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Old 12-07-2007 | 10:29 PM
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da Rock
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Default RE: Glue or screws for canopy


ORIGINAL: clouddancer

nice looking pilots! did you paint them yourself?

The military ones, yeah. The P40 and P47 pilots were done from those awful things World Models sells, the ones that're civilians? or somesuch. You know the ones that come in assorted colors. Like purple with red helmet and yellow goggles or green helmet with purple goggles. Amazingly dumb.

If you look closely, you can just make out the lambs wool collars on two of 'em. That's done with a couple of pipe cleaners. All in keeping with the spirit of standoff scale. And the gunsights are just whimsical. Not done to measurements at all.

The Corsair pilot is one of those excellent, very scale detailed, all flesh colored series that comes in different scales. Unfortunately, they didn't have the right scale for that Corsair, but it's close enough for an ARF.

It's a whole lot easier to do them nowadays, what with the water cleanup paints. My wife hits fabric stores all the time and I pickup $2 bottles of acrylic paints on sale while I'm killing time. She buys. Gets me to drive her.

Thanks for the compliment.