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Just tried spraying a batch of Colourcoats hinomaru red thinned with colourcoats thinner and found it turned to jelly in the airbrush - it seemed fine when transferring from the tin with the pipette, but within seconds of spraying, things jammed up pretty good! I've been using CC for a while now and never seen this before. The paint had been pre-mixed with thinner, and sprayed fine last week. It was stored in a well sealed previously unused tinlet. I'm puzzled as to what could have caused this. It is possible there was some residue cellulose thinner in the brush from a previous cleaning, but I though it was possible to use that as a thinner anyway. Cleaned brush, and mixed up some fresh paint, all is well. But I want to avoid this happening again. Cheers, Colin
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A proper OOB this time - not even resin wheels I promise At the Scottish National Scale Model Show at Perth, I was gifted a nice Mil Mi-8MT by @Stew Dapple. This is based on the much earlier and cruder KP kit, but is mostly fairly nice and looks like a Hip in the main. I'm not an expert on Russian choppers and I deliberately didn't go looking for reasons not to build/finish this. As such, the only obvious (to me) thing amiss with it was the shape of the windscreen which inherited KP's flaw of following a horizontal line around the front of the aircraft. On the real thing the upper edge of the glazings goes somewhat up-and-over. I reprofiled the kit glazing by scraping and sanding the top edge of the windscreen away and reinstating it using tape as a guide and Mr Surfacer to build it a new top edge. There was around 2mm of extra height to play with on the kit glazing so I've done the best I could without hugely adding to the complexity of the build and stalling. Otherwise it's just built up as it comes, and I must say I enjoyed it greatly so thank you once again Stew. It's painted in Colourcoats ACSM13 light stone and ACSM14 grey green on top with ACSM05 blue-grey underneath. I've never really researched these colours if I'm honest, but the notes from WEM days says they're Mil helicopter paints. The IPMS Stockholm's colourguide is flawed in many ways - sometimes badly - but they compared well here to the ACSMs. Anyway, I enjoyed it.
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Hi Folks, although normally adversed to posting WIPs due to my general lack of haste or inability to finish anything in any sort of reasonable timescale, I've decided to post one for my next build. I've been dabbling with 1:48 scale on the odd occasion this year, mainly to get the pesky things out of my stash to make more room for Gentleman's scale kits, but also so that I could try out some new techniques and consumables on larger bits of plastic. The kit I'm going to make is the Airfix 1:48 Bf109E which has (shamefully) been sitting in my stash since this time last year (many thanks to Col for the Birthday present, I promise to make this year's one soon!). I'm going to break from my normal painting habits and will be trying Sovereign Hobbies' Colourcoat range of enamels and will be interested to see how they perform compared to my trusty Gunze acrylics. So on with the photos, firstly the subject The obligatory boxtop photo The main colours And they're under Starter's Orders. Some nasty injection marks in obvious places around the cockpit sidewalls that need dealing with... ...a quick scrape with the scalpel.... ... and a few passes with a fibreglass pencil and they are gone. Some clean up to do and assemble the cockpit then it'll be time to break out the RLM02. Duncan B
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