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  1. 3 minutes ago, dimi said:

    yes i think i just learned my first lesson .... the hard way as usual

    Trial n error...and read some of the posts here even if it doesn't currently apply to your situation.  I use coffee filters now for everything from washing off dust, removing panel wash..even fine buffing.  I got the idea from someone here on a random post.  👍

  2. 1 minute ago, dimi said:


    That was while i was airbrushing. I mean before i sprayed the color i didnt noticed anything like this but as soon as i started applying color it was very noticeable so i am trying to figure out if this is paint. I did cleaned the model using a tissue with some alcohol so i am wondering if that could had left any fibers there.

    Looks like lint from a paper towel.  If so, dip your finger in a little water if everything is dry n it should come off

  3. 1 minute ago, dimi said:

    Hi guys i need your help once again.

    So i am building this F-15 just to train my self and get familiar with Airbrushing and i noticed today a very weird texture when i sprayed the model (photos bellow). Is this caused from the paint or there was dirt/dust/e.t.c on the model. Anyone seen this effect before?

     

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    First question is when did it happen?  While brushing would be a huge clue.  Could be paint drying before it hits the surface but looks like dust/lint too.  I always use a fan brush or heavy, soft 1 inch brush to dust off my models between coats and ive started making dust covers out of the plastic sprue bags.  Still have the occasional dust bunny but not as much.  Also, wiping with coffee filters instead of paper towels helps.  

  4. On 5/1/2020 at 6:58 PM, Curiosity said:

    Arguable, The Soviets had killed maybe 2 million German soldiers by that time, what had we (I'm a Brit) in the west had killed maybe 250K soldiers and as many civilians,  The Japanese were not afraid of their cities being destroyed, LaMay had done an excellent job of raising Tokyo to the ground by fire bombing it.  The Japanese were afraid of a land war with 6 million Soviet troops who treated their enemies far worse than the U.S. or British ever did.  (which when you think about some of the shoot the British have done is actually saying something!)  Don't drink the american cool-aid, the A Bomb didn't end the war, that's what the U.S. has been saying for 75 years because they needed an excuse to show the Russians what it could do.  I don't disagree with them doing it, I just wish people would accept the less than heroic reasons that they actually did it.  But hindsight is 20/20, and it's not worth getting upset about, as long as no one does it again.....

    Agreed..I'm an American who seeks clarity not conclusions..I ask questions..and I've come across plenty of evidence that the Japanese saw Berlin fall and knew the Russians would be coming after them next..and the Russians would slaughter anything that moved.  

  5. Just pick it up and use it...often.  Get the basics down, clean and maintain it but after that you have to find out what works by experience.  The videos will give you tips to try as you advance but in the beginning just take it slow and keep at it.  

  6. 42 minutes ago, Thunderchief105 said:

    I lost my good friend 2 years ago in January. For 14 years he was the best dog I ever had but liver cancer finally took him from us. I feel your pain and loss even after 2 years. I can truly say it never goes away. My good friend Gus is the pug on the right.

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    They are a gift for sure

  7. Fostering, rescuing..so many animals need a good home.  even going to a shelter just to play with or walk the animals there is a great volunteer activity.  They are caged up most of the day.  I'm on a waitlist to start training with my local ASPCA once the remaining lockdown restrictions go away.  Take care

  8. On 2/24/2021 at 1:40 PM, andyf117 said:

     

     

    Thank you, gents...

     

    Yesterday was a hard day, being one week on - touchingly, it was marked in the morning by the arrival of a condolences card from our vets. Though a 'corporate' item, the envelope was addressed by hand, and the message in the card was hand-written rather than pre-printed...

    ....as it got to mid-afternoon, I found myself constantly looking at the time, and variously thinking "this was when we left", and "this was our appointment time", but I have no idea of the exact time when 'our baby' went to sleep for the last time, nor when we got home - only that I'd then spent an hour or so preparing her final resting place in the garden while my wife wrapped her in a blanket that she liked to sleep on, placed inside a nice box. She loved to sit or lie in boxes - sometimes part of the attraction of my modelling table was a kit box lid...

     

    Tomorrow will likely be equally hard, as we're expecting delivery of a rose bush that we are going to plant above her - we wanted something not just as a visual reminder, but also fairly permanent, so that hopefully she won't be disturbed in years to come after we've moved on from here:

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    Reading the story of Coby and the TV had reminded me of an amusing instance with Sofka and a "DVD for cats" - and then during the week, when looking through photos that my wife had on her laptop, it turned out that were pictures of the occasion in question...

    ....the friend who was 'slashed' as recounted previously had three cats herself, and whenever she went away (half-a-dozen or so times a year), my wife would go in to feed them. On one occasion when I took her there on the way back from a day out, I went in with her, and was amazed to find a TV switched on - and learned it was deliberate, for the benefit of the youngest of the three, who didn't really socialise with the other two...

    ....on her return the friend always brought my wife a small 'thank you' present, and on a subsequent occasion, it was a DVD - designed to keep cats entertained while their owners were not around. Apparently her youngest spent hours watching the birds that were featured hopping around in a bush, so she bought one for Sofka...

