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Do a single line for the dark blue with a formed mask instead of the super fine line and thicker line. There are a couple of ways you could mask it and spray a soft edge dark blue along the mask, then once that is dry, add a second mask along the line and do the silver. Or do a first mask...

Ah, a water based putty. I use the old Squadron green putty. Squeezed it out of the tube into an old Testors square liquid solvent bottle, and add MEK to it occasionally and mix to get it back to the right consistency. It seems to work extremely well for me.

Didn't realize that Paddy. I remember the Falkland war, but not much about it either except it seemed you guys trounced the Argentines.

You might try a 2 part auto filler then use a thin auto filler paste to finish up. I don't know what filler you are using, but if that is a metal tank, or even a plastic tank, if the filler isn't bonding and falling out in chunks you need to find a different filler.

Thanks Tim. That lathe is a watchmakers lathe that I bought over 20 years ago. Lucky for me it has a lot of capabilities and I do use them. I also got a lot of tooling back in the day, but wasn't able to get the chuck set that went with it (off ebay) at the time as I was out bid. Tonight I...

Tweak away Skipper, it's looking good!

Problem is colors are different to different people. To me it looks like Alclad Steel, Stainless Steel, or maybe an Iron color. But then again, I am the guy on the right in this pic.

Thanks Greg. Little did I know when I bought it from you what I was getting myself in to. There were several sites that had reference photos, but there was one that someone did a walk around that helped a huge amount. The gun had been painted white at sometime in the past, and was set up semi...

@Steve Ski and @Greg Kimsey Thanks for looking in. There was a point where I was "why am I bothering" (as this was supposed to be out of the box) Yeah, Right, famous last words with me. Anyway now that it is almost all assembled with all the heavy riveting that it is supposed to have, the...

Those look like some of the stuff found in Machinery's Handbook. I picked up a reasonably priced copy of Machinery's edition 24 a short while back. It is about 2 1/2 inches thick and has a bit over 2500 pages. I have started placing sticky markers (like small post it notes) on pages that I...

@Brokeneagle I hope this answers your question about the hex shapes and nuts and bolts. I also made some brass hex "tools" to cut some thinner hex nuts a while back. (what I made the roller tool for) So I could cut some nuts and bolt heads out of flat stock if I needed them. Those...

That turned out REALLY nice!

WOW! The skin tones and shading on the face are excellent! The war bonnet are still in process and I expect that will be over the top as well. As to the tassels, the paint colors and shading will have a lot to do with how much they stand out. You could scrape them down a little if any...

Yeah Chris, he needs to get on here and start posting with us other old Grampy farts. :bigrin: :stinker:

Effin Apple products. I found a little program online that will convert files to JPG, or a couple of other formats with just a right click. It's called reaConverter Lite. It will only do 1 photo at a time unless you pay a small fee then it can do batches. I never need more than one at a time...