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Baronjutter posted:
If it's not mainline trackage, you could just a 1:160th flagman to access the other side. E: Of course, there's also this: 
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That crossing is a very seldom used little track that might see like 2 boxcars a week, flag guy would do fine. But closer to the edge of the table is the mainline crossing the road and that will almost certainly need gates and lights and ohhh gently caress they're expensive and hard to install.
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Mar 13, 2017 16:33
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Reached the half way point of the multimedia F14, so to celebrate this occasion I've loosely put everything together I've got so far. It looks like the part work will feature a diaroma base so this should get interesting too. Spent the weekend starting to build a cute little Irish Pub. This is a kit by a Chinese company called "Cute Rooms" and they have all kinds of little dollhouse European style stores. You get a box with light and (sometimes) sound effects, a swinging cover doubling as the store front and a bunch of materials (wood, paper, plastic, wires and so on) to kit it all out. They're pretty neat. This is what it will hopefully look like when done  And this is what it looks like as delivered  An example of the quality instruction. Sadly there's no actual bear cup to be built, just a beer stein. (I may build a bear cup after all. It sounds awesome).  And my progress so far.  
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Mar 13, 2017 16:47
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What the Chinese kit maker thinks an Irish bar looks like is  Seriously, what the hell is that thing on the left supposed to be?
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Mar 13, 2017 17:20
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Arquinsiel posted:What the Chinese kit maker thinks an Irish bar looks like is A wine rack filled with Whiskey bottles. No seriously.
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Mar 13, 2017 17:38
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Makes about as much sense as anything in there TBH.
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Mar 13, 2017 20:49
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The most offensive thing is that the beer stein does not contain an Irish stout.
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Mar 13, 2017 21:11
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That is not actually the most incorrect thing in the kit. The existence of a beer mug itself is more incorrect. The whole thing is amazing in every way.
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Mar 13, 2017 21:52
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Arquinsiel posted:That is not actually the most incorrect thing in the kit. The existence of a bear cup itself is more incorrect. The whole thing is amazing in every way. Please, it's important to get that right.
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Mar 13, 2017 21:56
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They got the amount of space in an irish bar right at least. Packed like sardines.
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Mar 13, 2017 23:54
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There's way more strange stuff coming up. Like the vase full of drinking straws (for Guinness mix drinks?). The nonexistence of Guinness. Spanish magazines and newspapers. Photos of Argentine soccer players winning the World Cup. Germany winning the World Cup on TV (not strange, just ill fitting). Comically oversized German beer bottles. Also no tap in sight anywhere. It is awesome.
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Mar 14, 2017 09:35
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It's also not the proper green for a bar in July of 1944.
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Mar 14, 2017 12:47
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What's making my head hurt is the floor tiles. They're far too regular, clean, and unbroken. There should be at least one spot where tiles were broken and replaced with whatever random tiles fit into the spot, regardless of size. The rest should be cracked and filthy too.
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Mar 14, 2017 15:28
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Arquinsiel posted:What's making my head hurt is the floor tiles. They're far too regular, clean, and unbroken. There should be at least one spot where tiles were broken and replaced with whatever random tiles fit into the spot, regardless of size. The rest should be cracked and filthy too. I'm getting a 1970s vinyl flooring vibe from them.
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Mar 14, 2017 15:57
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WooooooOooaaaaaaahhhhh actually making a thread contribution https://imgur.com/a/Z9ikF For my stepdads' birthday I bought him a revell kit of his jeep (because he loves the thing). I left him to play with assembling the thing while I handled painting and decals. Aside from losing a few parts (gas cap and signal lights) I think it looks pretty solid! It looks dark here but it's actually painted Olds Engine Blue, which looks great in bright light (which my phone does not appreciate). My mom saw the finished kit and wanted to contribute, so I took a similar painting & advisory position while she built the diorama. It's a pretty simple Woodland Scenic brand rock mold, enviro plaster, and plaster sheets (over plastalina clay for shaping). I helped put down some layers of clear resin with Tamiya blue coloring, the rest was cheap Apple Barn paints because of the size.