    ....our main TV in the lounge was a plasma which gave off quite a bit of heat, so in case she tried to touch the screen, it was decided to play the disc on the bedroom LCD TV. We adjourned upstairs with the cat, turned on the TV, set the DVD playing, and sure enough, it immediately got her attention:

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    A few seconds later, she was up on the unit, and trying to peer around the ends of the screen to see where the birds were coming from and disappearing to - and then, according to the timestamps on the photos, within about thirty seconds:

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    And that was it! She looked at us like we were idiots, left the room, and despite playing it for her a couple more times, she showed absolutely no further interest in her 'entertainment' whatsoever! I always maintained she was a very discerning creature...

    The rose bush is a great idea.  I brought inn flowers n plants and made a little shrine with my pups boxed ashes.  Bringing in the flowers brought some color and life into a cold, empty home.  Bringing in that but if beauty n vibrant life brought a bit of balance.  Wish you the best..it will slowly get better

  9. 16 hours ago, andyf117 said:

    I hadn't read this thread until today - I have no idea why I was drawn to view it, but somehow I was...


    Yesterday afternoon, after 18 years and four months, we said Goodbye to our beautiful cat, Sofka.

     

    When we decided to adopt a pet, there was a heated debate about whether to have a cat or a dog - I 'won', and we soon found ourselves at a small rescue centre run by a lady in a nearby town, looking at some 20 or so cats in three or four enclosures in the rear garden of her house. A small, pretty, mostly all-white young cat caught my attention by scrambling up a sloping branch to be almost at eye level directly in front of me. I picked her immediately, my wife agreed, and shortly afterwards we were driving home with 'our baby'...


    Strictly an indoor cat - except for being allowed in the enclosed rear gardens of our three homes - she was always 'there', first thing every morning, last thing every night, and throughout the course of each and every day. As, in the main, were we for her. For some 13 years I worked nights and my wife days, so generally one or the other of us was always at home with her - and for the last three-and-a-half years our home has been our work, so we are both constantly here. Whenever we went out together, be it for an hour or a whole day, our return was always guaranteed a response - for many years at the previous house by seeing her sat on the windowsill and mewing happily at having seen us come back; in the latter years there and here since by simply lifting her head from her repose in the armchair or on the sofa, and giving us a look that said "OK, you're home, then" as we walked in...


    Whilst unable to sleep last night, I worked out that in all the time that we 'owned' her - or, should that be, that she 'owned' us - my wife and I were away from her overnight together for only about five weeks in total. Although my wife was away for four or five weeks most years visiting family or friends and for work, for at least the first six or seven I chose to remain at home with the cat - the first time we did leave her alone with a friend going in twice a day to feed her, despite having been warned not to try to stroke her or the like, the friend sought her out on one such visit, reached out, and received a laceration that required hospital treatment! We knew how that felt; she was very territorial, and for quite a few years, sometimes the sight of another cat or even a bird outside the window led to her attacking one of us - on one memorable occasion, I went from innocently watching TV to suddenly having a snarling cat hanging from a heel by both her teeth and claws! My wife still bears scars around one ankle...


    Although 'our' cat, it gradually became clear that she was predominately 'my' cat - my wife says it started the very first night, when, after we'd settled her on the bottom of our bed, a few minutes after turning out the lights I suddenly felt my feet become very warm and very wet! I was being marked as 'hers', apparently! It was invariably me who she chose to sit with, lie on, follow around, or approach for attention - despite trying, my wife was apparently never able to play with her satisfactorily, whether with feathers on strings, or foam-rubber balls (rainbow-striped only, all others were ignored); nor, seemingly, were her efforts at brushing good enough - they'd barely last two minutes before the cat stalked off, whereas with me, 10-15 minute playing or brushing sessions with loud contented soundtracks were common. When it came to food, however, that was a different matter - unlike me, my wife was very susceptible to being emotionally blackmailed into throwing away perfectly good food, and replacing it with fresh...

     

    When it came to modelling, that was the one area where the cat and I did not see eye-to-eye. I have a homemade (not by me) castored storage unit with a fold-out top, that sits at the end of my sofa and, when I'm in a modelling mood, is wheeled around and opened up in front of me alongside the coffee table. Often, no sooner had I laid out what I wanted to work on, then the cat would get up, stretch, wander from either the armchair or sofa next to me, onto the coffee table, and hence onto the workbench - on occasion she'd fail to navigate laid-out sprues without treading on them, on others she'd take great interest in my assortment of paintbrushes, which I had to permanently protect with a plastic bag cover. Suitably admonished after being lifted off, she'd stay away for a period of time, but venture back eventually - many a time I gave up on a session, especially if I was trying to paint. Then, of course, there was the matter of cat hairs everywhere!


    With just one notable exception, she was always a fit and healthy cat - comments were always made by the vets during annual heathchecks about how well she was for her age. Apart from a hospitalisation for dental work, the only other treatment she ever needed was some years ago when she had a bout of vomiting and refusing food for a week - admitted then due to dehydration, tests revealed the onset of kidney disease, managed subsequently by a slight change of diet...

