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I think I understand what he's trying to achieve. It's meant to look like what is underneath the paint is actually metal, rather than plastic. Bit like how die cast toys look in some cases. Reminds me a little of the paint on a 70s die cast Star Wars Snowspeeder that I had.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-56825060 Wrote some of the best Rock Opera of all time. All the greats seem to be disappearing, we lost Eddie Van Halen recently also. RIP

Well, this is how I understand what happened, there was quite a lot of discussion about it on a private members site I was a member of... Between the time my mother bought a bottle back in, probably around the turn of the century, or just after, maybe even in the late 90s (yeah the bottle I "borrowed" when I started modelling again in 2014ish was that old), and about 2016, they changed the UK formula to a milky looking liquid, possibly due to EU laws about kids drinking clear stuff. Back in 2017ish people on that forum came across someone on Amazon and Ebay selling the US version on import, so we all started buying that. I bought a bottle of the milky looking UK version around 2016 time, and it kind of worked, but it required several more coats than the usual "one and done" and it was the only product I've used (so far) that has "orange peeled" on me! It got rebranded in the UK, and went back to being clear sometime around 2018/2019 as I understand it, but it may have been rebranded in the UK at least once more since then.

Most probably just get chucked. I know that Cobra Company, who made stuff like a correction set for Revell's 1/48 UH-1 Huey Hog were taken up by another US guy, think his company is called Lone Star Models, current status unknown by me.

First bottle I used was well over 15yrs old and worked fine. Dunno about the current stuff but I've had mine for over 2 years now.

I've used Klear/Future on several builds. I have 2 bottle of the current US formulation, one open and slightly used, one never opened. However I was finding that airbrushing it on caused it to remain tacky for far too long (weeks in one example that I chucked before I found out when/if the Klear had actually dried) - never had that problem with the bottle of old original formula that I started out with. Also had problems with brushing it on, it seemed to fill panel lines so a clay wash wouldn't work. So I gave up on it and went back to using Tamiya clears for everything but canopies. YMMV. With regards to cleaning - just use water, but clean immediately so that you don't give the Klear/Future time to dry.

I saw The Watch advertised and also wondered what had been smoked! Fear not the Pratchett estate have been rumoured to be in the process of getting some proper Discworld stuff made again. https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/discworld-terry-pratchett-new-tv-series/ https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/apr/28/terry-pratchett-novels-faithful-tv-adaptation-discworld In the meantime, if you can find them, there's always The Colour of Magic, Hogfather, and Going Postal, made by The Mob, for Sky, to console yourself with. Think they're all on Amazon. There's even Cosgrove Hall's Wyrd Sisters and Soul Music if you can find them.

Hey all Does anyone here do stuff with Games Workshop's Green Stuff, also known as Kneadatite which is what GW rebrand? I've got some that I've had a few years and last night tried to use it but despite using equal amounts of the yellow and blue it didn't seem very soft and malleable when mixed. Would like to soften it out. I've heard it can go off over time, so would I be best buying a new load of it? Thanks in advance.

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Not sure what it's like in France, but in the UK if a van pulls up with someone selling stuff out of it, often it's a bit dubious...

Yeah probably, thanks. But I feel the need to clear my room out, I currently don't want these kits lying around doing nothing just gathering dust. I don't have anywhere to store them though. I don't go to model shows either. But thanks guys. I'll work something out. I think I'm just having one of those "down" periods and I'm possibly feeling a bit "closed in" where I've been suffering with insomnia and have been stuck in my room at night, door closed, due to other members of the household being asleep.

I think we have two examples, krow113's and Black Knight's, that highlight how different things can look. To me that FW 190 looks huge compared to the figures, just something about it, especially in the first photo, that makes the plane look oversized or the figures undersized. Whilst the vehicles and figures all look relatively normal. Great models though, nice one guys.

Just going to mention part of what I was going to mention yesterday. Taking a Spitfire VB as an example, and assuming the kit maker has the dimensions spot on, the wingspan has about 3.01cm, i.e. over an inch, in difference between it's length in 1/32 and the same measurement in 1/35.

Hey all I've kind of given up on scale models for the moment, due to cost (it's no less expensive than buying most models for my tabletop gaming now), lack of enthusiasm, health issues etc. As a result I have a few kits that are sitting around part built. One for a few years, one for even longer than that. I also have a few models that I've "retired" for one reason or another (usually because I built/painted them poorly), mostly hiding in drawers. The part built models I have are - An Academy 1/72 Blue Angels F-18. It's built to the point I would finish filling/sanding off the nose modification Academy have you do and put paint down on it. Canopy isn't attached though and a couple of small parts were lost to the carpet monster - one of the little tail fin brackets and a bracket from underneath the wing. A Meng 1/35 Mk V Male tank. I bought it for the 100th commemorations. I've built and painted the interior and was about ready to start building the track units and attaching the interior/hull floor to them, although I'm missing a few road wheels now, not that they'd be noticeable once the tracks are on. An Eduard 1/72 FW-190A. I reached the paint stage on that and managed to get to a panel fading stage. It's in the North Africa scheme. I tried putting photoetch engine grills and flaps on, think that was a bit of a failure. I also bought and used Eduard's Big Ed set for it. Not sure what state it's in as it's hidden away in a drawer. And a 1/350 AMT/Ertl Klingon Bird of Prey. It's painted in the overall green colour and I had started to do some of the panel detail colours on the wings. Condition as yet undetermined as it's been sitting since 2015 in it's box which is down alongside the end of my bed. The models I've "retired" are a couple of 1/72 Sea Kings (Revell and Fujimi kits, painted in USN and 22sqn RAF Rescue colours ), and an Academy 1/35 USCG H-13 (modified a bit to act as a housing for an RC micro helicopter, I think it might have flown on one occasion). I also have a 1/35 Academy UH-1C hanging on my ceiling I'd like to retire as it wasn't very well built/painted and has been damaged by SWMBO moving stuff around in the room, meaning it's missing it's rotors assembly, think that's all the damage to it. With the part built kits I just can't be bothered picking the kits up and getting the balls rolling again. And I don't feel I have space to store/display them even if they do get completed. If I'm honest with myself I feel the same way about most of my stash of a dozen or so kits. But I also can't be bothered putting them on eBay or other sales sites because I probably won't get much money for them, and postage will probably outweigh or significantly eat into what I do get for them., and they're liable to have bits fall off them during their transit journey anyway. Part of me also doesn't want to let them go in case I run out of model buying money and need something to do but I also don't want them just sitting around my room - it's a 8x6 box room that I spend my waking and sleeping time in (when I'm not sat at the dining room table doing models) and my room needs a clear out! So, dilemma?! Thanks in advance for any ideas.

