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peter havriluk

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  1. I've successfully used Testor's rattle-can 'decal saver' many times on decals that looked worse than these. And it'a good treatment on those ultra-thin decals that try to knot themselves up.
  2. Pacific theater? As mentioned above, avoid misidentification with Japanese roundels.
  3. I'm curious about the demographics of the kit-buying public. My suspicions are that the plastic kit hobby is supported by folks who started kit modelling in their childhood, and that few sales are being made to kids spending their allowance/odd job money on kits. Young folks have found other things to do. Does anyone have any idea if I'm reading this right?
  4. A hundred bucks (MSRP) for a Monogram B-24? Yikes.
  5. Charlie, you're absolutely right. But uninformed buyers who overpay support the undeserved prices. I think supply and demand drive price more than value.
  6. See what 'Draw Decal' can do for for you.
  7. Did Dornier actually build one in this configuration?
  8. My opinion: Enjoy the lowered flaps. The alternative is a trip down the rabbit hole of alterations. The flap section on the folding portion of the wing is down; the corresponding flap section will be down on the inner half of the wing, too. If retracted flaps are important buy a kit with retracted flaps; it looks like early days with this kit.
  9. I was tempted to start to assemble this one. I bought this kit who-knows-how-long-ago from someone in Canada who'd started taking parts off sprues, and bagging them up, but no assembly. During my inventory today: No engine cowling. Fell off the table before the kit got to me. Yuck. Does anyone have a cowling from a Special Hobby Albacore that ain't going to get finished? Or a Trumpeter Albacore cowling? Thanks! Please PM if this little miracle happens and a cowling is available. (And any idea where to find 1/48 munitions? Love to find a torpedo and bombs I could han
  10. A combined decal set is available, and I've used the 1/72 version.
  11. For what it's worth I used the Hasegawa B-17F for my 'Pub'. I was pleased. I have no idea if there is a 'best' version, everyone weighs priorities differently. I used the Hasegawa version when I had the opportunity to swap my 1/48 kit for a 1/72 one, decals and all.
  12. Thanks for the photo. Just in time, too.
  13. I think I have the underside blue/gray and topside green mottling under control, but the topside undercoat - - - I have a rattle-can of Testors 'Afrika Mustard', is that a reasonable representation? I also have a Tamiya rattle-can of 'dark yellow. Any better? Suggestions appreciated. And the cockpit interior finish? I have no idea and Smer didn't enlighten me any. Thanks!
  14. Preface: I have no specific knowledge about this most unusual use of C-47's in WWII. Now, the story goes back to Uncle Sams Army Air Corps transporting Swedish police way up north to secure the country's borders and discourage any wandering Russians who might want to venture into Norway late in the war, in hot pursuit of Germans, of course. I don't think these policemen were donut dogs or writers of speeding tickets. These aircraft were fully equipped with the latest-and-greatest navigational equipment not yet in common use, like VOR beacons. Uncle Sam was doing some in-service testing. Th
  15. Wonderful! Hobby shop's open tomorrow. Thank you.
  16. Today I finished the Hobbycraft Piper Cub in 1941 war games livery (NX38205). Funny how spending eleven bucks gets you an eleven-dollar kit. But the clear fuselage molding made it dead easy to get a nice greenhouse. The rest - - - better have some scratchbuilding imagination.
  17. I found that using Tamiya's Luftwaffe 'dark green' as the darker green on the Dornier 24T and Tamiya's RAF 'dark green' for the lighter green looked good to me, and that's what I did. The crime is complete. There is a decent separation between the shades of green that using Tamiya's xf-27 acrylic as the darker green and Luftwaffe dark green as the lighter green didn't afford, I could hardly tell them apart. Thanks, everybody.
  18. I think my search has ended well, so off to a question about Luftwaffe African paint: The blue undersides/lower fuselage sides. I cannot attribute the source but my memory suggests to me that the Luftwaffe light blue was more intense than the light blue used elsewhere. If so, any particular suggestion (like Tamiya TS-41 'Coral Blue' or TS-43 'Light Blue')?
  19. Thanks, folks. I have both AS-1 and TS-9, and I made up test strips of the 2 rattle-cans and XF-27, the brushing acrylic. Both the spray cans seem to be much 'greener' than the acrylic. I'll look tomorrow after everything finishes drying.
  20. Thanks! Got some in the paint locker. I'll test it.
  21. Thanks! I have the Tamiya acrylic brushing black green, but they don't offer a rattle-can lacquer in black green.
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