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What you can't see in the pics is a fingerprint in the exhaust stain on the port side. Forensics would have me dead to rights. My fix was to replicated a hefty boot in the flanks by removing the Dullcote under the pastel with thinner and then burnishing brown pastel over the resulting crimes. Yeah, more pastel to help cover up where you just removed pastel. Jan, I'm gonna need that beer...
Thoroughly overdone, of course, on both counts, but was I ever having fun!
By this time I'd had to make a lot of repairs. I broke the rudder off, I broke the stabs off twice, I snapped off the stbd gear strut so roughly the copper brake line sheared (!), and I broke off the port flap too. It's like wrestling a pig! You get filthy and the pig just enjoys it. I can't recall the last time a build went so sideways.
One thing I did do well was my standard clear-stretched-sprue-for-a-marker-light trick:
Here's the net result. Not bad but not great. Sometimes if things end up looking like this I'll break out the airbrush and tweak but not this time.
And I DO have some glamour shots coming up...
Thoroughly overdone, of course, on both counts, but was I ever having fun!
By this time I'd had to make a lot of repairs. I broke the rudder off, I broke the stabs off twice, I snapped off the stbd gear strut so roughly the copper brake line sheared (!), and I broke off the port flap too. It's like wrestling a pig! You get filthy and the pig just enjoys it. I can't recall the last time a build went so sideways.
One thing I did do well was my standard clear-stretched-sprue-for-a-marker-light trick:
Here's the net result. Not bad but not great. Sometimes if things end up looking like this I'll break out the airbrush and tweak but not this time.
And I DO have some glamour shots coming up...
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