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    Choice of brush for acrylics

    I am another one of the brush destroyers and almost never buy anything expensive. As well as painting figures I also paint in oil, acrylic, gouache, and alkyd oils in the traditional sense. Producing paintings for sale and for commissions. One rule that I have found to be useful is to use the...
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    Gern's 1/72 PST PMZ-2 Fire Engine

    Good luck with this I think I built the same kit but under a different boxing, some while ago. John
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    Artists acrylic paint for modelling

    Jeffrey The acrylics you are looking at are not really "artist's" colours. Here in Canada a typical artist's acrylic tube, (75 ml) costs about 4-10 pounds depending on the colour. These paints work very well for brush painting and are, in my opinion better than the typical modelling paints like...
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    WWII Motorbike Identification

    Yep definitely a Harley. I think its a 750cc but I am no expert. I did build the 12th scale kit, or maybe it's ninth scale. John
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    Bird Watching a Relaxing Hobby

    Another regular visitor to our river. The cormorant hanging out with his turtle friends. I always think they look like nuclear submarines when they swim, with only the conning tower above water. John
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    Bird Watching a Relaxing Hobby

    Hi all let me introduce Ronnie, our blue heron who likes to have an early dinner in our river. John
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    Bird Watching a Relaxing Hobby

    We're having a mini heat wave here in Quebec. So our American Kingfisher decided to take a little break in the shade. John
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    Look at what’s arrived.

    Barry I am sure you will enjoy every minute of this. Just for interest my father worked in an intelligence section during WW II. One of the assignments he worked on was testing the security of Bomber Command's airfields. He and his team were assigned to infiltrate various airfields and to mark...
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    Napoleonic portrait

    Continuing from the Waterloo re enactment, I thought you might enjoy some of the photos. my nephew and I will probably be working up some paintings from these photos, eventually. Enjoy John
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    Napoleonic portrait

    Hi Guys My nephew was over in Waterloo to watch the re-enactment. He is a professional artist and does a lot of pictures of the re-enactors. I thought you might be interested to see his latest work that he delivered this weekend. Peninsula campaign uniform. John
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    Late 1940's French Street Scene 1/35. Scratch built buildings, MB figures and Tamiya car .

    John Sounds like a great project. I found these that may be useable in your dio. Stalingrad do make very nice figures. John
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    boatman's 1/72 HMS Tiger C20 build

    Chris Marvelous stuff can't wait to see those guns rotating and elevating. Meantime I thought you would enjoy this. An old photo of some models used on a movie. John
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    New coming to Netflix

    Guys I just saw this upcoming Netflix production, Operation Mincemeat. If you have access this looks like it could be interesting. I remember the original The Man who Never Was> John
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    Dragon 1/35 M4 Mortar Carrier - finally completed

    Dave Nice job on your half track. I have almost no stash left and probably will never build the two or three models that I have. Would you like this particular kit that I acquired some years ago but never started. It is still in its plastic bags and as you can see I have the full Voyager PE set...
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    USS Constipation 1/120 scale Imai long suffering build

    Richard You may be suspecting that I am a bit of a sailing ship nerd. Anyway this is approximately how the yards are attached to the mast. At the top I have drawn the positions of the yards when the sails are removed. John
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    USS Constipation 1/120 scale Imai long suffering build

    Richard The actual shroud extensions as you call them delight in the name FUTTOCK shrouds. The Catharpins are horizontal weaving that tie together the two sets of shrouds (port and Starboard) just below the tops. On this photo you can see the catharpins joining the two sets of shrouds...
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    Computer games

    Hi gentlemen I am getting on a bit but I don't mind admitting that I still enjoy the odd Computer Game. I was wondering how many of you still play? As a teaser I recently found this game which you may recognise. Now I have to say I have never seen a game so involved, so detailed and so...
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    boatman's 1/72 HMS Tiger C20 build

    Chris This is going from strength to strength. Excellent building and attention to detail. Living in Canada I could not resist suggesting a small addition to your heli deck....if you have room that is. John
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    USS Constipation 1/120 scale Imai long suffering build

    Richard I admire your patience, for this long job. Don't forget that the rope through the blocks should have a loose end that is simply coiled down on the deck. This is the rope that the gunners clap on to in order to run out the gun. you can see the loose end in this image. You will notice...
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    USS Constipation 1/120 scale Imai long suffering build

    Richard Very creative way to build these blocks. They are always very fiddly and I hope yours work out. Just as a model here is one of my naval blocks. This is of course a double block whereas most that you need are singles. Also the strapping around this block is metal whereas the more common...
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