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CaptGPF
Nice building weathering. Love the dust effects.

Rui
Very nice build!
I can almost sense the dry dust heat 👍

Gary Victory
Really nice work and love the weathering. Top Job.

Erik
Dusty Work! 😉 Like the Weathering and the realistic Groundwork.

gorby
Perfect! I love how it's displayed.

Treehugger
I am stuck with a similar project, afraid to make a mistake.

Q: How did you add the dust to the clear parts, and was the effect sealed in varnish or something afterwards?

Neuling
Top work. Everything just fine, terrain included.

coporado
Great job, I love the weathering and presentation!

F Matthews
For dust on the clear parts, I used a very diluted/thinned dust/buff acrylic misted with an airbrush on some surfaces and dust pigments on the front windscreens and in touch-ups to even out the effect.

Pietro De Angelis
Stunning subjet and dio, congrats!

Rui S
Beautiful Work ,indeed 👍

Doubtingmango
Should win an award if you show it

Simon Nagorsnik
That´s cool 👍

Mathias Decommere
Perfect!

Michael Kohl
Everything you show here looks very good. The little vignettes bring them to life.

Mr James
Beautiful desert weathering. Superb display

Michael Kohl
Weird. Cool. I like it.

Patrick Hagelstein
This is awesome! Arnold looks spot on!

Gary Victory
Love it...Top work.

Mid Franconian
It took a while for me to capture the scene and and bring it together with True Lies 😄! Perfectly done and off the beaten track!

Erik
Great! ❤️️

Spanjaard
excellent depiction of the scene

NorK
That is just great! 😂
(Have you tried closing the aperture and increasing exposure time for a better depth of field? Tripod recommended)

John Kauck
Very Cool! Well done!

Sky after Snow
Thank you for your suggestion NorK. Will try this.

Oliver
great idea! 😄

Bob Hall
"I remember the first time I got shot out of a cannon" CLASSIC! One liners galore !

DerMattes
Fantastic! 🙂

Curatorm
Excellent.

Paul Hennessy
LOVE IT!!!

Hans-Jürgen Haag
Cool! I love it 😍

Thomas Kolb
What a great scenario build of the final action scene of True Lies! Very visual and imaginative!

Harald Besold
Cool idea! Schwarzenegger is perfectly depicted in 1:72. Even his facial expression is appropriate. Great!!!

István Szücs
Excellent!

Villiers de Vos
Very creative. Very nice work.

David Taylor
Remember the scene well,brilliant.

CaptGPF
You are the Last Action Modeller!

Sean
Awesome! Very cool!!!

Vincent
Great work. Very unique!!

Nicolas
Very cool. 👍

Łukasz Gliński
Not cool, sub-zero! That Arnie looks great 😄

Robert Podkoński
Awesome indeed!

Martin von Schreckenstein
July 15th 1994: A United States Marine Corps AV-8B V/STOL Harrier descended below altitude minimums over a built up area, and in clear visual atmospheric conditions - pilot Harry Tasker - (computer salesman), failed to maintain minimal separation from an obstacle, allowing the tail of his aircraft to come in contact with a construction crane in downtown Miami. The crane's presence was properly published in NOTAMS for the Miami Florida area at the time of the incident.

Brilliant diorama!

Starbase101
👍

scalemates
so move "projects" from the popular filter to the "all" filter?

eg. If a project (any status) is worth watching, there will be an album and the album has a link to the project. (why bother showing a seconds newsfeed item with the same project?)

Starbase101
I concur, for project kickoffs, there is usually at least 2 if not 3 posts - one for the project creation (before any photo album is even created yet), sometimes one for the "Ideas" status, and then one for adding the photo album (sometimes empty with no photos yet). I think all that's really needed is when photos and/or text (descriptions/questions) are added. In my opinion, the popular newsfeed is often "borderline spam" with all the reviews and New Project being essentially a duplicate post of its first photo album upload.

I also second the motion of having a convenient way of adding a large quantity of topics to the favorites list. With nearly 2000 items in my stash, it would take an inordinate amount of time to manually add each one of them.

scalemates
FYI, the empty photoalbum was fixed for a large amount of cases. It should be happening a lot less

Dominik Weitzer
btw...if i create a new project (only to sort in the used kit to my upcoming gallery) or album only for a placeholder or "keep in mind" for me, i delete this topic in the newsfeed so that is not be shown to public...
It would be fine, if there is a button while creating a topic with the option "hide" or "show" in the newsfeed. is that possible?
that will make it easier, to upload a gallery, manage the pictures or writings and so on. in my opinion, i will make it "fill with life", before i show it to the public.

scalemates
FYI, a recent change makes projects invisible (I think the first 5mins) for other people. (you will see your project, others not yet)

James C
Yes, I think that just removing "Idea" projects from the News Feed, or just being able to filter them out would be a great start. While I don't have anything against these kinds of newsfeed posts, it does become annoying when a user adds five or more project ideas in a row, as that shunts everything else that does have content further back into the history. As mentioned, once the user starts adding content to the associated album, the project can then be viewed etc. I hope that makes sense.

BTW, I agree as well. It would be nice to be able to create and work on a photo album or project, and not have it appear on the news feed at all until I'm ready to post it publicly.

