SPA Modeler

Mark,

I agree with you concerning every point you made. Weathering techniques are as personal for modelers as paint choices; weathering and paint overlap. I personally like fast drying washes, simple and safe products, and that is exactly what True Earth offers. However, I respect your perspective completely as it aligns closely to mine. I do not want to spend gobs n gobs on paint and weathering washes. I truly like using watercolors, engine oil, grease, old spray cans (oh boy I love splatter from an old spray can!!!) and keeping my options fairly contained.

The only news on this project concerns the base—I have not figured out the height! In fact, I plan to buy a base from a 1/32 Tamiya kit (several are currently available on eBay at the moment) and set up the aircraft using this base as a guide.



I am relieved you are feeling better (I read your replies first) and am so grateful you replied!

Thanks Bruce! I'm slowly improving and taking it all one day at a time.

Bruce,

Send me your postal address by PM and I shall send you a stand. I am never going to use the four or five that I have squirrelled away in the stash. Consider it a gift.

Regards,

kahunaminor wrote:Bruce,

Send me your postal address by PM and I shall send you a stand. I am never going to use the four or five that I have squirrelled away in the stash. Consider it a gift.

Regards,

Thank you so much, Kent!

speedgraflex wrote:This is sad. No Mustang photos. I’m gonna fix that pronto.



There. Whew.

This picture is really great to see about the obvious NMF. You can see at the small scratcheson the flaps that wings were filled and painted. And the rivet color in the fuselage shows, that it was painted silver too but not overall. Sheet metal at fuselage wing intersection show black or weathered rivet heads. Upper sections show painted areas. Also the interrupted line of anti-glare painting is very interesting.

Great period photos!!

I'm still waiting on pics of Bruce's Mustang.....

Duke Maddog wrote:I'm still waiting on pics of Bruce's Mustang.....

Me too. I almost boxed the GT40 last night, but I started thinking about the carb mods! I expect supplies for polishing and painting to arrive for the GT40 by Friday, so I am going to change horses, yes, indeed.

First things first will be to start rivet school—the styrene dimpling version—by using the Rosie tools. I will start that work on test pieces of styrene left from my Evergreen sampler! Steady as she goes!

Excellent! Practice makes perfect and I know your experiments will provide great answers.

Looking forward to seeing more.

Duke Maddog wrote:Excellent! Practice makes perfect and I know your experiments will provide great answers.

Looking forward to seeing more.

I know there is a rule to never use restoration work as the basis for modeling anything but this popped up today; Lopez’s Hope, in flight: