Jamie @ Sovereign Hobbies
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Hi Jamie, how's the machine issues going? I see NARN22 is still showing out of stock.
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You may perhaps have noticed that there's been a lot of debate recently about the colour of tank tracks, both the virgin metal and the oxide. Stimulated mostly by me, I have to say, and I feel like something of a voice in the wilderness but people are beginning to catch on. Using silvery shades, and more recently graphite, has just become the norm over time. Everyone assumes that worn steel is silvery without looking at the actual color of the metal. High manganese steel used by most countries for most all-metal tracks since the late 1930s is a solid goldy-brown colour and cannot possibly be silver or metallic grey. Even WW1 tank tracks were a very dark brown metal, probably from face-hardening.
None of the available products really captures the metal colours correctly: they are mostly shades of metallic brown, often with a goldy-yellow tint from the manganese content. They certainly aren't the steel or graphite commonly used by modellers. They also don't rust to conventional rusty shades, also because of the manganese. All of the available track colors seem to be dark browns.
There is a similar problem with armour plate, which is also generally a dark metallic brown and also not silvery or graphite-y. A primer colour for this would IMHO be really useful, as would something for chipping and wear. Current "chipping colours" are mostly just dark brown, and pencils are just graphite.
I've contacted a number of "big name" (no disrespect intended) paint companies but none are interested. So much for Real Colours (most of which are off)! Is this something that you might be interested in taking forward?
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Hi, is your S-61N conversion still around?
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Hi Jamie,
The new job is going well thanks. I'm missing the AMS meetings though. Good luck with the committee role, I found it was good fun. I might make it to Telford, are you planning to go?
Cheers,
Nigel
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Dear James
I would like to buy the necessary Colourcoats for the Tipitz in 1944 in the sunray colour scheme. Can you help?
Regards
Toby
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Hi Toby,
I am not an expert on Tirpitz by any means, but I know the scheme you mean.
I am fairly confident that the dark camouflage colour would have been KM06 Dunkelgrau 2. The white would have been either pure white or off white. Perhaps C03 Matt White or even KM10 Schnellbootweis would do if pure white was too start. The Kriegsmarine didn't seem keen to use pure black; rather boot topping and funnel tops were often KM05 Schiffbodenfarbe III Grau 1. The light grey on the hull may have either been KM01 Hellgrau (the same colour used on Bismarck's superstructre) or maybe KM13 Hellgrau (used in the Baltic).
I would suggest using these colour names as a basis from which to check other sources for their thoughts on the subject. I'd hate to think I'd given you a bum steer!
Best regards,
Jamie
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Hi, Joe Puente(JPuente54) here to let you know that I just sent an email to Squadron Mail Order/Military Models Distributor to urge them to carry your line(s) of paints(along with a couple of other companies). I figure that telling them directly is more likely to get results than grousing about it on any forum that they may, or may not read/know about/check. I thought that you would like to know that I did do my part.
Thank you for your time.
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is knackered after the scale scotland show!
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https://www.shopify.co.uk/ it makes life very easy. There are others, but after spending a bit of time, Gill & I settled on this. I think Duncan likes it too. There are numerous free and monthly charge add-ons to improve functionality. THe mobile phone app is pretty good. It also handles your payments and refunds, address labels and all that sort of jazz. The shop builder tools are quite easy to use also.
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is knackered after the scale scotland show!
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oh no, amazon are now posting kits without cardboard boxes
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Sovereign Paints are fantastic!! Humbrol is mostly history to me.
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In a Shopify product listing coma
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In a Shopify product listing coma
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Even with a pre-cut mask, canopy masking a Stuka is still tedious stuff.
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I wish I knew more about the Interweb thingy!
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I wish I knew more about the Interweb thingy!
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A couple of ciders really takes the edge of masking.
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Following from my last question, does anyone have any suggestions for a first RC aircraft? I have seen good things about the E-Flite Apprentice. Does anyone know this aircraft?
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Does anyone on here fly RC? I am looking at starting and wonder if anyone else already is involved.
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First coat of paint on my Javelin
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Insane but I'm trying to do a speed build of the Airfix !/48 Javelin. After day 1 the wings, fin, cockpit, intakes and jet pipe are all made up. Today is a day of assembling all those bits.
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Any members of Dundee IPMS on here?
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today's top tip brought to you by Stupidity Models. When finished cleaning your glass display cabinets do not attempt to put a model through the closed glass door!
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At least you can see where the glass is when it's manky. I think my current repair list stands at 1 x Canberra with a flap currently sat on top of the wing, and that Mustang that was with your 109 on the spinny-roundy turntable thing needing a replacement canopy, since I porked the original. The canopy that was on it was from another Big Beautiful Doll I built using Monogram decals about 20 years ago. All that survives of that Mustang is the canopy currently sat on the new one, and even t...
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today's top tip brought to you by Stupidity Models. When finished cleaning your glass display cabinets do not attempt to put a model through the closed glass door!
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Watching the 1952 film 'The Sound barrier' on TalkingMovies TV, Swifts, Vampires, Attackers abound.
