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Thanks for all your help, guys! Gee... warm water and soap, I've never thought of that. I was afraid that it would not be useful since enamels doesn't mix well with water. My main problem is that I live in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and my local hobby shops doesn't sell too many modeling products ( I have to order simple things like styrene sheets and brass tubes from UK or USA ). I use Humbrol enamels, it's the only good quality paint I can find here in a good variety of colors, but the shop doesn't sell Humbrol enamel thinner, so I use a national brand ( Gato Preto ) white spirit: I'm an arti

Hi folks, I need some help here! I paint all my models with brushes, and I use enamels, because my local hobbyshop doesn't sell acrylics. I buy all kinds of brushes, from the cheaper to the best ones. the problem is that everytime I use a brush, when I clean it up with thinner, it gets stiff and rough, and it never gets back to what it was. here are some of them: both on the left are relatively old ones, I've been cleaning them very gently, but the paint sticks to them and they became very stiff. on both right ones I've spent hours cleaning them to perfection, and they just became worn

it's incredible how you can make the most boring job such as fitting resin pieces look really funny with your characters, Chuk! you could so easily teach modeling to a uninterested 10 years old class, that they would all pay close attention. I've learnt a lot from your last Helldiver and will closely follow this Mr410, be sure of that! cheers

I never saw in person this texture decals... it's still hard for me to believe that all those rivets will pop up under the alluminium coat. I'll be sure anxiously keeping track of this model too see your progress here! anyway, outstanding work keeping those lines straight and parallel

I'm not a big fan of modern jetplanes, but the flanker is one of the exceptions! and I surely like big models, this one is gigantic! would make a 1/48 B-29 look like a Cessna! great progress so far, I've enjoyed a lot your work on the cockpit, makes me feel like stepping inside of it, very real!

That's been a very inspiring build! and it turned out very impressive. you surely have a lot to teach us with your weathering and scratchbuilding techniques!

Great build so far! you're making justice to all the detail provided by Aires and Tamiya, it'll sure turn into a great model. I've enjoyed a lot the work inside the cockpit, specially the wood on the floor, very realistic. how did you do it? two different coats of brown, than you sand the footstepping area?

Fantastic scratchbuilding work so far! I've enjoyed specially the cockpit interior work, very inspiring! I'll look forward to seeing the progress of this build. cheers!

Thanks, mate! That credit goes to Tamiya Inc., for making those eyes so deep that I could easily pick it with a simple oil wash. seeing those macro shots I just regret not sanding that little flash crossing that guys from head to toe. I just didn't want to take too much time building this model, since it's a "training-model" for me. but if I took those off they'd look a lot nicer.

Hi folks! I've been outta here for a while since I've moved in with my girlfriend. All the moving has been very time-consuming for the last months, so I had very little modeling time. My last model, a Hasegawa 1/48 J2M3 has been completely destroyed in a strafing attack over my bench by a couple of kittens. Witch was good, in parts... I was struggling so hard trying to scratchbuild stuff out of my skills' reach that I was almost getting blocked. It became more a nightmare than a hobby. So I left what's left of it in its box, and will get back to it one day. My present project it's more what

thanks a lot, man! that's a very plain explanation, that'll help me a lot. I've bought some balsa wood blocks yesterday and will begin the battle today. actually now I'm thinking of opening another door on this cowl and also expose the tank behind the engine... it just depends on my success with this technique, because the tank has an even more rounded shape than the cowl. the idea of dunking the wood with the plastic on boiling water just pleases me more than the plunge mold, although I think I'll try both of them. for now, I finished the Engines&Things resin engine. this is the resin

Hi all! I'm building an J2M3 and I just decided to scrap in a little engine there, opening the main door on the cowl for everyone to see it. but this turned out to be a bigger step to my skills than I expected, I'm still very newbie with scratchbuilding stuff, and ended up with no idea of what to do in this situation. the problem is that I simply destroyed the door, so I won't have anything to cover the engine when I want. I want to scratchbuild another door, and I need desperately some advice on how to do this, or if it's better to me to just give up for now and leave it exposed all

it's just the panel from Eduard, plus some copper wiring and a couple of plastic bits glued to simulate the cowl cranks, with flat black, grey drybrushing, and some parts highlighted with red. I also glued the middle section to the original panel part from the model to give it some volume, I thought only the brass would have too much seams in the end. too bad I couldn't register the process, would be a lot easier to explain... now, for today's update: PROBLEMS!!! thanks to some very nice and useful pictures I've decided that I would scrap in an engine in my Raiden. but instead of scratchb

Hi all! sorry about the time out, mates. I've been slowly building the cockpit, but I left my camera on the studio, just brought it home, so I just took the first pictures of it. I used Eduard PE set, two widths of copper wire for the wiring, some cya glue and white glue to simulate the knobs on the levers, and a lamp was scratchbuilt with wire and a plastic bit. I don't have any in-progress pics so far because I wasn't with the camera. I like the way I scratchbuilt most of the cockpit, but still think I'm leaving too much cya mess in some bits... I also still don't like too much my drybr

DONE! finished model thank you all a lot! cheers :huh: