Gordon Sørensen
Love the Sabre! Looks great so far, Martin!

Lode Schildermans
Well, Martin, and the result looks fine to me. Are you gonna build this as in the photo?

Martin Oostrom
Thank you Gordon and Lode. It will be almost as the project picture. A bit less shiny I think

Łukasz Gliński
That looks like a nice kit - watching

Treehugger
Airbrushing on Vallejo glossy black is my favorite. Super smooth. Supposed to be used for metal paint, but works nicely for any other paint.

Chaz Gordon
Nice

Alec K
Martin is back on air , I am in

Spanjaard
almost missing this one

wilky
Holden are about to cease existing.
Holden was a company that built bodies for General Motors chassis that were imported into Australia.
Ford on the other hand sent everything over except for the wooden components for assembly in Australia.
Holden was able to capitalise on the fact that he was already building bodies for the General Motors chassis and he was able to affiliate with General Motors to form General Motors Holden.
Thus maintaining a relationship with earlier customers with a name already known in Australia.
I'm a Ford man myself.
I like Falcons.
They drive better than Holdens.
I like Holden Monaros but I owned three HQ GTS Monaros and I'd rather look at it than drive it.
I have. '70 XW Falcon sedan, XA Fairmont 2 door, XF Falcon sedan an two AU Falcon sedans and a Ford Courier with a broken gearbox, FN shitbox it is because it's a Mazda

Chaz Gordon
Wilky, I'd disagree, whatever the current trend, I see Ford & GM always having their own Identity, at least on the front. Even the Jelly Mould era in the late 80's & 90's produced significantly different offerings from the two in the same segment.

There is a general similarity across Ford (and former Ford) Brands as their identity was derived from a common design team, such as the current Aston Martin nose to new Ford European vehicles, and the common body structure design of Fords with Volvos, although these are beginning to separate as Volvo develop a new platform, and Ford continues with the Platforms designed for them when they owned the Volvo Development team.

Lode Schildermans
Such a lot of comments without one single picture...I must admit you know how to get attention, Martin. LOL

Chaz Gordon
Actually Lode, I think you'll find that We've just hijacked Martin's project thread to have a discussion about a similar looking concept car from 2007

Peter Hardy
Martin who? This is an intellectual conversation and certainly don't need Martin Who.

Martin Oostrom
It is very amusing to see this evolving. Even without the Devolver himself.

Peter Hardy
Yeah, where the bloody hell are ya Devolver?

Lode Schildermans
Blocked in time machine between '49 and '59

Peter Hardy
No problem with that. National pastime.

Martin Oostrom
I'm getting a bit emotional. I sprayed some colour on the tanks... finally!

Lode Schildermans
Finally, and now we want to see more, my Dutch friend

Greg Baker
Yes, we do!

Peter Hardy
Must be a Dutchman. It's going to be orange!

Chris Greathouse
You're moving along mate!!! Now I need to get my ass in gear and pickup on my truck

Martin Oostrom
More colour, by request

Lode Schildermans
And we request even more colour, my mate. Nice to see you progressing on this build

Spanjaard
Planning on paint it orange?

Martin Oostrom
I had/have a shade of silver in my mind. I don't know why the cover picture is of a red 911

Spanjaard
and the ALC-704 Candy Orange Enamel in the project?

Martin Oostrom
Did I? Might have to rethink some stuff whenever ai will build it

Martin Oostrom
No need to apologise Alec. I really appreciate you taking the time for pointing me in the right direction!

Wim van der Luijt
Haven't tried it myself, but is supposed to work too.....and is widely available in NL [img1]?options=399,q85

Rod -
Caustic soda, or drain cleaner. The active chemical is called sodium hydroxide. (likely the same as oven cleaner) Looks like coarse, white sand. I've used it with great success on tamiya and revell chrome.
Dissolve a teaspoon of granules in a cup of water and it'll strip chrome in 10mins.
BE VERY CAREFUL! It looks just like plain water when dissolved and it's crazy toxic.

Urban Gardini
Chlorine should do the trick. It took me ten minutes to strip the chrome plating from a Tammy bike. All but the smallest crevices was gone in just five minutes.

