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Aircraft Modeling / Re: What will I have to build this year?

« on: July 31, 2012, 12:28:46 AM »

I voted for the Alpha Jet because I think that is a cool plane, and aside from the PJ kit there are not any decent kits of this in 48th scale!
Ernie

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Ground Forces / Re: Tunisian Tiger I (My Father's Tank)

« on: July 22, 2012, 04:31:19 AM »

A perfect example also is the commanders hatch, you can see the darkened areas where the GI has his hands and the areas correspond to his range of motion. Very cool!
Ernie

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Ground Forces / Re: Tunisian Tiger I (My Father's Tank)

« on: July 21, 2012, 11:51:35 PM »

It does look as if it has a good accumulation of dust built up around the surfaces of the hull, fenders and turret roof. One of the best ways to probably go about replicating this is too use pigments and as in the photo use a brush to sweep them around the surface and allow them to accumulate around the raised details of the hull.
Ernie

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Miscellaneous Subjects / Re: Russian Borei Class SSBN

« on: June 24, 2012, 10:23:17 PM »

Thank you!
Ernie

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Ground Forces / Re: Citroen Kégresse P28 (RetroTracks 1/72)

« on: June 24, 2012, 10:22:39 PM »

Nice! Interesting subject and nice little kit. This will be interesting to watch come together.
Ernie

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Market / Re: Part He-115 Photo etch

« on: June 05, 2012, 12:53:10 AM »

Thank you for that Scott, that is awesome, and the aircraft appears to in reasonably good shape considering.
Ernie

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Miscellaneous Subjects / Re: Russian Borei Class SSBN

« on: May 31, 2012, 11:41:28 AM »

Sinister Black! I never though of it like that, but I like it No.!
Thank you guys, I appericiate teh comments
Ernie

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Miscellaneous Subjects / Russian Borei Class SSBN

« on: May 31, 2012, 03:54:17 AM »

This is the Riich Models 1/700 scale Borei Class SSBN, the latest class of missile subs in the Russian Navy. The kit is very nice, and the first one I have seen from this company. I finally finished it over the long weekend we just had. The water is made from artists modeling paste and painted with inexpensive craft paint. I used two blue / gray colors for the base and mixed in some turquoise and light green. The colors were all applied wet on top of each other so they could be blended. I also added some Tom's Model Works 1/700 scale figures to the deck and bridge. 

This was a really fun kit and came out pretty decent without alot of work, which was a nice change of pace!
Ernie

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Some modeling techniques

« on: May 31, 2012, 03:43:53 AM »

That method of spacing the blades like that also works great for cutting strips of masking tape to mask off waterlines, cheat lines on airliners and stripes. I had forgotten about that until Scott posted his tip.
Ernie

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Forums Works / Re: Group builds

« on: May 31, 2012, 03:38:47 AM »

Sounds ok to me as well. Maybe I can auctuallly get started on a couple projects for the group builds already going!
Ernie

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Mirage V - PJ 1/72

« on: May 28, 2012, 02:40:56 PM »

Awesome result! Amazing what you have done with those seats in 72nd scale1
Ernie

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Airfix P-40 1/72

« on: May 16, 2012, 04:23:46 AM »

Flap detail looks great! Tedious, but will be very much worth it in the end.
Ernie

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Airfix P-40 1/72

« on: May 13, 2012, 02:40:58 PM »

Looks great! Can't wait for more!
Ernie

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Aircraft Modeling / Re: Airfix P-40 1/72

« on: May 11, 2012, 01:28:32 PM »

Looks great so far!  Looks like this will be a great build.
Ernie

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Ground Forces / Re: Serbian Air Defence- srpska protivvazdusna odbrana

« on: May 09, 2012, 03:26:29 AM »

Excellent pictures Sall Lots of cool stuff and lots of details.
Ernie