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Cold War (1950-1974)
Discuss the aircraft modeling subjects during the Cold War period.
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HobbyBoss F-84 from the box
tigger917
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England - South West, United Kingdom
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Posted: Friday, January 06, 2012 - 07:19 AM UTC
Hi Guys
straight from the box for MAI hope you like her?1/32



John
Siderius
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Tennessee, United States
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Posted: Friday, January 06, 2012 - 07:33 AM UTC
She's a beauty John! Very nice indeed. I normally work in 1/72 scale but this scale (1/32) is appealing indeed. Good job again, Russell
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Bayern, Germany
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Posted: Friday, January 06, 2012 - 08:33 AM UTC
Hi John ,

Outstanding!!

What do you use for your BMF?

Servus,

Sebastian
tigger917
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Posted: Saturday, January 07, 2012 - 01:59 AM UTC
Three stage first polish the plastic with Micro mesh and base coat with Tamiya silver mixed with Johnson's Klea.Then a coat of Alclad Airframe aluminium and basic aluminium mixed 50% 50 %. Once decaled I rubbed aluminium power onto the surface with a cotton bud to give the very realistic finish which does not show through in the pictures too well.

Regards
John
P.S. this is the first large scale model I have ever done in Aluminium because I was too scared of the effect not being convincing ,however, after this one I am not a silver virgin and who knows what will be next!!
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