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Thanks all for your candid replies, I shall now start applying the gloss varnish.
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Mottling now added. I do not really know how good it is, so please be critical if required it may deserve it. Also thanks to @mark.au who pointed out how bad the exhausts are on his build, I have aordered an Eduard Brassin set and some wheels.
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I have a fair few in the stash that meet the requirements for this GB, so please add my name to the list.
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As others have already said those exhausts do look rather bad. I have found a set of Eduard Brassin ones that I am thinking of getting for mine.
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Thanks James, but to be honest it is as clear as mud to me, as I am a person who really has to be shown how to do things. Strange that a few of us were talking about how we learn things at work and most of us agreed that we had to be shown how to do things rather than read instructions. Mind you most of us in that group were a bit on the older side. I do have a dedicated folder for each model that I enter into a GB, it is the small folder that the photos go into that I am not sure when to delete and if it affects the photos in the thread thereafter. Anyhow some more paint added in the shape of the darker colour. I think that I got the side of the fuselage just about right. I still have to do the blotches on the fuselage sides, tailplanes and the front parts of the engine cowlings, which will be done tonight hopefully. I did have another photo of the top side from the other direction, but somehow this did not want to upload to my computer. I may try tomorrow. New photo now added.
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Thanks James. I am doing everything that I used to do, only in Imgurs new fashion. So I am doing the direct linking of old. The only thing I can think off is when I delete the folder that the pictures are first put into before I add them to the folder where I want them to be in. I am not sure how long after the photos are moved I can delete this folder, or if I have to re-link the pctures in the proper folder so that they are then permenantly on my thread? It is just now too confusing for a ludite like myself. I may have to experiment.
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Although I have been concentrating on a different model for the past week or so, I have still made some progress with this on. I now have the Light Blue painted. This took a coat more than I was expecting, but has now covered the darker plastic better now. Unfortunately when trying to get a part for another model out that ones box I managed to break one of the lower antenna masts. I have managed to repair it, but it is now quite correct, but it will have to do. Sorry if I am bringing this up again, but it is the ammended paint scheme. On the original chart it shows the upper fuselage having a 2 coloured splintered camo, whilst on the ammendment sheet it is just 1 colour. May I ask which is actually correct? Also I am not sure what is happening with some of my photos as they seem to disappear, probably down to this new fangled way in which Imgur now operates. I hate it and wish that they had not changed it. As the old saying goe, if it is not broken why fix it.
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Oh that is not good.
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Powered by Rolls-Royce 2 more needed!
Jabba replied to Mjwomack's topic in Groupbuild Proposals 2025
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Pity that the U/C is not as easy as the 1/72nd ones that I have seen during this GB.
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When I was on 51 Sqn, XW666 was painted in the normal Hemp. Whether it was painted incorrectly before or after I do not know. I do know that the first Nimrod to be painted in Hemp was painted wrongly and ended up almost a chocolate brown, this was because the painters got the mixture for the paint from the coding wrong.
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Good work on the engines. Glad to see that it is not just me that is having fit problems with this kit.
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Thank you all for your very valuable advice. I have fitted the main U/C, thinking that it would be better to have it there to support the model whilst the paint is drying. Yet again (it maybe me) I had difficuty understanding the instructions as to where parts went. I stuck one side which looked alright, then the other which fitted better only to find that the first one was way too low. So I managed to get this back out and then refitted it as it is in the pictures. I remember I had some difficulty when fitting some parts into the engine nacelles many moons ago, so that may have had something to do with the results. I have also fitted the bomb rack, mainly because of what @elger said. I also spent a fair while applying the masks to the glazing, which yet again fitted where it wanted to. I could get 2 or 3 sides to fit correctly but the others went over the painted area of the glass work. I had the same thing happen to me when recently masking a Lancaster canopy (getting well out of my modelling depth so far this year). I will take a knife to some of the edges soon.
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Sorry got that totally wrong. Only ZE350 (T) did not have the long DECM antenna. That comes from the 2nd Volume of the Double Ugly books on British Phantoms.
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Good grief is it that long ago. Good luck with the build, but I don't think that all the F-4J(UK)s had the antenna on the intakes. I could check with my Modeldecal instructions when I get home.
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