Airfix 1/72 Sherman Mk. Vc Firefly

[moon puppy]

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A long time ago, Scott Hackney advised buying a pair of reading glasses to work on small scale details. He was right. It took me a while to find just the right pair of 1.50+ readers. The Magni-visor I have is bulky and heavy, and had an LED light I never used. I kept conking it on my lamp and knocking the lens off.

Problem solved! I liked them so much, I bought a couple for the tools and accessories category on tlarmodels.com
I feel an overwhelming urge to pick up my guitar and sing "Peggy Sue" when I wear these.

I got cataract surgery on my right eye a couple of years ago and between that and taking some supplements I have stopped wearing readers for everyday reading. I plan on this for my left eye this year.

I still use a 1.5 in the shed for modeling. can't do it without it!

 

[Rhino]

I don't often weather very much. Some washes and some tan, brown and yellow acrylic made "dust", and I misted it gently on finished assembling the hull. Towing hooks have been added. Dullcote coming up.


In the fullness of time, this 1/72 M2 will be installed.

I made a mold for 1/72 scale stowage, that should have been completely cured by 1100 today.
It did THIS again. I used no mold release at all on the Masters. The only cause of this I can think of may be stale Part B pink activator.
DO-OVER!
Thanks again for looking in!

 

[centaur567]

Target in sight!!! Very nice. Gary S.

 

[Impisi]

hmm, it looks like you've but your master into the over together with a cake but the master could accept a little more heat to get a little more brown on top?


*** duck and cover ***

 

[Rhino]

She's flatted, spare track have been fitted to the front of the hull and cat-whisker radio whips are installed.
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The 1/72 scale stowage mold do-over mold is underway. Cleaning off every tiny bit of the sorta-pink RTV is never easy or fun, but all the Masters were saved.

The new mold box is a shade bigger. How shall the extra spaces be filled?

 

[Rhino]

The USCG 45' RB-M's needed a little improvement before the mold gets poured.
Empty spaces filled!

 

[Rhino]

The do-over molds are pink and perfect! First castings are ready to pop!

The square mold is for SeaMasters and Seadart Navy jets for the "Strike From The Sea" 1/700 Cold War Submarine kit.
A two-part mold needs lots of tooling and clean-up before the bottom half of the mold is poured. It's almost there!

 

[Rhino]

Second casting. I can't sell any of this stuff, because only 3 articles out of 36 aren't copies of someone else's work.
Interested parties could pay for postage and chip in for material.
I took the first casting to Nate Stevens for his habby buresday, which was oddly, delivered at his Dad's visitation yesterday afternoon.

 

[moon puppy]

Please send our condolences to Nate.

 

[Rhino]

I planned to add the .50 and a bunch of stowage I made up to the Firefly. After this, I'm calling it done!

These are the stowage articles I actually made myself. These will be marketed as a "Workbench Special" set. The kit will include all the copied stuff for free. Anybody that wants this stowage set (and all y'all already know what is in it), only has to make a $15.00 donation to the Tip Jar and I will mail you a complete set of your very own.

 

[moon puppy]

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