Recent content by Heavens Eagle

I have built balsa kits in the past. They are not really that hard. My second year at college one of the jock guys on the dorm floor (yeah I was the modeler nerd) got one and built it up to fly and it did. The whole floor within the next few weeks cleaned all the balsa kits in town out of the...

Thanks James. I was just looking to see what their prices were out of curiosity. Not really interested in another extra large plane kit as I have too many already. While a small bit smaller than the 1/32nd scale kits, that will be a big diorama.

I would really like to go, but it is a 9 hour drive and that is too long a round trip for a weekender.

Ah! John went off on a new track...

20 years ago I bought a Ryobi band saw that is out in my garage now. I have done some tweak work on it to make it a little more accurate, and use it all the time. I have been seriously considering getting a 14" band saw as the one I have is a 9 inch and it is a bit small at times. Just don't...

@ jknaus Glad you were able to obtain one of the WNW Lancasters! I just looked on AliExpress and they still have the MkI/MkIII kits for $672 or so US. No Damnbuster kits left I guess. I was happy to get the MarkI/III back when Andy got them in originally. Also Kotare is having a sale with...

The new 1/32nd scale Eduard kits are going to be a mix of printed cockpit and parts and molded styrene parts. I don't remember what they are calling them, but they are supposed to be much better detail and the printed parts actually tend to cost less than the expensive molds needed in order to...

Ouch!

Cool! I think I had forgotten about this thread. I have a couple of P-51s in the stash, a B by Trumpeter and a D by Dragon (?) Both in 1/32nd of course.

That looks really good Paddy! The weathering with colors like silver over colored paint works well since the silver color goes on so thin that it looks like the colored paint has worn down to it, rather than actually trying to wear the paint down

This is exactly what Saúl (Sharkmouth) and Bob (moon puppy) are talking about. Only difference is a slightly larger piece with 4 smaller crystals and a decent pack of what I am calling micro mixing cups.

Something I have been thinking about doing to maybe get a little more participation on this group build is this. I am going to make a Quad CA, paint applicator pad that uses 4 small sapphire watch crystals. The crystals are flat and being sapphire they are super hard. This make it easy to...