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Modelers Lounge => Time to relax => Topic started by: RAGIII on January 01, 2015, 10:51:26 AM
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I did this a couple of years ago and it worked well for me having at least partially achieved my Resolution Goals. So this year I WILL:
1. Use Turnbuckles on an ENTIRE Model: Last Resolution stated I would try them which I did on a few lines on the WNW Triplane build of a couple of years ago.
2. I will Not compromise my Standards to complete Models. I have gotten in a bad habit of overlooking some glitches to achieve a finished product.
3. I will paint ( and Weather), what I see, not what I think the latest Trend requires
4. I WILL HAVE FUN!
I hope others will feel free to add their resolutions if the fit takes them ;)
RAGIII
PS: 5. I will buy and build at least one 2 Seater.
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Good resolutions RAG. For 2015, I will:
1. Build a model. :o
2. Have fun. :D :D
Warren
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Mine is a simple one
I will actually finish a model!
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Mine was simple, until I did a reality check. "I will build from my ever growing Stash and not buy any more Kits until said Stash is reduced" and I will enjoy the Hobby. However.............the AEG will be released by Wingnut this year I'm certain, and there are several kits that may revert to "Sold Out" thus I need to get them sooner rather then later, and I've been buying the Roden SSW for several years almost, and then, and then, and then............!! :o :-[
New Resolution.......... accept fate, if you can't beat it, embrace it and thus enjoy the Hobby!
Cheers and Happy New Year, :) ;)
Lance
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Mine is simple - finish kits before starting more; I have five kits in some state of completion but it is very hard for me to wrap them up! If I can finish these 5 it will be a good year for me (only finished two kits in 2014)....
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OK, my first post above was obviously tongue-in-cheek, but here are mine, and it's my hope that my circumstances at work and at home allow me to realize these goals:
- To finish the 1/72nd Nieuport kits that have languished these last few years.
- To finish off at least ONE of the kits that were shelved because I ran into a problem I couldn't fix. (This is what happens when you try to compete with the big boys and try to correct "just one more thing", and then: BAM!, you end up with a model in destruction rather than construction.
- Finish an off-topic 1/72nd scale subject that has languished on the workbench for far too long.
- Get started on a major 1/72nd WWI diorama project that has been floating in my head for years.
- Enjoy myself while doing all of the above.
- Try to lend encouragement to my scale modeling brothers and sisters.
- Be the person my dogs think I am.
Warren
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1. To finish off the 'shelf of doom' kits before starting more projects.
2. To finish the new projects started when I break 1 before starting further new projects.
3. To finish projects from 1 and 2 before starting further new projects
4. To forget about 1, 2 and 3 because starting new projects is so much fun
5. Have fun
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- Be the person my dogs think I am.
Agreed!
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For me ....
Have fun !
Terri
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Mine is simple - finish kits before starting more; I have five kits in some state of completion but it is very hard for me to wrap them up! If I can finish these 5 it will be a good year for me (only finished two kits in 2014)....
This is my resolution, as well.
Cheers,
Bud
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Resolve is too harsh a word...
I want to spend more time modeling than reading and writing about modeling. This does not necessarily mean I will spend less time on this forum (however, I am spending much less time on other modeling forii. They seem more like grammar school than fun and informative conversations).
I want to continue modeling more slowly and enjoying the process more instead of taking short cuts and skipping a thing here and there to get to the "completed model" stage. In fact, I plan to absolve myself of guilt over my little stash of partially finished "orphan" kits and just go ahead and finish them. Slowly.
I want to continually remind myself that the completed models I remember most fondly were those that I built at a leisurely pace, sometimes only spending a few minutes to lay on another decal or attach a landing gear leg. Then, one day, I discovered that there was nothing else left to do and I had a finished model on my hands. One, a Hasegawa 1:32 scale FW-190, required that I fix the overspray on my mottling paint job. This must have consumed a leisurely week, but it turned out so well that I couldn't tell where the bad parts had been and that was one of my most satisfactory model builds.
I want to plan ahead more and add the amount of detail I feel is needed and not worry about what anyone else may think I "should have" done.
I might actually try to build one of Lukaz' Oberusel kits. When recall just how small 1:32 scale is for one of those engines, I think, well, maybe not.
I do not plan to buy more kits in 2015, unless the Wingnut Wings gang actually releases a Fokker F.1/Dr.1, then all bets are off.
And, I plan to sell off the rest of my modest model stash (maybe ten or fifteen kits) and keep that money for additional Wingnut Wings releases, tools and the occasional detail and scratch materials. (Yes, I know that goes against the spirit of the previous sentence, but these aren't resolutions as much as fond intentions.)
I finally plan to absolve myself of any guilt involved in not accomplishing these notions.
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My resolution is to never make any more resolutions because the year will be gone before any of my resolutions would be resolved.
Des.
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I have just changed my resolution from 1024×768 to 1440×900.