     

    But yesterday, after a week or so of her becoming increasingly less active, eating less and less, and sleeping entire days away, all while her breathing gradually got more shallow and increasingly rapid, our world came crashing down when the vet took one look at her in her carry-cage, announced she had the classic signs of heart failure, and told us we needed to make an immediate decision: emergency surgery to drain fluid from around her lungs, or put her to sleep and end her suffering there and then...

    ....it seems that a late-night episode I witnessed about two weeks ago - when she had a momentary coughing and sneezing fit followed by gasping for breath for some 30-40 seconds - was probably a heart attack. With surgery only delaying the inevitable even if she survived it, and knowing how she'd been when in hospital previously (discharged early the second time, because she was so distressed), there really was only one decision to make, and we said very tearful goodbyes...

     

    I have cried more in the past 30 hours than in my entire 60 years - I never knew losing a small white, fluffy creature could tear such a huge hole in my heart. Likewise, my wife keeps suddenly bursting into uncontrollable sobs - despite unofficially being 'my' cat, she clearly loved her just as much as I now know that I did. Being much more pragmatic about these things than I am, she says we gave her a good life, and at almost 19 years old, it was simply her time - she's probably right, but at this moment I'm having a hard time accepting it; I'm mainly feeling guilty that I hadn't realised what I'd seen was a probable heart attack, and so hadn't sought help for her sooner...

     

    Quite some years ago now, our bank launched a facility enabling customers to personalise bank cards with pictures of their choice- my wife took advantage straightaway, and our gorgeous cat has been in her purse ever since. Now I'm following suit, and our little Tsarina will soon be on the card in my wallet:

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    RIP Sofka, my Sofka; my beautiful cat; my bestest girl...

     

    I'm sorry for your loss and I know the pain your feeling.  I'm an Akita owner and lover..I'm on #4 now.  Saying goodbye to the previous 3 was gutting.  But it gets better.  I understand the first reaction is to think we could have done something..but the reality is we just don't know and they leave when they are ready.  Try not to beat yourself up..I know it's tempting but your fur baby would never want that.  We do our best and we grow from each experience.  My last boy, a big, beautiful Akita died at only 7.  He bloated, stomach completely twisted and he died on the operating table during the emergency surgery.  He was my best friend in this place..I couldn't breath I was so hurt.  I found a website Pet Loss Grief Support...it helped me to connect with others going through the same pain and I took the time to help others,  some of the stories there are absolutely horrific.  It made me feel less sorry for myself and be grateful for the time we shared.  Take care of yourself..we will all meet again some day.  

  10. 8 hours ago, MHaz said:

    I *may* have 1-2 copies of those sheets in storage. I sent all but a few Fights On sheets to Sprue Brothers when Mike Pister and I decided to split up Fights On from Vagabond. (Rough year, that one.) I already have had one request for a couple if I can find where the movers put then. If you can give me a couple weeks to get out to my storage room with actual time to look, I'll be happy to see if there's any left. I can't promise they're still there, however. Stuff was packed up over a year ago, and I was already at my new job when the movers came. We've had 1-2 boxes turn up missing as we've gone through stuff.

    Hey, I really appreciate the thought.  I gave up the search,  put the scooter back on the shelf and started another Tomcat..so no hurries, no worries.  If the sheet turns up that would be great..just let me know.  Tango👍

  11. 3 minutes ago, Zaggy said:

    The last Fights On! A-4 sheet I got was from Hannants - they only had ONE of the two sheets in stock, but maybe i'ts what you want, and thus worth a look? That said, the Fights On! and FTD are getting harder to source...

     

    👍

  12. 3 minutes ago, Zaggy said:

    Some reference threads showing all the BuNo's and Camo Schemes, from the FB Adversary and Aggressor Group: (follow the links, unhide all the comments (because FB by default only shows you last 3-4 comments), see all the info)

     

    USN A-4 Adversaries - Part 1. VF-126 Late Blue Skyhawks
     
    USN A-4 Adversaries - Part 2. VFC-13 Late Grey Skyhawks
     
    USN A-4 Adversaries - Part 3. TOPGUN Scooters - NFWS A-4E's
     
    USN A-4 Adversaries - Part 4. TOPGUN Scooters - NFWS A-4F's
     
    USN A-4 Adversaries - Part 5. TOPGUN Scooters - NFWS A-4M's
     
    USN A-4 Adversaries - Part 6. TOPGUN Scooters - NFWS Family Model Scooters.
     
    USN A-4 Adversaries - Part 7. OMD Rangers - NAS Dallas.
     
    USN A-4 Adversaries - Part 8. VF-126 Bandit Singles
     
    USN A-4 Adversaries - Part 9. VF-126 Bandit Twins

    USN A-4 Adversaries - Part 10. VF-171 Det. Key West
    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3193164350694854
     
    USN A-4 Adversaries - Part 11. VFC-12 End of the Line Engine Grey
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    USN FEWSG Adversaries - Part 6 - Electric Scooters

    Very cool..now to track down some decals...not much left out there last I checked

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