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Mar 14, 2017 20:43
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Pierzak posted:Maybe it's just me but those decals really tie the whole thing together, it looks like an entirely different plane. Lol, these are two entirely different planes.
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Mar 14, 2017 21:07
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Yes, and the planes go whoosh as they fly by.
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Mar 15, 2017 00:19
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I'm cracking up at tamiya right now because I'm building the SU-76M and I'm building one of the figures and looking at his face and I realize he looks exactly like Putin.
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Mar 15, 2017 22:29
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The_Rob posted:I'm cracking up at tamiya right now because I'm building the SU-76M and I'm building one of the figures and looking at his face and I realize he looks exactly like Putin. Had to google this, you're not wrong 
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Mar 15, 2017 23:16
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There's a long standing tradition in military modeling where figures are modeled after famous faces. Especially if you look at the small scale busts from companies like Nuts Planet, the roman centurion looks like Russel Crowe, the WWII trooper looks like Tom Hanks or Damian Lewis, etc etc. EDIT:  
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Mar 16, 2017 00:10
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My question is when we are going to get a Sherman tank with a commander Donald Trump figure.
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Mar 16, 2017 00:17
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:There's a long standing tradition in military modeling where figures are modeled after famous faces. Especially if you look at the small scale busts from companies like Nuts Planet, the roman centurion looks like Russel Crowe, the WWII trooper looks like Tom Hanks or Damian Lewis, etc etc. Any good bust companies that don't do that? I don't like this kind of references and without that appeal the famous faces seem forced and ill-fitting.
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Mar 16, 2017 01:08
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The_Rob posted:My question is when we are going to get a Sherman tank with a commander Donald Trump figure.
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Mar 16, 2017 01:28
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Pierzak posted:Any good bust companies that don't do that? I don't like this kind of references and without that appeal the famous faces seem forced and ill-fitting. Seems mostly a mix with each of the companies. Some busts are famous faces, others aren't. Nuts Planet and Andrea Miniatures are probably the most well know for military miniatures and busts, but there's quite a few companies out there producing nice, high quality busts of historical figures. Not my strongest area of the hobby though, so maybe a few others here might know a bit more about the military miniatures market.
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Mar 16, 2017 01:43
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The_Rob posted:My question is when we are going to get a Sherman tank with a commander Donald Trump figure. Maybe you could modify this one? http://www.thingsfromthebasement.com/store/p312/Donny_Drumpf,_US_Officer.html
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Mar 16, 2017 02:48
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Seems mostly a mix with each of the companies. Some busts are famous faces, others aren't. Nuts Planet and Andrea Miniatures are probably the most well know for military miniatures and busts, but there's quite a few companies out there producing nice, high quality busts of historical figures. Yeah, it's more like "here's a bunch of busts of various Roman soldiers... and ooops! One of them happens to look like Russell Crow, now how did that happen? You can't sue since we're located in Spain. Also, here's our 'Spider-Person with Maria Jane'".
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Unkempt posted:Had to google this, you're not wrong Your picture isn't working for me for whatever reason. Rehosted:  It's either Vladdy or the dad from A Christmas Story.
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Mar 16, 2017 14:01
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:It's either Vladdy or the dad from A Christmas Story. 
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Mar 16, 2017 14:10
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He can see Sarah Palin's house.
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Mar 16, 2017 14:13
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What's the general consensus on Academy kits? A store near me has a bunch of older kits on sale at 50% off their regular price, with release years ranging from about 2008 to 2012 if I recall correctly(I checked Scalemates real quick when I saw the sale) There's a few good looking 1/72 jets in there that kind of tempt me, but I have no idea what to expect considering I normally build Revell. The reviews that I can find for my main interests appear to be generally positive, and it's these two that I'm most interested in: https://www.scalemates.com/kits/100188-academy-12429-f-16c-thunderbirds https://www.scalemates.com/kits/100187-academy-12424-f-a-18a-hornet I might also pick up something else if it catches my eye, but I'm worried about the risk of getting a shitplane, like the last time I bought without checking.
