Richard that's a big beautiful shiny waterbird, great job and thanks for leading this campaign.

Bryan

Well my Bv138 has not made the completion date! It's only 99.5% complete I still have to add a few details to it i.e. weathering,rigging aerial,adding gunsights to dorsal turret Mg131 and also finding the three 'bollards' for mooring ropes which have mysteriously disappeared. Anyway the following poor photos (phone camera problems)give you some idea of the almost complete entry!!


Andy take your time and finish your build and you will get your ribbon.







Have enjoyed participating and seeing the excellent entries of all who enlisted to the campaign.

Cheers Andy

Hi, I loaded an image of my completed Ryan PT20 in the Campaign Photo Gallery, however it does not show up in the Gallery following confirmation.

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Hi, I loaded an image of my completed Ryan PT20 in the Campaign Photo Gallery, however it does not show up in the Gallery following confirmation.

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It took a few tries but I managed to load both images.

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Hi, I loaded an image of my completed Ryan PT20 in the Campaign Photo Gallery, however it does not show up in the Gallery following confirmation.

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It took a few tries but I managed to load both images.

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Well done Brent!

I have heard that very hot water helps to get Roden decals to behave themselves and settle down. Yet to try it myself. I have a few of their kits and knowing what the decals are like has always made me a bit apprehensive about starting one.
Looking forward to seeing it finished though, it's an interesting looking plane.

Richard, thank you for your consideration,

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I have heard that very hot water helps to get Roden decals to behave themselves and settle down. Yet to try it myself. I have a few of their kits and knowing what the decals are like has always made me a bit apprehensive about starting one.
Looking forward to seeing it finished though, it's an interesting looking plane.

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Stephen, I took your advise and boiled the water blooming hot, something I never would do but I thought it could not get worse,..the Decals made a sizzling noise when hitting the water and it seemed to work but when applying the decals they got just as fast back in there brittle state which was not desired,...
The large oversize decals broke when cutting the side off even with a razor blade,..



But I must say it's only the decals that where to big the numbers or smaller "Balkankreuz" went on without any problems.



So I needed to touch-up the whole thing, nothing to do about it unfortunately





Also the decals are not really hard attached to the primer so constantly the decals brake off on the sides or on the rigging attached places,..anoing (not even a layer off future helpt)




I made some time ago the base this to try-out "mod podge" needed for another campaign anyway this worked really well I think, i used a Swedish "cork placemat" and then painted it sort off sea green.

So the final result,..




Great campaign, next time I will use my hasegawa Shin Meiwa US-1 from the stash for a sea plane campaign as it most likely much more painless,..



Thanks

Hi Jan, sorry to hear about the decal problems you had. Still a nice looking plane in the end and something very different in the gallery. Your display is also very good.

Brent, awesome work on the Ryan. Again, I like how you have displayed it.

Did some more painting on my Walrus this afternoon. She is getting there.

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Hi Jan. Your work looks truly wonderful.

I find it odd that your kit has the lozenge pattern in violet, green, and cream colors (at least in to my computers eye). I have the same kit, however, the naval pattern is in the standard blue-greyish shades.
I'm curious if your decals are off color or if my computer is so far out in color perception.