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Italeri 1/48 Douglas P70 by Andrea
Gents, thank you for the nice comments. The night lady in her full dress: It took me almost 3 hours to stick all those decals on her and some are still wet. I do not think I'll ever try a 1:48 or larger scale modern aircraft kit: too much stencils.:dizzy: I think next time I'll paint the lines...- Andy the Sheep
- Post #49
- Forum: Aeroplanes Under Construction
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Italeri 1/48 Douglas P70 by Andrea
Thank you Andrzej. Here are the results: The gloss coat is not completely satisfactory, but I like it so I'll go on. The props and the landing gear doors have been coated with another product, a spray wax for wood (the closest thing I could find similar to Klear here in Italy) and I'm not...- Andy the Sheep
- Post #46
- Forum: Aeroplanes Under Construction
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Italeri 1/48 Douglas P70 by Andrea
This morning I managed to give her a new coat of paint. The camera is turning the original dark greys into a paler shade of greys; in reality the colour is blacker (no pots or kettles available as benchmark :tongue-out3:). It came to my mind too late I could have added a point of dark blue to...- Andy the Sheep
- Post #43
- Forum: Aeroplanes Under Construction
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Italeri 1/48 Douglas P70 by Andrea
Today it's warm (above 30 °C) but the cave is just 21°... so... painting day. Everything went quite smoothly and these are the famous last words. :sad-face: The tail is painted mainly in Tamiya Panzer Grey, the upper body in Tamiya Panzer grey darkned by Tamiya NATO black (2:1) while the lower...- Andy the Sheep
- Post #39
- Forum: Aeroplanes Under Construction
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Italeri 1/48 Douglas P70 by Andrea
An update: after a last sanding session P70 received her multicolour underwear as well as two nice props: I used 3 different primers from rattle cans: white from Tamiya, red and black from Titans Hobby, which I think it's really fine.:thumb2: Why 3 different colours? I thought that the upper...- Andy the Sheep
- Post #37
- Forum: Aeroplanes Under Construction
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Italeri 1/48 Douglas P70 by Andrea
Andrzej, the engines moved within their nacelles because I was too impatient and moved them before the glue properly set; being the propeller's shaft protruding from the nacelles, when I left them on the bench they sat on their shafts and their own weight dislocated the engines from the correct...- Andy the Sheep
- Post #26
- Forum: Aeroplanes Under Construction
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Italeri 1/48 Douglas P70 by Andrea
After a month of slow progresses, a lot of masking and sanding and filling and sanding and filling and.... you all know better than me ;) she got her wings and this is the state of the art Unfortunately the engines lost the correct alignment within their nacelles while glue was curing and now...- Andy the Sheep
- Post #24
- Forum: Aeroplanes Under Construction
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Local model show
And here are some pics of the military subjects. Hope you will enjoy and forgive my poor skills as photographer. Andrea- Andy the Sheep
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- Forum: Photos from the Model shows
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Local model show
Yesterday I visited a model show mainly dedicated to agricultural and industrial modelling in a small town not far from here. Here are some pics of the "main stream" models.- Andy the Sheep
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- Forum: Photos from the Model shows
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Panther-fibel
I think someone might be interested about this new release from the Tank Museum: the English language version of the Panther-Fibel, the volume originally published on June, 1st 1944 by the Inspector General of the German Armoured Corps (a fellow named Guderian :thinking:). If I'm not wrong...- Andy the Sheep
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- Forum: Armour
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Latest Acquisitions (2022)
Went to a flea market with SWMBO and saw this. not a great model, according to several reviews, as it's the old Revell kit just re-issued in a new box. It has raised airframe details, a cockpit not so much detailed and many other small imperfections but decals are cartograph (I know someone...- Andy the Sheep
- Post #760
- Forum: Chit-Chat
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COVID club new member
In the last 10 days my activity on the forum and at the bench was reduced to almost 0 and the cause is the infamous virus. :face-with-thermometer: We (my wife too is positive) caught it from our nephew (disco is more important than health ...:angry:). After more than a week I'm now beginning to...- Andy the Sheep
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Italeri 1/48 Douglas P70 by Andrea
Some small steps forward. Today I finished to sand the junction between the tail and the fuselage and painted the engines. I'm satisfied with the results using just some black primer and dark steel pigments for the cylinders and some grey and silver for the other parts. Then started with the...- Andy the Sheep
- Post #5
- Forum: Aeroplanes Under Construction
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Italeri 1/48 Douglas P70 by Andrea
Progress as per today The kit is rather good, at least for my skill level: no real fitting issue on the fuselage and wings; some issue with the tail, in need for some putty as well as the upper part of the engines nacelles and the carburetor intakes, but nothing really important. I decided to...- Andy the Sheep
- Post #4
- Forum: Aeroplanes Under Construction
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Italeri 1/48 Douglas P70 by Andrea
Offices and motors. Tried to add some details as I consider this kit a experimental one, mainly because being a "full black" aircraft, I'm getting the opportunity to increase my skills in airbrushing different shades of the same colour. Nevertheless, I try to use every chance to try something...- Andy the Sheep
- Post #3
- Forum: Aeroplanes Under Construction
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Italeri 1/48 Douglas P70 by Andrea
Some pre-painting, allowing a general view of some of the sprues- Andy the Sheep
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- Forum: Aeroplanes Under Construction
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Italeri 1/48 Douglas P70 by Andrea
After some posting on the "What's on the bench" thread, I thought this build would have deserved a place of its own. The main reason for this choice is that it's a very slow build. The dedicated thread is less dispersive thus allowing the few who will be interested to follow with more ease the...- Andy the Sheep
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What's on the bench 2022
Considering my DIY sprue holder satisfactory result, I went forward and built a rotating support for the spray booth. The base is plexiglas with an already encased ball bearing (thanks to the guys I helped to clean out and close their workshop last month). All I had to add was a wooden pin...- Andy the Sheep
- Post #339
- Forum: General Modelling chat
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Bird Watching a Relaxing Hobby
Going back to birds, this morning while trimming an ivy wall I was distracted by some loud screech from above. Having checked it was nor the Trumpets of Judgment neither a wandering Kinzhal from the East, I noticed those UFOs I'm not a birdwatcher but I feel confident enough to affirm that...- Andy the Sheep
- Post #219
- Forum: Other Hobbies and interests
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What's on the bench 2022
Today I tried my skills in woodworking, building a sprue holder out of a 10 cent MDF plank and 5€ of 6 mm wooden sticks. Not really an "arts and crafts" masterpiece but it works and I hope it will allow me not to get mad at searching the needed sprue among the others, just to discover it's...- Andy the Sheep
- Post #332
- Forum: General Modelling chat
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