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AIRCRAFT - Battle of Britain Group Build (Jan 1st 2005 - May 31st 2005)

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Posted by osher on Sunday, April 24, 2005 3:36 PM
Well, I'm still building!
Update: the Spitfire has just gone in for paintstripping for a 2nd time, so, should be ready for re-painting tomorrow evening
the BF-110 has had the 2nd nancelle added on. The levers have been taken off the sprue, and are ready for application. When they're added in, and the sidewalls painted/dry brushed, then the fuselage will be ready for sealing. (I think!)
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Posted by tho9900 on Sunday, April 24, 2005 2:36 PM
Tweety - could you tell Tanky I am not talking to him until he stops the accent? Wink [;)]

So who is still building for this one? Just curious... waiting to see some more pics!!!
---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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Posted by Tankmaster7 on Sunday, April 24, 2005 1:48 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by darson

QUOTE: Originally posted by tho9900

you're not saying the future went bad has it Darren? I can send some more if it did... BTW: you guys keep me posted when ya need more... an individual bottle is only about $10 US to send... all 3 or 4 bottles were a bit more... so if I get your orders as they come in I can fill them individually! (at less of a bang to the pocket book!) Tweets is on a Future ration now... he drank the first 3 bottles I sent him.. now he only gets one every 14 days or so! He has to ration it...

BTW: just curious... how do you compare Future, now that you've had a chance to use it, to Pledge one Go?




Tom, no problems with the Future, it's working beautifully and it definitely hasn't gone of. It's just that its operator is still learning the proper do's and don'ts if you know what I mean. Thanks for the offer on a re-supp but I am fine.
That Tweety guy has a serious problem, I mean who drinks Future??? Now taking the top off the bottle and selling it is a much more sensible thing to do Cool [8D].

Oh and I wouldn't go back to One-Go it is not the same product and the Future is 20 times better. As a matter of fact at next months IPMS meeting we're supposed to bring our favorite modeling tool for some sort of show and tell. Guess what I'm bringing.

Tanky
Words fail me....

Cheers
Darren


Am Ah tae take it by all yer braw reactions thit ye havenae taken kin'ly tae me new accent?
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Posted by tho9900 on Sunday, April 24, 2005 8:14 AM
Mike - no problems at all that I know of. I thought about that after I sent it... 3 bottls of liquid wrapped tightly in plastic binding might look suspicious to an Xray machine... I was careful to label the customs form with a thorough description of the contents so maybe that helped...

Darren - yeah I am far from a Future guru but everytime I use it I find out something new and it goes on better.... as far as drinking the stuff, a little orange juice helps cut the bitterness... I like the floral scent as well... you always go around with fresh breath. Not to mention the incredible protection it provides for your teeth... my dentist is amazed at how well my teeth look lately. (I did a little preshading with gloss white before coating them with future)

Rick - this is true, but this GB seems to linger in the background almost like the smell of Kremps borscht! ... days later the house still stinks!
---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, April 24, 2005 12:06 AM
Okay the Hurricane came home with me and I started on the cockpit and wings
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Posted by rjkplasticmod on Saturday, April 23, 2005 9:50 PM
Tanky, this Thread will never die. It will just fade away Smile [:)]

Regards, Rick
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Posted by madmike on Saturday, April 23, 2005 9:04 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by tho9900

you're not saying the future went bad has it Darren? I can send some more if it did... BTW: you guys keep me posted when ya need more... an individual bottle is only about $10 US to send... all 3 or 4 bottles were a bit more... so if I get your orders as they come in I can fill them individually! (at less of a bang to the pocket book!) Tweets is on a Future ration now... he drank the first 3 bottles I sent him.. now he only gets one every 14 days or so! He has to ration it...

BTW: just curious... how do you compare Future, now that you've had a chance to use it, to Pledge one Go?


Tom

Hawkeye was going to be a distributor but now he is gone, we are back where we started. I have 2/3 of a bottle of Future left and the same for Super Stride (the almost equivalent - pre One Go). Was there any difficulty getting the stuff through customs?

cheers

Mike
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei
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Posted by darson on Saturday, April 23, 2005 8:51 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by tho9900

you're not saying the future went bad has it Darren? I can send some more if it did... BTW: you guys keep me posted when ya need more... an individual bottle is only about $10 US to send... all 3 or 4 bottles were a bit more... so if I get your orders as they come in I can fill them individually! (at less of a bang to the pocket book!) Tweets is on a Future ration now... he drank the first 3 bottles I sent him.. now he only gets one every 14 days or so! He has to ration it...

