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Hello All, I have now reached another major milestone with my website. I have finished adding photos and links for both "Aircraft Of The Imperial Japanese Navy" and "Aircraft Of The Imperial Japanese Army". If you open either of these pages, you can zoom in on the photos and at the bottom right below the zoomed image is the text "Link", click "Link" to access individual pages for each plane. Please reply to this post if you wish to share any feedback you have about my website. I must recommend www.wix.com, if someone wants an easy, free method for creating a website. Regards Python_61

I have reached my first milestone in the creation of my website, I have added the first fifteen pages of models to the site. These pages are for the first fifteen models of "Aircraft Of The Imperial Japanese Navy". I am adding pages in alphabetical/numerical order, starting with IJN planes, then the IJA planes will be added and the last pages to be added will be the USN prewar planes. I have decided to do it this way so that page numbers are logical when I have to return to update individual pages. To access the new pages go to "Aircraft Of The Imperial Japanese Navy", zoom in on the images a

Hi All, At the start of this month I bought a 12 mega-pixel camera and a tripod to photograph my models so that I could show them on a website. Well I have just finished the first stage in the development of My Model Airforce website and thought I would share it with you. There is a great deal more work to do, from taking many more photos and then adding them to the website. Remember this is just the first step, which was to photograph the boxes and get those photos on line in an attractive way, I think I have succeeded. Any way here is the web address; Visit My Model Airforce Website Rega

Thanks for all the positive comments and further suggestions on the general theme of this thread. I would love to post images of my work, but I get held up painting the exteriors. Lately we haven't had the best weather here, and on the one occasion I had the opportunity, and inclination, to spray paint, I painted three models' dominant interior colours, so that I could continue assembling more models. It would of been four, but the fourth I had lined up, had PE parts and I hadn't started on them. Some PE parts clearly need to be folded and glued into their final shape before painting (eg seat

leverancier, I am not on medication and find your comment offensive. There are people who need that kind of medication and deriding them by such a comment, I find truly offensive. I believe an apology is in order. Python_61

TheBruin, This isn't about rushing, it is about efficiency. I was getting annoyed that as I worked through a kit, I kept having to get out a bottle of paint that I had used before on the kit, and paint yet another part that colour. Gundamhead, I understand that you think scanning instructions takes time that could be used building, fair comment, except that I do the scanning whilst watching sport on the TV. I can multi task, but I cannot concentrate on watching sport and build a model simultaneously. This way I get something useful done towards my models and see the game. As for setting up

Hello everyone, I believe that I am not alone in having acquired a collection of model aircraft, that under normal circumstances, would probably never get built. Therefore I am trying to accelerate kit construction by getting organized. To this end I have developed a procedure that has accelerated my construction of model aircraft. I thought someone reading this post might also benefit from this procedure. The first step in this process is to scan all my model aircraft instruction manuals. Once they have been scanned, I can then create a simple three column table into which I can enter all

I received this kit as part of a multiple purchase on Ebay and am considering my options for on selling it to someone who may actually build the kit. This kit is certainly beyond my capabilities at present and thought it might appeal to an experienced modeller looking to add this type of aircraft to their model collection. If you wish, you can download the scanned instructions here. I would like to get a sense of the dollar value of this kit to any interested parties. If you would post a reply to this topic with the value you put on this kit, it would be greatly appreciated. Of course any r

I already have that link thanks Matt.

I haven't found a English translation of the instruction manual on the web, was hoping someone else had found one and could point me to it. You are correct Matt, there is a lot of Japanese text on this instruction manual and it would be interesting to know what it says. Fortunately there is enough English text to complete the model. The free online translations are not very helpful, but I did find one site that using optical character recognition, could convert my scanned image to Japanese text.

Hello Everyone, I have purchased a Fine Molds Kugisho D4Y1/D4Y2 Judy 1/48 kit off ebay and as there is a lot of information printed in Japanese on the instruction manual (download the scanned Fine Molds D4Y1/D4Y2 manual here), I was wondering if anyone has see an English translation for the manual on the web? Thanks Python_61

Hi Euge, I found I preferred the toothpic for this task, as in my opinion it was much easier to precisely control. But if a modeller can get an excellent result with a brush as an alternative tool, then they should use that if it works best for them. Today I used the toothpic again on a Hasegawa 1/72 Nell bomber's clear canopies. Although the frame moldings were less pronounced as previous models I have used this technique on, again I was able to mask very precisely. Anyway I am very satisfied with this technique and would love to hear feedback from anyone else who tries it. Regards Pytho

Hi all, This is my first post so if this has been suggested before, my apologies. I have just returned to modelling aircraft after many years away and was looking for a technique for masking canopies that worked for me. I purchased a bottle of Mr Masking Sol R by Mr Hobby and followed the instructions. I covered the entire canopy with the liquid latex and cut away unwanted sections. Couldn't master the cutting, gave up after attempting my first canopy, not a pretty sight and I still have to try to fix it if I can. So I came up with my own technique. I had some wooden toothpics so I sharpene