JMac
cut. glue. paint. repeat.
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I tried to post this a little while ago, but I was having issues...
Right now I'm working on two kits, the first is this 1/72 Academy Spad XIII, and the other is a Japanese mecha thing. I started this Spad shortly after finishing my first Spad XIII. The first kit was a Revell kit and I enjoyed building it so much I thought that I would try a kit from another manufacturer. I've only just started, but I think that the Revell kit is MUCH better. The Academy kits machine guns look like blobs, it's missing the troughs the guns sit in, the cowl has the wrong shape, parts don't fit well, and some parts lack any kind of registration.
On the Revell kit I used thin fishing line for the rigging. This time around I'm using stretched sprue. Outside of burning my fingers with the candle, the stretched sprue has gone pretty well. Unfortunately I had already finished most of the spar rigging, before Backbreaker guided me to a website that presents what I think is a better method. There's always the next time...
Here's what I have to date...
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Right now I'm working on two kits, the first is this 1/72 Academy Spad XIII, and the other is a Japanese mecha thing. I started this Spad shortly after finishing my first Spad XIII. The first kit was a Revell kit and I enjoyed building it so much I thought that I would try a kit from another manufacturer. I've only just started, but I think that the Revell kit is MUCH better. The Academy kits machine guns look like blobs, it's missing the troughs the guns sit in, the cowl has the wrong shape, parts don't fit well, and some parts lack any kind of registration.
On the Revell kit I used thin fishing line for the rigging. This time around I'm using stretched sprue. Outside of burning my fingers with the candle, the stretched sprue has gone pretty well. Unfortunately I had already finished most of the spar rigging, before Backbreaker guided me to a website that presents what I think is a better method. There's always the next time...
Here's what I have to date...
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