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    A 1/72 Amodel I-16 Type 5 Spanish Civil War (without a bucket of filler?).

    in Work in Progress - Aircraft

    Posted

    LOL. I shall peruse that website at great length. My brain does the same thing at times, so i completely get it.


    On another note, I wonder if perhaps two of the exhaust ports were twinned, with 2 ports feeding into one pipe? It's been done like that a lot over the years. Is there any photographic indication that one of the cowl cutouts and/or an exhaust pipe is larger than the rest?

    I should dig out and finish my Academy 48th I-16 Type 18 - not sure about accuracy, but it's a nice little kit. Keep on going, it looks like you're winning!

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    A 1/72 Amodel I-16 Type 5 Spanish Civil War (without a bucket of filler?).

    in Work in Progress - Aircraft

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    I'll go one better Tony, I'll link you to it on the Paul's website (anyone else who wants to can play too). Despite the seeming complexity, it's well worth the time spent - not sure about the authenticity, but it's really rather divine. It's on regular menu rotation here. (May I add... please, please, please... use butter, not margarine. Margarine will kill you, it's disgusting. And use olive oil. Because olive oil is the bomb diggety (as the cool kids say.)) The recipe works best if you're a bit particular about getting the ingredient's quantities 'just right' - deviation makes it go to odd places. Still nice places, but not 'quite right'.

    http://www.pauls.com.au/recipes/beef-stroganoff/

    Note the 'Dijon mustard'. NOT THE ENGLISH. Much too harsh. :D

    I tend to buy whatever beef I can find cheap (usually blade) and just simmer it for a little longer - tastes just like rump.

    Tiny iPhone keyboard? If you're going to play with toys, you gots ta expect toy-sized bits. Buy something Android, with a decently-sized screen. You'll be happy you did (and as a bonus, you won't be stuck in the Apple ecosystem any more. Win!)

    I was out driving early this morning (not to Dawn Service, because of reasons and stuff). There I was in my Japanese Subaru, being followed by a German BMW, and I thought it somewhat ironic that both of those apparently defeated nations... aren't. Just the opposite, in fact.

    Enough cookery, musing and general flim flam. Isn't there a small model of a small Russian aircraft being built here somewhere?

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    A BIG Rolls Royce

    in Work In Progress - Vehicles

    Posted

    Not to dampen enthusiasm, but Playboy didn't start publishing until Dec '53, which may be a little late for this car's heyday (unless it's had a long and eventful life?). I'm sure there's a different suitably racy period periodical that you could find reference to.

    A 1/72 Amodel I-16 Type 5 Spanish Civil War (without a bucket of filler?).

    in Work in Progress - Aircraft

    Posted

    Righto chaps, I'm off to make some Beef Stroganoff for our little family.

    Memory often plays us false, this forum is full of references to that. I was however talking about 'colour memory', which is our ability to recall colours from moment to moment in an effort to make comparisons - we just don't do it very well (as a general rule - you can learn it and some do have it, but mostly, nope.)

    I use the Paul's beef stroganoff recipe myself, it's pretty good. Found on top of their sour cream tubs. :) If you have something more exotic, do feel free to share it!

    (Ha, come to BritModeller and learn all sorts of interesting things!)

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    A 1/72 Amodel I-16 Type 5 Spanish Civil War (without a bucket of filler?).

    in Work in Progress - Aircraft

    Posted

    Tony, you're bearing up manfully. Looking good so far mate.

    If I may though, I'd like to make a point or two about colour, and the inadvisability of using photos (or published colour profiles) as absolute references. No offence or criticism meant, but maybe a few pointers to put you on the right path, given your need to get it right. :):worms:

    Firstly, modern paint colours tend to be a lot more saturated and brighter than older ones, due to much improved ingredients (and a very real 'gotta be bright and shiny' fixation that we seem to have), so be wary of taking literal notice of a statement like 'they were John Deere green', unless you know for sure exactly which JD green they're talking about. JD changed their colour in 1989 to a new brighter shade - the other was a lot more subdued. (The top 2 green swatches here

    http://paintref.com/cgi-bin/colorcodedisplay.cgi?manuf=John%20Deere

    will give you some idea of the change, and will lead me into my second point).

    Second point is that you can't trust either your computer monitor or your eyes for absolute values, for many reasons. The major flaw in using your computer as a colour reference is that your monitor is almost certainly incorrect in its brightness, contrast and colour reproduction (unless you have a $2000 Eizo ColourEdge, in which case, why are you browsing t'interwebz on it?? :) ) You can certainly compare two colours, but that only applies to your monitor at that point in time (and as a comparison only, not an absolute), because it will look different on someone else's screen, and yours will change it's apparent colour as it heats and cools and as the ambient light changes. You'll possibly get close to right, but don't get too dogmatic about it. Using the RGB, Hex or CMYK values as reference values will make it correct (or at least repeatably inaccurate :D ), always assuming that the displayed swatch was done properly in the first place... Another issue is that human beings have very poor colour memory - we can compare and detect tonal and colour variations in a scene with ease (apparently it's part of our old hunter/prey skill set, for finding food and avoiding sabre-toothed tigers), but we absolutely suck at remembering exactly what shade of yellow that sabre-tooth was. Possibly because anyone who got close enough to find out with certainty didn't live to pass on the relevant experience or genes. ;) (I could rave for ages on colour, computers and perception, but...)

    Third point (and then I'll shut up), is the impossibility of determining accurate colour matches from photos. Colour, black and white, film, digital, prints, slides, Agfa, Kodachrome - doesn't matter. Way too many variables and possibilities for making major errors of deduction. You can use photos (with caution) for patterns and general locations, but be aware that not all films reproduced all colours, shades or tones properly (sometimes not at all), and printing them out adds a whole new basket of worms to the egg tin (hang on, that's not right, is it?) Again, I could bend your eyes with this stuff, but I'll spare you my hobby horse riding.

    All of which is why I tend to run by the FICE, TLAR and 'close enough for government work' rules when it comes to scale model colours. If it looks right to you, it's right

    Keep going, I want to see you batter this one into submission!

    (For thems as may want to try it, just for the LOLs, give this a whirl http://www.xrite.com/online-color-test-challenge I do it every year or so and every year it gets a little more difficult - I'm not quite 50 and I use a calibrated monitor.)

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    GB Chat

    in Made in Britain Group Build

    Posted

    Ho hum, another one I'm going to miss - that bloody Gnat is playing up and the Sea Vixen has stalled, possibly into a flat spin.

    Oh well.

    (Actually, it's the paint on the Gnat that's the issue - Humbrol 11 as it currently stands is complete <insert non-PC word for excrement here>. It just won't gloss up, and looks like roof paint, it's that coarsely grained.) At this rate, I'm thinking I might withdraw from every GB I've put my hand up for, don't need the downers.

    However, many thanks to the mods for putting in the effort - much appreciated.

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    curtis tomahawk IIB

    in Starter Set Group Build II

    Posted

    That is rather nice, sir. Well done.

    (The kit glue works quite well for sticking on broken bits. I speak from experience. Put a puddle of it down onto a surface, carefully dip the end of the broken bit in, then put it in place. Hold for a minute, let go. You may Ned to realign it from time to time until it sets up, but it'll work.)

    (Or you could cheat and use super glue. :D )

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