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Well Martin this does sound like handbags at dawn and you have picked on one of the nicest guys in this hobby :eek:

I quite like the handbags at dawn scenario , and before you pipe up Del I don't have any handbags :D

frankly there won't be much to see :rolleyes:

Brad I had a modelling friend os some 30 years ago who was an AFV modeller , his technique was to scuff up with an old toothbrush , off course on those dark ages the advent of acrylics hadn't happened so it was with oil based paints such as Humbrol or Revell ; results were very good

Some pics of the scouring technique would be great Brad

No :eek: Thats me finished with them :)

we are fortunately lucky enough not to have Walmart stores in the UK Brad :rolleyes: I am experimenting with Army painter Skeleton bone , very fine and smooth .

What a lot of people don't realise is painting of any kind is a formula . Ie base coat in acrylics , top coat in acrylics , undercoat in oils top coat in oils . I know I will get shot down in flames for this but it is a fact . You wouldn't undercoat a door with acrylic and then paint a gloss...

Probably the gutter is a bit on the heavy side for Italy , plenty of houses of that period with no gutter at all . Put some electrical wiring vertical and horizontal on the facade and you got an Italian house :eek:

Innnnknow :D

You developed a stutter

well I have been excommunicated many times for many things :)

One final thing before any smart arse points it out, yes I know I read this thread with the word recast in the title Darn I was gonna dig you up on that :) You can't help being careful with money its in your gene's :D

Its ok Wayne its wood chip in a grand scale; not waste ;)

A lot of top modellers have left for the simple reason they are now on putty and paint ; which to me is a rather soulless forum if you can call it that . Don't get me wrong the work is excellent but just no chit chat . People come and go , move on ect ; but am leaving always brings a smile to...

Probably asked this before:rolleyes: Ivo where do you get the copper for the reins and do you anneal it to make it pliable Ron

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Well i was a bricklayer up until last september when i retired ; but got pissed off with nothing to do until I got a phone call due to a recommendation when a company was letdown and was asked to build a Bio-mass boiler complex . When that was finished with the help of David Mitchell they...

Well Jim the next time I'm in long Island i will give you the heads up as my youngest son lives in New York and has a little shak up at the Hamptons

Some things you haven't played with for 12 months you can't get rid of Mick