BTW: just curious... how do you compare Future, now that you've had a chance to use it, to Pledge one Go?


Tom, no problems with the Future, it's working beautifully and it definitely hasn't gone of. It's just that its operator is still learning the proper do's and don'ts if you know what I mean. Thanks for the offer on a re-supp but I am fine.
That Tweety guy has a serious problem, I mean who drinks Future??? Now taking the top off the bottle and selling it is a much more sensible thing to do Cool [8D].

Oh and I wouldn't go back to One-Go it is not the same product and the Future is 20 times better. As a matter of fact at next months IPMS meeting we're supposed to bring our favorite modeling tool for some sort of show and tell. Guess what I'm bringing.

Tanky
Words fail me....

Cheers
Darren
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Posted by tho9900 on Saturday, April 23, 2005 8:35 PM
::shaking head:: where did we go wrong Tanky... we tried to raise you up right and now THIS!!! Disapprove [V]
---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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Posted by Tankmaster7 on Saturday, April 23, 2005 8:17 PM
Aye laddies, this thread has a "use by" date. as is the way wi' all the wee GB's this one will go the wa' they all do in the end... As the finish o' the buil' approach, and the members they finish their braw builds they're of tae other GB's and thi' one slowly perish... In other words, as a GB nears its end date fewer people post and the thread dies in the end.
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Posted by tho9900 on Saturday, April 23, 2005 7:49 PM
you're not saying the future went bad has it Darren? I can send some more if it did... BTW: you guys keep me posted when ya need more... an individual bottle is only about $10 US to send... all 3 or 4 bottles were a bit more... so if I get your orders as they come in I can fill them individually! (at less of a bang to the pocket book!) Tweets is on a Future ration now... he drank the first 3 bottles I sent him.. now he only gets one every 14 days or so! He has to ration it...

BTW: just curious... how do you compare Future, now that you've had a chance to use it, to Pledge one Go?
---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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Posted by darson on Saturday, April 23, 2005 7:32 PM
JB we have been posting on this thread since Oct last year and I suppose that everything has a use by date.
With the Future I don't think you will need to get a mirror finish, but Tom is dead right, flat paint just drinks the stuff. Follow his advice and you should be fine.

Cheers
Darren
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Posted by tho9900 on Thursday, April 21, 2005 6:35 PM
Jay it should at least have a nice even satin finish before you go to weathering and decaling. Sometimes over flat paint it takes me 2 or 3 light to med coats to cover it. Don't go heavy on the future or it will pool at the low areas and leave globs. (if it does, windex on a q-tip will get them off.

Dull paints drink that stuff right up! Almost as fast as Tweety can!

Then after weathering a med coat or two light coats will set you up to protect the decals and paint. On my SBD I did awhile back I ended up having to use windex to get the future off then micro-sol to slowly remove the decal because after future I could even scrape it up with a toothpick! (just a small "No step" decal and had to go to all that!)

---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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Posted by jboutin on Thursday, April 21, 2005 5:23 PM
What! I had to go to the second page to get this thread!

Anyway, I highly doubt I'll get to decals tonight or tomorrow, My parents are coming to town so I can't lock myself in the basement with my models,.. oh well.

The second coat of future looks better but is future supposed be totally smooth? should the finish be like a mirror? decals coming soon!Big Smile [:D]
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Posted by tho9900 on Thursday, April 21, 2005 5:59 AM
I'm too old and feeble to attempt to do that scale... Although if Kremps can do it I guess anyone can.. what with her elephantiasis of the fingers and all...
---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 11:06 PM
Lodni sweet builds Thumbs Up [tup]Thumbs Up [tup]Thumbs Up [tup] Looking forward to seeing the next ones.....
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 10:24 PM
Thanks a bunch for the comments, everyone! The kits are made by Bandai and all of mine I bought at the 7-11's!! I do have a couple of Sweet kits in the stash (actually, a two-in-one kit). The only thing about picking up these kits is they're like a box of chocolates - you never know what you're gonna get!! I have more 1/144 Me-109's and Zero's than I know what to do with! ( Hazard of coming home from Karoke bars and being hungry!) I had to scrounge for the unit decals, too!

