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Recent content by Greg Mix

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    My Lancaster - Dambuster Build

    Yes, I think I've got it.
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    My Lancaster - Dambuster Build

    Learning to insert my pics directly. Please bare with me.
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    My Lancaster - Dambuster Build

    Photobucket shut down all my pics. I'll try to replace them in time.
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    My Lancaster - Dambuster Build

    Finally finished, although I could always find something to add or fix. not sure I want to whether it either. I've discovered that Photographing a glossy black airplane model is not easy. All of my efforts at indoor lighting failed. Flat Black or Stain would have been easy to light but I just...
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    Hawker Typhoon MKI

    Nice! I've got one I've gotta do.
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    My Lancaster - Dambuster Build

    Almost Done.
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    My Lancaster - Dambuster Build

    The spinning Propellers, see the video.
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    My Lancaster - Dambuster Build

    Installing the cast metal landing gear with the resin wheels. Also mounted the bomb, which gets over sprayed with some black later. Note the brass rods for the propeller shafts.
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    My Lancaster - Dambuster Build

    The wings are carefully glued on with thirty minute epoxy. This gives plenty of working time so that one can align the wings. I spread a thin but solid coat of epoxy on each surface with a small Q-tip. The wings were then braced with large rubber bands and supports placed under the wings and...
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    My Lancaster - Dambuster Build

    Paints and colors used were Humbrol Gloss Black, White Ensign British Dark Earth and Model Master British Dark Green #FS34079 in that order. The canopy and turrets were masked with E-Z Mask to maintain sanity. Decals are Xtradecal from Hannants of London. The large roundel on the port wing...
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    My Lancaster - Dambuster Build

    After a bit of a hiatus (three years?) I’m back on the Lancaster. I’m trying to finish up before the local Atlanta IPMS contest next weekend. Belcher Bits resin engines from some blokes in Canada. A nice solution to the engine problems of the Tamiya kit. many coats of Rustoleum followed...
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    Fokker D VII mit Lozenge Camo

    The Finished Fokker
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    Deunan Knute of the Appleseed Anime Series;

    She's Done! The figure came with her knife in a sheath. How F..ed is that for a Japanese warrior? So I went back and made her a real knife out of sheet aluminum. Panzer Grey is Hot!
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    Fokker D VII mit Lozenge Camo

    I started putting the Eagle Strike four color Lozenge Camo on this old Monogram Fokker D-VII kit as an exercise leading up to a build of the Roden Gotha V mit Nach Lozenge and the Wing Nut's LVG C.VI. So far it's been going well. I've learned a good deal about applying large areas of decal...
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    1:350 Graf Spee

    I've been making progress on my 1/720 scale Italeri kits of the Deutschland, Admiral Scheer, & Graf Spee. I'm doing these three sister ship in mid thirties colors. So far they are fine kits right out of the box. I just too delivery of the White Ensign brass for these, nice.
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