Never mind. My thinking was incorrect.

Very nice. Wish I could paint miniatures as well as that.

From ebay community, first Google result putting that email address into the search bar - https://community.ebay.co.uk/t5/Archive-Trust-and-Safety/Hi-received-an-email-offer-from-the-following-email-address-is/td-p/6468899 Same email address, only that persons email was offering him a prize draw. 100% scam.

Depends. It's not orders of magnitude bigger, but... I have a 1/32 Revell Cayuse. Resin details sets are all 1/35 because they're made for the Dragon kit. There'd be quite a noticeable gap if I installed a resin cockpit in the Revell kit. As for a model as a whole in relation to another - if you can't go with 1/35 aircraft, no-one will really notice anyway, especially if you put them that far apart.

Check the email address it's come from. Post it here. That'll be the first give away. But yeah, from your description of the email, defo a scam. Also, remember to mark the email as phishing if you can. Your email provider, if like me your using gMail or Hotmail, should then get a report about the email.

Yeah I'm no saint either. Sorry to hear that John. It's sad when someone feels they need to give up on something because others aren't being mindful of their responsibility to the law. The topic has moved on overnight to whether or not event organisers should do anything to try to prevent people from using copies of game rules books they don't own. Like that's even debatable! Apparently the general consensus is that an event organiser should wash their hands of any responsibility and let players get on with it. Covering their own backs by stipulating they won't allow players to use copies of books, is apparently silly, absurd, unnecessary, going too far, and simping to the company who made the book (whatever that means). The arrogance of the people discussing it is beyond belief, they appear to think the risk to the event organiser is almost zero so there's no problem, no-one will get caught, and it's perfectly fine to play "catch me if you can" and turn a blind eye. The whole thread is full of reductio ad absurdum and spurious arguments as to why it's not as illegal/unlawful as other things and that people unlawfully copying books shouldn't worry because it's only prolific music/movie pirates that get hammered in court. And I've now been told I don't have a correct understanding of responsibility and I'm trolling. You just can't make it up. Frankly the forum mods are a bunch of douches for even allowing the discussion to continue. Makes you appreciate the adult-ness of Britmodeller.

Hey all. Just going to throw this one out there, as it's something that has infuriated me over on another forum. Apologies if it's against forum rules, I don't think it is?! So, a guy posted on a tabletop wargaming oriented forum that I'm a member of, that he scanned a Games Workshop game rules book that "a friend" owns, printed it out for himself and went to a games tournament, where the organiser got a bit sniffy about the copied version of said book the guy doesn't own. No more details than that. To put it in scale modelling terms I think this would equate to borrowing a reference book from a friend, copying it, and then displaying said copy of book at a model show. I'm no lawyer but I know, having read articles and documents about it and cases that have gone to court, what you can and cannot do by law with a book or other media. So naturally I pointed out to the guy that what he has done is against copyright law, certainly in the UK, probably also the US and most other countries, essentially counts as piracy, and the event organiser was right to get a bit sniffy about it. The guy who posted the thread accepts this. What infuriates me is the amount of people, both in the UK, and US and a few elsewhere in the world on that particular forum commenting in the thread that just don't seem to understand (or wish to wilfully ignore) that what the guy had done breaches copyright law, is essentially piracy, and more importantly even though no such case has gone to court, yet, the liability (and possible litigation) the event organiser potentially faces if the law or copyright holders decide to look their way! Just bewildering! One guy even tried to pass it off as someone having a bring your own food BBQ and a guy turning up with a half eaten bag of chips - no big deal, he's just a lazy food provider! What?!

I thought Uri Gellar and his merry band of psychics got it re-floated...

Interesting. Good to know. I use photoshop mainly for image editing. Can't say I've knowingly come across that issue though and I've printed quite a few decals myself this past few years.

My way would be to take the image you have and open it in MS Paint (it's a standard app on your computer, or should be, assuming you're not using a Mac), click on Resize on the option bar at the top, and enter the dimensions you know (i.e. 6mm x 5mm) Although you'll need to know what % you want to resize to or the desired size in pixels. 5mm is 18.8976377953 pixels (round it up to 19 or down to 18 as Paint won't allow it otherwise). That's the only pixel size you need as you can tell Paint to maintain the images aspect ratio (i.e. it will work out the other dimension for you) That should resize the image appropriately and then you just need to print it.

You may want to rethink your attitude mate. You are coming across as though Hannants are trying to screw you over. You've already had one person state you are being harsh. What constructive suggestion did you want - should Hannants drop everything just to deal with you? And I'll tell you this for free - I live in the UK, so I know more about the situation in the UK than you do. So, sorry for what you think are excuses and uninformed assumptions. They're actually the truth of the matter when it comes to the situation here in the UK. Cut then some slack and stop whinging about your entitlement on what is meant to be a friendly forum.