[QUOTE=petitbilbo;149472]Hi there, since I find shipment costs (and the ever impending "taxes and duties" doom) too steep for my already very stressed and money-deprived bank account, I had to come up with a way to make my own bases instead of ordering the Orberst's ones. I have done quite a lot of them in the past month and I've "perfected" my system enough to show you how: [ATTACH=CONFIG]47383[/ATTACH] This is the raw material: ...
[QUOTE=petitbilbo;146968]Hi there, I'm still learning how to use my airbrush (daunting task!) and up until now, when applying a base coat or painting details, I used a round cardboard piece to put the object on and turned it between two bursts of paint. This was a less than perfect solution for my need to get the object in the right position. So I searched at my FLKitS and FLGS and found "professional" airbrushing turntables from a variety of companies. ...
[QUOTE=petitbilbo;92026]Hello everybody. The following post will be quite long, so try to bear with me. It's meant as a how to, but I wanted also to show what errors NOT to make... A good friend asked me to build 4 Nieuport 11 from Reviresco, with all the markings of the "escadrille N.3". These are all the pieces, before removal of any excess metal: [ATTACH=CONFIG]23115[/ATTACH] Two closeups of the parts with the most flash ...
Hello everybody! I just finished two Morane-Saulnier A1 "parasol" planes from Skytrex. Here they are: [ATTACH=CONFIG]17511[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]17512[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]17513[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]17514[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]17515[/ATTACH] Awaiting your critiques impatiently! :) :salute:
Flyboys and Flygirls, In another thread, I wondered if I should finish the three Fokker E.III I was building with or without the wing bracing wires. Although it was rather a rhetorical question, several people answered that, yes, I should put the wires in. So I did! But only for ONE plane for now... Here's the picture if the plane from Reviresco [IMG]http://www.tin-soldier.com/EINDECK1.JPG[/IMG] I wasn't going to use ...