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  1. Good luck with the painting Peter. You've got this I can hardly contain my excitement. What could the next creation be? Largely natural metal finish. Not too enormous. Propeller aircraft. Hmmm. So many potential candidates. I'll go with a P-38.
  2. Hi David. Agreed but does anywhere more local to you stock Montex masks? Could save you a few dollars.
  3. What an absolute beauty. You are a master when it comes to this look. Magnificent
  4. Understood. Thanks. Maybe another time? Congratulations on another beautiful model. Cheers.
  5. Hi David. The way to make stretched sprue is by heating a length of the kit sprue tree over a tea light candle or similar. Cut a straight length of plastic from the kit's sprue tree. Try to choose a piece long enough that you can hold it comfortably with your fingers away from the flame. Slowly rotate the length of plastic between your fingers about 1/2" (1.5cm) over the flame until it's surface becomes glossy and the plastic softens and becomes pliable. Then, simply spread your hands and the plastic should stretch into a long, fine filament. The thickness of the resultant thread will depend on how fast you pull and how far you're able to stretch it before it hardens again. Lengths as long as both of your outstretched arms are possible. You may need to practice to get a feel for things. After a few pulls you may be able to recreate similar and consistent results. Plastics from different manufacturers can behave differently too so practicing is a good idea. The neat thing about stretched sprue is you can adhere it using normal glue. If it's a bit slack after you've attached it the filament can sometimes be tightened up by carefully running a flame below it to make it taughter but take care because too much heat and it will snap. It's a fine balance. HTH guy
  6. Spectacular build and paint. Will she be at ScaleModelWorld this autumn Marcin?
  7. Hi. I think Montex make some. Hannants in the UK show several sets Are these the sort of masks you mean?. I found these by putting "Montex" into the quick search box. HTH
  8. She's a big girl that's for sure but going for this scale was a great decision. Everything looks so real. Superb stuff Pete.
  9. I have attempted to create the blind flying panel numerous times now but I have been unsuccessful. I shall move on to plan B which is to drill out the kit's instruments and hollow them out from the back to suggest the thin metal plate that houses the gauges. Keep your fingers crossed for me
  10. I believe that might be the shimmy dampener? I haven't seen that on any Charlie models either. I expect it will be easy to remove if necessary although photos on the website don't show it installed. I think the nose gear arch is also a different shape between -C and -E models so hopefully that is recreated. The detail looks superb.
  11. Hello Thai. Regarding the B-57, I don't know how closely it resembles an English Electric Canberra but if it's close you might have some interest in that aircraft too. I believe it was a license built product so may be quite similar. It could give potential customers many more marking options. Cheers.
  12. Nice work Andy and thanks for the heads-up on the wing fillets. I agree, Kotare have made a fine job of the dimpled rivet effect. She's looking alot like a Spitfire now. Keep it up.
  13. Hi fellow gb participants, I plan on commencing this build imminently and face a few unusual, self imposed challenges. Like many builds, Infinity encourage the builder to begin with the cockpit. My first venture off piste is to model this as a museum exhibit but not a pristine, renovated example. The Planes of Fame exhibit looks quite "tired" in most online images. I can't help wondering how intact the cockpit is For this group build entrant I'd like to allow myself a little latitude and not be too concerned with absolute accuracy. I'd like it to be fun To that end I'm hoping to display the model missing much of it's instrumentation and switchgear. The yellowed main canopy will help disguise the mess if I stuff it up! If anyone has any images of unrestored or dismantled I.P.s please add them to the thread to provide inspiration. The Infinity instrument panels actually have deep relief and look really good. For this experiment though it's a bit unhelpful. I may try to scratch build a replacement so that I don't have to ruin the kit part by removing all of the lovely detail. This is a quick and dirty proof of concept. Now I just have to get my head around how to go about making it neat and tidy. (This is where a flat etched panel would be ideal.)
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