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I've had success with Mr Levelling Thinner and Tamiya Lacquer thinners (the Tamiya one doesn't smell as bad so prefer that one personally, not a huge fan of putting cellulose thinners in the air where possible, it's naaaasty stuff)

And another vote for MRP from me, lush out of the airbrush, mixes well, doesn't need thinning (but can be, if you want to, I've been using Tamiya lacquer thinners), cleans up nice as well. Their matt clear is also absolutely superb . Not had much trouble with Tamiya's Acrylic or Lacquers through the airbrush when properly thinned either, I can't get on with Vallejo out of an airbrush once you're spoilt by a good lacquer there's just no contest for me, they are handy for brush painting though.

Really liking this so far, lots of tonal variation in the paintjob already! great work

Superb model and photography, really well done with this piece and the presentation.

Very much looking forward to seeing more results That's a very cloudy/milky gloss.. all mine are completely clear in the bottle, very curious to see results!

Beautiful work on those two, really nice job!

My understanding of Mr Surfacer is it dries matt/silk so for NMF you'd need some kind of gloss over top of it. Possibly even a 2000 grit polished, compounded and shined gloss black for best NMF results. Saw something recently where a chap did a black gloss coat, but then did a levelling thinner flood coat to "reactivate" the black paint and make it smooth...

I'm fairly sure the Shoreham crash was pilot error induced crash following a poorly executed loop and not being able to recover it properly, as a-pose to a deliberate low-pass like a lot of these. While I understand the sentiment, as a maneuver I'm not sure it's fair to compare them.

Absolutely superb. That hard work really paid off, beauitful piece of work!

I vote Plan B, that's one of my all time favourite Tomcat colour schemes

Very welcome

I've taken what I can with what I have (popped an image below for proof) I've PM'd you a shared link to an album for the rest as they're fairly large and I don't fancy uploading them to an image service. If this is something anyone else is interested please let me know and I'll get a copy of them over to you. The 'knuckle' on mine is seized so I can't get a shot of it flat, and it's quite heavy for what it is, we cut off the spring-steel arm years ago but it's a wicked door-stop

I actually have one of those tailhooks if you'd like some more photos?

Beautiful work!

The retracted bid of 500 makes this look an awful lot like someone was price boosting to me...

Love Flying Legends, especially now it's just up the road for us. I'm surprised they still allow the Balbo, as much as it's just such a visual spectacle, I don't think it's the pilot's favourite part of the show, so many risks. Was there the year Big Beautiful Doll collided with the Skyraider during her exit manoeuvre in the Balbo, glad the pilots all made it but was very sad to see that P51 go down Still, thanks for the footage, very sad to not do airshows this year first year my wife and I haven't been to one since we met.

Pity about the terrible sound dubbing

I got a bunch of their switches and knobs for future projects.. hoooolleee, soooo small and incredible detail. Amazing stuff.

He's gone to live with the elves.

I've done those kind of moves in the digital world in sims and games, but seeing some of those in real life is simply staggering!

oof, that's gorgeous, nice work!

Hi quang, I covered most of what you mentioned in my first post.

I'm just wondering what people's recommendations are for a good enamel paint for use with a paint brush are in the UK, I know you can get Tamiya shipped in since it's not directly available over here, but at expense and wait time... I recall using Humbrol and/or Airfix type stuff as a kid (found some tins of this in an old star wars set I opened up recently), but haven't revisited those for at least 20 years... Was never keen on the pop-top style tins of those, am looking more for screw top if possible, just for ease of use/resealing. I recall the whites yellowed like mad back then too, is that still the case? I mostly have a mix of Tamiya Acrylic, Lacquer and MRP paints currently, a couple Mr Hobby ones here and there and a bunch of Mig and AK enamel washes and effects. I did manage to pickup a full set of the Tamiya Panel Liners from Poland recently and get them shipped in too, wasn't terribly cheap but those panel liners are excellent from my initial tests. Just want some for painting details on stuff, instrument panels and the like, I find acrylics are either too thin and require a million coats, or are too thick and make a mess, where as from what I've seen people use in most Videos with enamels.. seems like the perfect thing for it? So probably just a set of primary colours and black and white and maybe a grey? Anyway open to options and opinions... Thankyee kindly

I don't think most kits need to move after being finished, but please don't create less options for the average-joe modeller, having multi-posable, movable bits that can later be affixed gives far more range, diversity and dynamic options for modellers. And that's a great thing it shouldn't be the de-facto that you need to be a master-builder with plasticard, 3D printers and custom-poured resin to attain something that could be achieved by adding a few extra bits to the box for the injection moulds. Yes, there is still room for the advanced and high-skilled modeller, but please don't take options off the table for we mere mortals. I agree gimmicky movey bits can be silly, but aint nothing a bit of Extra-Thin can't sort

Lovely work, nice choice of scheme and the weathering is on point too really like it.