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Not that you'd know it by blog postings, but I've been busy.
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That's beautiful work, Patrick. But I thought you didn't "do" cockpits? :)
Hasegawa 1/72? What paints did you use for the lovely finish? I ask because I know you're an enamel fan (as am I) and I've been a bit downcast lately by the news that the RPM/Rust-Oleum "death star" (well, more like *neglect* star if the truth be told) is s*&tcanning a chunk of the Model Master enamel line.
PS: It's very nice to see you posting more regularly again. I was getting worried about you when I kept logging in and seeing the Viggen (nice tho it is, of course).
Posted by: Terence Burns | June 09, 2017 at 04:35 PM
Thank you, sir. I've been taking in-progress shots of both of these (1/48) for eventual full-blown blog articles. Should be finishing the SBD tomorrow (f#cking better, as I promised to deliver it to the buyer tomorrow) so that story should appear here very quickly. The paints are mostly Xtracolor. As for cockpits, I prefer not to bother. However if the customer wants to pay for the bells and whistles, he/she gets them.
Posted by: Pat Hawkey | June 09, 2017 at 05:18 PM
Wow - the Dauntless pic didn't come up yesterday when I commented on the F-4. Very nice work, also, and very subtle weathering. I like it! The cockpit on the SBD looks good from here, also. You sell yourself short on the cockpits, Pat. I look forward to seeing the articles and more pictures of each.
Btw (adding some idle flattery) I recently picked up yet another copy of your book, so I have a good one when the original falls apart from being thumbed through and re-read too often. I suspect it will be regarded like those much-missed Kalmbach titles of thirty years ago. I try to pick those up used whenever I can, if they're in decent shape, as they are cheap and still full of good ideas (nostalgia value, too, for those of us on which they were a formative influence). Took a while to find a second copy of Ernie Stazack's book on vacuforms, though, and I still haven't seen another copy of Roscoe Creed's volume. But I digress...
Anyways, glad you were busy and are keep ing well, and thank you for posting all this.
Posted by: Terry Burns | June 10, 2017 at 08:50 AM
Always happy to hear positives on my modest little book. (I too have gotten my hands on some "classic" Kalmbach titles via eBay, for the reasons you state.)
Posted by: Pat Hawkey | June 13, 2017 at 04:03 AM