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Hi Mark,looks clean and tidy and good luck in the competition. Trev Work in progress: Tombstone (Scratch) - San Francisco 2. -The Mayflower ( scratch by plan).
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 Nice start Mark and looking good  Current builds:-C57,Zero, Lamborghini Countach, Caldercraft HMS Agamemnon,Robi,R2-D2, MFH Cobra .
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Great start Mark, although I don't envy you with all those infantrymen to get painted Al
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Great start and the PE makes a lot of difference
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Thank you for all the comments. Mark
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Excellent start to your build Mark, and nice work on the pe, will look good when painted.
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Hi very nice start Mark,will be following with interest , Builds hms victory, suzuki gsx 1300 R hayabusa, honda C B 750, lamborghini countach L P 500 S, tamiya 1/16 rc full option tiger 1 tank,
built, Mclaren M P 4 - 23. Occre london tram,
Stash.airfix 1/24 mosquito. Diag Virginia schooner, tamiya 1/6 honda 750, tamiya 1/35 famo, tamiya 1/35 flak 88.
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Many thanks for looking in and your comments. Didn’t know whether to start on the vessel first or the infantry. Thought it would look like I got more done with the landing craft first.  Mark
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Looking Very nice Mark. look forward to seeing your progress. Current builds.Hachettes build the bismark,HMS Victory, HMS Hood.
Finished Builds Corel HMS Victory cross section.
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Fitted most of the etched brass parts to the craft, just the machine guns to do but ill do them at a later stage. I have also placed some bolts in places on the hull section that were missing from the model. A lot of cutting and sanding and the EB had some exceptionally tiny parts and needed a lot of patience to fit.
All was then given two coats of primer paint. This will be left to harden and then some more sanding in places before I give the whole thing a base coat in dark sea grey.
More soon.
Markwarren attached the following image(s):
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Some really nice detail going into this build, well done!
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Rank: Super-Elite Groups: Registered
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Some very nice details on this mark. looking fantastic.  Current builds.Hachettes build the bismark,HMS Victory, HMS Hood.
Finished Builds Corel HMS Victory cross section.
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Thank you Nem, Ian for looking in and your comments. 
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Comming on a treat Mark looking forward to the next post. trev. Work in progress: Tombstone (Scratch) - San Francisco 2. -The Mayflower ( scratch by plan).
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I have put the base coats on the landing craft, a combination of black and sea grey. This gives it a mottled effect and good for creating the shadow when applying the lighter grey with an air brush before chipping and weathering.Markwarren attached the following image(s):
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Here you can see I have started one of the two machine guns. The etched brass certainly makes a difference, although the scale of it was very difficult at times. The smallest piece was the trigger on the gun, which had to be bent in two, it was so small it was difficult to see it on the end of my precision tweezers. The gun barrel was bent around a size 12 micro drill piece. Still lots to do with the gun and should have a great effect and detail when finished.
More soon.
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Looking good and nice work sometimes annealing the brass helps when doing that sort of bend Current builds:-C57,Zero, Lamborghini Countach, Caldercraft HMS Agamemnon,Robi,R2-D2, MFH Cobra .
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Those machine guns look the fantastic Man he took his time in the sun Had a dream to understand A single grain of sand He gave birth to poetry But one day will cease to be Greet the last light of the library...We were here!
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WOW Mark, this is looking really good! The etch really makes a difference on those machine guns  Well worth the effort, but the triggers must have been taxing?
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