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Tale of Two Tiffies
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Posted: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 08:48 PM UTC
Thanks David!

I have still to make significant progress from the last post. The two additional figures are nearly ready- just need a few hours to finish up the last touches.
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Posted: Saturday, August 21, 2010 - 02:27 AM UTC
A really nice diorama Ben.
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Posted: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 - 10:31 PM UTC
Thanks Mal.

OK, after wasting a few months, I finally dedicated a couple of afternoons to finishing this diorama off last weekend.

I added the tiny Resin Art pitot, used a cut-down Eduard Hurricane PE aerial mast as the IFF antenna, used some smoke invisible thread for the whip aerial, used the Part PE boarding step, with added plastic card on the horizontal part. I did some paint chipping with a silver pencil, and added some pigments on the step, walkways and tyres. I airbrushed the exhaust stains with watercolour paint. Finally, I sprayed a very light coat of Xtracrylix Matt coat to take the Klear's sheen off the model.


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Posted: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 - 11:16 PM UTC
Great job Ben, I love it !! The end result is well worth the time you spent getting those little details just how you wanted them.

Cheers, D
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Posted: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - 04:32 AM UTC
Ben, what a great diorama. The execution is superb. Very inspiring!
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Posted: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - 06:23 AM UTC
WoW
That's a great Little diorama, really great


Cheers Nick
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Posted: Thursday, August 02, 2012 - 02:35 PM UTC
Hi Ben
How did you manage to hollow out the exhausts?
I'm interested as I have a couple of projects where this might be useful.

Cheers

Chris
Great build by the way
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Posted: Monday, August 06, 2012 - 10:19 PM UTC
Hi Chris, Thanks!



I think I started with one or two 0.3mm holes drilled about 0.5mm deep into the end of the exhaust, which I then enlarged using careful cuts and scraping with a new pointy knife blade. You have to be quite patient, but it is rewarding to have saved the cost of resin replacements.

Some day I will return to Beamont's car-door typhoon PR-G!
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Posted: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 - 03:28 PM UTC
Ben
Thanks for the reply
It looks like I need to obtain some more drill bits.

Cheers

Chris
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