Softscience Labs 2.5

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Got to love the P-40,the American Hurricane,well tidy mun.
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celt wrote:Got to love the P-40,the American Hurricane,well tidy mun.
I do love the P-40, but I'm not loving that particular P-40 right now. I'm going to buy a replacement Vac form canopy because I just made a hash of the kit parts. Not an easy set of frames to mask.
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In other news...

I finished kit number 10 for the year. Its the Academy P-47 in 1:72. I didn't take any WIP photos, as I just wanted a quick, and uncomplicated project. This certainly fit the bill, as it only took about 5 modeling sessions, over the course of a week or so.

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I've also been working on Hasegawa's 1/48 B5N2 Kate. No work photos here, as the project WIP is at another forum, and they dont have the 800x600 size requirement, so I haven't been resizing them, and can't post them here.

Here is one just to show where I'm at. Nearly done, but really not. :)

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The P-47 was a quick uncomplicated build! Wow. You did a very fine job on it. Can't believe that it was just five modelling sessions.

Cool paint job on the Kate as well. :)
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Thanks, Paul
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Great work going on here, Ralph, the P-47 and Kate are really great looking models. 10 finishes in a year is going some by my glacial standards. I'm working on #3 at the moment!
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Nice 5 sessions! :) Very good recipe for a stable mojo: well designed model of a fighter.
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Great P47. But the Kate is very very sharp
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Thanks Jeff.

A bit more progress. I actually spent most of the week in your home state, so things are a bit backed up :)

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Home stretch now. Essentially, just need to arm the beast. Unfortunately, I have a ton of stuff to do today. Tomorrow perhaps?

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That looks great, Ralph, it really does.
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95% done and back to the shelf of doom :(

Im so mad at myself. One tiny screwup on the Kate ballooned into a finish disaster. WHAT THE EFF IS WRONG WITH MY BODY CHEMISTRY THAT HANDLING MODELS MAKES PAINT MELT!?!? WHAT SORT OF IDIOT SKIN OILS DO I HAVE?!?!?! TAMIYA ACRYLIC SHOULDNT TURN INTO SOFT MUSH WHEN YOU TOUCH IT A WEEK AFTER ITS BEEN PAINTED!!!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAARRRGHHH!!! I WAS SO CLOSE!

so furious!
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That's not good :shock:

I've had to stop modelling on occasion in hot weather due to acrylic paint becoming tacky again even after being on for a week or so but otherwise never had an issue like you have....

That was looking really good too; can you recover the situation?
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Hey Ralph, that is so frustrating. What can I say? Use enamels? Forgive me!
That is an old Hasegawa kit and it was looking good!
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Softscience wrote:95% done and back to the shelf of doom :(

Im so mad at myself. One tiny screwup on the Kate ballooned into a finish disaster. WHAT THE EFF IS WRONG WITH MY BODY CHEMISTRY THAT HANDLING MODELS MAKES PAINT MELT!?!? WHAT SORT OF IDIOT SKIN OILS DO I HAVE?!?!?! TAMIYA ACRYLIC SHOULDNT TURN INTO SOFT MUSH WHEN YOU TOUCH IT A WEEK AFTER ITS BEEN PAINTED!!!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAARRRGHHH!!! I WAS SO CLOSE!

so furious!
Rafal,
I think we both may have a eurocentral melting oils :). It is not a bug, this can be a feature. I just need to find a way to use it positively. Happened to me at least few times. Last time on the Trumpeter 1/72 Lightning that quietly vanished from workbench about year ago. I wasn't that close, but the combination of model that fought hard not to look nice, me not being able to restore mojo have declared it a defunct trash flier. Head up, You are really close to finish and the Kate is actually looking VERY good.
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