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Awesome. The scenery is particularly well done.

Thanks Capt_Taggert. The hairspray technique is a method used to create realistic chipping effects using the hairspray as release agent for the top most layer of paint. In brief you: 1. Apply your base coat - In the case of my Snowspeeder it was Tamiya Neutral Grey. 2. Apply a Protective...

Looks nice, especially the cockpit. I have the FM 1/48 version and the cockpit detail is really lacking in my opinion. It'll fun to greeblize though.

schweinhund227 & ModelMakerMike Thanks so much for the comments and explicit use of adjectives :)

Looking awesome! Nice scribing and detailing. I’d love to build one with the panel removed at some point, but I think I’ll stick with the finemolds version :)

Looking really good! The making fluid on the toothbrush is a great tip, thanks for that.

Awesome! I like the version with the orange pipes as well :)

Thanks all! Definitely crack it open!

Nice one! Looks well used. Got one of these in the box waiting for some attention. What technique did you use for the chipping?

Really nice work! Especially on the scribing. Dont knock the Fine Molds kit. Its a great kit despite its many pieces. :P Although I do agree it would have been nicer in a larger scale.

Yeah those are definitely awesome. The author (I think) also has a blog that has these and other builds from series like Ma.K. Its to bad its all in japanese. I've tried online translators but they don't do very well. http://dorobou.blog.so-net.ne.jp/

Thanks very much for the kind comments all! The detail on this kit is great as it is on the other FM kits I've picked up. (1/48 Tie, 1/72 X-Wing and 1/72 Y-Wing) Not to mention that this kit needed hardly any seam repair, if any, at least I can't rememeber doing any :)

I used to hate painting gloss in general. The flat base / gloss clear works great, but I recently started using Tamiya Paint Retarder. I thin the gloss paint down to a milky consistency with 99% IPA then add about 4 or 5 drops of the retarder (depending on the volume I'm painting). It really...

I finished this kit about 4 or 5 months ago but have just now gotten around to shooting it. It was painted with Tamiya Acrylics and weathered with oils and pigments. The orange markings were done using the hairspray technique. In future with colours such as orange I'll use masking fluid as when...

Thanks. Oddly enough I have very little interest in Motorcycles :)

Thanks! I'm in Port Dover, a small town south of Hamilton on Lake Erie. Kingston's cool! I have family and clients there :)

Thanks for the welcomes and compliments.

I'm new here. Just wanted to say hello. After about a 15 year absence I recently got back into the hobby. I build mostly sci-fi focusing on Star wars and Anime. Heres one of my recent builds. http://homepage.mac.com/tmgd/models/xwing/ I have a couple more done just waiting to be...