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OriginalGriff wrote: no one else seems interested
Twas far too hard for me, no way I was getting "party" from "do" (although I get it now you have said it)
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I got "PARTY" for "DO" after I got "PARITY" for "bit check" and took an "I" out ... 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well, thanks - have fun tomorrow!
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I have been working on this model of a Vietnam Huey for quite a long time now, partially because I faced several steep learning curves and also because I kept hesitating the more I accomplished. I did not want to mess everything up after coming so far.
Now I have finally come around to putting some paint on the model, starting with the tail. The tail is remarkably colorful for a military aircraft. That's why I chose this particular original in the first place. It's not only a good eyecatcher in an otherwise green aircraft. It also will help me not to lose eye contact with it when it's in the air. Olive drab has a strange habit of disappearing when there are only a few trees in the background.
Here is a picture of my paint job so far:
The valkyrie, not yet ready to ride again[^]
Sorry for the bad quality, but it's getting late and I have no time for a better shooting sessions now. Here is the problem I need help with:
If you look closely, you will see some spots where black paint has run under the masking tape or found its way through the folds of the plastic foil I had wrapped around the parts. Simply painting them over will not work. The red and yellow paints probably can't cover up black.
So what would be the best way to get rid of these black spots? My best guess is to carefully sand the surface with finest sandpaper, and then touching up that spot with a fine brush and unthinned paint.
I am still satisfied with what I got. It only has taken me four weeks, but masking off these stripes was incredibly hard and I don't know how often I tore off everything because it was not good enough. Now the rest will be relatively easy. At least until I start with the weathering...
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I would carefully scrape it away with an X-acto blade, then sand with fine grit paper. then repaint.
I do scale modeling as well, so I am interested to see your finished product.
You may be able to skip the scraping if you make good progress with the sanding. Scraping can sometimes speed up the process a bit.
You may get a sheen difference with the brushing as the rest is airbrushed. If the change is small enough, you may actually want to thin your paint and do this in layers, have the last layer be dry brushed.
Edit: after looking at your picture again, I would do the entire helicopter is the green base paint and leave the tail till last.
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Thanks. That really helps.
This[^] is a review of what you get when you buy this model 'ready to use'. Just note the almost complete lack of details and many inaccuracies that are only there to make that thing cheaper. The landing skids, for example, belong to a totally different model and don't look like those of a Huey at all. Or look at the nose and the front windows! Side windows were not included at all.
This kit from Revell[^] did not help at all. It's really supposed to be the same helicopter, down to the serial number. While they got the paint scheme right, judging by that single original photo that I found, the kit itself can't decide if it's a UH-1B or a UH-1C and mixes features from both, while passing itself off as a UH-1E. About the underside of a UH-1E obviously less is known than about the dark side of the moon. The kit simply has no details there whatsoever, not even the large 'hell hole' for the cargo hook that all Hueys have.
So I started researching and modifying that boring detailless thing. This is a picture I posted here some time last year, when the underside was still mostly unknown territory but the rest was slowly taking shape:
Prototypes for the weapons[^]
Weapons mounted[^]
And now the underside is also done at last, after finding a detailed plan from some other modeller who claims to actually have seen the underside of a UH1-E.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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For the future, there's the trick of smearing a masking fluid on the edge of the tape and wiping it off. That fills in the little voids at the edge of the tape and you get a clean line.
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I actually did something like that, but with the same yellow paint as the layer I was painting on. That went well mostly. The black paint ran under the masking tape where it crossed a row of rivets. These or other details are not so tiny at the scale 1:16.
When I had the decals made, someone already had a set made at glorious 1:6 scale. I looked up the model that he must have used. Really a beauty, but it will cost you at least 5000 bucks to get it into the air. My modest 1:16 version will cost less than 1/10 of that.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I'm curious as to their definition of the word "best".
It must include rotting teeth, obesity, and diabetes, somehow.
Shame it's not "creating material for bonfires", because ikea would win that one hands down.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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In this case "best" is only about quantity...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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It's whoever's be$$$t at reducing everyone else's worth.
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This must have been posted before, but it seems relevant here:
Justin on Twitter: "… "[^]
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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You should think carefully, before confessing that you sent something to Griff.
It's generally accepted that people who do so have something seriously wrong with their brains.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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... particularly for the media.
Just heard a TV reporter - BBC no less - talking about the Salo plane crash into the English Channel. And they are going on about what information the air accident investigators may get from the video of the damage to the plane - including "the altitude at which the plane hit the water".
Hmm ...I'm just guessing here ... zero meters above sea level? 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That might also get the speed at which it hit the water but not very much else. They probably think investigators can determine the altitude at which the plane started its descent but that would be a WAG.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Maybe they meant "attitude"?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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"You think I'm gonna fly?
Well mister, I saw you flying some other airplane just yesterday and my momma ain't raised no fool!
You do you own flying from now on, I'm out!"
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Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Atcherley -- and you know how I hate to nit-pick -- but sea level is anything but a constant.
You could fall to your death by dropping from zero altitude and hitting the sea, or drown because you can't reach the surface of the sea quickly enough from zero altitude.
Disclaimer (because otherwise, someone will nit-pick (how can people do such things!?!): the above is not guaranteed valid for all seas. Contact your local large-body-of-water supplier for details.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The BBC's long ago stopped being anything like real news - so why would their respect for science muddle through? They, in their own quaint way, remind me of Faux News in the US, not for the spin they put on what they report but that they have an agenda and pretty much minimize or ignore what goes against the flow they want to create.
NY Times? Certain topics allow any claims without vetting anything, but in their case, they've had some of these policies in place for over a century.
Speaking of which - I stream EuroNews - but I've noticed that more and more of the items are not news but discussions/opinions, and worst of all, paid propaganda pieces. Looking at the German version, however, I don't see that sh*t. In fact, no one but the English speakers seem to get his flood of manure - and I'm hoping you can give me a hint way this is so.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: NY Times
The NY Times!?!
That lefty, pinko, commie, snowflake cr@p!?!
Stick with Fox News! That's where the real, unbiased truth is!
It's horses for courses. People want to read what people want to read -- and lots of 'em want to read gutter press (like the NY Times and Fox News), because they reflect their opinions.
If you hate people for not sharing your opinions and preferences, you'll have no time to do anything but hate, so just let 'em get on with it. Everyone's got the same rights as you have, when it comes to believing what they want to believe.
As few as 50 years from now, the only people who will give a flying f@rt what any of us today believes will be academics -- and who gives a cr@p what those idiots think?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: As few as 50 years from now, the only people who will give a flying f@rt what any of us today believes will be academics -- and who gives a cr@p what those idiots think?
Unless you are a celebrity of some sort.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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