Maginot

Bonzer job!

Great project. Good looking result.

Good work. Evocative photos. Love the deckchairs, too.

That's a very nice result.

This might be my excuse to attempt the Tamiya Mitsubishi Ki-46 III Type 100 Command Recon Plane. Put me down (be gentle, please 🤓).

Very nice finish. Great subject.

Thanks @Col. No worries as the locals drawl. So I'm concluding that RAAF aircraft of interest to me - Spitfire VIII; Vengeance; Beaufighter; Republic Lancer; Lockheed P-38F4; Consolidated PBY5-AM - even if operating out of northern Australia and New Guinea, if engaged in operations over the Indonesian (Dutch East Indies) archipelago, qualify. Cool! Congratulations on progressing this GB to the Bunfight stage.

Cool. I've got a candidate for this category. Count me in.

Yup! Put me down for a bipe build.

I have a candidate for this GB. Please put me down.

Just confirming; NO south-west Pacific theater (e.g. New Guinea, New Britain, Solomon Islands)?

Do you mean the modeller or the model? Put me down, please. No not like that!

Wowzers! Might have to venture outside my preferred genres and scales for this one.

Good job.

Splendid!

Very nicely done.

Not another one! The favoured local supplier has gone completely mad offering 40% discount on this beauty, which had even retained its pre-Covid price. Wowzers! Had to snap it up at its bargain-basement price. Australian decals, bits for reconnaissance configuration, preferred scale and just a most mighty airframe. Very happy to see wing-fold bits included, too. Of note is my discipline in unerringly maintaining a decision a couple of months ago to NOT purchase any more kits for a while... That's about eight kits ago 🤓

Very nice work.

Something special arrived in the post today from Rzeczpospolita Polska. A mixed media kit by Lukgraph; cast resin, brass, PE, some kinda clear plastic, painting masks, decals and 3D printed components (3D printed is a first time for me). Lots of rigging to do. This will be very challenging to say the least. I was surprised to find a Nimrod in 1/32. It's right in my core genre (if only it had floats) and I just had to have it. And it even comes with a sticker 🤓

This is looking very smart indeed.

Very nice WW1 camouflage scheme you are pursuing.

That's a cracker.

Brush painting; experiment 2 Back down from the hills, I continue with: i) a second camouflage pattern with larger splodges (scuse technical jargon) that more accurately mimic the size of most of the splodges on the Škoda; ii) applying the second coat of paint and dark line to the first camouflage pattern. Some observations: I achieved a more even spread of paint with hardly any brush marks on the larger splodges with a flat head paintbrush rather than a pointed head. Applying a second coat evens out the colour density, disappears most brush marks but will require careful rubbing back in places. Mixing retarder into the paint makes for a more workable paint viscosity than: i) straight paint; ii) paint mixed with airbrush flow improver; iii) paint mixed with iso-propyl alcohol (which just works as a thinning agent like distilled water). Adding a single drop of retarder from the pipette to enough paint to load 6-7 brushes (3 large and 4 small splodges worth with reserve) makes a viscose solution that applies similarly to enamel paint. Adding a small amount of distilled water as you work will prevent the paint mix from drying on the palette, but not too much. I must have got the % retarder more consistent this time and a better mix out of the paint pot. The paint dried quickly and more evenly. A black permanent marker pen of 0.7mm was used for the dark line around the splodges. This worked well, but the colour given in the instructions is brown violet (XF-51 Khaki drab in the Tamiya chart; see below), so I'll have to hunt down a pen with that or similar colour. "Tamiya colours XF-49 Khaki and XF-20 Medium Grey are almost indistinguishable." That's because you used XF-49 Khaki for both splodges, you nong (see below). Of interest, at least to me, is the manufacturer of the uni pin permanent marker I used for the dark line; Mitsubishi Pencil Co., Ltd. Founded in Tokyo in 1887, as far as I can tell there is no connection to the mob that brought us the famous A6M Type '0'.

Mighty modelling, that. Love a good Scammell.

Nicely modelled, well photographed.