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bruno egral
Foirage total ! Une catastrophe. La peinture de la carling était catastrophique : pas les bonnes couleurs, pas le bon ton, bavures de partout etc. Finalement j'opte pour un retour à zéro intégral et donc passage au Decap'four

Moreno Baruffini
Je suis vraiment désolé! J'espère que tu pourras recommencer !

bruno egral
Aucun soucis. Avec le Decap'four que je connais bien, le kit redevient comme neuf. Il n'attaque que la peinture et ne touche pas le moins du monde le plastique ou la colle. Ensuite vieille brosse à dents et eau chaude et le tour est joué.

Brandon H
More marvelous models on display in the Motor City - please enjoy these builds from the Fall '24 DAAM show!

Alison Withonel
cool to see what I missed last weekend! I was up in Flint visiting my parents and putting my bike to bed for the winter in their garage.
before i read the entry slip, i totally thought the snowy J10 was one of your builds. And it was super sweet to see that builder's mom's wheelchair accessible van.

Neuling
Thanks for sharing!

Bill Newcomer
Thanks for sharing. I like the story that was with the Dodge van. The multi panel paint job on the lowrider is absolutely amazing!

Pepe
Woooooooow

Martin Oostrom
Daam! There are some truly beautiful models out there. Thanks Brandon.

Shar Dipree
Thanks for sharing!

Peter Hardy
There is some well executed builds there!

Jan
Actual Progress! I have managed to finish these AFVs. There is the 75mm HMC Scott missing in the row.

Jan
This is the display for the Airfield near Euskirchen where the Piper Cup that discovers the Bridge of Remagen started in the morning of the 7th March 1945

Kesa Tiho
Damn thats nice, puts my M4 to shame 😄

Dave Flitton
Excited to see how this pans out

Patrick Hagelstein
The figure surely adds interest. Otherwise it would be just a piece of shaped resin. Now you can make out some dimensions. Nice figure by the way.

Thomas Wirsching
Hi Hagel; thank you for your comment. The figure is from a Warriors german U-Boot set. I just used the arms from another one which held the binoculars. I chose this figure because of his bobble cap which I saw at real US sailors at some pictures of the Holland.

Bart Goesaert
looks good so far, and interesting subject... first reaction when looking at the parts must have been, why?? or something stronger 😉

Thomas Wirsching
Hehe Bart, this was indeed my first thought. Especially after I finished an also "not so good" Airplane from MIRAGE before this project...

Thomas Wirsching
Painted the boats black bow color and finished the spotting sailor with acrylics - a tiny job!

Dave Flitton
Looking Awesome, waiting to see how you mount this.

Thomas Wirsching
Thank you Dave! The Carpenter didn´t kept his promise and moved the date I can pick up the base to next monday. So I can smoothly finish the boat, rigging and the flag this Weekend until I can try to make the resin water for it next week.

Bart Goesaert
looks good... do you intend to cast this one almost completely into clear resin? beware of the heating process when the resin hardens out. Once found an article about a sub, firing some torpedoes, that would also be cast in an underwater scene... failed miserably, the complete sub melted. Don't want to worry you, but it's better to take some precautions...

Thomas Wirsching
Hi Bart, thank you for the warning. I´m already aware about the problem of heating during the hardening process. I therefore optained a special industrial epoxy which needs more drying time but do expose less heat (at least this is what the technical sale told me...). I dont need too much amount of epoxy in this project as I want to show the boat surfaced which means no more than 5 cm high layer of epoxy at once. If I will succeed with it I will do another one with my Hasegawa 1:72 Shinkai deep diving research vessel at the sea bottom enclosed within a 10 cm high layer of that same epoxy. Wish me luck 🙂

Thomas Wirsching
Gentlemen the construction and paint process is over. Regrettably I didn´t get the Diorama base in time from the Carpenter but he promised me I will receive it monday evening. Until this time the Crew will have time off at the Harbor.

Patrick Hagelstein
Whow! That was a quick build! If only I had the time/discipline to accomplish that...

Thomas Wirsching
Hagel, actually it was a quick build as there were not that much parts with this kit. There is plenty room for improvements and scratchbuilding if one wants; I discovered differences at the real boat at almost every picture I did found in the net. It loks like they changed the boat a lot during its service time. And the kit producer obviously forgot some flood holes at the aft upper hull which I discovered too late for a change.

Thomas Wirsching
Gentlemen, it is getting serious now: I prepared my base and the tight outer wall for bring in the epoxy casting. I have to fix the boat during the casting procedure as I will not have time and nerves to hold it in place the whole time until everything is dry and hard. It is my first try with casting resin and I expect an respectable result or the trashbin. Wish me luck...

Patrick Hagelstein
Good luck!!!

Thomas Wirsching
I did mould the sea with epoxy today. So far it Looks like it worked. Still warm but already hard. Tomorrow I will look how easy/difficult I can remove the side walls. Sorry guys but I still dont have a clue why some of the pics come wrong sided. In my Computer they all look right but when I upload them here some come wrong. Some fellow told me to turn them in another program and safe them again before I upload them but this still didn´t worked...

Thomas Wirsching
Released the sidewalls from the mould and started to apply acrylic gel to simulate the ocean Surface. I´m quite satisfied with it

Spanjaard
It is looking really fantastic , sea looks incredible

Thomas Wirsching
Thank you Spanjaard! I call this project finished now. It was the first time for me to mold resin but it turned out not too difficult if planned properly. It will surely not the last sea diorama I did make as it was a real joy. Thanks again mates for all your encouraging comments. If someone could tell me how I can place Gallery Pictures I would be even more happy

Finn
Beautiful, congrats!

Jörg Schäfer
Very nice unusual model. Well done Thomas.