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Red and black masked and painted! 100%! Now...I have had 2ish years to figure out the shade of gray for the rest of the ship.....and I'm still unsure....😂 Nothing looks right to my eye yet. Going off the new restored high resolution pics off the Battleship Texas Foundation FB page and YouTube videos, it really depends on the sunlight of any given day as to the blue-gray shade this thing appears to be.. 🤔 I know what the "official colors" are but on a 1/350 scale ship it's way to dark. This may be a mix situation and then trial and error more than anything...
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@tekering - I would like to rent out the top floor corner penthouse please sir! I'll have my things sent over next week! 😂 Looks awesome!
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Yeeeeeh. @TangledThorns- totally agree on all fronts. I'm not even in a hurry to watch the finale after they sh*t the bed so hard with part 2.....
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@RT junkie - My GOODNESS! Now THAT'S a retirement plan I can get behind!!!
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UPDATE! I just happened to find two Tamiya Dull Red rattle cans in the back of my paint/junk shelf in the garage with juuuust enough left between the two to get a good coat down! YAY! @Papa Rat - That's a LOADED question - Some people paint acyrlics onto the bare brass, I had HORRIBLE results trying that on Titanic a few years back. It just flaked right off when I handled it. Mr. Hobby makes Metal Primer both liquid and spray can but it's next to impossible to find anywhere in the lower 50 nowadays, especially now. I prefer to prime my PE with some kind of metal primer, then paint them once they are on the ship, OR the best way to do it if possible is to build all the PE and put it on the model FIRST, THEN prime and paint everything. Unfortunately, that's not always possible. Any paint should be fine after a coat of primer on PE. @Thom - I don't know yet.....haven't made up my mind.
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Well, my choices came down to Mr Color "Russet" or Mission Models WWII "Red Oxide" SO.... I went with Mr Color mostly for the durability, but oh my 😎, it's quiet a bright shade of red! Hobby shop didn't have my go to Tamiya rattle can of Dull Red, which I think is the perfect hull red.... I think I'll mottle this with the Mission Models acrylic and see what we get.... 🤔 I can also report that after 3 hours early yesterday morning ALL 42 50 cal guns are made up for Texas! Basically only a few stair cases left to make and PE is OVER and done with 😁
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Ok, I couldn't resist.... For a kit originally designed in 1963 by the British... and repopped who knows how many times by the Japanese before this copy from 1980, I gotta say, fit is not bad at all! Work on the BUFF continues...
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Well.... Wifey-Clause was good to me! 😂 Somewhere she found a tiny little Hasegawa 1/72 Kawasaki Ki-61 model kit from 1980, still sealed up. I did some research and it was originally a Revell Great Britain kit dating allllll the way back to 1963! This one was a repop from Japan 🇯🇵 in 1980 apparently after Hasegawa copied the mold in the mid 70s. And then she got me this.... The Beast....Tamiya 1/48 F-35A....I've heard this is one of the best engineered kits to ever come out so I'm sure I'll find a way to screw it up! 😁 😂
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@Thom - Yes.....and no...LOL. That was the BEST result I could get after a solid HOUR of fiddling with the interior parts. The cockpit fit is fine, the interior bomb bay is snug, but it's fine. I believe the fault lies in the long part with the three "bumps" on the top of the body. I ended up prying apart the front half of the plane and literally cutting away almost all the extra plastic on one side of that part. Perhaps I glued it in it slightly at an angle, I'm not sure, but it looked fine to me when I did it a few days ago. Whatever, the result will be fine once I sand and rescribe, I already puttied it and sanded a bit and it's livable. Pressing on!
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Merry Christmas everyone! 🎄 🤶 🤗!!! Over here, unfortunately I have to report that the mating together of the two halves of the BUFF hasn't gone smoothly. Seriously Academy??? In this day and age? I mean yeh, it's a 2020 model, but still... I've seen better fits on Testors kits from the 80s. Uhhggg. Lots of putty, sanding and rescribing (which I'm NOT good at at all) in my future I'm afraid.
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amazing stuff!!!
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I'll pass on this one due to tarriff BS and the fact I don't even remember seeing that in DYRL. Was it on screen for more than .03 seconds? It's been a looooong time since I watched it. I remember the TV version fairly well..
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@tekering - wow!! You're a madman! I love it! In my next life I would love to design and build architectural models. Will it be lit up from inside?
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I gotta admit, for a bare plastic kit OOB build, with only a panel lining and a few details, that looks pretty damn good! 😯
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Ohhhh I missed the teeny tiny HINT print .... I got nothin.
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It's gotta be for the massive SDF-1???
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I can now report ALL major parts of PE are completed for the Texas! The cranes were the last big hurtle! Also can report all quad 20mm guns are completed...seven parts a piece for those tiny little buggers...and..work now continues on the single 50 cals and more baskets! Pressing on! (Not pictured, work on the B.U.F.F. continues as well, got the engines built and on the wings this morning)
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Is it wrong I'm SERIOUSLY considering forking over some $$$ for a sealed original Monogram 1/35 Starfighter model off Evilbay for a Christmas present to myself in honor of Gil??? Not many left out there, soooo wish a modern GOOD model company would make a new one!!!
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@electric indigo YEEESS!!!!! The Starfighters were and are still amazing looking!!!
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Ohh man, this one hurts! R.I.P. Captain Rogers!
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aaaaaaand I'm going to be out of town on New Year's Eve.......Thanks wife!!!! 😂😂😂🫣
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Early Sunday morning l finished up the hardest PE for the Texas. The rear observation tower and radar screen. I'm glad I saved this until last because I had been dreading it. All the techniques I had taught myself and utilized up to this point came in handy to get this part finished up with only minimal stress... LOL 😂. So at this point I still have a lot of little diddly PE to finish up but it's all rinse and repeat stuff I've done before so it's just a question of making time to sit down and do it.. (42 - 50cal guns / quad 50s /baskets and such, and the two aircraft cranes) Other than that, it's down to dropping down a million little plastic parts on the deck and before you know it..... It's gonna be time to start painting this bad boy!
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Omgossshh! SUPER pumped for that work of art @tekering Over here it's time to complete the 🇺🇸 bomber fleet trifecta ... Two down, one to go.. The B.U.F.F.! 😁 I grew up watching these do touch and goes from Carswell AFB in west Fort Worth in the 80s from the church where my mom worked in the summers and I was out of school. Riiigght in the flight path after takeoff.. Glorious! ***Didn't think displaying a 1/144 B-52 would be an issue.... 🤔 However... I just opened up the box and saw the wings! 😂 Not suuuure the good old IKEA Detolf is gonna be big enough!
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Star Wars 50th Anniversary - February 19, 2027
derex3592 replied to sh9000's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
I'm in. Brother in law will roll with me. I only saw Jedi in the theater growing up. Born in 75 so I missed SW77 and 80 ESB. I did go see the 1st round of Special Editions back in 97 or whenever those abominations happened... -
Yeh, I'm more than just a little hacked off. This kit plus the 1/72 Glaug is running $175 shipping from HLJ for TX from Japan. YEH NOPE. They can keep it and I'll just loose my money on the price of the kits eventually I guess. UTTERLY RIDICULOUS🤬
