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Never! It's too damn nice to be inside painting today..

Here's a monster sneaking through my mutant tulips out front

I'm sure you can manage nose-art Dave. Go down a graffiti style if you don't want to do mural style, you've shown you can do that...

Yeah, I thought about that, but then I'd really only get one shot, otherwise it would screw up the camo pattern below. I also bought some of those clear color laser decals that I haven't used yet, the thing wit that is, I have to fill an entire 8.5" x11" sheet otherwise it's wasted.

Yeah, that is the challenge with freehand nose-art, it's very easy to make a mess of the paint-job.
You could use a plain background for the art (like a badge) then any mistakes can be covered without affecting the paint-job.
Or gloss varnish on before the freehand as that can make it easier to remove mistakes without needing to repaint the background.

Transfers would also work. That's quite a size to fill though. Maybe fill it with many nose-art designs and then see what looks best on this and save the rest for future use.

You could cheat and use premade ones. Pinupsplus.com has full size sheets of decals in varying sizes. Saw them in other threads, also seen them on ebay.

hmmm.... maybe you could try yourself with making bulletholes in decals...and for that matter...you could even try to do a totally new kind of rivtes? decal rivets^^...

How about a league transfer or 2 , we could all purchase a strip of you for our models

I was thinking the same thing, but now I get to call you the heretic . I guess recessed rivets on decal paper might look good and be more aerodynamic to boot.

now that is good thinking! recessed rivets on decals... winning ticket for sure!

There is always the good ole red and white shark mouth for the nose.
https://www.google.com/search?q=shark+mouth+scheme+for+aircraft&client=firefox-a&hs=RZ0&rls=org.mozilla:en-USfficial&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=XIeBUcnbOOmz2gXhhIHgAQ&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1581&bih=737

Speaking of recessed rivets I saw a tutorial about sculpting armour plating that mentioned that an empty mechanical pencil is good for making them in putty, as would any thin tube that you can push into the putty to make a ring.
Don't know if any of you riveteers have tried it, but thought it would interest you.

This is the tutorial in question

cool find Dr H!


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oh and i would love to see rosie the riveteer !

That's very cool! New riveting methods are always cool! Model railroaders already have the rivet decals.I don't think they look quite right myself...not up close anyways.

oh... didn´t knew that...but was to be expected...man... i want my own clever idea that gets me set up for good^^

Keep spinning that propeller Vik! You'll find it!

oh by the way...just forgot to mention it... nice looking tulips there... a really big splash of color...that helps to get rid of the long darkness called winter for good^^

Thanks! I bought several bags of "mystery bulbs" late last year from a discount rack, I had no idea what color they were, still more to bloom yet, the rain has made them grow to monster size. I have been watching them open up in the mornings, it's kind of cool!

yup... what hobby stuff is for me... having your own garden would be for my wife...sadly we have not the amount of money to get us our own small patch of turf to shape as would be fun...

Juju beans tail seems to be on the mend, she enjoying the weather today? And are there any updates on that 1:1 scale fence?

Here's the early morning shot

You can almost see the stems grow once the sun comes out!


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The 1:1 scale fence is holding! Her tail was just sprained,not broken and she's carrying it up and wiggling it like crazy today. She's also being Onry as hell too

My wife has nagged me for years for a flower bed, we moved into this house too late for bulbs, but hope to remember this fall.

those bulb bags of surprise is a really good way to fill any field... just putting only one color in place doesn´t look half as nice as that mulicolored approach!

No, and you should NEVER follow the instructions either, 6" hole, 1 bulb each, 8" apart? Dig a big hole, drop them in, and cover it back up!

Flowers always do as they see fit, they do not read instructions

that´s how i burry all my corpses...

LOL @ Vik, only the British turn them into "frozen Lasagne dinners"
Very True Shaso

We just went to the Missouri botanical gardens last weekend, it was beautiful . Even they know to mix bulb colors together. But their gardener must be part mechanicus, because each tulip was perfectly spaced.

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LOL @ Vik, only the British turn them into "frozen Lasagne dinners"
Very True Shaso

LOL... good comparission there^^

I'd like to point out that most of the Lasagne horse dinners came from mainland Europe... We poor Brits are the victims in this heinous crime...

I know..and the butt of my joke ..only because it's funny