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Decal time. Just a small sheet with the Fury. Markings and a single stencil. My bench is rather overfull of ongoing projects at the moment! Fury is still on track to be finished by the end of the month 😁
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Roden Carvair 1/144 British Air Ferries
Tim R-T-C replied to woody37's topic in Work in Progress - Aircraft
Thanks for the nice comment. Always lovely to hear that we have proven inspirational 😊 Space saving is definitely an advantage of the scale - although if you build twice as many models, it might not quite work out that way! Nice work on the build thus far. Hi, thanks for the summoning charm 😃 -
Wow that is an incredibly intricate looking design.
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1/144 Alia Royal Jordanian Boeing 720
Tim R-T-C replied to mitchem's topic in Ready for Inspection - Aircraft
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Alas it didn't... Not an issue since it will be glued to a base anyway. I'm not sure how much weight the very splindly landing gear could take. Since this shot, a nice coat of metallic has left the model ready for the decal shop.
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Fury gone green. Like every build I seem to do, there is great debate over the colour scheme. Most sources seem to agree that they were delivered in a dark green scheme. It has been suggested that, given the aircraft were shipped directly from Hawker, that the green could well have been RAF Dark Green as this would have been a standard colour in the Hawker factory. In lieu of any other information, this seemed like a sensible approach and a Tamiya RAF Green rattle can did the job.
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Given the endless mis-information shared on social media by an older generation, raised on 1960s war movies and poorly sourced books of the era, I'm not sure any generation can claim superiority in veracity.
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Although this is hilariously bad - it is a very nascent technology, already capable of a lot. In ten years time I suspect we will be able to request an AI powered instant documentary on any topic we like, even choosing narrator and theme. This is of itself quite terrifying - misinformation, either deliberate or accidental will be much harder to spot and the days of good quality man-made documentaries etc. will be numbered.
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On a serious note, please don't do this, just ignore the emails. These surveys are often tied directly to the colleague you saw and unwarranted negative responses can lead to significant effects on their career progression. Basically firms don't want to pay for a manager to proactively watch and supervise staff, these surveys delegate the role to the customer and negative reviews have the same effect as getting caught slacking by management
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Sounds very bizarre, maybe he's the manager's son 😏
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Normandy, D-Day + a few A Churchill Crocodile of the 141st Royal Armoured Corps is awaiting orders. The tank commander has climbed into a ruined cottage to get a better view of the movements in the countryside around. Meanwhile his crew enjoy a well earned moment's respite chatting to some British infantry who are heading up to the line.... This project began as an eye catcher for the SIG 144 display at Scale Model World 2024, part of a series of armoured vehicle vignettes. I was also motivated by a desire to use some of the many whitemetal vehicles and figures that I have accumulated. Until the recent improvement in resin 3d printing, these were by far the best way to get figures and vehicles in 144th but the figures in particular are now showing their age compared to the lovely delicate 3d models available, so it seemed like a good excuse to clear out some of the stash. The highlights of this scene were the Crocodile, a lovely whitemetal casting from Arrowhead Minatures, which even includes some open hatches - a feature missing even on many larger scale kits, but so essential for authenticity in a vignette scene. The ruined Normandy cottage is actually a 3d print that I have had for a while, from Highlands 3d prints via eBay. The detail is good, but there were visible print lines - fortunately these could be easily hidden on a damaged build. A rudimentary paint job before adding dust and rubble. Crocodile in green A giant stock of figures All had to be detached from their bases. It have previously buried the bases in texture paint, but it wouldn't work on this flat scene. Simultaneously painting four vignettes worth of figures! The house was a fun exercise in weathering. A large amount of pigment was used, both wet and dry, along with a variety of extra rubble detail as well as the model itself didn't have much debris on it. Unfortunately I didn't get any photos of the base build up. I used cork sheet for the raised section, adding in a model railway tree. Then it was just a case of merging it all together and literally 5 minutes before we started loading the car, boxing it up for Telford. Thanks for reading - this model and its cousins will be on the SIG144 IPMS UK tour this year, do come and see them in person.
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Really good show, so glad it dodged the difficult snow of the previous weeks. It was fun to get a visit from a celebrity droid 😁 And those trophies were really nicely put together.
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Boxed up and ready to go 😀
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Somewhere in Syria - Toyota FJ43
Tim R-T-C replied to PanZair's topic in Ready For Inspection - Dioramas
Lovely work. A lot of character in a tiny scene.