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by DH106
Wed Jan 10, 2024 11:22 am
Forum: Manufacturers
Topic: Paint & Glue Miniatures
Replies: 1
Views: 1680

Re: Paint & Glue Miniatures

I've just received a couple of vehicles from Paint & Glue and I have to say I'm staggered by the quality of printing - best 3D printed detail I've ever seen. I would just like them to make the vehicles I need for a diorama I've been planning for a long while. There are four types of vehicle each...
by DH106
Sun Dec 10, 2023 10:56 am
Forum: Aviation
Topic: Canopies
Replies: 8
Views: 1749

Re: Canopies

Mike's post has given me a new insight. Hoarding plastic kits is a means of carbon capture!
by DH106
Sun Dec 10, 2023 10:54 am
Forum: Aviation
Topic: Canopies
Replies: 8
Views: 1749

Re: Canopies

I used to plug mould canopies quite a lot in my unredeemed 1:72 days but I find it very hard to reach the level of precision needed in 1:144. If I remember rightly the canopy on this scratchbuilt Cutlass is plug moulded (it's a very big canopy for 1/144) but I wouldn't have had a hope of moulding th...
by DH106
Thu Dec 07, 2023 5:05 pm
Forum: Aviation
Topic: Canopies
Replies: 8
Views: 1749

Re: Canopies

Painting windows black or another colour is a convention that currently runs at its strongest in airliner modelling. Opinions vary but many civil aviation modellers prefer the appearance of black or dark grey windows to that of glazed passenger cabin windows, which often resemble little lenses rathe...
by DH106
Fri Dec 01, 2023 10:41 am
Forum: Dates of Shows and Places
Topic: West Anglia show 23rd June 2024
Replies: 2
Views: 2956

Re: West Anglia show 23rd June 2024

I'd like to make this but it's at the extreme of my range!
David
by DH106
Fri Dec 01, 2023 10:10 am
Forum: Aviation
Topic: C-97 and EC-121
Replies: 11
Views: 3466

Re: C-97 and EC-121

There is a picture at https://www.flickr.com/photos/harryclaggers/30753196574 of this Constellation which ended up as a bar in Malta. This article https://www.guidememalta.com/en/throwba ... lation-bar refers.
by DH106
Fri Oct 27, 2023 9:09 am
Forum: Reports & Photographic archives
Topic: Showcase 2023
Replies: 8
Views: 1645

Re: Showcase 2023

I love to see a coherent thread from aviation history!
by DH106
Sun Feb 26, 2023 6:46 pm
Forum: Everything else
Topic: The Douglas DSC-2
Replies: 1
Views: 1343

The Douglas DSC-2

The General Electric Fusormak of 1952 made space flight practical, but the Douglas Space Craft 2 of 1959 made it economical. These are episodes in the long career to date (2/26/2035) of the 42nd DSC-2 spaceframe, USAF serial 60-21577. She entered service in 1963 as a VCSF-2, working regularly on fla...
by DH106
Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:45 am
Forum: Reports & Photographic archives
Topic: de Havilland models
Replies: 7
Views: 4471

Re: de Havilland models

Fantastic display in a perfect setting, Terry.
by DH106
Sun Mar 06, 2022 3:07 pm
Forum: Manufacturers
Topic: Custom Model Decals
Replies: 0
Views: 4807

Custom Model Decals

I saw some samples of this firm's work at a model railway exhibition. He can produce fine lettering down to fractions of a millimetre in colours and, importantly, in white. He can do solid colours by overprinting white. The samples I saw of lettering on railway subjects were impressive and he has do...