Bails

Can't go wrong starting with Google. As I recall, there's a video-full-build-article available on the GWH Widow. Google will confirm for you.

I commented on placing models in it before going thru the complete thread. Models fit in there perfectly. Great work on the models. They deserve the fine space you're giving them.

Hey, Sniffer.....awesome work on your showcase. Very well-done. The best I've seen any where. Show it again, please, as soon as you've got some models in there.

Wonderful work. Gotta love the groceries, eh.

Just lovely, period. Hopefully, Boeing can keep the 1X1 in the air.

WHOA.....super-cool. Shows great skill with paint.

Sniffer.....exceptional work on one of the world's most graceful a/c. You did her proud.

C'mon Cheese-heads, unite. its our year.

Mostly jazz music: Jazz24 (on line) or local jazz station.

Hyperscale is not coming up for me. Is it for any body? Thanks, Bails

Agree on using electrical tape. Suggest buying a color other than black. Green works for me. For curves, cut in narrow strips and it will handle the curve nicely. As suggested, start scribing very lightly, heavier as you proceed.....slowly and patiently. Bails

Janissary, you ARE the man. I've used a slightly curved-end 4 1/2" hobby tweezer with once-folded tiny squares of sandpaper for many years to get at those almost impossible places. And I thought I was the only one on the planet doing this. All other techniques mentioned above are very useful, too, but this one is best for me for the hardest-to-get-to places. Bails

Janissary is right-on with Artists' Painting Medium (by Winsor & Newton at art supply stores). Add a few drops to thinned paint and get smooth(er) paint flow thru the brush as well as a smoother finish on the model. I thin EE enamels at 50-50 ratio, paint to lacquer thinner. Thinner paint better than thicker thru the air brush. Can always add more coats if needed. Practice on blank sheet of styrene or "throw-away model" on above recommendations to get a feel for it all. Bails PS Artists' Painting Medium was recommended many years ago at the HyperScale site where I got the idea.

STUNNING. Mine's on the bench awaiting the first spru-cut. Yours will serve as the standard. Great work from fit to finish. Suggest you divorce all but aircraft as the rest of us will benefit greatly from you work. Would appreciate a step-by-step build article with your next masterpiece. Bails

Love the Claude and yours is superb. Great job at overcoming those difficulties as you stretched your fabrication skills. Bails

Ok, but appears we need to be very careful to avoid it biodegrading our current masterpiece. Bails

Agree completely......lacquer thinner for ALL oil-based paints....thinned to level of skim milk. Bails

YIPES, guys.....is this the stuff that's supposed to be ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY......? Peace, Bails-In-Minnesota

Thank y'all for the info. "Bigasshammm", I haven't been bra shopping so I can't take credit for the ad. I only shop on line for shiny new plastic in newly released little airplane kits. Thanks again, Bails PS Yipes.....more pretty women at the top of the page....they want to "chat." What's our modeling discussion group coming to? b

Seriously.....who at ARC is the target market for the bra ad? The model is a beauty but are there enough users at ARC to support the ad? Bails

Start by going to your stash. Pull out a kit you think you'd like to work on. Now, fondle the plastic for a few minutes. Next, remove the fuselage sides from the sprus and clean them up for dry fitting. Do the same with the wings. In short order you'll be gluing up bits here and there and you'll be back into it. Bottom line, start very slowly and let the former addiction take over. Its an awesome hobby. You loved it once and you will again. Peace, Bails-In-Minnesota

Best jazz tune ever: "So What"....composed by Miles Davis & Bill Evans....from the Miles Davis album, Kind Of Blue (best ever jazz album). Peace, Bails-In-Minnesota

My Packers win (again, this time) in the Super Bowl.....31-28 over the Pats. Bails