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Looking good Tim!
Tim’s Hobbyboss 1/48 Fleet Air Arm Avenger MkI
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Looking good Tim!
Flippin’ hope so after all this time……and I will still have to get the wingfold on without causing damage after the painting is done…..
Hey Hey,we have progress!!
Nice stuff mate,I look forward to the next update..... whichever month next year it'll be in!!
Nice stuff mate,I look forward to the next update..... whichever month next year it'll be in!!
Just to annoy Andy 
, a quicker than usual update…..
Sky undersides and ancillaries done…..
Did the wheel covers as well, but forgot to include them in the shot….
Preshade looking OK under the sky, so I’m quite pleased with it. Shows off the rivet lines nicely. This thing has more rivets than a Shackleton I think….
Can’t get any further until the upper surface paint arrives now though…..gives me time to mask up (yet again) and mark the camouflage pattern on with a pencil…..so not a total loss. I could always progress the rockets, torpedo and wheel gear as well. I am starting to see the end in the distance now though (thank God)…..
, a quicker than usual update…..Sky undersides and ancillaries done…..
Did the wheel covers as well, but forgot to include them in the shot….
Preshade looking OK under the sky, so I’m quite pleased with it. Shows off the rivet lines nicely. This thing has more rivets than a Shackleton I think….
Can’t get any further until the upper surface paint arrives now though…..gives me time to mask up (yet again) and mark the camouflage pattern on with a pencil…..so not a total loss. I could always progress the rockets, torpedo and wheel gear as well. I am starting to see the end in the distance now though (thank God)…..
Cheers Joe. Hope I can the same out of the top shades….
Thank John. I’m looking forward to the Camo as well, but I need the paint to arrive first…..Good progress there Tim, that will fox Andy
The camo pattern will be interesting, looking fwd to that
Jim R
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That preshade has worked well Tim. It's easy to obliterate it but your delicate airbrushing has allowed it to show through just right.
Cheers Jim. I find that quite easy with sky, but harder with the darker top colours. I’ll be using Scale Model Shop paint for the first time as well, so keeping my fingers crossed…..
scottie3158
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Tim,
The preshade has come out well.
The preshade has come out well.
Cheers Paul
Andy T
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Would that be the Scale Model Shop premium lacquers Tim?
If so I'd like to hear your opinion when you get around to using them. I've heard good things.
If so I'd like to hear your opinion when you get around to using them. I've heard good things.
Scale modeller supply premium lacquer yes Andy. For some reason Scale Model Shop gets converted when you type it LOL…
Confusing as hell John, but they are both lacquers. The trouble is we only use part of the name……cellulose based lacquers are really called nitrocellulose and acrylics are properly called acrylic lacquers. There are also water based lacquers…….oh, and shellac (French polish), which I’m sure you’ve used……that’s a lacquer as well…..
The lacquer part is the resin binder and pigment left behind when the solvent evaporates……they are formulated to work with the particular solvent used.
I’ve edited mine three times, but I’ve given up now LOL…
Neil Merryweather
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AI chaps....just sayin'
Geoffers
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Very nice Tim, the underside looks excellent
Geoff.
Geoff.