William, ditto about working at a model shop! I'd probably be in trouble! - Calvin
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 9:25 PM
Trust me I've close, but the employee discount saves me, barely
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Posted by tho9900 on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 9:13 PM
Dday - dont know whether to be grateful or jealous that I dont work at the LHS... I have the feeling I would end up in indentured servitude just to pay for the kits I bought...
---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 4:35 PM
Nice job on the fighters Calvin!

I am working at my LHS and part of my paycheck will be the spit and Hurricane
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Posted by KINGTHAD on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 12:02 PM
Your builds look great Lodi_k

Thad
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Posted by rjkplasticmod on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 9:40 AM
Nice little builds Lodni_k. Are they the Sweet kits ?

Regards, Rick
RICK At My Age, I've Seen It All, Done It All, But I Don't Remember It All...
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Posted by osher on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 6:33 AM
Calvin, I'm wondering which WWII fighter 1/144 scale kits you used. Eduard do some lovely kits of German aircraft in 1/144. Minicraft do some awful kits of WWII aircraft, I should know, I've tried building some recently. OK, with a lot (and I mean, a lot) of work, a part-way decent model can be built. Apparently these kits are Crown kits from the 1970's.
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Posted by KJ200 on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 2:31 AM
Guys thanks for the encouragement.

Most of the Aeromaster decals went on perfectly with a light coat of Gunze Mr Setter, conforming perfectly to every nook and cranny.

It's only the big ones, ie the wing roundels and tail flashes that have proved a problem.

I'm hoping to finish the decaling tonight, which means a second coat of Future at the weekend, followed by a panel wash.

Jay Put on a heavier, slightly 'wetter' coat and you'll be fine. That way the Future settles itself out into a perfect shine.

Lodni I'm at work so can't see your pictures, damned security settings! Look forward to seeing them later.

Mike Think I might have to lay in a bottle of Microscale decal film for future emergencies. Having looked at the decals they are dated 1995!

Rick Must admit they curled up tight the moment the hit the water, which I haven't had other decals do.

Karl

Currently on the bench: AZ Models 1/72 Mig 17PF

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Posted by darson on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 12:40 AM
The only problem I have ever had with Aeromaster decals was that one had a crease in it when it was mailed to me, which then cause the decal to crack. Of course it had to crack right in the chest area of a very well endowed nose art that I wanted to use Sad [:(]. I ended up fixing it up the same way Mike did using Microscale decal film solution.

Loni wow nice buildsThumbs Up [tup]. My hat is really off to you working in the scale you do, great job.

Cheers
Darren
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Posted by pingtang on Wednesday, April 20, 2005 12:13 AM
Very nice builds lodni_k. Great work on the camo for such a small scale, the masking must of been fun. Thanks for sharing them.
-Daniel
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 19, 2005 11:58 PM
Don't let those decals get you down, Karl! You're on the downhill side! Big Smile [:D] Like I promised, some pics of the Spit & Bf109. Now, my photography skills just are not there, so please bear (bare?Tongue [:P]) with me whilst I learn!Blush [:I]






Now for the Hurricane and Stuka!Propeller [8-] - Calvin
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Posted by rjkplasticmod on Tuesday, April 19, 2005 6:32 PM
Karl, I use a lot of Aeromaster decals & have always found them to be of excellent quality. You must have got a sheet that was one of the rare defects or, more likely, had been stored improperly somewhere along the way.

Regards, Rick
RICK At My Age, I've Seen It All, Done It All, But I Don't Remember It All...
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Posted by jboutin on Tuesday, April 19, 2005 5:07 PM
So got the future on the hurricane but me thinks it was too thin as it went pebbly. I'm going to try a little heavier coat tonight. next up, decals! see I told you decals would be happening soon!Wink [;)]
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Posted by osher on Tuesday, April 19, 2005 6:57 AM
Seems like you're having some fun with your decals there Karl. Good luck with it! I'd like to see pictures of the finished article.
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