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Stew Dapple

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  1. Gentlemen, start your hats Good luck and have fun everyone Cheers, Stew
  2. Haha you gave me a bit of a turn there Steve, I thought I had missed the start date Cheers, Stew
  3. Haha yes the AM just kept following me home... off the internet The LF masks are thin vinyl, I've used them before and got on okay with them - I would definitely eschew vinyl masks for canopies unless nothing else was available as they need to stick to the clear parts while the interior, exterior and varnish coats are applied which can be days or even weeks... Kabuki tape doesn't have an issue with that but I'd rather not rely on vinyl for it. However for the camouflage masks, they just need to be applied long enough to have the disruptive camo pattern sprayed over them, so they're stuck onto a painted surface rather than unprimed clear plastic, and they need to stay there maybe one hour? I may come a cropper this time, but I'm reasonably confident they'll do the necessary The canopy masks are Kabuki, made by ASK, I'm not sure if they also make the masks for HGW, they look very similar. Thanks Dennis, I hope that you have picked one up now? That's good intel Carl and thanks for the illustration, that may save me a deal of frustration Thanks Steve, I remembered there was a build of one of these on the forum and for some reason I thought it was yours I've built a couple of Special Hobbies small scale kits and got on all right, this will be my first biggie of theirs so hopefully I will muddle through Cheers, Stew
  4. Big, you say? Well okay. It's almost the biggest model in my stash, the Special Hobby Westland Whirlwind Mk.I. It's big: And it's been unstarted for too long: Did I mention that it's big? While waiting in the stash it has accumulated quite a bit of aftermarket; a set of seatbelts: Some resin wheels and cannons - I'm not that comfortable with the idea of the resin cannons which I think would be more vulnerable to breakage than the kit's plastic ones, but if they look much better I would probably go with them: ... and finally, canopy and camouflage masks. What can I say? I'm lazy and I'm prepared to pay any company that offers to indulge my laziness So I'm set. See you at the start line gents Cheers, Stew P.S. It's big
  5. Hello gents, just finished this, my fourth completion of the year: Trumpeter's MiG-3 in 1/32. Quite a simple kit, went together pretty well. Painted in Colourcoats ACUS37 - WW2 Insignia White ANA601 and ACS01 - A.II Blue. Kit decals were used. Thanks for your attention Cheers, Stew
  6. Well I said I would need one... Cheers, Stew
  7. She's a beauty James, nice work Cheers, Stew
  8. I'll be wading in with the Special Hobby 1/32 Westland Whirlwind, it was a present from a friend quite a while ago and has just been sitting there collecting aftermarket ever since I think it's overdue an airing. Cheers, Stew
  9. Revell's 1/32 FW190A-8/R2 Sturmbock with EagleCal decals for Yellow 2 of 6/JG300, Löbnitz, December 1944: Build thread is here. Cheers, Stew
  10. ... and I'm done I did the 'glamour' shots this morning; I posted the two pictures above because the colour came out much nicer than the gallery shots using a dark grey background: But still, in the great scheme of things it doesn't really register The Revell FW190 is a really nice kit, a bit fussy in places but you can see why they did it in the case of things like the engine and undercarriage which both came out quite nicely even if, in my case regarding the engine, it will only ever be seen again if the model is broken up Anyway it's a relatively reasonable price for a kit of this scale and as far as I know quite an accurate one, a pretty easy build and a pleasing result More pics in the Gallery. Cheers, Stew
  11. Whoops, I missed the stage where I completed and fitted the landing gear assembly, but trust me, I did, as can be seen below. I applied all the transfers that I had decided to apply which included very few of the stencils (even though the EagleCal instructions note that this aircraft apparently carried a full set of stencil markings). Yes I know, but I'm getting too old, impatient and shortsighted to spend a day adding tiny text decals and since I don't have to, I decided I wouldn't. The decals I did use (EagleCal decals are printed by Cartograph) were absolutely top-quality and a pleasure to apply and probably deserved a more conscientious modeller than me, but them's the breaks. Once they had time to bed down, I applied a coat of AK satin varnish which I bought after the debacle involving the Citadel varnish and the FW190D. I didn't have any application issues but the end result was a little more at the shiny end of the 'Satin' scale than I was expecting, it doesn't matter enough to me to do it again but I think next time I will add a bit of matt varnish to the mix just to take the albedo down a bit. So, just a last few bits to be added and some detail painting to be done, and this will be done; I hope to get it finished over the weekend Cheers, Stew
  12. That's Boss-level wife-trolling there Bill Hope you're doing very well too Cheers, Stew
