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Torbjorn

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  1. I’m building a Sopwith Dolphin right now. How nice it would have been to have a GB to put it in! (sign me up please)
  2. I thought this would fare well, as it was one of the more unique runners.
  3. Ooof, all my votes are on the wrong side of the demarkation. Stop the steal! Or was that last year’s joke?
  4. New-tool Airfix 1/72 Swordfish, depicting 4M of 815 squadron, HMS Illustrious, Lt Swayne & SubLt Buscall, in its livery during Operation Judgment. Build thread here (thanks to especially @iang for the useful info on Taranto Swordfish):
  5. The Bentley boxing has it too, maybe selfexplanatory, but there it is. On Sprue E, differs it from the ship’s camel. The Clerget/ Le Rhone boxings do NOT have the Bentley spares.
  6. The new one. It seems to be based on Schmäling’s new book, in which he created a drawing of the devil together with Josef Jacobs himself. It’s a firespitting devil, not a windblowing god.
  7. Paint, PVA or PVA mixed with paint should all work, but in this case the thick sections are much thicker than the thin (check photos) and it could be difficult to achieve an even thickness with the PVA. Alternatively tube can be used on the front, and wire insultation or shrink tube on the back.
  8. There is a Camel-shaped hole in the 1/72-market of modern moulds. That said, the Roden Camels are nice kits that also gives you plenty to the spares box. Among other goodies, they usually contain one Bentley, one Clerget and one Le Rhone each, all fine and I’ve used them to replace inferior versions in several kits. The biggest con with the Roden kits is not the not-quite-so-easy assembly, it’s the decals, which range from bad to atrocious. I strongly suggest aftermarket decals. I‘d still go for Roden without doubt. I think I have all their sets, although I’ve only built one, OOB save the decals:
  9. Sort of. The decals are nicely printed, with quite fine detail as evident by the coat of arms on the rudder. The adherence is another story though, and now, 24h later, the edges of a few stickers were not, well, stuck. Next time I use these decals I will prepare the surface with something sticky, like a thin coat of gloss varnish (i.e. wet). I dabbed the loose decal edges with varnish and pressed them down. The horse on the arms must be a cousin of the Ferrari horse by the way: both descend from Francesco Barraca’s personal emblem that he decorated his Nieuports and SPADs with.
  10. Still have touch ups to do, but I feel that will be a sysiphos task and will push ahead and do it last instead. Sticky-out bits and gloss coat added.
  11. That must have been a beast of a model, or “model”. I‘m considering whether to build that one, or the one on the box art. Have made a start, assembling engines and cockpit. Resin and PE mostly, and highly detailed for the scale. Wheel bays are resin too. I used carpenter’s white glue to attach them: there are no alignement guides, so wiggling is necessary using the lower wings to find the right locatio (rules out CA glue). Painted the panels surrounding the wheel bay already, so I can mask those panels entirely, avoiding annoying wheel bay masking. One negative aspect with the kit is several ejection pins, which are located in the worst places: tail wheel bay, engine bay and even under the cockpit, exactly where the supporting beam goes, so you have to cut it. The latter is merely a nuisance, but the others are difficult to remove without leaving marks.
  12. “Render”? That’s some realistic render. I haven‘t tried anything by them, but this will not remain unbought.
  13. Didn’t finish on time, but here she is. Nice kit. Some questionmarks on the decals, otherwise no issues. Took a liking to these Italian machines. I couldn’t stop myself from ordering an early Christmas present:😳
  14. Next try. To get sharper colour demarkation I tried making a mask by cutting a plastic lid. Still not happy, but I think this can be used as a starting point: I will make touch-ups to the dots with a brush, then spray green again to fix smaller errors. Then repeat for a few missing areas.
  15. Apparently there were two kits in this box: I guess the ”2 in 1” was a hint but I didn’t take it. Anyway, I’ll try to get both finished, one in kit a livery and one as Red-E-Ruth with Aztec AM decals. I have made a sneak start by painting, here the sprues: The styrene is complemented with Eduardy-looking PE and some nice resin for the engines, wheel bays and cockpits and guns: Decals by Techmod, looks quite thick carrier: One questionmark to resolve: Two options for the tailwheel assembly, but no hints which alternative to use for the different decal options.
  16. When they run out of terrible jokes. 1st Nov, I think.
  17. I sprayed a thinned mix of a grey sand over it, I think it did the trick. Masking is off - should have made blotches all the way against the white bands… Still happy woth the result so far. I’m positively surprised by the kit. The fit was good, the engine nice and detailed and I appreciate the selection of PE, especially the landing gear doors, which ought be PE for *all* kits since plastic is always way too thick. And all for a very affordable price. I’m tempted to find more kits by this producer. Trailing edges are perhaps a bit thick, but it’s not conspicuous. Now I just have to decide whether to trust the drawing or the box cover regarding the upper wing roundel background, and whether the squadron number really was not painted on the fuselage.
  18. I was about to take pics for the gallery, and lo and behold, I’ve managed to lose the replacement fuel tank I made after I had lost the kit piece. I’ll wait a few weeks to see if the carpet monster will cough at least one of the two before I produce no. 3… In the meantime, I found in the stash two RNAS machines; one Bristol Scout, one Sopwith Dolphin.
  19. Hmm, quite vibrant these colours:
  20. Practiced freehanding the blobs: Towards the end they started looking ok, but still not with the small wiggly look it should have. This is the target: http://www.aviationmuseum.eu/Blogvorm/museo-storico-aeronautica-militare/macchi-mc-202-folgore-mm9667-73-7-italian-air-force/ I think I’ll have to restart and use some kind of masks instead. Or maybe even brushpaint them.
  21. Thanks for that I have added the last bits and pieces, will add just a wee bit of weathering, matt varnish and maybe antenna wire. Next stop the gallery. I have no more FAA subjects, but I just learnt that the RNAS is also eligible, so you may not be rid of me just yet.
  22. Lozenge was from Aviattic. No issues with those. They are a bit more ezpensive maybe, but one sheet will last for several models, so per model it’s not a big difference. I don’t have the AGO. Of the KP I have, the LVG stood out as being much finer than the rest of the lot (Roland D.II, Salmson, Triplane, Dolphin), not sure why.
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