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  1. While those definitely appear 3D printed, I think they are a pre “test shot”. If all seems reasonable with the 3D printed parts, they’ll move in to cutting the molds.
  2. Hopefully it does! I like the permanency of owning some landmark series and movies like these works. But my reading has suggested that Apple TV very well may not ever release to DVD. It’s not a definite no, but it’s not the normal process.
  3. I'm doing a simple palette cleanser build of the Dragon 1/200 XB-70. They have 3 wing tip positions. There is a straight, 65 degree down, and somewhere in the middle. As I understand it, it should be the straight (which should have slight dihedral actually) at all times on the ground? The one picture that is confusing me is this... I am suspecting this was purely for public display, but has made me pause at least to know if there was some other wing condition on the ground. However, the wings are in this "in between" stage of straight and the fully dow
  4. I've used heat before for carbon fiber patters on Formula 1 undertrays. I used a heat gun instead of warm water. It worked like a charm on those horribly complex patterns of the rear defusers. But even that didn't work on these decals. The thing that worked the best was Tamiya Mark Fit Strong, but it still couldn't get it to a place where I was going to be happy to own the model. These sentiments were echoes in the above articles I referenced too. One could make it better, but couldn't make it good.
  5. My new kit came in today and the decals are also in register. I'm probably too scared to use them. But they are in register. It may be a reasonable option to selectively use the logo's that go on flat surfaces only. But I'll have to work on options for the few markings that aren't on perfectly flat surfaces. Both the FSM review and the article on "masking" the kit in the current FSM lament their unresponsiveness to setting solutions. In particular, both called out not being able to get the NASA worm logos to settle over the conduit and get rid of silvering. This is where I u
  6. This kit needs decal help! And this covers a lot of the markings! I got the got. Assembled the kit. Painted the kit. Started decaling the kit. Threw the kit in trash. Ordered a new kit. The kit decals are the absolute worst possible decals ever!!! The white is out of register. They are ungodly thick. I can’t get them to settle with any combination of Micro set/sol, Tamiya Mark Fit/Mark Fit Strong, Mr. Mark Soft/Set, and/or heat. And then to top it off, I can’t get the damn decals off! Duct tape isn’t even pulling them off! And lacquer thinner is getting to the paint bef
  7. I just across this and that looks awesome! How has this come along? I’d love to print one of those, even pay for the STL.
  8. It looks like there are a couple Ford class carriers soon to be on the market, but at the moment there’s not a lot of options out there. This is the 1/2400 GHQ that is half model, half wargaming piece. I hate having to wait so long for another USS Enterprise, so this was done up as CVN-80. There’s not a huge amount to say, as the model itself is very small…only about 5.5”/14cm. So I present the pictures… I’d be happy to any comments or criticism and thank you for looking! Eric
  9. Is that article referring to the AN/AAQ-28, or a newer lightening? They keep saying Lightening ATP. For the AN/AAQ-28, to my knowledge you see them on USMC birds and not USN birds because the pod is not rated for carrier traps. I’m not in the business, so I’m open to be corrected.
  10. I am working on making some custom 3D printed parts for a 1/144 F/A-18F in landing configuration. I have the aft trailing flaps. Does any one have any knowledge of what angle the leading edge flaps would be positioned? I know they are "down", looks to be about 20 degrees. But this is just eyeballing things.
  11. Yes, it's also the Academy kit. It was a bit surprising. I had done the exact same process in the past with all Tamiya paints without a problem. I used Gunze this round because my light ghost gray Tamiya mix wasn't looking right on an A-10. And in the past, Tamiya and Gunze played very well together. But the Tamiya gloss must have been too hot for the Gunze color coats. All the Tamiya was underneath the Gunze for preshading and mottling. I will say with a little idea what the expect, the A-10 is assembly very smoothly and cleanly this time round...not that last time was terri
  12. Unfortunately this kit went to the shelf of doom from the paint booth. I did a whole lot of mottling and pre/post shading with a mix of Gunze and Tamiya paints. Then gloss coated with Tamiya gloss and it somehow ate through a lot of the top coats leaving some hideous heavily “preshaded” abomination. I don’t have it in me to strip and start over right now. I have started my other kit with the works. New intakes, exhaust, wheels, Quinta pit, etc.
  13. Thank you both! I think I’m going to go with the instructions call out. I wish I was better at finding air frame specific photos. But the instructions have seemed pretty reasonable for accuracy and are roughly consistent with the photos I’m seeing.
