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  1. electric indigo
    Good to know! While you're ordering, get some of their Modelliermasse. I had a bad experience with plasticine reacting with the silicone and preventing the surface from curing. Good luck!
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    Did you see the 2017 "Taboo" miniseries?
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    I bought Trollfactory Kautschuk Typ 2 & PU resin from their Amazon shop. Both come in affordable 2 x 250g bottles. The new pilot is 1/48 scale, but I have also copied Hasegawa pilots from their 1/72 figures set. The mold looks like this: The 1/48 mold has pouring and venting channels, but for the smaller figures I built open molds; I fill both halves with resin, let it cure until it gets viscous and then squash the molds together. To make the molds, I first embed the figure in plasticine and push a short tube into this, resulting in what you see in the middle of the pic above. The tube is filled with silicone, after this is cured, you turn the tube around, remove the plasticine and brush some talcum powder on the silicone to keep the mold halves from sticking together, then pour the second part.
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    Very nice finish, looking forward to see the completed work! _ After failing to find convincing aftermarket eastern bloc pilots, I decided to fire up my clone factory again. Did some gene splicing first by removing the voluptuos vest from a Hasegawa F-14 pilot and building up the iconic soviet harness pattern with adhesive foil strips and leftover etch parts. The first cast was painted for the croatian MiG.
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    In case you ever want to strap a handful of Saturn Vs to your EVA to nuke the site from orbit: https://www.taghobby.com/archives/510885
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    Prototype & parts pics of Norma's hot rod at Taghobby Pure Mecha Rock & Roll!
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    Nice to see the forum's Tomcat fleet growing!
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    The sculpt and detail level is amazing, it deserved a bigger scale.
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    Thanks for all the flowers, guys. I can't recommend the Eduard kit enough, the surface engravings are super sharp & only needed a hint of a wash. @derex3592 I admire your patience with the photoetch. This is my attempt to get everything more or less lined up on the BBQ skewers of the Fitter & the MiG, and it was quite the nerve-wrecking business:
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    A bit of progress on the MiG-21
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    A good start for the modeling year!
  12. electric indigo
    Current order for the Russian Air Force is 76 machines.
  13. electric indigo
    Have a nice start into the future!
  14. electric indigo
    Awesome scratch-built 1/48 Hellhound
  15. electric indigo
    Holy MiG!
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    First regular production Su-57 "Blue 01"
  17. electric indigo
    If you're feeling a bit too uplifted lately:
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    Wouldn't that be "Thunderdome"?
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    I took that as a vague hint that I'm getting too old for the show.
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    5.8 at IMDB. Wow.
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    Ourtreasure blog has some interesting insights about the (digital) sculpting of their Junchoon. http://ourtreasure.co.jp/2020/11/29/原型師syujyu氏より、エンゲージsr3後期型について/
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    Anya Taylor-Joy. In.
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    It will probably be more cost-efficient to get the RE/100.
  24. electric indigo
    Made a second pass over the dark green since it was a tad too dark, and painted the canopy.
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    Even if you use vacuum, mold layout is important. Imagine how the resin flows when it fills the mold, and avoid air traps or build extra venting channels in problematic places. Some of these traps will not clear even under vacuum. If you have a lot of tiny air bubbles after mixing the resin, most of these will disappear when you slowly pour the resin into the mold in a thin stream or along a piece of wire.
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