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I wouldn't use any lacquer thinner on styrene. It would eat it up. I have learned over time to just use the thinners made for the paint. I have used Xylene with Testors and Humbrol, but don't spray it straight on as it can damage styrene as well. I have just been using Vallejo thinners with...

With what I have been working on, something just came to mind, what primer(s) were used on British aircraft during the war? There is always talk about what external colors were used, but what color was the primer under the outer paint? I have a couple of photos of P-38s where the paint is worn...

Ah, I don't think you mentioned that this was a build for someone. Still looking really good Paddy. If the cowling is to be closed all you need is bare minimum that would be seen on the engine. I have a Bf109 that is in process that you could see the front top of the engine through some...

Never heard of this brand. Just sprayed a bunch of Vallejo Rotbraun RAL8012 Primer yesterday with my .2 H&S brush and sprayed perfectly. It actually sprayed better than the Testors Model Master that I finally used up. There was no clogging at all and the airbrush got several cup fulls sprayed...

These guys are looking REALLY good John!

Oh My Ian! That really looks good!

I might do some tests sometime down the road on a piece of acrylic or scrap styrene to do the air eraser. I already know that I will have to do a clear coat over the silver base to give a band of forgiveness. It will be an interesting experiment to say the least.

Oh My!

Looking good!

I have one of the old Paasche Air Eraser (micro sand blaster) which I have been using to bead blast certain bezels on watches to get the right finish. The thing with the beads is that they are not abrasive, but are round beads and thus don't cut. I might at some point do an experiment to see...

As a followup, I have a 1/16th scale Bugatti kit that I painted (again back in the 80's) and then it had some major fit problems with the upper body parts. Rather than bugger it, I wrapped it up in plastic and put it back in the original box. A couple of years ago I opened the box and double...

Not that I ever noticed. I think the oldest model I have is my He-51 floatplane. I am sure I did a Testor's flat coat on it (back in the mid 80's) The only thing turning yellow is the clear carriers on the old decals after all these years.

Be sure to save something to build during March Mark. Busy builder as always.

You did very well Tim! All the photos show well, and it looks right in with the vintage stuff.

Hmm, Wonder if the box art has a preview of a future kit. I have wanted a 1/32 Do-17Z for ages.

As I found I had a real need for one of these to cut instrument glass rounds for the 251 instruments (of which I have 2 kits) and probably the two 250 kits that I will be building sometime soon. Maybe even the two Jeep kits. Have not checked the 250 or Jeep kits or M3 kit, but going with the...

GETS STUPID COLD!? 🥶🥶🥶 You can have it my friend. I would rather be very hot in the summer and only a little bit of cold in the winter.

Earlier today I posted that I did a modification where I did deep scribing to add more curvature to a part here is part of the post where I did that. Hope this helps with this type of mod Paddy.

In the process of looking over the firewall there are 5 instrument faces on it. There are 3 small instruments that have black faces, and a large white with red and green patches tachometer instrument. Nice decals, and the instrument dials are recessed quite a bit. However, there are no clear...