  14. When I think of false canopies, the CF-188's are the first image in my mind. So I'm thinking of a hard demarcation perfectly drawn canopy. I was holding this assumption until getting ready to pain the canopy on my Academy A-10C. The instructions suggest a soft demarcation line, which seems consistent with the photo's I've seen. The instructions call for a symmetrical looking oval, but looking through images online, it appears some of these false canopies may be rather irregular. Are my eyes playing tricks on me, or are this in fact correct for the A-10C? I'd love to hear from
  15. But he could have 3D printed the part with basically no modification…a mesh usually needs to be “closed”, but that’s about it. He needed to rebuild the part because of the required tolerances. However in other applications such as scale modeling, it may not matter if two axes colinear, etc.
  16. From my Google image browsing, I am finding the Marine's MV-22B are painted like helicopters with an overall black cockpit. I'm also building an CMV-22B COD and USAF CV-22B..some are labeled as CV-22B, but I'm not so sure if these are clearly a CV-22, or generically a "V-22" family photo. Definitive images of these airframe cockpits are a bit more elusive. Is anyone able to confirm my belief these likely would all follow the same basic principle being painted all block like helicopters? Thank you for any help!
  17. Progress has outwardly has been a bit slow, although more related to work than the kit. The forward fuselage was joined to the fuselage. The end result is pretty smooth, but I did have to work in about a half to one inch at a time, clamping, gluing, then moving on to keep the joints smooth. I caused some damage to tow raised strips just adjacent to the top insert. This happened while trying to pry the insert up to glue and match the after fuselage better. These were fixed with some masking tape followed by putty and a light sanding. A minor detail, but the instructions
  18. That’s good to know! Somewhere along the line I thought I’d learned that the flaps are in the up position at shutdown, but as the hydraulic pressure dissipated they dropped in to the down position under gravity. It appears I either learned wrong or never actually learned that.
  19. My work has primarily continued on the aft fuselage. Both wings are complete. Here’s a picture of the other split aileron undersurface seam before any treatment. There shouldn’t be a seam on this out flared portion and I have no good way of filling this without losing some of the raised detail. It could be replaced with some masking and Mr. Surfacer 500, but I think I’m going to just let it ride. Both wings are installed. They locate with a simple mortise and tenon type joint. The fit is very snug and I had to lightly sand the mortise to fully seat the wings. These joints
  20. I've been collecting a healthy group of models for downsizing. I'm starting to list them here. My primary goal is to not feel like I'm throwing the kits in the garbage, so I will consider offers. Prices include shipping to CONUS. I'm willing to ship further, but would need to discuss prices on a case-by-case basis. Most will be unstarted, but a couple to start here have mild starts or incompletes: 1. Great Wall Hobby 7205 F-15C - $40 shipped: Intake trunks have painted fan blades and intake trunks. The parts are still on the sprues and otherwise unstarted and complete.
  21. Shortly after DCS AH-64D came out, I needed to have an Apache in my collection. I have a Hasegawa kit with all the extras, but wanted a low maintenance build. So I picked the Academy 1/72 AH-64D late model kit. The build was rather pleasant and straight forward. I generally like to model deployed aircraft and weather them appropriately, so tried to make the bird look like it played around in the sandbox. Weathering is primarily with oils, but with some pigments added. The kit was entirely OOB. As always, any comments and/or c
  22. Shortly after DCS AH-64D came out, I needed to have an Apache in my collection. I have a Hasegawa kit with all the extras, but wanted a low maintenance build. So I picked the Academy 1/72 AH-64D late model kit. The build was rather pleasant and straight forward. I generally like to model deployed aircraft and weather them appropriately, so tried to make the bird look like it played around in the sandbox. Weathering is primarily with oils, but with some pigments added. The kit was entirely OOB. As always, any comments and/or c
  23. I’ve seen a handful of in-box reviews of the new Academy 1/48 A-10C Warthog, but nothing about the build yet. I thought I would share my experience of the build so far…and try to keep this updated. This is going to be a simpler in-progress thread with almost all iphone pictures. It's fairly labor intensive to get out the formal photography stuff for me, and my intent is to share more about the kit than the build techniques. My first impressions purely out of the box are excellent. The surface detail is very nice. True-to-life are a number of rivets around the fuselage and thes
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