;)
That's what I think of NYR's :)
VB
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The only resolution I have consistently been able to keep has
been not to make any. I have an excellent record with that one. ;) ;D
Happy new year everyone, regardless. ;D
Cheers,
Ernie :)
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The only resolution I have consistently been able to keep has
been not to make any. I have an excellent record with that one. ;) ;D
Happy new year everyone, regardless. ;D
Cheers,
Ernie :)
Ya see, Erie? I make 'em just to break 'em. Therein is where the fun lies. (See my last post. That'll never happen.)
Cheers,
Bud
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finish kits before i start a new one? what fun is that, never.
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The only resolution I have consistently been able to keep has
been not to make any. I have an excellent record with that one. ;) ;D
Happy new year everyone, regardless. ;D
Cheers,
Ernie :)
Ya see, Erie? I make 'em just to break 'em. Therein is where the fun lies. (See my last post. That'll never happen.)
Cheers,
Bud
;D
RAGIII
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Mine is to just have fun building whatever kit I decide to tackle. For me that means keeping expectations low, and not getting caught up in trying to keep up with the Joneses.
Cheers,
Chris
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I am glad to see that I am not the only modeler that has unfinished kits. My new years resolution is to finish some and start fewer than I finish. Oh and to take pictures of finished projects also.
Tim Pivonka
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I'll play. Having realized my modeling skills are decreasing and that I dont need every new kit that comes out, my resolution is simply to stop buying on impulse. I have some must haves and am going to try and change the mind set to really wants. And those really wants are going to require a lot of really good reasons to buy. So far on my must have list which I have successfully resisted are the Ho 229, Do 335, and the Felixstowes. I may really want them but II cant justify cost and I know they will just join the stash. Hope I can resist all year. Now to whittle down the stash. Time to sell some armour me thinks.
James
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Turning over the kits we used to want, for those we now want, has always worked for me. There are very few kits I have sold that I wish I still had. A couple I bought again later very inexpensively since, it appeared, no one else wanted them either.
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Turning over the kits we used to want, for those we now want, has always worked for me. There are very few kits I have sold that I wish I still had. A couple I bought again later very inexpensively since, it appeared, no one else wanted them either.
Same here, I've never sold or traded a kit and wished it back. I've done that a few times with firearms, but those are spilled milk. :'( :'( :'(
Now, I have sold off some kits that when I sold them, I wished I'd bought twenty or so, hehehehehe. ;)
Warren
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I'm with you. When I think of the guns I've sold over the years, I want to sit down and cry. Like an original Ruger Bearcat…
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Mine is to continue liquidating my 1/32 WWII stash and turn to 1/32 WWI modelling exclusively.
I've sold some very nice 1/32 kits - Tamiya Spitfire, Mustang & Corsair, HK B-25J (until I bought the Felixstowe, my most expensive purchase ever), MDC's Ar234, Jerry Rutman's Mustang, numerous Hasegawa 109G's, Trumpeters superb Avenger kit, all three Pacific Coast Macchi's, Trumpeters P47 Razorback and Hasegawa's Bubbletop version.
I don't regret it at all. I have used the funds to bolster my WWI 1/32 kit stash, and I'd never have been able to build so many anway.
Once I built my first 1/32 WWI kit - Encore's SE.5a - I was hooked. I think it's because of the variety of skills needed, the relatively small amount of space a completed model takes up, the scope for great paint jobs, the fact that you've to represent canvas, wood & metal next to each other. The rigging grows on you & really gives a model the finished look. The character WWI planes have is pretty unique. I just found a Spitfire or Mustang a bit boring in comparison.
Perhaps most importantly, WWI modelling doesn't seem to have rivet counters - people who just criticise a build for some perceived inaccuracy - they have no other purpose than to spot "mistakes". Perhaps it's the lack of reference material, especially colour photo's, but I've not experienced anything like that, especially here.
So, I'm making good progress already - added a few kits, just need to sell a few - anybody want some 1/32 WWII kits?!
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Kai, I'm not a rivet counter, but I am a stitch nazi, and have been called that by several folks over the years. ::) I was always proud of the title.* ;) ;D
However, yeah, there are rivet counters too, they just stay kind of quiet here.
I'm glad that you're enjoying yourself here.
Warren
* FWIW, it's a term from outside of the modeling hobby, and has nothing to do with criticizing people's builds.
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Ok, I will play along too. As the whole year is a very long period, I always make resolutions for the upcoming quarter only.
1) Finish the Nieuport XI in quality better than my previous builds
2) Test as many Drooling Bulldog's WWI paints as possible
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Ok, I will play along too. As the whole year is a very long period, I always make resolutions for the upcoming quarter only.
1) Finish the Nieuport XI in quality better than my previous builds
2) Test as many Drooling Bulldog's WWI paints as possible
1) Since I'm a Nieuport fan, I'm looking forward to see what you did with your kit. Which kit are you building?
2) Also, I'm not familiar with "Drooling Bulldog" paint, care to elaborate please? I'm always interested when someone comes along with products to support our end of things. (Unless Drooling Bulldog's paints are some kind of inside joke here.)
