Zenrat's Flying Circus

[NARSES2]

Shane is commentating I assume ?

I met him when he was skippering Hampshire and they were playing at Arundel. Was a decent guy in the bar afterwards 

[zenrat]

Mr Warne was a great cricketer and is a good commentator when he sticks to cricket.
Unfortunately play had stopped for either lunch or rain and he had switched from commentating to being a "celebrity" and that is not something I care to watch.

After going through my decal folder I decided on a scheme for the Tiger Moth.  You guys seem to get excited whenever someone uses Swedish splinter pattern so I thought i'd have a go at that.  It means another change of name to Nattfjäril though.

Got the outer wings on the Wyvern as well today.  Having it and the Tiger Moth on the bench together emphasises how huge they were.

Finished decaling the Turbocat.

Did some detail painting & weathering on the D9 dozer.  It's not too far off being done but I don't want to rush the weathering as I can picture exactly how I want it to look in my head and need to be carefull I transfer that image into plastic reality.

Started merging a 1/72 Airfix Bedford refuelling truck and a Hasegawa Sdkfz 7.  Vinyl tracks.  Urrrggghhhhhh.  I'm gonna box in the rear mudguards to hide the join and then sling a load of weight into it to make it sit right.

[Captain Canada]

We said goodbye, told some stories and raised some glasses to a life well lived.

Excellent. Sorry for your loss but always nice to read stuff like this. And for sure, what a year.

[PR19_Kit]

Got the outer wings on the Wyvern as well today.  Having it and the Tiger Moth on the bench together emphasises how huge they were.

The Wyvern presumably? 

The one at Yeovilton (the ONLY one sadly) is GINORMOUS and towers over everything in sight, apart from the Concorde in the same hangar of course.

[Rheged]

Got the outer wings on the Wyvern as well today.  Having it and the Tiger Moth on the bench together emphasises how huge they were.

The Wyvern presumably? 

The one at Yeovilton (the ONLY one sadly) is GINORMOUS and towers over everything in sight, apart from the Concorde in the same hangar of course.

It's only when you see the Wyvern up close that you really appreciate Winkle Brown's comment about " ascending to the saddle of this mighty steed"

[zenrat]

Same weight as a DC3 (well, almost).

[PR19_Kit]

Same weight as a DC3 (well, almost).

With the RR Eagle piston engine in the one at Yeovilton it's probably heavier than a DC3! it's a monster engine.

[zenrat]

It was very hot and humid today.
Which meant I could get two colours of the splinter camo onto the Tiger Moth.
I am using this scheme...

...but matching colours to the picture rather than the descriptions.
For example, what they describe as Dark Green looks like PRU blue on the plan so I used that.  Likewise Golden Olive instead of Mid Green.

[NARSES2]

Splinter Tigger ? Looking forward to this 

[TheChronicOne]

Brilliant going for how the colors look on the plan there..... I agree, they look really cool.  Good call!

[zenrat]

So i've got 3 colours on now.  Golden Olive, PRU Blue and Middle Stone (temperature and humidity ruled out Tamiya Deck Tan - it was drying too fast).  Black tomorrow.

Today's modelling was interrupted by a torrential rain storm.  Water flowed through my shed.  This has happened before and everything is either off the floor or in plastic tubs so that was not stopped me.  Neither was it the godawful noise the rain made on the tin roof.  No, it was the need to go next door and assist the neighbours with the water flowing through their house.
Investigations revealed that the culvert under the driveway of the house on the other side of them was blocked.  I pulled out handfuls of leaves, earth and the thickest coach grass roots I have ever seen.  Luke, who has longer arms pulled out copies of the local paper that appeared to have been kicked into the drain rather than picked up and taken indoors.  The house in question is a rental.  We left everything we pulled out of the culvert on the drive way for the tenants to deal with.  Or more likely to ignore.
Water also flowed through my garage.  It got into a box of computer CD-ROMS we were unsure if we were keeping.  I guess that decision is now made.  Damn, there goes my collection of 20 year old Mac Format magazine give-aways...

Kit's comments on another thread about brush painting vs airbrush got me thinking about the latest issue of AMW I received.
In it there is a build of a Tamiya Mercedes 300SL in which the builder complains that he had to strip all the chrome off of the dash and then had to do a complex masking job to airbrush it.  Pictures of the dash showed me an item that could have easilly been painted by hand with a thin brush and a steady hand.
Mind you, he also masked and airbrushed the window surrounds.  Must never have heard of Bare Metal Foil and is probably not a regular car builder.

[PR19_Kit]

Kit's comments on another thread about brush painting vs airbrush got me thinking about the latest issue of AMW I received.
In it there is a build of a Tamiya Mercedes 300SL in which the builder complains that he had to strip all the chrome off of the dash and then had to do a complex masking job to airbrush it.  Pictures of the dash showed me an item that could have easilly been painted by hand with a thin brush and a steady hand.
Mind you, he also masked and airbrushed the window surrounds.  Must never have heard of Bare Metal Foil and is probably not a regular car builder.

Some of them will NEVER learn <sigh>

[Rick Lowe]

Kit's comments on another thread about brush painting vs airbrush got me thinking about the latest issue of AMW I received.
In it there is a build of a Tamiya Mercedes 300SL in which the builder complains that he had to strip all the chrome off of the dash and then had to do a complex masking job to airbrush it.  Pictures of the dash showed me an item that could have easilly been painted by hand with a thin brush and a steady hand.
Mind you, he also masked and airbrushed the window surrounds.  Must never have heard of Bare Metal Foil and is probably not a regular car builder.

Some of them will NEVER learn <sigh>

Brethren, has no-one been keeping up with the Spreading of the 'Gospel of Ye Hairy Stick'??!!

For Shame!

Your penance  is to use a #1 brush, with Tamiya Acrylics - Revell acrylics for those in the Northern Hemisphere - and paint an old-tool Airfix 1/72 Hercules...

[zenrat]

I'm all for airbrushing when it involves little masking.  However, give me a hairy stick for something like this...

That's the Swedish Moth with its uppers finished.
It's moist underbelly is Vallejo RLM 84 which despite being labelled grey blue looks to me suspiciously like duck egg green or sky.
Clear later then decals then, gird yourself Fred, rigging...

...Your penance  is to use a #1 brush, with Tamiya Acrylics - Revell acrylics for those in the Northern Hemisphere - and paint an old-tool Airfix 1/72 Hercules...

I brushed one as a kid but it would have been in airfix enamels.

<edited to replace URL of Tiramasu recipe with that of picture of Tiger Moth>

[Rick Lowe]

I'm all for airbrushing when it involves little masking.  However, give me a hairy stick for something like this...

That's the Swedish Moth with its uppers finished.
It's moist underbelly is Vallejo RLM 84 which despite being labelled grey blue looks to me suspiciously like duck egg green or sky.
Clear later then decals then, gird yourself Fred, rigging...

...Your penance  is to use a #1 brush, with Tamiya Acrylics - Revell acrylics for those in the Northern Hemisphere - and paint an old-tool Airfix 1/72 Hercules...

I brushed one as a kid but it would have been in airfix enamels.

<edited to replace URL of Tiramasu recipe with that of picture of Tiger Moth>

That's coming along nicely, Fred - keep it up! 

Yeah, I started to brush a Herk myself, and that's where the build stalled... ok, stopped.

Tiramasu recipe? How much sleep did you get at New Years'?