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This the mix Rich B supplied 5x XF81/1x XF58/1x XF71 which looks near enough to me given the problems with lighting and colour match on PC screens. Its certainly nearer than anything out of the Tamiya bottle. The above sample has a semi gloss clear coat which has darkened it a bit but it was...

Nearly finished .... I put the tail together first just to see if the over size plastic struts would work and i think they will be fine. The trellis is probably too thick but I calculate the actual dia is 20mm and 15mm which to scale would be 0.6mm and 0.4mm and that’s not going to work...

Yea i get using both gives a wider range however in manufacturing you cant switch between the two, half the holes drilled imperial and others drilled metric. Verniers on all the machine tools, lathes , mills grinders etc in imperial, screw cutting set up with metric lead screws and gearing...

its a great shame as during my 45 years in the toolroom we used BSF and BA as std. Towards the end it was becoming " non preferred " by stockists. Eventually we had to go metric on threads and it wasnt just a backward step it was a huge leap backwards. The metric range is a small fraction of the...

This belongs to the army air Corp historic flight :-) its based about 60 miles from me but i am too lazy to get in the car and go and have a look ... The engine, rear fairing, fuel tank, cabin and skids as well as the rota head all seem a variation on a theme :-)..and its Gloss

Thanks Rich , i have the ingredients for that recipe, i will see what the MRP paint i ordered looks like but good to have a back up.

one mistake i made with my WnW builds is the later war stuff as Paul mentioned often only had a turnbuckle on one end so appears in some pictures not to have them at all TBH its another of those things you can over think and turn a build into a nightmare so best to do what looks good to you. I...

Again its a scale thing, if you reduce aerodynamic wire by x32 ?...well good luck with that :-)

strange thing is that chart says xtracolor X27 and there doesnt seem to be an X27 :-) X81 in Tamiya is a good green but its an RAF colour and the Army colours are different, its probably not too far off Bobs triplane in colour ?

Not sure why the guy went for a brass tail unless he was correcting a fault but by going for 1mm ands 0.9mm i think he created a fault. The kit is 1.4mm and 1mm which is proportionately nearer the differential in size of the main frame v the bracings' To scale the original plastic would be 44mm...

Hi Bob, no other builds on the go mate, the Brough is finished. Alouette colours are odd. they range from RAF Green to olive drab and even 3 diferent greens. I in fairness the army/RAF were always changing base colours over the decades so i will go with this which is a picture from 1971 as...

First thing was to mock up the canopy as this seems to be the issue won other builds. Maybe i am lucky or maybe my early model is better than the later re issues but while i can see its not going to be easy, i dont see anything insurmountable at thisn stage There is actually 8 pieces to this...

As Monty Python used to say…..And now for something completely different XP966 in 1964 and 1976 This is Revells 1/32 Aerospatiale Alouette II From 1996 . A quick look at Britmodeler for advice, (I got chucked of that site so I can only look) shows about 7 build blogs over 11 years...

Another rescue complete these kits are not for those of a nervous disposition :-)

When i built my Sopwith Pup i made up some simple turnbuckles but i am not sure they use them on the triplane looking at the pictures on your link ? it must have been a nightmare setting these things up in production. We have a TV prog here called warplane workshop where a group of...

Hi Paul If this was Tamiya i would see no excuse however this is a niche, very low volume, model maker making very rare unusual models the mainstream manufacturers wouldn't touch.. These sell out on pre orders. Reading the reviews, all put up by people like you and me, these models improve...

Thats where i have been going wrong............and why its so embarrassing going shopping with a tube of super glue stuck to my nose...i will try the paint instead. (y)

ha ha if he did he would know his chain moulds and design dont work :) Anyway apologies i seem to have taken this thread way off topic.

All i can say is with the bikes the centre stand and side stand will not hold the weight of the bike... what is alarming is they appear too for a day or two but they do slowly bend and then collapse. If the bike is allowed to fall over under its own weight it will bend the foot rests and if they...

My skills ?..lol I just unwrapped the new MFH car that arrived today , looked it over carefully, put it back in its box and wrapped it up again, its now in the back of the cupboard :) I know when i am beaten before i start🤣 First problem i can see is the metal suspension, especially the...