Warren
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Hi Warren,
thanks for the questions, here the answers;)
1) The Nieuport XI I am working on is a scratchbuild in 1/144, it can be seen in the "Under Construction" section
2) Drooling Bulldog is not a joke, it is a new brand of WWI paints which are in preparation now by my good friend Sergey Mertens. He is an artist with university education in the area of authentic pigments and with wide knowledge of pigments available during the WWI period. I was given the honor of being a member of the testing group before they are launched to the market. So far I have been working with the "kraplak" - no it is not in Klingonian, it is the official name of the pigment used for german red. :) The testing is in very initial phase but I am realy amazed - I have never seen a finer pigment. I also like the fact that they are compatible with GS-C. Currently 7 colours for German Luftstreikräfte are basically finished and 5 further are in preparation.
Will share up-dates with you if you are interested. Attached please find an example of the german red on a finished model.
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Ondra,
Thanks for the quick reply, I'll definitely go check out your Noop in the under construction section.
Also, thanks for the update on the paints. Your answer explains why a Google search turned up a null set. I will certainly look forward to these! I do hope they are more robust than the MisterKit paints. I like those very much, but they are so fragile.
Please keep us updated on the paints.
Warren
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Ondra,
Thanks for the quick reply, I'll definitely go check out your Noop in the under construction section.
Also, thanks for the update on the paints. Your answer explains why a Google search turned up a null set. I will certainly look forward to these! I do hope they are more robust than the MisterKit paints. I like those very much, but they are so fragile.
Please keep us updated on the paints.
Warren
Hi again Warren,
you are right about Misterkit, I made the same experience with them while building my Bristol F.2B. Based on the first tests with airbrush I can say that Droolling Bulldog are much more robust as they are lacquer based (unlike the acrylic MisterKit).
Hope to share more experience soon.
Best
Ondra
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Oh! That's great news for me, as I prefer lacquer-based paints. However, I do wonder how that will translate into overseas sales to the U.S., etc. We've already seen what happened to WEM Colourcoats, a paint I love, but now cannot get. (At least until some U.S. dealer decides to carry the line over here and we can get them shipped by container ship, etc.)
Warren
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I actually have no issues with Misterkit except that they are MORE Difficult to get in the States. As Warren has stated I am wondering about a Lacquer based paint reaching our hands here in the US!
RAGIII
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I actually have no issues with Misterkit except that they are MORE Difficult to get in the States. As Warren has stated I am wondering about a Lacquer based paint reaching our hands here in the US!
RAGIII
My issue with Misterkit was that the paint was very fragile, especially e. g. on trailing edges of the wings, and peeled off very easily. I thinned them with Vallejo airbrush cleaner.
RAGIII: do you have any hint what I might have done wrong? Every advice would be highly appreciated.
I did not know that lacquer based paints are prohibited in the US. Does that mean that e. g. GS-C or Alclad are not available in the US?
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I did not know that lacquer based paints are prohibited in the US. Does that mean that e. g. GS-C or Alclad are not available in the US?
They are not prohibited, but there are shipping restrictions and they must meet certain labeling requirements, have an MSD sheet, etc. We can get Allclad. ;)
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Yes, we can get Alclad, but that's because the sales of Alclad here in the U.S. are such that someone is willing to be the importer, via surface ship, and distribute them via a ground shipper here in the U.S. There is more call for Alclad here in the U.S. than there is for a dedicated, lacquer-based paint for WWI a/c I'm afraid, but I hope they can make it work out because I'd like to try them. (As I understand it, the issue that sunk WEM colourcoats wasn't postal regulations exactly, but airline regulations. Since the postal service utilizes airlines as a carrier, it became an indirect, default regulation. I hope this makes sense as I haven't had all of my first cup of coffee yet.) :)
Now, the other side of that coin in my very humble opinion is this: my spidey-sense tingles anytime someone claims their WWI paint is the real deal. How many years have we debated about the real colors of four and five color lozenge fabric and we've got actual samples of those to inspect. One aspect, among many, that attracted me to attempt to recreate this period in miniature is the absence of the color police. At one time I thought modeling the VVS of WWII would be fun, but the ugly behavior on the forums sucked all of the fun out of that for me.
I do suggest we start another thread just for Drooling bulldog though up on the ground floor and get it out of the basement down here.
Warren
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Hi Warren,
I am totally with you that there should be no "correct colour policy" for WWI aircraft, there is simply no chance to recognize the right colour from orthochromatic photos on which e. g. yellow sometimes tends to appear as black etc. What I like about Sergey's idea, however, is the approach from the other side of the issue - if we use the same pigments that factories and squadron painters had at their hands during WWI, there is a good chance to get a colour which will be likely to look like the original one. But once again, I agree that arguing about the only one right colour after more than one hundred years is a nonsense.
I will talk to Sergey and if he agrees, we will start a separate thread, good idea. ;)
Cheers
Ondra
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So far, only a demonstration of shades, colors yet tested. Kraplak left, right Prussian blue.
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So far, only a demonstration of shades, colors yet tested. Kraplak left, right Prussian blue.
Looking forward to more info and I am VERY Happy to see you here!
RAGIII
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These look very interesting.
Warren
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So far, only a demonstration of shades, colors yet tested. Kraplak left, right Prussian blue.
Looking forward to more info and I am VERY Happy to see you here!
RAGIII
Thank you, it was a little time, but profit from it and I'll be there more often. :)