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North African GB "All Subjects" (Start NOW - Finish 31st of Oct)

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Posted by rjkplasticmod on Tuesday, September 6, 2005 12:26 PM
Congratulations Karl on the shiney new star & rank. Heres a toast to the next 1000.



Regards, Rick
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, September 6, 2005 5:16 AM
Congrats Karl 2000K and still going strongParty [party]Party [party]Party [party]Yeah!! [yeah]Approve [^]
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Posted by KJ200 on Monday, September 5, 2005 12:46 PM
Jules The white had about 3 days drying time, same as the RLM 65. I read somewhere a while back that gloss coats should be left for a week before undertaking any extra work. Think I'll bare that in mind in future.

As post 2000, that's over on the BFGGB thread.

Karl

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Posted by Tankmaster7 on Monday, September 5, 2005 9:06 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by darson

Tanky I feel like a bit of a traitor but yeah I'm a member of that forum (same user ID btw). I find their forum a little lacking and a little slow, however their how to articles are excellent.

What's your user id over there?

Cheers
Darren


Looks like you already found out darren. Clown [:o)]
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, September 5, 2005 8:31 AM
Karl Sounds like your having fun with the tape, I used to get glue marks on my kits and it just doesn't come off, these days i give every colour i paint a coat of futrure and let it dry for at least 24 hours just to avoid that residue........

BTW just one more post and you hit 2000 posts.................Just do it.............
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Posted by KJ200 on Monday, September 5, 2005 4:51 AM
Bob The French camo isn't as scary as it looks. I use a Badger 100SG with fine head, and it makes spraying freehand fairly easy.

Darson The French camo is certainly different, probably why it appealed to me.

Progress Update

Tidied up all the overspray and missed bits yesterday and left to harden over night. The paints for this build are predominantly gloss, and therefore seem to take an age to dry fully. I found that out when I removed the masking from the white tail area, glue marks from the Tamiya tape all over my lovely gloss white!Banged Head [banghead]. The matt RLM 65 undersides on the otherhand are unmarked by the tape!

I've just sanded it smooth, and it'll need another coat of paint later today, along with the wing walks, which will also need careful masking.

Karl

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Posted by darson on Sunday, September 4, 2005 10:37 PM
Tanky I feel like a bit of a traitor but yeah I'm a member of that forum (same user ID btw). I find their forum a little lacking and a little slow, however their how to articles are excellent.

What's your user id over there?

Cheers
Darren
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Posted by Tankmaster7 on Sunday, September 4, 2005 8:49 PM
So another usual suspects build will draw to a close ina couple of months... We better transfer over to the germany GB ASAP. Big Smile [:D]Black Eye [B)] I just joined armorama. anyone else here belong to that forum?
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Posted by darson on Sunday, September 4, 2005 8:35 PM
Well after a break of the best part of a month away from the bench, I took the plunge and dived back in yesterday. I finished of most of the assembly of the Kubel in prep for a coat of future tonight or tomorrow.

Tom, I'm glad to hear that you and yours are all OK, I hope they did not loose too much. I figured you must be busy because of Katrina in some way.

Sean, good luck and post some progress pics as you go. Also, I'm using BMF masking for the first time ever on my 109 and it's turning out really well. Thanks for the tip.

Karl, she looks great Thumbs Up [tup] and that's got to be one of the most unusual camo schemes I have ever seen.

Cheers
Darren
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Posted by bobbaily on Sunday, September 4, 2005 7:38 PM
Karl-Great work on the paint. I wouldn't even attempt that in my dreams!

Finally did some work today-masked the canopy on the F-6A Mustang...again. This time I used the Eduard masks as templates and used some BMF and some old address labels (actually bar code tags from work that were used for testing some data.) Gonna break out the airbrush tomorrow and try to duplicate the paint mix. Hopefully will post some good news later in the week. Either that or outsource the canopy!

Bob

 

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Posted by KJ200 on Sunday, September 4, 2005 9:42 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by rjkplasticmod

Karl, The Tamiya D520 is a great little kit. Think you would like it a lot.

Regards, Rick


It's certainly a tempting thought, maybe next year.

Karl

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Posted by rjkplasticmod on Sunday, September 4, 2005 9:04 AM
Karl, The Tamiya D520 is a great little kit. Think you would like it a lot.

Regards, Rick
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Posted by KJ200 on Sunday, September 4, 2005 6:59 AM
Jules I posted a build update on the MS406 in the Battle for Germany GB thread like a muppet!

I was looking at a build article on a Tamiya D520 over on Hypersnail the other day. Nice looking kit, way better than this heap. I do rather like those fetching red and yellow stripes on the Vichy machines, especially the Dewoitines and the Bloch 152s.

Karl

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, September 4, 2005 5:16 AM
Karl Looks fantastic buddyThumbs Up [tup] I like that tri colour camo scheme and whats more i should having at a crack at it soon on my Vichy D-520..........

Oh and BTW are your sure your in the wrong threadQuestion [?] I thought that you were indeed building it for the North African GB, Its Marked on page , I think, damn now you've got me all confused againConfused [%-)]Confused [%-)]Confused [%-)]Confused [%-)]
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Posted by KJ200 on Sunday, September 4, 2005 3:37 AM
Tom Good to hear your relatives property survived pretty much intact. Sounds like they have been extremely lucky.

You have to love the Armee de l'Air camo, it has such an element on chintz to it! I'm not sure about the green, I matched it to an FS ref on the IPMS Stockholm site, but it still looks too light, or is it that the grey is too dark? Who cares, it's almost finished that's the main thing.

As for the wrong thread, it is precisely because of the 'Usual Suspects' that I get confused. But then if I didn't get confused from time to time, I wouldn't be at Happy Acres now would I.

