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Ken, I've done some, tho minimal, research into 3D printing for a 1/25th scale Centurion I'd been working on. The impression I have is that the printing surface, for the company I spoke with, is relatively small. Do you recall from your ship build the maximum surface square inches and the height capability your printers printer can accomodate? In addition, who was your printer? Thank you. Sincerely, Mark

Roger that, brother. Sincerely, Mark

Love that detail. Sincerely, Mark

Wonderful work, Phil. Sincerely, Mark.

Herculean effort, Thierry. Many, many thanks for all of the time spent and hard work involved in organizing this thesis. Sincerely, Mark

Vaighn, I am simply amazed by your ability to make an airplane from scratch. There was not one thing you did that I didn't come away with wishing that I could do what you were doing. I can't fathom the talent it takes to do what you did. Great job. Congratulations all around. Sincerely, Mark

Thank you, Butler. Thank you, Kevin. Having a few extra days would be handy, but I've got so very much to do. We'll see how it all shakes out. Having a few extra days is a nice thing. Thank you. Sincerely, Mark

Thank you, Vaughn. Last ones for the day, I promise. I removed the tape from the windscreen and armored glass and adhered them with a drop of future. To keep the future from wicking up between the parts I waited until the spot of future was tacky then put them together. Then I moved the dashboard lights out of the way a bit and put the windscreen in place for show. I think I read that a new desicating tablet is in the purple family, so I mixed 1 part each of RLM24 Blue, RLMwhatever Red, and white (to tint the resultant deep color and make the color more noticable as a 'purple' and put a drop in the windscreen circle with a toothpick. I have to take a closer look to see what is blowing the windscreen out of position. Thanks for looking in. Sincerely, Mark

Mandetory cockpit shots. I like how the rear deck turned out. I painted the little flashlights for this picture. Some yellow paint chipped off of the fuel line. Oh well. I wish I could paint all of my dials like that one. Whew! Talk about overkill!! My apologies for bogarting the waves with so much stuff. Thanks for looking in. Sincerely, Mark

I forgot to mention in the earlier post that 74, 75, & 76 are all tinted 20% white, the same as the swastika. I usually just paint exhausts with burnt iron, or something. But with all of the wonderfull exhausts that have been shown the past 6 months I thought I would ruin mine trying to replicate any of the effects that have been shown. Aluminum. Rust, or red-brown. A little white. I got carried away and painted the first exhaust. Oh well. Black. Sure looks brighter here . . . and here. I guess I'm going to have to darken them. Overall top. Ooo. What a ripper! One reason I'm not going to make the deadline. Still More. I think they are the last batch. Sincerely, Mark

Something we're all familiar with. Masking for RLM75. After RLM74 has been applied. Pete Fleischmann built an Arctic Viper on ARC a ways back and he painted black between the areas of color to enhance the demarcation line. I wanted to try something similar, tho different, so I trapped the 74 over the 75 by about 1mm. It's not very noticeable because the contrast is so low. Other wing. Still more. Sincerely, Mark

The next series of images show how I made the swastika. Locating the figure. Locating the ground. Removing the figure. White figure. Masking the white figure. Making sure there is no overspray. 80% Black ground. Other side. Still more. Thanks for looking in. Sincerely, Mark

I have been hustling my bustle the past 2 weeks or so to finish up by the deadline, and it seems I won't accomplish that feat, in spite of having 6 months to complete this build. I can't believe it's been six months. So close, yet so far. Into the 'Works In Progress" I go. I have been shooting as I go, and it would have been nice to divide the imagery up between last weekend and this, but last weekend I was in New York City attending a wedding which took a couple of day from which to recover. I guess I'm just not as young as I used to be, no matter how I feel mentally. Anyway. . . Image intensive, with nothing really exciting, truthfully. Just stuff. On with the show. This one barely survived my torture. Too much future does bad things and takes forever to dry. Lesson learned. Trying to find the sweet spot of the rudder. I lot of back and forth sanding and filling on that hinge area. A helping hand. Nice connection. First round of preshadiing. Euro Grey, FS36081, or something like that. I didn't like the linework, as I thought it to be sloppy, so I reworked it. RLM76. I masked off the areas to be painted RLM04 (yellow), as I will do that last. I didn't want to overpaint 04 onto the 76 as the 76 undercoat would influence the value of the 04. More to follow. Thanks for looking in. Sincerely, Mark

http://www.radubstore.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=2_68&products_id=202 Sincerely, Mark

Very nice. There is a lot of stuff on this build to like. I'm glad to see you are putting something in 'Works In Progress'. Sincerely, Mark

Most excellent. Sincerely, Mark

I'm looking forward to following your build. Which of the decals is for the 15.Jg.5 bird? Thank you. Sincerely, Mark

Beautiful build. I like the ones on the green carpet. Especially this one. You've got really nice fore-, mid-, and back-ground interest going on. Sincerely, Mark

Jerry, the results of your efforts on that cockpit are other worldly. The detail is simply surreal. Most excellent. Sincerely, Mark

You've got a remarkable, truly fantastic, and enviable result there, Phil. Super, super, good show. Words pale to describe what you've accomplished. Great job. Sincerely, Mark

I'm tired just looking at it. Nice War Weary look. Sincerely, Mark

Now that is a lot of layering. Very good show, Pete. Glad to see you back. Sincerely, Mark

No way, Jose! And you're working on a cloud! Nice work. Sincerely, Mark

Lovely stuff, Phil. Very convincing. Good show. Sincerely, Mark

Sweet. That scheme is just great. Is Heinz Bar Red 13? Thank you. Sincerely, Mark