discussion My Awesome Weathering Technique

[Guest]

Latest development in my weathering techniques.

Possibly feel that I may this time of excelled myself if not gone a bit over the top or is it in the top.

Only cheeky comments accepted.

Laurie

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[eddiesolo]

Jeez Laurie I thought my sunken wrecks where rust buckets but this is weathering to the extreme...

Si

 

[Gern]

Brilliant effect there Laurie! I'd give you several hundred stars but for one small detail - these things were fabric covered not steel.

 

[papa 695]

Nice chipping work Laurie, but I think you need to work more on the rigging it's a little too thick try some EZline

 

[Alan 45]

Brilliant effect there Laurie! I'd give you several hundred stars but for one small detail - these things were fabric covered not steel.

Laurie has produced the prototype steal version Gern, it wasn't practical though, it was so heavy the only way to get it in the air was to stick it on a big metal arm but the pilot just got dizzy going around in circles for an hour

 

[mossiepilot]

Nice weathering mate, but not sure about the Dio it's sitting on, didn't these types live in fields not up trees?

Tony.

 

[Guest]

Looks pristine compared to some of the vehicles on the roads up here.

 

[ojays]

Any one up for a group build of this! lol

Gregg

 

[Gern]

Laurie has produced the prototype steal version Gern, it wasn't practical though, it was so heavy the only way to get it in the air was to stick it on a big metal arm but the pilot just got dizzy going around in circles for an hour

Ah! I couldn't think how Laurie would have made such an elemental mistake.

Gern

 

[Guest]

Come on chaps you do not recognize it do you ? This is the one they dug up in Burma hidden for all those years. Perhaps not recognizable as portrayed here in its renovated state.

Laurie

 

[flyjoe180]

Is this an overnight process Laurie, because I generally don't like to stop for a shave half way through a weathering session

 

[Guest]

Any one up for a group of this! lolGregg

How about a Christmas special of building a swordfish and sticking them on our Christmas Tree? Afterall SWMBO can't argue its not a fairy!

 

[spanner570]

Laurie old boy, you really should have told the lady to put some cloths on before you took the first picture!

 

[Guest]

Laurie old boy, you really should have told the lady to put some cloths on before you took the first picture!

So you wanta the one I took of her in focus do you Ron old bean ? It will cost hmmm.......... OK free to you.

Laurie

 

[spanner570]

My address sent in a P.M.........Hurry up!

 

[Guest]

One of your better attempts at modelling Laurie - you are certainly improving. Try adding some decals to it! Don't forget to use a gloss varnish first though, otherwise you'll get the dreaded.........!

 

[Guest]

Thanks Aidan I knew I could rely on you ! By the way it is a GRB Mk1AF6.

Laurie

 

[Guest]

I recognised it instantly Laurie! The aorodynamic prop shaft gives it away!

 

[Guest]

How about a Christmas special of building a swordfish and sticking them on our Christmas Tree? Afterall SWMBO can't argue its not a fairy!

Like the idea Richard!

That I call weathering Laurie!!!

 

[Gern]

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Thanks Aidan I knew I could rely on you ! By the way it is a GRB Mk1AF6.Laurie

Sorry to disagree Laurie, but this can't be the Mk1 prototype. The Mk1 had a pointed spinner, not the rounded one shown. This just has to be the early

MkII - later MkII versions did have the rounded spinner, but all of those were fitted with Goodyear tyres and not the Dunlops that this one has.

Gern