Rick I had considered masking the camo, but decided that I just couldn't be bothered. That andI didn't import the Badger 100 from the US for nothing! The worse thing about the camo has been the Aeromaster guide, which was little short of useless.

Today should be tidy up day, sorting out all those little areas I missed, or oversprayed.

Karl

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Posted by tho9900 on Saturday, September 3, 2005 7:55 PM
Thanks Karl - looks like their house didn't get hit... no flooding or wind damage other than a few shingles... they found out they can sneak back in and get their stuff so they left tonight so immediately I hit the P-26 for my Pearl Harbor build... They'll be back Mon or so, so I will have to curtail the modeling then...

The camo looks good... in fact I believe my grandmother had a sofa once that had that same design on the upholstery.. Wink [;)] and wrong thread? we 'usual suspects' don't NEED a thread!!!
---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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Posted by rjkplasticmod on Saturday, September 3, 2005 6:34 PM
Looking very good Karl. Those tri-color camo schemes can be a real challenge, but looks like you're up to it.

Regards, Rick
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Posted by KJ200 on Saturday, September 3, 2005 2:56 PM
As promised, though in totally the wrong thread, pics...



..and..



There's still work to be done, the two white patches either side of the wing roots need a coat of dark grey, as they are wing walks, and I need to sort out a few areas of overspray here and there. Oh.....and the bit of green I forgot in front of the tail plane!!!

I also had a play with some post shading techniques on my 190D paint mule. Probably the only place you can see Armee De L'Air camo on top, with Hellenic airforce camo on the underside of a Focke Wulf.!!!

Karl

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Posted by KJ200 on Saturday, September 3, 2005 3:03 AM
Tom Hope your relatives are OK, and able to at least salvage somthing from what's left of New Orleans.

Looking at the news footage, I just can't beleive the level of devastation and suffering. It looks more like an aid agency from Africa, not the US.

Karl

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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, September 3, 2005 1:50 AM
Sean, No suprises here i knew it would look great, well done mate and have fun with the squiggle, no going back nowThumbs Up [tup]Thumbs Up [tup]

Frosty looking good, decals came out real niceThumbs Up [tup]
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Posted by tweety1 on Saturday, September 3, 2005 1:42 AM
Decals look good Frosty. But the canopy isn't in the right position.
Is it glued in place, or is it just sitting there for the pic??

Either way, that 109 looks just fine to me.

Flashes on cameras have a tendancy to 'wash' out the picture and make every little detail stand out something fierce.
I reckon under normal lighting it would look a million bucksApprove [^]
--Sean-- If you are driving at the speed of light and you turn on the headlights, what happens???
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Posted by tho9900 on Friday, September 2, 2005 7:39 PM
sorry I havent been around much guys, I am playing boarding house to my relatives who evacuated from New Orleans... will be able to get on more by Monday, they are being allowed to go back for one day to get their belongings...
---Tom--- O' brave new world, That has such people in it!
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Posted by rjkplasticmod on Friday, September 2, 2005 3:24 PM
Frosty, Nice work on the 109. Looking real good.

Regards, Rick
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Posted by KJ200 on Friday, September 2, 2005 2:18 PM
Sean Best of luck with the squiggle.

Frosty Nice progress on the 109. Looking very good.

Karl

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Posted by razordws on Friday, September 2, 2005 11:47 AM
Frosty "not your best"? Maybe not but your bar is pretty high. The decals look great and it's still a great model. Looking forward to the finishing touches.

Sean Looking forward to those squiggles as well.

Dave

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 2, 2005 11:32 AM
ditto 2 the above, good luck on the squiggle camo !

here r a couple of pix of my trop:

the landing gear is on...

another pic.... not my best...

i had 2 paint another coat of white on the spinner, so i'll probably
attach the prop blades & spinner over the weekend & do a bit
of touchup painting here & there.

frostySmile [:)]
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Posted by rjkplasticmod on Friday, September 2, 2005 10:51 AM
Looks good so far Sean. Good luck on the Squiggles.

Regards, Rick
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Posted by tweety1 on Friday, September 2, 2005 8:49 AM
Hmmmm, there is an easy way to mask thingsShock [:O]
Wish someone told me thatBanged Head [banghead]

Ok, not really much in the way of a progress shot, but here are a couple of pics of the 129 with the RLM 79 I made up.
Doesn't appear to be to far from the real shade.


Now all I have to do is apply the squiggle camo.................................freehand.
I was trying to think of a way to make a masking template, but I can't see it happening.
Squiggles are far to complex to mask on something this size, and seeing as my Iwata won't be here for a while, looks like the Omni gets the honours.
Should be funSmile [:)]
--Sean-- If you are driving at the speed of light and you turn on the headlights, what happens???
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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, September 1, 2005 2:50 AM
Nah Tweets i havn't shunned the BMF method, i still use it on easy canopies like the Wildcat or Hellcat but for models like the Zero or Avenger AM masks make it that much easier for a lazy bugger like meThumbs Up [tup]
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Posted by tweety1 on Thursday, September 1, 2005 2:08 AM
Frosty that 109 looks just fine!!!!
Nice work on the engine.
And yeah, the finish looks a little rough, but being 1/72 and brush painted, I think it looks fine.

Jules whats all this EZ mask talk!!!Shock [:O] Dont tell me you guys have shunned the BMF approach..............the gods will not be happyDisapprove [V]

Rick well done on the 8000 posts mate!Party [party]Party [party]Yeah!! [yeah]
1000 relating to modeling, 7000 rambling with usWink [;)]
--Sean-- If you are driving at the speed of light and you turn on the headlights, what happens???
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