Thomas Kolb Bernd, well, kind of. These Ural trucks (particularly the starter unit) always seem to be hovering around Warsaw Pact aircraft on the ground, and I thought they would give some feeling of size.
Thomas Kolb Started with the fuel container on the fuel truck, just to test if my home made decals would work. It looks like they did, so that was one hurdle out of the way!
8 November 2020, 20:33
Harry Eder Decals looks great on the fuel container! Well done! 👍
Thomas Kolb Kind of like this: teewz-veseiyesh. That's a very useful phrase to know whenever in Hungary.... Just as useful as "a légpárnás hajóm tele van angolnákkal" (my hovercraft is full of eels).
21 November 2020, 20:11
Łukasz Gliński Taking into account the probability of meeting an eel in Hungary in particular 😄
21 November 2020, 21:15
Erik De Smet The only Hungarian word I remember from a visit to Budapest 45 years ago is dohanybolt. I believe it means tobacco shop and it was there you could buy tickets for trams and buses. Luckily I could speak German with my Hungarian friend. And I saw Migs on August 20.
23 November 2020, 08:35
Łukasz Gliński But have you seen any hovercrafts?😉
That must have been a remarkable trip for you, to the other side of the curtain. Been there couple of times, before the bat plague, learned some words, but haven't seen either MiGs or hovercrafts 🙁
23 November 2020, 08:52
Daniel Mysak Nice work on the two trucks and a great result with the green decals. Have you ever thought about a plotter to make masks and spray paint these markings instead of printing the camouflage color around?
25 November 2020, 19:17
Thomas Kolb Daniel, thank you! Yes, I looked at the Silhouette Cameo cutter, but it is just too expensive.
25 November 2020, 21:08
Daniel Mysak Okay, I purchased the Silhouette Portrait about a year ago, it´s perfect for this kind of stencils. Anyway, your solution with the decals works also perfect.
26 November 2020, 13:43
Thomas Kolb Daniel, what is the smallest size of cut that the Portrait can do? Would it work for this, like 2-3 mm stencils?
26 November 2020, 13:45
Daniel Mysak I did 4mm for my Oshkosh Tanker, that works fine. I think it will depend on the chosen font and the masking foil but 3mm should work anyway.
26 November 2020, 13:50
Thomas Kolb Ok, thanks, I might take another look!
26 November 2020, 15:19
Stuart Fowle Nice looking kits. I have yet to try any ICM models.
13 December 2020, 10:49
Thomas Kolb Yesterday I started with the APA startup truck, but almost directly came to a complete dead-end. There are some long, thin and spidery PE parts that need to be bent very precisely in shape and to which a dozen other spidery parts need to be added. It is even worse: the parts are attached to the fret by more than a dozen attachment points, and they proved more or less impossible to remove without messing up the parts. I am by no means a stranger to PE, but this is clearly waaaay beyond my skill level. I would dare to say this is only for the top 1% model builder clientele. I might try to use something else later, but for now I just call it a day.
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