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  1.    R Palimaka reacted to a post in a topic: B-25J Betty's Dream(ing) of a French Kiss
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  4. BloorwestSiR
    Thanks guys! Sadly, the rest of the decals didn't go on anywhere as nicely. There's several small tears and folds in the mouth and they're driving me nuts. Oddly, no silvering which is my normal Achilles heel when using decals. A friend suggested a light sanding and then touching them up. My concern is that the white paint won't match the ever so slight translucency of the decals and make things look worse. If I can get a scan of the decal sheet I may try making my own mask for the mouth. Otherwise I'm thinking I'll leave it aside and go back to French Kiss which I've got different problems with. Like having mounted rockets on the wrong set of wings... Carl
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    Nothing aft of the bomb bay.
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  23. BloorwestSiR
    Hope these pics help you out Thomas. You could probably just insert the ends of the exhausts from the outside if you're not too worried. Carl
  24. BloorwestSiR
    Sounds about right. It was much wider than the Tamiya fuselage and more square as I recall. I had a hard time getting it to work but your builds make it look like a walk in the park.
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    Really great progress there David. Nice to see the differences between the two. Not just in the kits but the airframes themselves. Carl
  26. BloorwestSiR
    They're looking really fantastic William. Is the Warbirds conversion the same as the RB one for the PCM Spitfire? I used the RB nose on a Tamiya VIII and that was quite the challenge. Carl
  27. BloorwestSiR
    For good or bad, the Zotz decal is basically the outline so there's very little carrier film. Good because it means there's less to silver. Bad because it folds up and breaks on you when you try to position it. Hopefully I'll get the other side on ok and then can add the mouth and eyes.
  28. BloorwestSiR
    While the nose dried, I decided to paint the fuselage insignias. With the rear fuselage painting all done, I unmasked the waist window and saw what I expected. Both waist guns were broken off their mounts due to all the handling. One of the ammo boxes even fell out the rear crew hatch. There's also a bunch of dust on the inside. Nothing I can do about any of it. At least the tail gunner's station fared a bit better.
  29. BloorwestSiR
    Time for a small update. Zotz give you a mask for doing the blue base for the bat nose art. In my set, it was cut from a somewhat stiff gold coloured vinyl. There's an outline for the canopy to help you place it correctly. Unfortunately I somehow ended up distorting the masks Nd could get it into a reasonable shape that the decal would have fit over. I decided to peel it off and try making my own from frisket. I traced the decal shape onto the frisket and then cut it out. Then it was time for the blue.
  30. BloorwestSiR
    I found it easier to just cut a new side panel from sheet styrene rather than sand off the details from the kit one. I then started gluing on the individual panels. Each panel is made up of a couple layers at least. Some have acetate instruments behind them. So this has really bogged things down.
  31. BloorwestSiR
    Thanks gents! What had been planned as a mostly OOB build has gone a bit sideways. I had originally bought some Res/Kit resin rocket pods but when they arrived all the rocket tubes were broken so they were useless. I decided to try and drill out the kit ones. Where things really went off the rails is the cockpit. I had previously bought the Part PE set but was gong to skip using it. Then i figured if I had it might as well use it. Needelees to say, it's a lot of tiny PE panels. Doesn't help when you have a cat in your lap. She does make a good trap for dropped PE bits.
  32. BloorwestSiR
    Looks great and I'll echo Chris's comment as it was the same on my BF110 C. Carl
  33. BloorwestSiR
    Vaughan, I'm just catching up with this. It looks absolutely fantastic already. Any plans to enlarge this for the Zvezda SD? One thing I liked about Rogue One was you got to see Gold Squadron's Y-Wings take out the Star Destroyers and not just be cannon fodder like they were in A New Hope. Carl
  34. BloorwestSiR
    I remember the first time the N kit came out. I only picked it up because HLJ offered free shipping on your entire order if you bought one. I think that was the only time they did something like that. So I wonder if it wasn't as popular in Japan as the other variants which may be why they have reissued as often. Carl
  35. BloorwestSiR
    Looks great Brian. The missiles are impressive especially with the touch of weathering you've given them. Carl
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