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    Prize Giving Day-donations If You Please

    in Wings and Things of the Red Star

    Posted

    Wow!

    you deserve that beer Gaz

    too hard to choose! :frantic:

    Yeah, really enjoyed it! Franziskaner Wheat beer- looks cloudy and 'orrible if you're used to ordinary lager, but I'm convinced it is the Nectar of the Gods!

    What a choice. I have to say "wow, great job" to everyone who posted in the galleries, but my favourites (no logic, no criticism of anyone else's work, just what I liked best!) were Mal's Yak-1b, Mitchem's Yak-28R, and Smuts's T-34/76. Such a shame I had to choose only 1.

    MadNurseGaz's builds

    in The Great War GB

    Posted

    I've got plenty of the Emhar British figures to go with this tank if you need some spares for a diorama.

    Thanks for the offer, but I did intend building it as a standalone, I'm not ready to try figure painting yet!

    ......... at least the rigging is easy :lol:

    Touche!

    Thanks for the offer of decals, I hope not to have to take it up, I'll have to let you know if I have any problems!

    1/72 Kit Pricing.

    in Aircraft WWII

    Posted

    I have to say that the prices put forward by LightningBoy2000 are about what I think are right.

    I've always tried to run my hobby on the cheap, buying old kits off Ebay, keeping away from the more expensive end of the market- and by that

    I mean Hasegawa, Tamiya etc.- but I've recently come to think that I'm fed up with spending more time cleaning up parts from elderly moulds,

    dealing with sparse or non-existent interior detail or cockpits,or poor quality decals than I do getting pleasure from building kits. Last year

    I moved up to 1/48, but found that I didn't get the enjoyment from bigger kits that I expected- I think I felt that more and more detail

    was required, where I can live with a basic 'pit in 1/72, that still impresses my (nonmodeller) friends. I see models pictured in this

    forum that make me feel like giving up modelling entirely, but then I think of the pleasure I get from my builds (even if no-one else

    gets any pleasure from them!) and common sense prevails (If I gave up modelling, I'd have to go to the pub!). I moved back to 1/72

    and started to enjoy it again. What I have begun to feel recently is that I'm going to have to embrace Hasegawa, Tamiya, Trumpeter

    etc. so that if I start with a better kit, I should finish with a better model! And if that means I have to pay more, and build fewer

    (or even buy fewer), then so be it!

    :coat:

    Lanoe Hawker VC

    in The Great War GB

    Posted

    I'm really looking forward to seeing this done......The way that figure modellers

    manage to create texture, animation and depth fascinates me, as it is a skill I

    know I will never possess. Finished figure models nearly always get a "Wow"

    or a "Gosh" from me.

    :worthy: :worthy:

    (and that's just for attempting it!!!)

    Prize Giving Day-donations If You Please

    in Wings and Things of the Red Star

    Posted

    I've got "IL-2 Sturmovik", a video game for the PC, that I'll donate.

    The packaging has been opened but it's unused.

    For anyone who doesn't know, "IL-2 Sturmovik" is a combat flight

    simulator game set on the Russian Front in WW2. There are 31

    playable aircraft from USSR, USA and Germany, 2 different

    multiplayer modes, and fighter or bomber campaigns ranging

    from 1941 to 1945. Good fun, apparently!

    MadNurseGaz's builds

    in The Great War GB

    Posted · Edited by MadNurseGaz

    Into this one we go with a TOKO Hansa-Brandenburg W-29 to start with.

    This one, in fact!

    w29001.jpg

    It's sprueshots etc:

    w29002.jpg

    It has actually been started. One float has been glued up, as has the engine, and lots of parts removed from the sprues.

    w29004.jpg

    w29003.jpg

    Hoping for a straightforward build with this one, I've never used lozenge camo decals before, so that's a new technique to learn!

    Also....

    having a go with this:

    Mk4001.jpg

    Mk4002.jpg

    Mk4003.jpg

    Both of them will be built OOB- I'll probably find that quite taxing enough!!

    Reference material

    in The Great War GB

    Posted

    :dunce:

    I'm building a Hansa-Brandenburg W29 seaplane from the Toko/Roden kit.

    It has the lozenge camouflage, and decals are provided for that.

    I just wanted to ask if anyone has any tips for dealing with such big decals,

    the whole wing uppersurface has to be covered. I've never dealt with the lozenge camo,

    or with such extensive decals before. Is it straightforward to do, or should

    I be aware of any special techniques? I presume it's necessary to prime the surface,

    rather than just applying the decals to bare plastic? :dunce:

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