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The F-15 got hosed, and I'm waiting to get some more turpentine for it. In the meantime, a Gundam. These are for the torso/head assembly. Waiting for the clear coat to cure on the black/grey parts, and the red parts need another red coat before they get their clear coat. I should probably invest in a better camera.  For the bird, I was trying a new primer. That didn't work out very well, and I'm back to Mr Surfacer 1000. I just have to strip the primer off it, then I'm golden.
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Come on over to the Gunpla thread too! http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3271194
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Yesterday I meant to do some painting. I mixed up some Modelmaster Acrylic with some Vallejo acrylic, and then spent the rest of the night trying to get it to spray through my airbrush. I thinned it with water and rubbing alcohol to (what I thought) was a good consistency, but the drat stuff seemed to clog the nozzle instantly. Help! Also: Making images. Step one in painting the fuselage was aluminum.   e: NM, it was just clogged in an unusual and exotic way. Nebakenezzer fucked around with this message at 04:22 on Feb 29, 2012 |
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I only use water or Vallejo's own thinner to thin Vallejo acrylics. I've read on various forums that alcohol makes them gum up, some colors more than others. What was the unusual and exotic clog?
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Feb 29, 2012 04:29
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There's a hole beneath where the needle is that got clogged. Once I paid special attention to that, everything was fine.
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Hey guys, dumb question but I have to be sure: I bought a Paasche moisture trap for my airbrush, and the instructions are kinda vague. Says to just cut the hose close to the airbrush and insert the trap and tighten the screws. Is it really that simple? I'm just worried I'll gently caress up my hose.
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Ah, shouldn't it just plug in before your hose? I don't know why it'd say to mount it close to the actual airbrush. Once the air is filtered, it's filtered.
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It's this one: http://www.hobbylinc.com/htm/pas/pasmt.htm The instructions say to cut air hose then put sleeves onto moisture trap, then screw the sleeves to tighten. I'll go see if I can just screw it in though.
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crime fighting hog posted:It's this one: I have the same trap, and had the same worries. You really do just splice it into your hose. Worst case scenario if you gently caress it up, a new hose is cheap and buy a trap that plugs in.
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I finished my Corsair a few days ago. Album: http://imgur.com/a/zdsft This was my third model and my first airplane. I loved building it and plan on doing more WWII planes in the future.
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who cares posted:I finished my Corsair a few days ago. We are poor little lambs who have lost our way, baa, baa, baa. :3
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who cares posted:I finished my Corsair a few days ago. Aw poo poo, that's a very nice build; the shading's just magnificent. Might I enquire what kit is this from?
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who cares posted:I finished my Corsair a few days ago. That looks very nice! I'm far from an expert on insignia, but I assume the arrow on the tail designates which carrier that planes is based on. Is that correct? Does the arrow on the wing indicate the same thing? I don't recall ever seeing insignia on the wings and it is kind of curious.
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who cares posted:I finished my Corsair a few days ago. Absolutely gorgeous mate.
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Thanks for the nice comments, everyone.Morgenthau posted:Might I enquire what kit is this from? It is the Tamiya F4U-1D kit. My first kit was a repop of a 70s Revell kit and my second model was a poorly-fitting snap-together deal, so the Tamiya kit was a dream to put together. SkunkDuster posted:I'm far from an expert on insignia, but I assume the arrow on the tail designates which carrier that planes is based on. Is that correct? Does the arrow on the wing indicate the same thing? I don't recall ever seeing insignia on the wings and it is kind of curious. Yeah, as far as I understand it they are squadron markings. The plane that I did was part of VF-84 which was based on the USS Bunker Hill. I have a book full of Corsair pictures and some squadrons only have markings on the tail and some have them on both the wing and tail and sometimes the prop.
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Crossposting my new Zvezda stuff. The BT-7 (along with its other Christie suspension brothers, the BT-2, BT-5 and A-20) had the ability to have their tracks removed and be driven around like a car.  
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Somewhere in this thread was a link to a forum showing off hand-build models of age-of-sail ships. Someone was logging his progress into building HMS Surpise from the O'Brian books. I cant find it any longer  Does someone happen to remember the link to that forum?
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Great Models is having a 40 pct off sale. They're also being acquired by another company. I have used them a few times over the years and it looks like now is a good time to pick up a few kits http://www.greatmodels.com/main/Acquisition.htm
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space pope posted:Great Models is having a 40 pct off sale. They're also being acquired by another company. I have used them a few times over the years and it looks like now is a good time to pick up a few kits Argh there's goes my "I'm not buying any new kits until I finish the ones I have" resolution drat you
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Nooo, so much cheap stuff and I have to spend $200 for shipping to not be outrageous. I don't have room for $200 worth of stuff (especially on sale) and I'll probably have to pay a lot for customs.
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So. A derp question for you all. Is this thread applicable for scale model trains? There's been this old box of train set parts in our storage shed for ages. My parents made a brief foray into the hobby before I was born (I'm 31) then boxed the parts up and let them sit. I'm just curious to post some pictures for someone semi-knowledgable to look over. Just in case there's a "Holy poo poo that's rare" bit in there. Most of the buildings and props are obvious crap, but there's about 20 or so train cars and 3 engines. Mostly in great shape since they're in their individual boxes. Not sure what I could do with it. There's a goodly bit of track, switches, transformer etc in there as well. I'd love to set it up and get something neat going if I had the space or the knowledge to build some kind of base "land" for it.
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Enos Shenk posted:Is this thread applicable for scale model trains? I say go for it, this thread doesn't get a whole lot of action.
