It looks like the 90º angle conexion is broken, but it should be replaceable easily...I think :hmm: . Good luck you don't deserve a problem like that :up:

Hello mate,

Looks like a simple enough fault to fix, besides it's brand new and there is no reason why they should'nt just exchange it for a new replacement. These things ain't cheap and i'd be pretty pissed off if this had happened to me :damn:

I have three airbrushes and no compressor as mine has given up the ghost. Hence all the painting/weathering has been a bit of a 'How the bloody hell am i going to to get that effect with brushes?'

I also think that too much relience on an airbrush can lead to a model looking like it's been, er...airbrushed, if you see what i mean?

Hope all turns out ok with your faulty compressor,

Sav.

The guy from Mick Charles models in Ewel has replaced it with the new one. :rock:
Im back on track now.
Ive spent another 30 quid on Tamiya paints, primers/the fine Taniya primer is back on sale in EU/ Humbrol enamels for my figures, some styrene, and thinners for acrylic paints and enamels. :up:

First coat of WEM Schiffsbodenfarbe III applied. Thinned 50/50 with Humbrol Thinner.
Sprayed at 30 psi with single action Badger 200.
http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/1...t001qg6.th.jpg
Now 6 hours wait for another coat.
TBC...

Second coat of Schiffsbodenfarbe III 50/50 dilluted with Humbrol thinner, sprayed at 20 psi.
http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/6...t007sr5.th.jpg

After 6 hours another coat of lighter paint applied on large surfacess between the welds, to create the impression of the p.hull segments.
The paint was mixed 40% Schiffsbodenfarbe III + 50% humbroll thinner + 10% Baltic Dunkelgrau.
http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/4...g003pq2.th.jpghttp://img249.imageshack.us/img249/1...g004zm4.th.jpg

TBC...

Have you started to weathering this part? The last pic looks like you had sprayed some "yellowish" effect to simulate rust.

....I might have done.
http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/7...h010sp4.th.jpghttp://img501.imageshack.us/img501/1...h011dr2.th.jpg

Tamiya XF-64 mixed 10/90 for wash. Revell matt 83 to form the rusty streaks, finished by Tamiya weathering master orange rust pigments.

Exhausts were fixed back in place.
http://img379.imageshack.us/img379/4...h003pz7.th.jpghttp://img138.imageshack.us/img138/1...h004jh6.th.jpg

TBC...

Thanks pal! excellent finish and weathering effects. Keep going! :up:

Thank You Sabalo. :up:

Rusting process continues. Ive added lot of rust pigments.
I had in mind the conditions under which the rusting process took place in RL.
I think the water would wash the rust particles all over the pressure hull, andd instead of vertical streaks i opted for large patches of rust widening towards the cavities.
http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/1...h006su6.th.jpghttp://img337.imageshack.us/img337/1...h007mf0.th.jpghttp://img143.imageshack.us/img143/5...h011po1.th.jpg

Comments welcome.

TBC...

It's excellent. How the heck are you getting into the underside of everything?

With great difficulty.:lol:

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Bow section of the deck glued in place with the help of CA glue.
http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/533...n001gj3.th.jpghttp://img256.imageshack.us/img256/1...n002hu1.th.jpghttp://img187.imageshack.us/img187/3...n003hv3.th.jpghttp://img234.imageshack.us/img234/1...n004gt1.th.jpghttp://img237.imageshack.us/img237/3...n005ip8.th.jpg

:ping:

TBC..

Stern section of the deck in place.

http://img259.imageshack.us/img259/3...n012xk4.th.jpghttp://img396.imageshack.us/img396/6...n010ce2.th.jpghttp://img396.imageshack.us/img396/7...n003qu9.th.jpghttp://img378.imageshack.us/img378/8...n007gs8.th.jpg

TBC...

Now that the deck is in place, exactly how much of that beautiful underdeck detailing work can you actually see through the limber holes?

:arrgh!: