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The cockpit was sprayed before the move to a new home so today I gloss coated the cockpit with Tamiya X-22 Clear and applied the decals for the instruments pilots head rest;
For what you will be able to see in the cockpit they are good enough. Once the decal setting solution has worked its magic, I’ll spray the cockpit with a matt varnish then get around to fini...
Via Evilbay, these figures turned up today;
Classic Tamiya figures from the 80s! Even though the tooling is now nearly 40 years old, the figures were some of Tamiya’s best and although I had the set many many years ago I really fancied getting them again.
They have been out of production for ages but frequently turn up on Ebay at decent prices so I bo...
I started a new job this week which involves working nights again so it’s back to late nights to prepare for shifts ahead. With that I’m going to try and get this AMT kit finished for my other half and I’ll spend a couple of hours polishing the cab (again) as I gave it a blast of Mr. Hobby Super Clear (which gave an uneven finish);
I gave the cab a rub down with...
After sanding the nose and spraying it with white primer, there were cracks appearing in the paint so I decided to strip all the paint off using VMS Clean Slate 3.0;
As you can see the VMS did its magic taking 40 year old enamel paint off the nose.
I’ll give it another clean and polish the transparencies again prior to respraying it. I also ...
It’s going well then?
I was at my old modelshop in Chester this morning just to say “hi” after moving out of the area…I just can’t help myself…..