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Old 02-13-2010 | 08:35 PM
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Default RE: proctor eindecker lll reduced to 1/6 scale scratchbuilt

You've made fantastic progress and as always, everything looks great!

ORIGINAL: dcflyer001
...by glueing it to a polishing tool and stuffing the head with fine steel wool after a little practice it came out fine and consistant.
It may be too late, but you should be aware that the EIII did NOT have neat rows of swirls. This is somehow doggedly entrenched modeling myth. Fokker used a sort of random squiggly marks to finish the metal panels. On my model I accomplished this with random short bursts with an electric eraser.