Saturday, June 11, 2022

Got my Resin printer working at last

 Finally got the Photn S running.  But the screen quit working.  Lucky for me any cubic any sale special on the Photon Mega X.  What an amazing resin printer.   The next problem was to resolve the type of resin I was using.  The Any cubic grey normal was to brittle.   

 So I got on you tube to find the best type to use.  The old saying you get what you pay for is so true.  Siraya Tech resin was the answer.   So I did more reseach to find out that if you blend the Siraya fast grey with their Tenaius flexable resin. You end up with the perfect mix.  The prints are no longer brittle.


Here are my prints

Ironclad



Chinese ship cannon





F4U-1A corsair by Marc Schacther

 Another amazing model by Marc at the San Diego model Expo June 5.










Friday, June 3, 2022

More of Pat's amazing Skyhawks

 Here are a few additional photo.  Pat made the Marine Proud with these great models.  His article can be found here. Pat's A4 Skyhawks

  I make me feel good that my blog is inspiring Modelers to build great models. Plus to keep the the history alive for the folks that serviced in Vietnam.







Thursday, June 2, 2022

Model of A4 a Chu Lai

 I surprised the other day when I received a email from Pat.   He had just finished building an A4 diorama from one of the photos I had posted.  I was very pleases to see that people do read my blog. The photo is from early days at Chu Lai.  Later the front stack of barrels where paint white and yellow.


Here is Pat's amazing Model.






Wednesday, June 1, 2022

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

1/72 RNZAF F4U decals by Ventura

 In the Pacific war the RNZAF operated four F4U Corsairs with nose art depicting a raging Donald Duck. Using references from Robert Montgomery's book "Pacific Corsair, Ventura Publications have now released a 1/72nd scale decal sheet that includes all four. The sheet is available from TradeMe for NZ based modellers and here for those overseas...