Grumman TBM-3 Avenger, 1/48, Acc. Min.
Re: Grumman TBM-3 Avenger, 1/48, Acc. Min.
Nice recovery. I too use isopropyl alcohol with tamiya, but I've been usingn70%. The mr leveler works great with mr color paints. Big fan
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John
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Re: Grumman TBM-3 Avenger, 1/48, Acc. Min.
Good to know. I have plenty of the 70%!
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Re: Grumman TBM-3 Avenger, 1/48, Acc. Min.
Masking looks great Lyle! I always use Tamiya thinner with their paint. I use to use 91% rubbing alcohol but was getting a strange outcome all of a sudden like the paint was drying too fast. Maybe it had something to do with weather, humidity or something else. Anyway can never go wrong using the companies brand thinner. Even though their are a lot of people who swear by Mr. Leveling thinner and Tamiya.
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Let your weapons slash and tear This is no place for fear
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United we shall never fall
Odin's sons... Attack!
Unleash hell! Do not repent! Warfare grants us no lament
Let your weapons slash and tear This is no place for fear
Hold the lines! Move as one! In unity our victory's won
Our shields will form a mighty wall
United we shall never fall
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Re: Grumman TBM-3 Avenger, 1/48, Acc. Min.
I started with using Oramask 810 but it is not as flexible as I would like and if the masks get old they shrink and I don't like that. I've switched to using sheets that Tamiya sells that are 9 1/2 X 7 and seem to be even thinner than the tape they sell. Very good stuff!
Re: Grumman TBM-3 Avenger, 1/48, Acc. Min.
I think I’d agree with that. Both have uses.
To make each build less crappy than the last one. Or, put another way, "Better than the last one, not as good as the next one!"..
Re: Grumman TBM-3 Avenger, 1/48, Acc. Min.
Not sure why I bother... 
But, done with decals/insignia. Not much of any stencil decals since they are too small and too faint to read on the decal sheet that is supplied. It is such a light blue background that it makes the white decals all but invisible. Not impressed.
Got some Molotow Chrome on the landing lights and nav lights
Now for the real fun. I have added and removed the bombay doors and mechanisms 3-4 times. I guess the older I get, the more spatially challenged I get. The instructions make sense NOW, after finding a build on FSM that had a pic of the bay area. What a doofus.
Will touch up the dull coat where I had to add some gloss to apply the wing tip marking and such. Any more problems (like the alignment pins on the bay doors not matching the recessed area on the fuselage) this crap sandwich may die from the Chinese virus.
But, done with decals/insignia. Not much of any stencil decals since they are too small and too faint to read on the decal sheet that is supplied. It is such a light blue background that it makes the white decals all but invisible. Not impressed. Got some Molotow Chrome on the landing lights and nav lights
Now for the real fun. I have added and removed the bombay doors and mechanisms 3-4 times. I guess the older I get, the more spatially challenged I get. The instructions make sense NOW, after finding a build on FSM that had a pic of the bay area. What a doofus.
Will touch up the dull coat where I had to add some gloss to apply the wing tip marking and such. Any more problems (like the alignment pins on the bay doors not matching the recessed area on the fuselage) this crap sandwich may die from the Chinese virus.
To make each build less crappy than the last one. Or, put another way, "Better than the last one, not as good as the next one!"..
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Re: Grumman TBM-3 Avenger, 1/48, Acc. Min.
You’re doing fine Lyle! Remember, better than the last, not as good as the next one...
we don’t need no stinking stencils!!!!!
we don’t need no stinking stencils!!!!!
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Re: Grumman TBM-3 Avenger, 1/48, Acc. Min.
Lyle, hang in there! Don't let this one beat you, especially since it is one of your favorite aircraft. You got this man!
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"Do you know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I get and beat you with 'till you understand who's in ruttin' command!"
-Jayne Cobb, Firefly Episode 2 "The Train Job"
We are modelers - the same in spirit, in hunger to insanely buy newly released kits, hustlers in hiding our stash from our better halves and experts in using garbage as replacements for after-market parts.
Re: Grumman TBM-3 Avenger, 1/48, Acc. Min.
I've been known to skip those dark stencils on a dark background. 
It's coming along now!
It's coming along now!John aka JKim
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Re: Grumman TBM-3 Avenger, 1/48, Acc. Min.
Thanks guys. Fresh attack in the morning. I’m going to have to do some creative thinking on fixing the internal braces.
To make each build less crappy than the last one. Or, put another way, "Better than the last one, not as good as the next one!"..