Dragline

Good stuff all. Welcome aboard and keep sharing.

it's a good deal. I just sold an old Bang & Olufsen turntable for parts. It's in good nick with cartridge [which are expensive]. I had 15.00 shipping and got some snide comments. It was won and it cost me 27.89 to send it to Florida. I made a few buck but geez. I buy and sell comics on eBay and i get all kinds of slack for my shipping charges. I'm an expert at this point [been on eBay since 1999] so i know what the costs are. Some folks are just not seeing the reality of it all.

Paint is the be all end all for me. All the doodads in the world will get overlooked if the paint doesn't POP. Box stock or over the top, if the paint is killin it, I'm diggin it.

Wowzers. The ante continues to rise.

THAT is beautiful. So well done.

Well done weathering and assembly. This can come out nice when talent is applied. Bravo Sir.

Dave, Please get some wheels for that beautiful car.

I'd be proud to display those. They held up very well.

I'll be snookered but that is nice. Lots of very nice work here.

Really nice Adam. You went all out on that finish and it shows, and that scheme is striking. Bravo Sir.

That is most excellent...

Couple of in progress shots.

I am watching that Briz. it's coming along nicely.

Those SAFS kits are Ma.K. or Maschinen Kreiger. Very cool and are perfect for weathering and other Military techniques. If this was not a cell phone pic you'd see that I went kinda hog wild on the weathering and chipping. I'm just glad Jimmy digs it.

I'll chime in here. I recommend a compressor with a tank. The small type generally pulse a lot and give an uneven finish. If it has a tank then that is what you want. Look on Amazon. I got my Master airbrush kit with compressor and brush and that brush has been great. I have a couple of higher end ones so I can use one for primers and base coats and the others for fine work, But to start out with this kit was great. 3 tips and needles so it could handle all the jobs I was getting it for and the price was excellent. If you have 100 or so to spend you will get something decent.

I use acrylics a lot in my own Military and I can say that clear finishes are used on every build. Whether it's to weather and do a wash a flat or stain finish is often laid down to seperate layers as weathering proceeds. I've also used gloss clear over flat black to create the smoothest black paint job I ever laid down. It works.

My old Comic Book shows partner Jimmy is a monster Star Wars fan. So when he showed this old kit in his collection I was intrigued. Every part was off the tree, the decals were iffy at best and the box was shot. I said Hey, why don't I build that for you." He has since bought a nice minty kit for his collection. Skip ahead a year and a half and here we are. Jim came to pick it up the other day and he was thrilled. I am too. It was fun and considering its age it still is a decent kit. The pilot figure could be better and there a few other small items, but overall it's a cool kit. I did quite a bit of space junk and chipping. I masked and sprayed all the red marking as not only were the decals shot they are thicker than heck. I sprayed em with clearcoat to see if I could use them but they we just not very good. Since the patterns are all right angles masking was a synch. It was fun.

Lotta work turning into A VERY cool ride. Well done.

My limited knowledge is that 1/24 is standard outside of the US, and 1/25 is an American thing. I have no preference and display them together. There are other who feel it is asthetically unpleasent. Then, there are scale bigots who will not buy 1/24 in some sort of protest or solidarity. I see no other reasons why they would boycott the scale. Perhaps they will chime in with their particular reasons. 1/24 offers a wider world in kits so why limit yourself since the size difference [for me] is negligable. Although parts don't usually swap between the scales, it can be done if you are clever. Then there is the whole Monogram/Revell thing. Which I'm not sure really is a thing, but there are examples of the dislike here and there. Hope this confuses it more.

Ridonkulous!!!

Very clever and executed particularly well. I'm digging this a LOT.

There's another forum? Nice build.

Whomever built that fish market should be very proud. That thing is a masterpiece.

The best matches are Tamiya French Blue and Fourescent red. Over white primer they are a dead ringer for the Petty colors.

I've seen excellent Future finishes that were polished with [get this] DRYER sheets. You could always dip it into a light ammonia mix and it will all come off and go at it another way.