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Here's the latest kit I'm working on. I've always wanted to have a crack at one of these its a MKII Battlestar Viper. This is going to be the last new model I start for a long while as all I want to do is finish off all the outstanding projects I have to a satisfactory degree and then pack a lot of things up and away as I have a little one coming onto the scene in August. No assembly shots I'm afraid but here's what I have. Pre-shading  Base coats:     Oh my Gods what is this big blurry mess!?:   Thanks the Gods of Kobol the masking held up.   Going to do some tidying steps and add decals. Then filter, wash and add some heavy weathering as the whole point is a rag tag, overworked barely held together fleet.
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Blistex posted:How do you get weathering in space? Dust particle collisions? From being shot at by the Cylons. Duh!
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"Carbon scoring" and presumably just not having time to clean off splodges of lubricant from maintainance and random chunks of Cylon after dramatically flying through explosions.
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Enos Shenk posted:So. A derp question for you all. Post it up. I've got some model railroad knowledge from my misspent teenage years.
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who cares posted:From being shot at by the Cylons. Duh! That would be battle damage.  In all seriousness, it just struck me that I've seen lots of Sci-Fi where the ship is rusted, and shows wear around panels and access hatches, while never being in a planet's atmosphere or doing any of those things that causes wear. Just a curiosity of mine.
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Blistex posted:That would be battle damage. Maybe they have a REALLY high oxygen content in the ship's atmosphere so it rusts super fast in the hangar.
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Well the Vipers in BSG are atmospheric fighters as well. The main point is obviously that the plot is such that they are barely maintained craft with an overworked engineering crew. So cleaning is not top of the order. As well; even in space flying through debris clouds etc will wear I suppose. There is no rust on these just plenty of soot/grime oil. They are all still using ballistic weapons after all. Basically they look like this new:  But this is the look in the series after the Cyclon attack etc. 
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If anyone feels like building some Bladerunner stuff, there are 2 new kits being released in july: http://www.hlj.com/product/fuj09136 http://www.hlj.com/product/FUJ09135 This one I just ordered the other day, it's already released: http://www.hlj.com/product/FUJ09132
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Are there any model kits out based on Serenity/Firefly? If I ever finish the sailing ship I've been neglecting to work on I wanna do a spaceship, either Serenity or some Star Wars ship I guess.
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I took a few pictures. Camera is a piece of crap, so some of them are a bit blurry. I'll have to try to get a few better shots of the boxcars... All the hardware is N guage, and somewhere around 40 years old. It was all just tossed loosely in a cardboard box filled with shreds of cardboard and other nastiness.  When I took the pictures I thought there were only these 3 engines. There's a small yard tug boxed up as well, but the motor brushes are shot and non-replacable. The smaller diesel runs the best. The larger diesel has a wonky power pickup so it craps out on corners, it also had 40 year old carpet fibers clogged in the gears. I ended up disassembling that one and the steam engine to clean all the gunked up and corroded parts. The steam engine has "N-2342" on the box, made by Revell in West Germany. Gotta love those cold war model trains. The smaller diesel is Revell N-2322, Alco FA-1 with Union Pacific livery. The larger diesel is an EMD E8, made by Atlas in Italy, part number 2105. It looks like it has a date code printed on the box, 7-1968.  Various boxcars. All but 2 of them were in the original boxes. About half of them are Revell Germany, the other half are from Atlas. Fairly good details, only the one on the bottom right is damaged.  Other train cars. About the same split in manufacturers as the boxcars.  Various buildings that were in the box. Apparently my dad put all these together, they're definately not the best quality. And since they weren't boxed up most of them have lots of parts broken off or missing.  Box o' track. The switches are in particular bad shape, lots of corrosion and gunk. Probably rat poo... I'm still not sure what I'm going to do with all this, but it's definately something neat to find hiding in a beaten-up cardboard box.
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I made a thing: Airfix 144th scale Vostok 1 + launcher. Very old kit from the 60s I think, but that only took me a couple of days and looks like the thing it's supposed to look like, so that's a result in my book.
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big_g posted:Stuff. Post some pics of those (1/100, 1/144?) tanks if you have some,please. Are those for war gaming? I have a growing collection of braille scale stuff that I will one day (but probably never will) build.
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Twistershift posted:Post some pics of those (1/100, 1/144?) tanks if you have some,please. Are those for war gaming? I have a growing collection of braille scale stuff that I will one day (but probably never will) build. My Flames of War stuff? Sure. Most of this has been posted on these forums at some point or the other. What you can see in the background of the Viper pic is my current project of a Soviet Heavy Assault Gun Company in faded whitewash. (IS-2s,ISU-152s and ISU-122s)        A T-34 platoon I'm doing, they will all have the Tankos when they are done.     Some Tiger 1Es    US Armour    Have a load more if anyone is interested including a Finnish force and more infantry. Also update on the Viper with decals added. 
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You have many tiny tanks. If Poland were the size of a basketball court, I'd be suspicious.
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Are all the flags and things part of the models? I got some Zvezda KV-1 that I'd like to fancy up a bit.
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Arquinsiel posted:Are all the flags and things part of the models? I got some Zvezda KV-1 that I'd like to fancy up a bit. Its a bit of both. The chassis do come with individual details on but you can also buy various stowage packs which give you extra barrels/tracks/jerry cans etc to add on. The sandbags on the Shermans are just greenstuffed. The aerials are just bristles from a household broom. Just look up battlefronts FoW range.
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Painting is finally done for the fuselage and weapons.  At least I can sleep at proper times now. Now it's time for cleanups, and the funnest part; the decals!
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