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You sir are a master modeller, I doff my cap to ya
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Same blue that I re-did the 1:32 version in, which i'd like to think was a reasonable match to the colour Britains used in the 70s - 52% XF-2 Flat White, 48% XF-8 Flat Blue, with satin clear over the top. I'm undecided if I want it to show any age or not ... if I do, I'll start with grey primer followed by aluminium, followed by the blue so I can rub through in places, plus white to sun bleach the upper surfaces
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Last edit: by Jonny Retro. Reason: scale typo - 1:32 not 1:2 !!
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Time to start on the roof ... in hindsight (being reminded I can't sew for toffee) it mights have been better to use a finer thread
Top made from single peice with brass "sticks" sewn in, part worked rear about to go on: Top & rear joined, and screwed down (note floppiness at rear): Upper side fitted (strechers in place on inside): |
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You're a multi-talent, Jonny!
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Last bit stitched on, rolled up & held in place with leather strips:
Protecting the body prior to applying resin ... this may look incredibly wasteful, but the last time I tried this I used masking tape & the resin bled through. Besides that, this was the last reel of a batch I bought around 1989 IIRC, it needed using up. I will admit I seem to have made a vehicular Smurf though Resined up, I just have to keep the cat away from it overnight ...
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It does do that, but even though making it semi -structural is a good thing in this case (there's really not very much holder up the back end of the "metal" roof), it also makes it rot / tear / stain resistant, but mainly it makes it more realistic, in that it adds visual "weight" to it (it sags more), you have more control over where it goes (or rather, stays), and it's a sound base for painting, and it's possible to weather it - paint on unsealed cloth is quite different (much more like dyeing). Cloth doesn't scale particularly well, not quite as badly as using real water and hoping it'll look scale ... Compare & contrast the following: Wild Willy M38 canopy I made from unbleached cotton (might be 10 years ago now?): colour and weave weren't a bad choice, but it's all one plain colour (no real shadows/ highlights, hard to visualise the form/angles), the front edge is very wavy, and it sits like a 1:1 bit of cloth, not a 1:10 canopy... Fake Wild Willy M38 canopy made from bleached cotton drill (a cloth with a heavy, visible slanted bias), this time sealed with resin, painted & weathered - in comparision, it looks heavier, you can see the form of it, and highlights/shadows ... IMO it's mroe realistic... Tarpaulin over bits & bobs on my Valp roofrack - same cloth, same process as above, If I hadn't have done that, it wouldn't have the visual weight & the shape of the bits underneath wouldn't be visible. Tarpaulin made for my Bedford skip truck... same cloth as previous two, but no resin and TBH the colour was a happy accident. 1/3rd dyed with tamiya XF-something or other straight out of the pot, but because I didn't have enough, another 1/3rd is the dregs of the paint + thinner, and the rest was water added to the cloth & squeezed so the paint spread... this "works" where I have it (folded up & bungeed to a pallet), but wouldn't have worked as a canopy or draped tarp. |
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