My Stash Grew Again 2019

[Weaver]

From ebay: small sheet of low-vis RAF markings by ModelArt

[PR19_Kit]

...got some 'clear' paints for painting the tail lights on my brother's car model. I've never used it before so I bought two lots from different manufacturers...

I recommend Acrylic clear paints.  I've tried both that and enamel and IMO acrylic is better as enamel tends to "glob up".
Gunze Sangyo Mr Color are my current favourites.  Although their clear orange is bit close to their clear red and I sometimes use clear yellow instead.

Both of mine are acrylics, one pair are Tamiya and the other are Meng. Infortunately the Tamiya stuff is far too 'clear' and will need 10-15 coats before you notice the colour, and the Meng stuff is the exact opposite, as dense as normal paint. 

I went to a Model Car Club meeting last night and the bloke I give a lift to each month surprised me with the gift of a kit to say thank you.
It is a 1/12 Lindberg Fiat Dragster/Cabriolet.

Cracking job, that's one BIG kit IIRC! 

[NARSES2]

Mitsubishi Ki-15 Blue B3 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

All these old Hasegawa boxing's you keep buying are making me quite nostalgic 

[DogfighterZen]

Just received this... never used the stuff before but by what i've seen from others, should make smaller gaps and seams very easy to fill and clean up so i'm very curious...

[Dizzyfugu]

Won a Hasegawa 1:72 S-3A Viking on ev!lbay, w/o box, instructions and decals. But for EUR 5,- only...

[Nick]

Just received this... never used the stuff before but by what i've seen from others, should make smaller gaps and seams very easy to fill and clean up so i'm very curious...

Perfect Plastic Putty! It's great for the smaller gaps, dries quick too. Best part is that you can wipe it with a wet finger to smooth it out. Sands well when dry.
It also washes off your hands easy and out of clothing too if you get it before it fully sets.

[JayBee]

Twas brillig, and the slythy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

Beware the Perfect Plastic Putty, my son!
The putty that dissolves in any wet sanding,
and leaves you sad and disconsolate.

It lures you in with it's easy use,
to begin with,
then spoils your day
later on.

(with all due respects to Lewis Carrol and Jabberwocky).

[Thorvic]

Finally a decent 1/76th Bedford RL GS truck resin kit 

[The Wooksta!]

I'm with Jimbo.  Tried using it on some small sinkholes but it didn't key into the plastic and fell out, so I went back to Humbrol.

It is handy for around canopies, once the Krystal Kleer has dried and you don't want to do any sanding, just clean it off with a damp cotton bud.

[NARSES2]

My view on PPP.

Great for small seams etc, but as Jim and Lee have said if you get to much water on it later on in the build it will "wash away".

Now I know that I don't have a problem with it, just be careful with water if working around it. Get a coat of paint on it and it's fine.

Like anything you will soon find if it suits the way you work. One advantage is that it has no smell unlike some others, particularly Tamiya.

[Rheged]

Twas brillig, and the slythy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

Beware the Perfect Plastic Putty, my son!
The putty that dissolves in any wet sanding,
and leaves you sad and disconsolate.

It lures you in with it's easy use,
to begin with,
then spoils your day
later on.

(with all due respects to Lewis Carrol and Jabberwocky).

What is it about the collected works of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson that makes his work so appropriate to postings in Whiffworld? His  poems Jabberwocky and The Hunting of the Snark , epics in the genre of literary nonsense, are so helpful in illustrating aspects of Whiffery..

[Old Wombat]

Well, he was writing "literary nonsense" & what we're building is often referred to by some members of the modelling fraternity as "literally nonsense".

[zenrat]

I find PPP grips much better if I put down a light coat of primer first.

[Weaver]

From ebay, two sets of Langley OO/HO railway figures:

10 x Victorian/Edwardian upper class figures

Victorian Photographer & Equipment

[Weaver]

From ebay (see this is what happens when you don't make it to Cosford...):

Job lot of 1/72nd kits at a very reasonable price:
KP Mil Mi-8
KP Aero L-39 Albatros
Dragon Modern Soviet Aircraft Weapons 3: Rockets+Bombs
Italeri Sukhoi Su-22UM-3K (i.e. two-seater with oddball weapons+recce pod)
Griffon Sukhoi Su-22 Fitter J

Also, in separate purchases:

HAT 1/72nd Renault FT-17 Tank (MG turret version) - SIX whole pieces: my kind of kit (nicely detailed though...)

Dark Dream/Orion 1/72nd Pilots Of The First World War