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Yeah. I don't usually boycott companies, mostly because I usually wouldn't buy their products anyway, but since the current circumstances kicked off I seem to be taking more of a moral stance on certain aspects of life.

OK, so, I fixed this! Well, with my Windsor and Newton Galeria matt clear coat at least. Don't know about the pot of Tamiya XF Flat clear. It seems the W&N G matt clear had separated, or whatever the stuff does. I shook it up, applied more to the two figures, for the nth time, and hey presto, a flat finish was achieved. There's very little in my Tamiya XF Flat clear pot though, so I doubt shaking that up would make any difference.

I thought it looked good in the Trailer also, both the cinema one I saw last December when I went to see The Last Jedi and the TV one. However, it's a firm Nope from me. For reasons already given by others - £20, jog on. I disagree about the new Star Wars films, they're "Disneyfied", but there we go, I'm an Original Trilogy fan. Plus there was a bit of argy bargy caused by Mulan's star recently. Do people really wish to support a company that condones that. Never mind the fact that, especially with their recent acquisitions of Marvel and 20th Century Fox, Disney is now one of the biggest, if not THE biggest, faceless corporations in the entertainment industry. It's anti-consumer at the very least.

Vallejo Metal Color Dull Aluminium.

Hey all I'm having a problem with my clear coats. I've got two tabletop gaming figures that I've tried applying a matt clear coat to using a brush. The figures are painted with Vallejo Game Color. I've tried two types of matt clear coat. Windsor and Newton Galeria Matt and Tamiya XF Flat Clear. I had used the same brush for a gloss clear coat (Windsor and Newton Galeria gloss), and also a satin clear coat (or at least a 50/50 mix of Windsor and Newton Galeria matt/gloss) prior to using it for the matt coat. I have washed the brush out. Several times. Between types of clear coat. I did not, to my knowledge, contaminate my matt clear coats. However now, every time I've put down a matt clear coat on these two figures with this brush the finish ends up being shiny! I did get it to end up a little flatter overall, although still shiny in patches, the other day on one of the figures using Tamiya XF Flat Clear, but on the other figure it still all ended up shiny - same pot of Tamiya XF Flat Clear, same brush, applied minutes after. I'm not doing anything different on each figure in terms of applying the clear coat by brush. I don't have a spare brush I can use to rule out the brush as the fault. I've used the same clear coats on other figures and also aircraft models, both by brush and airbrush before, loads of times, with no problems of matt clear coat coming out shiny. Please can anyone tell me what might be going on here so that I can try to sort it out? Thanks in advance.

Shine a bright torch through. You may be able to see the holes.

Sadly I want H74 RAF Sky, and H72 RAF Dark Earth. Thanks though.

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I keep meaning to get a small fire extinguisher for the house. Mother insists we don't need one, I don't think she really understands what my stash of paints under the dining room table are... As for UK paint suppliers - Most model shops that have an online prescence. There's a sub-forum here with retailers listed with their own sub-forums - called Shops, manufacturers & vendors, it's quite a big section when you scroll down. Model Hobbies, eModels, Premium Hobbies (?), veteroanus (spelling?) on ebay are others that I know of. Not sure if Model Hobbies do Gunze, but I know eModels, Premium Hobbies, and veteroanus do. It's how I know there seems to be a shortage of H72 and H74.

OK thanks guys. I've decided to abandon the 3d printing route. Too costly, either by investing in a 3d printer, or by seeking someone else to do it for me. I made some of the pieces I want last week out of styrene. They seem to work ok, although they're devoid of details, but I can go back at a later date and add scratchbuilt details if I wish. At least they function, so far, as I want.

That's why I use Hermes. They go by weight. And I've never had a problem. Guess I've been lucky or not had to send enough parcels yet.

Very nice. I had the 1/1000 Refit Enterprise. I know how much of an exercise in decalling that would have been had I built it, so I know how yours probably was. Sadly I sold it, just can't bring myself to do an Enterprise without stuffing LEDs into it, and it was too small/complicated for me to do it properly in 1/1000. Yours looks great.

