FM 1/72 Bf109K-4,9JG 77 White 1, Düsseldorf, Germany, 1945.

[speedgraflex]

Duke—I send both best wishes for the holidays and best of luck with your projects!!! I thank you for your kind words tonight!

[Duke Maddog]

You are most welcome Bruce. I pray you find work quickly and that next year is the year we finally meet up.

Just a note for planning purposes: Pasadena Valleycon is on March 1st next year at the Pasadena convention center. It's also my birthday. It would be a wonderful birthday present to meet you at Valleycon.

[speedgraflex]

Duke! Sounds like a plan.



It is inevitable you hit where you just grind along, and the level of masochism involved in cutting a mask for the spiral as well as hand painting the spiral led to disappointing results. I will see what happens next. I may simply touch up the edges a bit both white and black. What I do like is the off-white color from the white layer quite a bit. I don’t want to completely age that to match the very old off-white aged spinner in the example John posted a few steps back (reference frame one of the collage) but I do want to make both black and white colors stand out as though painted on a polished metal surface and not look like a decal draped over the surface, so I hope to be able to create a painted edge which is crisp enough to stand my own scrutiny and approach a scale effect. Being able to modulate by using a #0 Floquil brush was very important to me, though, so my disappointments are mixed.

[Duke Maddog]

That is actually looking real good! Very nicely done Bruce!

[tempestjohnny]

Bruce I commend you on this. My attempts at making my own spiral masks have not been anywhere close to what you've done

[Floki]

It's looking good Bruce. Trying to do that freehand is a headache.

[LyleW]

This is looking good. Spiral looks sot on!

[Stikpusher]

That is actually looking real good! Very nicely done Bruce!

[speedgraflex]

Model Building Brothers and Sisters of SPAM! My brain just exploded! Thank you very much for your support. I went in again with the Detailer Brushes and madness madness madness ensued. I think I used a lot of paint in the model building sense. There is a bit of a build up around the beginning of the spiral itself; but that part was driving me crazy anyway. Now to have the patience to let this dry for 48 hours before a clear coat. ARRGH.

[LyleW]

I’ll be sending my spinners to you, Spinner Man! That looks good...and, it is all madness if you ponder too muscly.