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Have i sprayed these ?? well i have covered them in paint by spraying ....but spraying implies a degree of finesse :-) Now to finish each part. A visual check, parts rectified with 4000 abrasive, re spray affected areas, allow to dry for several days then apply decals. Clear coat, at least 6...

That's the problem Steve :-) you fall in love with them, they put up with you.......same with cats 🤣 No seriously i envy people who have these relationships but i was never a people person and love my own company, horses for courses excuse the pun. I have to agree with Paul these days , Lucy...

I always put the scale in the thread title :) its a scale i can work with because it works with the available brass tube sizes, rubber sleeving, usable screw sizes etc and my poor eye sight and fat fingers these days. Its a bit like you moving from watches to clocks 🤣 The down side is...

Whats for Dinner? Roast Fiat Abarth If only everything in life was just painted in grey primer, my life would be greatly improved 🤣

ZX-6 is the popular go too version from Tamiya and pacific coast and eduard :-) My doubts are based on the camo and condition. , My guess is these are over painted green and grey models and i suspect the effect of sand blasting from the prop and sand meant that they started off scruffy and...

Talking of rocket rails, i watched a very good documentary on Amazon prime last night called Typhoon at war. A new program dated 2025. Very much recommended one guy on there fired 4 salvos of 2 rockets at a train from above/behind and he hit it but the train was going round quite a bend and...

Its going to have to be a Mk IX because thats what i have the the cupboard :-) It actually has a desert decal option for a Polish sqn flying under an RAF Flag. No Vokes, they obviously didnt have dust in Tunisia in 1943 ? or Tamiya made a balls up.

So what i did was along the lines of Pauls suggestion. The vac form when its fitted sits in a slight recess on a ledge about 10 thou deep and 25 thou wide so it flush with body. I coloured the ledge in with a felt tip pen , cut the vac form to about 3mm to big all round then care fully cut...

Good idea, i will give it a try I checked and the vac form seems to be resistant to spirits and even Acetone. 👍

Is there an easier way of seeing the markings on vac form so you know where to cut ? get this wrong on the light covers and its going to ruin the whole lot. Thinking aloud the marking on the clear are not sharp either so the cut line is not perfect either. ?? HELP !! :)

I think its trying to finish off that old boy they just knocked over?

The body work is quite a mission but if you turn the TV off (and everything else) and concentrate. Its rewarding :) As there are no holes in the panels you have to drill them and some pannels like the outer sill, floor pan and door step are all joined together with one hole through all 3 so...

So this is my solution. First i made a stronger copy of the original but longer... This gave me a good starting point to do something quite different 🤣 I decided i needed a constant so i fixed the bracket to the cover and this showed that a rod through the brackets would go straight...

interestingly the model on the MFH website shows no problem at all ...lol ......what a surprise :-)

Houston................we have a problem .. The body work seems to fit pretty well given the number of parts and the opportunity, given the constructed frame, for things to go very wrong Getting the engine firewall positioned correctly seems to be the key as its the datum point for the other...

Yea sorry we didnt get that over here.

Ah ok, not a big name over here but i think i know the guy from the Blues brothers so i am guessing he was a tank guy in a tv show ?

https://spruebrothers.com/defdf35014-1-35-def-model-figure-set-sgt-joe-gunn-us-army-tank-commander-sahara-1942/ No idea who this guy is but there seems to be loads of figures of him ?

i can sum this up .... impressive. :-) love the paint.

The body work is a collection of resin bits. There is no basic shell to build around like a Tamiya type kit Not sure how to tackle this but i think a dry build , tacked together first to see if their are gaps and if parts actually fit, then strip it down and paint, add decals and re build and...