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22 hours ago, Martian Hale said:

there's a blast from the past!

 

talking of which.... anyone remember these ?

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well, at least there's no sausages around here.

 

 

23 hours ago, perdu said:

This is where you get it, think anyone else will see the wobbly lines?

 

Bill, I can't do them any straighter in 1/48th!    Even in 1/32 it's pushing my limits.

 

 

14 hours ago, perdu said:

A banana daily

 

to be had with a soda scone wi' roasted cheese (a good strong cheddar).  The tanginess of the cheese and the sweetness of the bananananana really compliment each other

 

 

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I don't think I have ever come across that dodgy looking brew before but then as a real ale drinker, I doubt that I would have been looking for it.

 

Martian 👽

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I spent a pleasant hour or so imbibbicating Woods's last night whilst contemplating Breaker...

 

Anyway the rail, without those useful shots of the starboard fixing of it I spent a little time making it tuck round the back of the display console

Now I know it isn't quite right but if I don't tell you...

 

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Looks OK from outside and ain't nobody going in to check so I call that done enough

0.025 white Evergreen rod, my last so must restock, with a length of Johnaero's thinnest tube cut into sections to make the bigger bits seen in the photos

 

It will do, I think

 

Now on the other side of the pond I had to get a grey close enough to the photos to spray on the CH-53

 

I mentioned I believe using Tamiya JA Grey after my experiences with that Xtrahorrid stuff and this was the base colour on the model after mixing it with approximately 20% Tamiya Flat White

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To my eye it compares well to the colour of the machine in the link Andy gave us a few pages back

 

I took this shot with the camera on my tablet so its not great but is illustrative

 

After letting it gas off I have begun trying my home made transfers

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Works for me, you?

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I'm redrawing these now,  maybe a little lighter in tone huh?

 

I don't quite like the actual font size or thickness so I've reduced the font to normal from bold and if I can lighten the letters too I think it'll be fine

 

I've also seen a few little surface changes I need to make so I need to get more Tamiya White to remix the top coat too

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MARINES-TWOa.png

 

Planning to use these now, the colour was 'picked' from one of the CH-53Ds in the link Andy sent so should be OK

 

The body colour looks OK too but in fact I plan to add a little sky blue into the colour mix tomorrow, just to kill the brown cast a bit more

 

The transfers are printed on clear dec paper so will not have this much luminance when on the grey model I hope

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Never too late, never too...

 

No Andy thanks mate it is not too late

 

I'm glad to see the proper spec 'color' listed, I have USAF MIL specs from the eighties but nothing this useful for more recent times

 

Looking at the colour patch I don't think my photo scan is far off, especially given scale size and fade effects involved

 

I have to say I'm not happy with Betty, bitmaps don't reduce nicely without loss

 

I intend trying again to open then save her in vector/PSD  instead then see how she slims down with that

 

I am attempting to get enough info on the defensive suite to model those on the side, nose and tail before I re-commit to the slightly greyer Gray

 

 

And mods to Merlin are coming, Richard sent me the FLIR and some other sexy little greeblies to hang underneath 

 

Busy day, oh yes that reminds me

 

Sea Vixen, finish the blooming Sea Vixen

 

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16 minutes ago, perdu said:

...USAF MIL specs from the eighties ...

I’m confused; are those the specs for Orange Clubs or Garibaldis?

 

White rail thingy is the “swim this way” johnson to help orientation when upside down in freezing cold water in the dark; feel along it with your hand and you find an arrow.  Seakings have them in the back, too - though they weren’t white in my era.

 

[Mmmmm.  Orange Clubs...]

 

P.S. this build is making my (vague, half formed) “plan” to turn an Airfix 1/48 Merlin into an ASW version recede even further into the Too Difficult pile. I know it’s been done - on this very forum - but my knowledge of the real aircraft is just too sketchy.  So Junglie HC4 it is, then!

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Tsssk! What are you like huh?

 

Thanks for these too, brilliant to be able to keep up to date, I had these to cover the paint jobs on my C-23A Sherpa

 

Showed me exactly where Shorts had deviated from Euro cam colours

 

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11 hours ago, perdu said:

And now they own Cadbury...

Its outrageous! When will these colonial types learn to keep their hands off our chocolate? Things started to go downhill when they changed the name of Marathon bars to Snickers. Mrs Martian, a chocoholic if ever there was one, totally agrees.

 

Outraged of Mars 👽

 

 

 

 

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Outrage is as outrage does

 

If Hershey knew what I would do with their chocolike substance they might be outraged too

 

I am trying to build the sensor suite for the CH-53D and have been pondering the shimmery surface of the AN/ALQ144 sensor

Am I dreaming or have I seen someone's model somewhere that has these faces made in a specialised decal sheet some where


I think it may have been on a tank model perhaps...


Does anyone know where to send my searches please?

 

help

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