Recent content by Heavens Eagle

Yeah, I believe they are laser etched metal powder 3D print so they are probably a bit on the brittle side if they are metal. Not sure about the 3D resin ones.

It's a Trumpeter kit, but you beating it into ship shape just fine Tim!

Glad you are enjoying this build Paddy. The tank is looking really good! You are doing the wise thing to set it aside for now and let it fully dry out. The way I build, that tends to happen naturally as I reach a point then it is time for bed and I don't come back to it for a day or four.

Nah, this is the scale he needs.

I wonder if Alberta is still going to vote on seceding from Canada? If they do I wonder what will happen then. Who knows if they leave and join us, they might get some sooner.

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...