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Great work, and stingray, i am sooooo jealous. Thanks for sharing.
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Cool!
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Good to see some action on here again David. The Griffon P-51 is intriguing!
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Some progress on the 'Super' Mustang. I've temporarily (I hope) lost the Griffon prop but started the paintjob. I sprayed the camo pattern freehand as practice for the Herc. Not perfect but not as bad as I feared and much more fun than masking it!.

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That should be an interesting looking whif!
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Sir T wrote:That should be an interesting looking whif!
+1 from me on that score!
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The join looks seamless! I hope you find the prop soon
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Thanks, guys.

I did find the prop!

Unusually for me, this one will be on the ground. So the cockpit has a teensy bit of detail. Monogram/Revell provide a decal for the IP and I have added one for the seat harness but now looking at this pic, I see Monogram molded some in that I hadn't seen!

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Some small progress on the C-130K. I finally got masking with silly putty to work!!! Nobody told me I needed to roll it into thin sheets to get it to stick!

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Interesting projects on the go David. I've never used silly putty but regularly use Blutak for hard-edged camo schemes and I prefer to press it flat as you have done there with the putty. I find that masking with Blutak "sausages" as many do leads to uneven edges in the camo that vary between looking sharp and blurred when what I am looking for with a hard-edged scheme is uniform and sharp. I've also found that the sausages don't adhere to the plastic as well as thin pressed sheets.
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Fuselage camo done. Wings and fuselage need their undersides done. Then assemble them together, cleanup join and do paint touchups, add undercarriage, paint and add props and tanks then on to decals..............

At my rate of modelling, it should be finished for Christmas.

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Hmm - looking at pic made me realise there was still a pievce of masking stuck at bottom of the fin. Since removed. Looks pretty good with the wings just sat on it ...........

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ShaunW wrote:Interesting projects on the go David. I've never used silly putty but regularly use Blutak for hard-edged camo schemes and I prefer to press it flat as you have done there with the putty. I find that masking with Blutak "sausages" as many do leads to uneven edges in the camo that vary between looking sharp and blurred when what I am looking for with a hard-edged scheme is uniform and sharp. I've also found that the sausages don't adhere to the plastic as well as thin pressed sheets.
Thanks, Shaun. I'll have to try Buetak gain now I know to try thin flat pieces.

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Coming along nicely, and good work with the su do ku :grin:

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Nice one David, the Herc's camo has turned out very well.
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Done a fair bit since last update. Wings are on and the join repair looks like it will be OK. Just needs a wipe of Perfect Plastic Putty and then some touch ups but on the whole I am glad I painted the wings and fuselage separately as it made masking the engine nacelles, and touch ups to them, much easier.

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Also got on the black and the white cap over the cabin and added some tube to represent the exhausts.

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