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Their tanks range from the lower end of mediocre to pretty decent. Their figures are okay. Their aftermarket tracks tend to have too few track links compared to everyone else.
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Smoke posted:What's the general consensus on Academy kits? A store near me has a bunch of older kits on sale at 50% off their regular price, with release years ranging from about 2008 to 2012 if I recall correctly(I checked Scalemates real quick when I saw the sale) I've built a few of their 1/72 prop planes and have been mostly pleased. I would definitely go for them at 50% off.
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Mar 16, 2017 23:32
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Your picture isn't working for me for whatever reason. Rehosted: Am I going crazy or does that look like George W Bush on the left?
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Mar 17, 2017 00:25
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Bill Posters posted:Am I going crazy or does that look like George W Bush on the left? I thought this too
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Another piece of photo-etch replacement parts. Turned out pretty well, even though this was definitely one of the more fiddly bits of PE I've worked with since it involved so many individual pieces. Really starting to solder more with a torch over my dedicated iron now. Oh, and once again the instructions had the numbers written down incorrectly. There are four replacement grills on the tank, two of each size, and the instructions basically had the numbers mixed up so the outer frames were paired with the inner struts for the other size. Luckily I caught that before I soldered anything. 
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Mar 17, 2017 06:05
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I keep wanting to get into photo-etch but the chemicals and whole process is a bit nasty.
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Mar 17, 2017 06:54
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Do you just use one of those small butane torches? I've been thinking about getting one of those eduard photo-etch planes because I hate myself.
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Mar 17, 2017 07:00
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Symetrique posted:Do you just use one of those small butane torches? I was using a Weller soldering station for the longest while, but even their tiniest soldering tip can be too big to get into some crevices of PE. That, and the way the heat is distributed from the tip can sometimes be a mystery, leaving some joints beautiful and others a lumpy mess. Lately I've switched to a small torch by a company called Pro-Iroda. Takes a refillable butane lighter as it's fuel source, and really puts out a nice concentrated flame. I just brush on a tiny bit of flux on the joint, snip a tiny piece of solder off the roll and place that in the flux, and then just work the flame towards the joint. The solder melts quick and really self-levels nicely this way. While I'm certainly no soldering expert, I'm getting much cleaner joints with this method than with the iron. Gonna try and get some soldering paste at some point, so I can just brush that into a joint instead of needing to cut little pieces of soldering wire for each one.
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Is it just a matter of flexibility and thinness/no painting that makes photo-etch worthwhile? Maybe this is just my paint booth privilege speaking, but it looks like a huge PITA compared to lacquer brass.
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Whuh? No, while photo-etch certainly could be left bare to simulate a brass/gold finish, it's purpose is to create parts that are too thin to accurately cast in styrene. So on tanks you often see replacements for the fenders, which were very thin in real life, but in styrene at scale they appear to be armor thickness. In the case of fenders as well, brass lends itself very well to simulating damage. Whereas styrene will usually bend a little and then just crack, brass can be bent, scratched, punctured, and torn up, all while keeping its structural integrity. The replacement grills I'm working on; in real life they were very thin sheet metal, but in styrene at scale the kit parts appear to be thicker steel plate. Things such as clamps and straps are often targets for photo-etch upgrades as well, since their real-life thin-ness is difficult to accurately capture in styrene. Clamps especially usually will have a photo-etch version that is workable just like the real-life thing, whereas in styrene the clamps are often molded to the tools they hold. Photo-etch is almost never an absolute must, but it's an option if you want to take the detail of a kit one step further. And it can very much be a pain in the rear end at times, so it's simply a matter of whether said pain is worth the end result. Out of the three addon PE sets I bought for the 1/16 T-34 I'm working on now, I'm probably only going to use half to three-quarters of it in the end. Some of the bits are just too fiddly, or are barely seen, or may even be inferior to the kits parts, so I won't use absolutely everything. Companies that make PE addon kits always tend to go overboard on what they consider replaceable on a kit, so you just have to keep your wits about you and review how the addon bits work with the kit bits before doing any work, and then decide what parts are worth using and what's worth ignoring.
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