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    A pair of Airfix Hawks in 1/72. Finished.

    in Work in Progress - Aircraft

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    10 hours ago, keefr22 said:

     

    As you burn for England with a living flame PC, you should look at buying England's finest - Derwent from the heart of the Lake District

     

    I did it. My body is ready to experience the exquisitely smooth flow of fine graphite from the Cumberland Valley, which sounds like something that happens to Terminator robots or midway through one of those Fifty Shades of Grey books.

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    Iwata HP-CS or something else?

    in Airbrushes

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    1 minute ago, Navy Bird said:

     

    Funny how that works, isn't it? I have an absolutely incredible Harder & Steenbeck Infinity X-CR with 0.2mm and 0.4mm needles, yet I do 99.9% of my airbrushing with a Paasche Model H with the #3 tip that I bought back in 1980.

     

    I actually bought one of the latter myself, to see if it was just the tools that enabled you to obtain your results. 

     

    No.

     

    No it is not just the tools. 

    What's your latest acquisition? MkVIII

    in Chat

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    Never Ready: Britain’s Armed Forces and NATO’s Flexible Response Strategy 1967-1989 by Kenton White

    Britain's Guided Weapons by Chris Gibson

    And, printed on demand via Lulu, a hardcopy of TSR.2 with Hindsight, the text of a seminar held in 1997 by the RAF Historical Society.

     

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    A flash of clean light hope (1/72 J F Edwards Kittyhawk I)

    in Work in Progress - Aircraft

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    22 minutes ago, Terry1954 said:

    The P40 for me is tending far left of my curve..........😁

     

    Screenshot 2022-11-15 at 16.47.02

     

     

    T.

     

    Wait...left? Oh dear,

     

    23 minutes ago, malpaso said:

    Just recently a national broadcaster here in the UK used “that” c word to describe a politician he’d just interviewed.  He didn’t realize the mic was still live.  He was suspended for a week’s penal servitude as a result.  Not one person in the country disagreed with the description, it’s just that we can’t say it out loud, old boy.  

    I was shocked to discover it wasn't the MP for North East Somerset, but I see there's a connection regardless.

     

    24 minutes ago, malpaso said:

    But on another occasion its all a jolly jape when a distinguished elderly broadcaster “spoonerised” our now Chancellor’s name to the same effect.

    On my 2015 visit to the UK, I stayed with an NHS junior doctor of my acquaintance, and I now realise he must have been incredibly spoonerism-prone!

     

     

     

     

     

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    A flash of clean light hope (1/72 J F Edwards Kittyhawk I)

    in Work in Progress - Aircraft

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    15 hours ago, mark.au said:


    We have two words in particular that are multipurpose depending on the inflection (which is very hard to represent in written form).  One of them is “mate” which can mean anything from a term of endearment to a threat (it wasn’t, in this case, a threat; more of a challenge accepted :) ).  The other begins with “c” and is equally versatile if less family-friendly.

     

    Curiously enough, Mrs P uses the latter word* quite a bit as a descriptor, generally of her coworkers. The children have mercifully not picked that one up from mommy, though Grant has been known to shout "Jesus Christ Winnie!" with what I'm told is a hauntingly familiar delivery to those who know me well.

     

     

    13 hours ago, John Laidlaw said:

    I like the open canopy - it shows off the lovely work you've done there. I think the weathering looks great, too.

     

    13 hours ago, stevehnz said:

    Open canopy looks good, I prefer them if I can make it work, even allowing for the little detail I put into cockpits, you don't have that handicap. :) 

    Steve.

     

    8 hours ago, Hook said:

     

    The P-40 looks better and better! Another thumbs up for the open canopy. It suits her. 

     

    7 hours ago, jackroadkill said:

    What do I think?  I think it looks cracking.  As mentioned by @Stew Dapple, a wipe with IPA should sort the canopy, but in either guise the model looks great, so you win both ways.

     

    6 hours ago, AliGauld said:

    It looks much better with the open canopy.

    Shows all that lovely internal work you've done nicely.

     

     

    3 hours ago, AdrianMF said:

    Edward, I think the open canopy looks bostin' - which is the Brummie term for "rather good".

     

    Thank you all! I don't think I'm a particularly good modeller -- things never seem to end up quite how I envisioned them in my mind's eye, but I'm actually fairly happy with this fella so far. Just waiting on the pitot. I haven't been able to find many photos of P-40 exhaust weathering, but it seems like it wasn't a major issue. Anyone know of any good shots of Kittyhawk exhaust stains? If there's none to speak of, we may be effectively more or less done come the pitot.

     

     

    * I should note that here in the USA, this has not so much the freight of a mild "damn" but more that of "if this is heard in public I will never work again, and they can possibly kill my family, too", so I generally only use it under extreme duress, e.g. when working with photoetch.

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    Scale ModelWorld 2022

    in Shows

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    1 hour ago, John Tapsell said:

    IPMS has long outgrown both venues - we are simply too big an organisation to fit into either.

     

     

     

    Well, you're welcome to use my house. It's in a suburb of Chicago, so close to not one, not two, but three large airports if you count Milwaukee, and we have a spare room. Plenty of space I reckon.

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    Dealing with stiff non sticky decals?

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    1 minute ago, BikingLampy said:

    Ideas? Is there a more superduper decal softener out there?

     

     

     

    Several! DACO Red is difficult to obtain outside of your hemisphere, so I've never used it, but it has a reputation for Ark of the Covenenant-like melting powers on decals: https://www.dacoproducts.com/Ksetting.php

     

    Here in the USA, I use Solvaset, which can do to frail, thin decals what Regency-era rakes did to naïve maidens, but which is pretty much certain to melt a decal right to a model.

    The great 1/72 Glider build - more Air Cadet flying machines

    in Work in Progress - Aircraft

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    3 minutes ago, Navy Bird said:

     

    I was there in spirit along with the rest of that motley crew.     :)

     

    You know, for next year we should set up a Zoom call for those of us who can't attend. Obviously I'm not thinking of having @Terry1954 walk around the entire show and trade area holding his phone up in the air for the whole day. But half a day might be OK...

     

    Cheers,

    Bill

     

    We can all chip in for one of those telepresence robots that were all the rage for like ten minutes a few years ago, or maybe pick up a cheap secondhand security robot from a failing tech company and use that.

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    A flash of clean light hope (1/72 J F Edwards Kittyhawk I)

    in Work in Progress - Aircraft

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    30 minutes ago, stevehnz said:

    Its looking a bit good mate. 👍

     

     

    46 minutes ago, Fritag said:

     

    Could I maybe acknowledge it in a more, well, British sort of way?  Not bad PC, not bad at all.  There, as an adept, you know to upgrade it’s effusiveness when translating into North American :D

     

    I've been saving this, as Wellington did with his knowledge of the ground at Waterloo, in my hip pocket for just such an occasion. 

     

    Seems true to me.

     

    The truthfulness of these can be verified for yourself by a perusal of any thread in the Rumourmonger section, particularly ones dealing with aircraft used by the former Soviet bloc.

     

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    The great 1/72 Glider build - more Air Cadet flying machines

    in Work in Progress - Aircraft

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    3 minutes ago, Terry1954 said:

    And last yet certainly by no means least, a big thank you to Bill @perdu, for your good company through much of the two days, and into the Saturday evening. I do wonder what you did with all those chairs your kept acquiring from the Target Facilities SIG............?

     

     

     

     

    Bill's a thrifty fellow, you'd be a fool to think when at home he sits on anything but chairs purloined from Scale Model World.

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