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zak

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Re: Modelling World War 1
« Reply #1380 on: February 10, 2017, 01:02:43 PM »
More brass added, cockpit in.
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Re: Modelling World War 1
« Reply #1381 on: February 10, 2017, 06:40:33 PM »
Not painted first???

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Re: Modelling World War 1
« Reply #1382 on: February 10, 2017, 07:24:20 PM »
Don't you just love them small fiddely bits of brass !!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Modelling World War 1
« Reply #1383 on: February 11, 2017, 08:35:34 AM »
Not painted first???
It is only set in place, I will take it out to paint, never fear!
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« Reply #1384 on: February 11, 2017, 09:41:58 AM »
Not painted first???
It is only set in place, I will take it out to paint, never fear!

I thought you would just pour a bottle of paint into the cockpit and swill it about a bit - MSea style!!!!!
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Re: Modelling World War 1
« Reply #1385 on: February 11, 2017, 11:06:54 AM »
Not painted first???
It is only set in place, I will take it out to paint, never fear!

I thought you would just pour a bottle of paint into the cockpit and swill it about a bit - MSea style!!!!!
That's what I do, don't tell the rest, make them think I may be a proper modeller!
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Re: Modelling World War 1
« Reply #1386 on: February 11, 2017, 11:09:41 AM »
Some other parts built, engine, gun, Blackburn cowling and fuselage top.
I don't think the guns were fitted to the ones at Hornsea RNAS, so it will come in for something else.
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Re: Modelling World War 1
« Reply #1387 on: March 05, 2017, 09:39:51 AM »
Well at last managed to do a bit. The fuselage needed gentle persuasion.
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« Reply #1388 on: March 05, 2017, 02:37:56 PM »
often the case I am afraid. Lookin good so far.

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Re: Modelling World War 1
« Reply #1389 on: March 05, 2017, 02:58:07 PM »
The fuselage needed gentle persuasion.

Do you need to borrow a hammer ????????????
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Re: Modelling World War 1
« Reply #1390 on: March 12, 2017, 04:24:08 PM »
Well I have been otherwise engaged for a while, so it was back to finishing some of those half finished projects.
Here is the Airfix 1/72 Handley Page 0/400, one of the first heavy bombers used by the British in WW1, it succeeded the 0/100 and proved more effective.
Rigging at the moment.
The aircraft seem to have a bit of a lean to one side, I must do something about that.
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Re: Modelling World War 1
« Reply #1391 on: March 13, 2017, 08:30:36 AM »
This can't be the kit that you acquired at the last meeting, surely?
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Re: Modelling World War 1
« Reply #1392 on: March 13, 2017, 09:53:29 AM »
No, that was a Vickers Vimy, I have been working on this one for quite some time.
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Re: Modelling World War 1
« Reply #1393 on: March 13, 2017, 02:46:20 PM »
I prefer the full on approach to weathering....especially on armour...dirty beasts they were and so should they look.
Only my opinion.
Eventually I managed to get around to weathering this 1/35 Meng Mk V tank, maybe a little on the heavy side.
« Last Edit: March 14, 2017, 07:30:09 AM by zak »
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Re: Modelling World War 1
« Reply #1394 on: March 13, 2017, 07:54:49 PM »
Hi Zak,
No, I don't think you have overdone it with the weathering. It is all subjective I know, but I think your weathering is 'spot on'. Remember these beasts ran over fields of mud, and were probably actually more dirty than yours.

No, for me yours is in balance not too much to detract from the kit itself.

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