Depends on the size/weight of your purchase and who they are using and whether or not, like Amazon, they are able to absorb and subsidise postage costs. I usually find shipping a 1/48 boxed kit in a fairly large box, weighing under 1kg door to door to someone in the UK, using Hermes, costs me around £5. At least it did last time I posted anything, back around the start of the year. I've got a listing on eBay at the moment for a 1/72 Mig-23UB kit, if that ever sells it'll get shipped door to door via Hermes, when I checked the postage on Hermes' site about 2 months ago, that came to £4.70 to the address in the UK that I used to get a "guestimate". No idea what Royal Mail charge at the moment but I do know that their services they provide like "Signed for" are getting steep in price, I paid around £7 in the last 12 months for an item to be posted "Signed for", and if I recall correctly that was only a letter in an envelope going less than 20 miles down the road from me. Good luck on Gunze paints. I've been looking recently because I want H72 and H74, most places in the UK that I've looked at online seem to be out of stock of those two from the looks of it. I know of one online retailer who apparently still has stock, but we have an ideology conflict so I won't give them the time of day, let alone £10 or so for 2 paints.

Hope this film is better than the original. I have watched several versions of David Lynch's Dune, and all of them are largely incomprehensible.

2nd that. Along with all the other minted "space tourists" queuing up.

Saw this movie recently. Don't know if it was just me but despite the combat scenes, it felt like nothing really seemed to happen. Seemed quite a slow, plodding movie, despite it being short at 91 minutes. The ending was a bit "is that it?!".

RAF. I'll go with Vallejo Model Color 964, I already had it noted as the color to use, I should have checked my PC for notes first. I generally don't get good results with Tamiya or Gunze paints when using a hairy stick. Thanks.

Thanks. I should have checked my notes on my computer as I had already noted Vallejo 964 as a likely candidate. I'll see about getting a bottle.

Hey all I'm planning on starting an Airfix 1/48 Spitfire Mk.Ia in a few weeks, but I'm stuck on what paint to use for the blue of pilots uniform. Can anyone here point me to a currently available "ball park" paint to use with a brush, preferably Vallejo (I also have a number of Citadel blues already). Thanks in advance.

Should also remember the German air crews also -

I'm no fan of the msm's way of reporting, especially the BBC, but that type of comparison does somewhat help those who can't visualise and understand things. Much like Richard Feynman dropping a ball at a physics lesson... Bit like the "silver" Spitfire...

I started with Discovery way back at the release of Season 1 on Netflix. Quickly gave up on it then. The blatant advertising of it based on "look LGBTQ+ inclusion" didn't help it either. Someone earlier in this thread mentioned TNG was written by the politically correct, well that applies to STD also, moreso because it's advertised as being such, and unlike TNG (which I maintain is the best Star Trek, besides DS9) it's in your face... OG BG was better. BG 2000 was depressing. Although Tricia Helfer made of for some of that... BTW BBC have BG on iPlayer.

Depends. I usually have a policy of building just 1 example of a subject. However I have, since I built my 1/72 Revell Tornado GR1 in a Desert Storm livery, had an urge to build another one in the usual grey/green camo. I also usually only build a duplicate if the first or subsequent one's went wrong...

I want to say something about standing up for your fellow workers, rather than worrying about if you'll get your Jammie Dodgers, but I'm guessing that would be political... P.S. Marmite was due to an unavoidable shortage of brewing, not an avoidable dispute.

1/144 GWH Avro Vulcan - I've tried twice using 2 kits to get it looking right. First time I tried the anti-flash white scheme, couldn't get a solid white, so I tried stripping it, only to realise that Vallejo polyurethane primer is pretty much unstrippable by anything I could use. 2nd time, on another copy of the kit, I tried the wraparound camo scheme, put a layer of Pledge Floor Care over the model ready for decalling, but 1 week later the Pledge Floor Care was still not dry. Done the same with an Academy 1/48 P-47 that I was trying to do in NMF, I put down a layer of Pledge Floor Care that weeks later still wasn't dry. All three ended up in the bin as there wasn't anything I felt I could do with them. I have another 1/144 GWH Avro Vulcan in my stash, so far I've spent £105 on 1/144 Vulcan kits... It also took me 3 attempts to get a reasonable looking RAF HSS 1/72 DH Vampire, with two kits being chucked...