Thanks again 🙂

Olivier
I do not quite understand what you are after.
But I see that you have only rather recently arrived here.
Maybe it would be an idea to get used to the website as it is first and then after a while maybe six months or one year if you still have objections ask for changes.
In the mean time, you could also fill your profile. I find it so very nice to know a little about fellow modellers and also that it helps start a conversation.

James C
@ Oliver - I'm basically requesting to have the option to "filter" the newsfeed to only display items that I personally have any interest in, whether it be by post type or subject matter and to auto assign topics to my favorites list when I add something to my stash.

Secondly, I've been a frequent user since mid 2016, so after going on four years now, I'd like to think that I know a little about what I'm requesting before making any such requests.😉

Lastly, this is a new more streamlined profile for myself, and the lack of any personal information in my profile is intentional 👍

Starbase101
@Jim, this functionality is already under development. I've already taken the remodeled newsfeed for a test drive and provided some feedback to Tim. After he completes all the work and makes it live, I think you might like it as checkbox filtering exists for post type, subject, topic, scale, etc.

James C
Yeah, I've seen it as well. Looking fantastic and cant wait to see it implemented😉👍

Rui S
Well, latelly I also was felling the Same, with the enormous quantity of "ideas" with nothing new, or popularity, to Say the least, in the POPULAR feed.
So thank you Jim C for asking for this changes. I completly agree with you.
Also thanks Tim for adressing this issues. 👍

scalemates
Marked as fixed 🙂 (was fixed a long time ago, but this was stuck as TODO)

Robert Podkoński
Taking a seat here.

Alex K
Joining Robert.

Mr D
Nice interesting kit, like it. Not heard of the brand.
I've just started a Beriev be-6

Łukasz Gliński
Cool topic, lovely finish 👍

Ben M
👀

Doubtingmango
Beautiful work!

gorby
Lovely work, beautifully photographed!

Michael Kohl
Love them inflight photos.

Alex K
Utterly enjoyable! 👍 👍

Villiers de Vos
Very nice work.

Spanjaard
excellent job and photography

Alec K
Wow, excellent build and story. I have seen a few documentaries about PanAm recently, very interesting. Can you go a bit more into detail as to how you made the windows and what product you used?

Andrew P
Sure: I sealed up the windows with Kapton tape (High-temp polyimide tape with silicon adhesive) and filled the windows with 2-Part Crystal Clear Casting resin, both fairly inexpensive on Amazon (about $10 each).
Here's another kit done the same way: T204 Project | Album by AndrexP (1:144)
2-part resin: amazon.com/gp/produc..le?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Kapton tape: amazon.com/gp/produc..le?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Alec K
Perfect, thanks very much!

scalemates
Switching should store your preferred language

Günther Debiscop
doens't do the trick for me... maybe due to being stored in the cache which is always cleaned when closing the app...

scalemates
- The default is english
- Only when you have used Scalemates before in another language you will be redirected to the preferred language when visiting scalemates.com

Maybe you have a bookmark with /nl/ in it? That will set your language to NL

Günther Debiscop
no bookmarks, using firefox

Wim van der Luijt
I've noticed that when I enter scalemates as a result of a google search the site is always in Dutch (my setting is English too). Had the same problems Günther has directly after making all the translations, but logging out and in a couple of times fixed that

scalemates
If you click in google on a dutch link you will continue in dutch

scalemates
This should not longer occur?

scalemates
Hi Antonio! the idea is to add the official colors (eg. FS code) for each decal option.

These are converted to nice colors:
BS381C:537 BS381C:642 BS381C:629
FS30219 FS34227 FS33531 FS35622
RLM72 RLM73 RLM65
RAL6013 RAL2005 RAL5010
One of the next steps (on TODO) if you click on the color you would go to a page with all the related colors from multiple paint ranges:

Alex K
The TODO " if you click on the color you would go to a page with all the related colors from multiple paint ranges" would be simply great! Thanks for all the efforts, Tim! Respects! (and belated happy B-day, btw)

Antonio Micheli
Great! Thank you for the reply; let me know if i can help you in anyway; take care... Best, Antonio

Rui S
Very Nice 👍

Chaz Gordon
Definitely on my wish list. Paint equivalence is a really tough challenge with any kit, we all pick one or two paint manufacturers to work with, but kit makers only give codes for their own favoured range. My biggest challenge I have found is when I can find equivalents for all but one major colour. This is quite common with Tamiya when they call out their AS range.

Antonio Micheli
I agree with Chaz about the difficulty of finding the correct color equivalences between the various manufacturers. However I think it's a good starting point to know which ones are established by the kit manufacturer (especially in this era where many purchases are made via web). After which it is up to each of us to find the best solutions, it's part of the game...

Starbase101
Using decal options for designating manufacturer-suggested paint colors is not a good idea in my opinion - that section of a product's description should be DECAL options (some kits do actually come with multiple decal options). I think a separate paints list section would be better, and then clicking on a paint color can have functionality which clicking on a decal option would not have. (fyi, there exists multiple web sites hosting paint brand conversion tables for looking up color equivalencies)

scalemates
This was solved a while ago, you can click on a color under Markings. From there you can see all similar colors from all brands or your personal favourites.