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Painting is over at last, and I added the decals.
Orange hobby kit includes a large sheet of dry transfer, which is very easy to use. Just cut from the main sheet, press…
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So working on this resin was very difficult, I figured it was the mold release agent but didn’t pay it much attention. Later, after I finished building the entire model, I…
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I’ve started working on the model.
I had to clean it thoroughly as the resin didn’t glue quickly enough.
I switched to a new faster glue, and it works better.
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I’ve started working on my new model, HMS Ocean by oragnehobby.
It is the Royal navy amphibious assault ship, and can carry interesting helicopters like the Apache, and camo painted lynx.
The model is very detailed, with busy PE provided with the kit, two merlin and two apaches helicopters, and 4 landing boats.
I love the ship, just wonderful!
For rigging, I tried using stretched sprue, but not like the guide in the link, as I couldn’t manage it.
I cut them to shape and glued.
Currently I used very thin fishing wire which works perfectly.
I recommend UNI-caenis fishing wire, 20 denier and 30 denier.
I learned about them from David Griffith’s superb ship…[Read more]
Thanks! I ended up using stretched sprue since it was quite hard to get caenis wire over here, but I glued it as posted in there. Been quite busy but I hope I can finish it and post pics soon, thanks for the help!
The HMS Dragon is a Dragon models kit with Flyhawk models excellent PE set. The tug boat is Bruiser from Orangehobby set which is a little gem and kit by itself with resin parts, PE and even a decal sheet.
Now I need to do a more complex model, and i have a few ideas on what to do..