down on the oz version of eBay - ranging in price from $10-16AUD, Not bad value actually. Seems that they are out of production and difficult to find but I have managed to score some. The quality varies between boxings as well. It appears my local (well if you call 1069 miles local) eBay store will ship to the UK, he is a pretty good guy to deal with. PM me and I'll give you the store name but a quick search under '1/144 panzer korps tank' should put you on the right track. Happy hunting, Ian
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    Hey Billy, - I guess they were designed for wargaming, but I bought them to see what I could do with them from a modelling perspective. Not really done 1/144 armour (well, I have done a takom landkreutzer but that's as big as something 1/35 scale!).
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    Hi All, Dragon's diminutive Panzer Korps series of vehicles looked interesting so had a go at giving a couple a go. The kit (2 tanks to a box) has photo etch and good detail for scale so below is the result of a bit of fun. The rubber tracks aren't though. Happy Modelling all. Ian
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    Hello John, No no, don't feel as though you are imposing, asking questions is good. Alclad II is a lacquer based paint and seemed to cope well with oils mixed with a small amount of white spirit directly applied and blended into the surface. I didn't have any issues. I did the post shading with the smoke (alcohol based diluent as the smoke is a acrylic) then moved on to the oils. Under normal circumstances with camouflage I mainly use either gunze or Tamiya acrylics. I would then seal under pledge one go/future etc, decal and seal decals with pledge etc..... Next I would flatcoat with testors dull coat using a lacquer diluent. Any further weathering should be OK as the lacquer dullcoat seems to cope with enamel washes or filters. I almost always use a lacquer based dullcoat/glosscoat/satin coat to seal the previous layer. If you are feeling a little concerned find a scrap bit of plastic and treat it exactly the same way during your painting steps and use it as a test bed before you proceed. Hope this helps. Ian
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    Hello Martin, Below are link to a review of trumpeter kit issues. You are a very brave man taking on the CA kit. http://www.network54.com/Forum/149674/thread/1417344893/Trumpeter+DH+Hornet-+discussion+of+accuracy Ian
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    G'day John, No WIP on this one..... Sorry. I would suggest you have a look at Spencer Pollards tutorial on youtube regarding Natural Metal finishes. Mine is fairly closely adapted from his work. If you follow his recipe or adapt it to your own situation I'm sure things will work out good. Have fun with it... Ian
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    Hello David, The Silver is Alclad II Aluminium with some Alclad II Duraluminum on some of the panels to give a bit of contrast. Applied over Tamiya Rattle can Nato Black. The Yellow is Gunze Acrylic H329 Yellow applied over white primer and pre shading with a cream yellow H34 and red H13 spots. Airbrush control when spraying the Alclad was pretty ordinary so it really was up to post shading with diluted Tamiya X-19 Smoke to weather her properly. There is also some paynes grey and raw umber oils mixed and blended into some of the high wear panel areas near the cockpit. Hope that helps. Ian
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