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Scott I love your idea for cobbled streets! So much easier than making 100's of little miliput balls & flattening them! Patrick
brilliant idea.give that man a cigar!( oops.) Seriously ,its great to see more ideas for unusual stuff and good to see some from the boat guys,btw peter that hull is amazing ,you musy have been a boat builder(shipwright? i dunno!?) in a previous life,real craftmanship! I bet your missus is looking all over for her necklace too !!!!!! keep em coming ,cheers tony\ said:Hi - Not very P.C. and i'm NOT suggesting anyone takes up smoking Cigars - but the boxes can be used for planking - also "black beads" for cannon ballsPeter
Hi Tony\ said:brilliant idea.give that man a cigar!( oops.)Seriously ,its great to see more ideas for unusual stuff and good to see some from the boat guys,btw peter that hull is amazing ,you musy have been a boat builder(shipwright? i dunno!?) in a previous life,real craftmanship! I bet your missus is looking all over for her necklace too !!!!!! keep em coming ,cheers tony
hi steve ,i use a car aerosol, hycote aluminium,its about £3 99 a tin but goes a long way.Its an acrylic and gives a nice smooth finish and i always overcoat it with klear .I tried halfords nissan silver ,which a lot of people use but i found it gave a grainy texture. The only drawback is you cant mask off and do different shades of silver,i think it would mark the unprotected finish and i think if i did it after the coating of klear maybe it would pull the klear off,so if you look ,all my nat metal finishes are all one shade!I understand thats the beauty of alclad,that its tough enough to mask off without marking or pulling off,one day ill pluck up enough courage to get some and try it(and enough money!!its expensive!)If you look on my gallery theres a few more done with the hycote(meteor,su15 ,la 176, yak 23 ,aero delfin ,trumpeter sabre.)In fact the only one done with halfords nissan silver is the d h heron,see if you can see the difference .The hycote does give a lovely smooth finish and it covers really well,one coat usually being enough. hope this is of some use , cheers tony\ said:Don't want to divert the thread Tony but what do you use for your natural metal? Looks good on the Connie. I'm an Alclad man at the moment but am always up a new product!Steve
Lots of panels in different shades is something that I think is way overdone anyway. I only use two shades as subtely as I can.\ said:The only drawback is you cant mask off and do different shades of silver,i think it would mark the unprotected finish and i think if i did it after the coating of klear maybe it would pull the klear off,so if you look ,all my nat metal finishes are all one shade!
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