  13. Happy to help mate Yes it's a bit of a shame about the engine but really it took me less than a day to paint and assemble it, which I could maybe have cut down to half a day if I'd only painted the bits that might be seen at the end, so it wasn't like months of toil for nothing I'm just glad that after going to all the trouble of researching, designing and moulding the engine parts that Revell still allowed you the option of not having the cowlings open to display the engine I didn't get any transfer application done over the weekend, but did spend a fair bit of time fiddling with the landing gear. The main covers and legs were started: ... and their ancilliaries cleaned up ready for painting: Wheels and tyres were assembled and the colours roughly blocked in: I know it looks like I've got one 'ribbed' tyre and one smooth but in fact they're both ribbed, just one is more out of focus than the other as the auto-focus seemed fixated on the plastic packing stuff that I jammed the cocktail sticks into Finally the undercarriage bits got a coat of RLM02: Cheers, Stew
  14. Thanks Mark, I think it's about as good as I could have done it Not weathering it though. Thanks James, yes I think I was pretty lucky with the mottling, could have been a little more sparing with it but otherwise one of my better efforts I was working from home yesterday but had a couple of breaks and got the (presumably) heat-resistant painted panels to the rear of the exhuasts masked and painted: I think today I will mostly be fiddling with landing gear, maybe some application of transfers later Cheers, Stew
  15. So, there was mottling. Just a brief recap of EagleCals' interpretation of the original camo: I did my best; a little overwrought and indeed overdone, but it will have to do as it's unlikely I could do any better anyway I can take some consolation from my long-held and long-cherished belief that the appearance of mottling always improves about 25% when the transfers are applied Finally, I could not resist unmasking the tail-wheel and fuselage band: Actually not too shabby, no overspray or undercreep on the fuselage band... the blue is a bit more saturated than I imagined it would be and rather brighter than the EagleCals profile, but not as bright as the JG300 fuselage band on the decal sheet for the Revell Bf109G-10. So if they can get away with it, presumably I'm within acceptable parameters Next I need to mask the square black area behind the exhaust outlets and in between that start generally fiddling around with the undercarriage bits Cheers, Stew
  16. Yesterday I got the RLM74 applied: Spot the undeliberate mistake? I neglected to paint the opaque rear part of the canopy I've done it now and I thought I'd photographed it, I was planning to use that picture to spare myself the embarrassment but it turned out I hadn't photographed it after the touch-up so it's a fair cop guv I've got the day off today (but am working tomorrow ) so I predict some mottling in my immediate future... Cheers, Stew
  17. That's quality mottling there James, well done Cheers, Stew
  18. Thanks James, I'm always pleasantly surprised by how well the RLM76 covers even over black, I think it's going to be a problem and then it isn't Me neither Dennis, but good whisky tends to come with good corks I got the grauviolet applied: I could have just pressed on and applied the RLM74 grey-green, but I was feeling lazy and there's still plenty of GB time left Cheers, Stew
  19. Haha thanks James, it amused me at the time and actually it probably has saved me some time and irritation over the years I suspect it was just easier to paint following the line, but that's applying my mindset to it Have Blue: Hopefully I can apply the Grauviolet today Cheers, Stew
  20. Thank you gents The smiley/not smiley face distinguishes the No.10 (curved) blade from the No.11 (straight) blade and just saves me the effort of un-corking the blade I don't need instead of the blade I do - smiley face = curved blade, straight face = straight blade. This might sound like a solution to a problem that doesn't really exist, but I obviously thought at some point that it was worth the effort to draw a face on a cork to save, ooh, whole minutes over the years I didn't get a lot done yesterday but I did get the blue parts of the band masked. The rearmost coloured band follows an angled panel line at the rear so isn't actually parallel to the white band at the back, it may turn out looking like I got it wrong, but we will know I finish work at 3pm today and the evenings are drawing out so I may be able to get some paint on after work Cheers, Stew
  21. Probably the best idea, if you know something works for you it's worth sticking with it, and per year that's not a bad price My original intention was to get straight on with the RLM76 undersides/sides/tail but taking a leaf out of a few builds on here I thought it might be prudent to paint and mask the Reich Defence band before I did that, it's a rather fetching blue-white-blue on this aircraft. EagleCals know that as an experienced modeller you would not use a decal for this and so they don't supply one. That's fine as I can kid myself that I wouldn't have used the decal, but it would have been useful for colour- and size-matching. A quick google revealed the total band was 900mm in real life, so about 9,35mm in 1/32 for each of the three coloured bands... I sprayed the whole band area white first, then masked off the central white band in what I hope are the appropriate dimensions: I could not find an official colour designation for the blue, or indeed a description of it other than 'bright blue' so I mixed a bit of US Navy 'True Blue' with some pale powder blue that Jamie had mixed me up, to get a more-or-less match somewhere between the illustration on the EagleCal sheet and the JG300 band included as a decal in the Revell Bf109G-10 kit: Once that's fully cured I'll mask it off, and then I can get on as planned with the RLM76 painting Cheers, Stew
  22. Glad you got some decent painting weather at last Bob, must have been a bit frustrating sitting on your hands waiting with a backlog of spraying needing done They're looking good mate, coming along nicely Cheers, Stew
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