Martin Oostrom
Thank you all for the suggestions.
Usually I use bleach on Tamiya/Hasegawa/Revell kits. Works perfectly.
This Italeri Chrome doesn't react to bleach, drain cleaner, ammonia and not so well to oven cleaner. The oven cleaner works well on the back side of the sprues, but not on the front. There must be some varnish like some uff on it. I tried an ammonia bath followed by a bleach bath. No dice.
I will try Dettol first, if it doesn't work it can be used in house. Second try will be brake fluid. Do I need something specific like dot 3 or dot 4 or whatever?

Wim van der Luijt
google Dettol first.....but is't supposed to work

Tom ...
Martin, I had the same experience. One side of the sprues dechromed quickly. Was thinking one side has a lot more chrome on it but there does also seem to be some kind of residue afterwards too so not sure what's going on. I've dechromed about 20 of my kits and had issues with 3: Revell's Isetta, ICM's Model T and this kit.

Martin Oostrom
Finally found some mr Muscle. Works way better than the other products. One soak of three-four hours wasn't enough yesterday. So the sprues are taking another bath today

Richmond
Following

Peter Hardy
Pretty excited to see this one all finished Marty. I have seen the van in so many 60's spy movies. Kind of exotic really.

Alec K
Cool project Martin . I agree with Peter, this thing is unique. But most Citroens from back then were pretty exotic IMO.

Martin Oostrom
Lode, I'll try even harder in honour of your dad
Peter and Alec, this van is so ugly, it becomes beautiful.

I used my Molotow pen for the first time today. Curious about the result when dry....
Other than that, only some clear sprayed in prep for some decals.

Tim Heimer
Martin, I'm sure you'll do justice to this ugly duckling! LOL. Also, FYI, I put the stripe decals on that Ford Torino, should you still be contemplating it to see what the issue is. It's very minor and I think there can be a better way to apply them than what I did. Best wishes on your van.

Martin Oostrom
Takes an ugly duckling to build one?

Laurent "HELLER-forever"
nice

Tim Heimer
LOl!

Martin Oostrom
My very first 1/35 tank is done. WIP can be found here WIP M41 Walker Bulldog | Album by Mahoo76 (1:35)

Spanjaard
nice job!

Rene Scheiblich
I agree with Spanjaard, the little guy turned out nice!
I like the camo, especially with the fitting winter forest in the background
But one hint: I think the commander would object to his viewports being painted white

Peter Hardy
Excellent recovery Marty! There is hope for you yet!

Martin Oostrom
There would be more hope if I stop needing recoveries, Peter.
Thank you Neuling and mr C

JD
Great technique and a nice result. I enjoyed building this kit too.

Martin Oostrom
JD, it really is nice to build. The small improvements make a real difference. In hindsight I should have gone for a replacement barrel for the 50 cal as well. The plastic one is already bent.

Paul Hennessy
Nice result. I have the same kit at the primer stage and hope to get a basecoat on it this week.

Tim Heimer
Nice work Martin! Looks good! Just think, all the skills you've used on your recovery's that you wouldn't have known. I know....it still sucks!

Christian Bruer
Very nice work Martin. The whitewash looks very realistic

Spanjaard
nice job Martin!

Nathan Dempsey
What a great show! Thanks for sharing Martin.

Łukasz Gliński
Wow, the last pic reminds me when as a couple of kids we made similar effort, by painting roads for die-cast cars across the whole flat of colleague's parents using corrector white paint. We spent so much time and they didn't appreciate it once they came back from work

Martin Oostrom
Łukasz, your story reminds me of the time when I was 10 and we had just moved house. Back then I only used enamels and my twin brothers, then 3, often came looking when I was building.
One Saturday morning I was enjoying my Transformers cartoons on the Fun Factory show, my father politely asked me to come upstairs to my room. My brothers had opened all my little Revell enamel pots and mixed a nice even brown. The problem was they had smeared it EVERYWHERE! On the three months old carpet, the three months olds wall paper, my bed - and on each other. It took my parents hours to get everything cleaned up again. My mum was in tears, because they had spent months/years saving to get us all the new stuff in the new house.

Anyway, it was a Saturday well spent at ESM and I'm very happy you all enjoyed the pictures.

Peter Hardy
I take it you don't have brothers anymore?

Martin Oostrom
I do. But ever since that enamel sunblock, they have this strange glint in their eyes

Spanjaard

Peter Hardy
And your Mum's heart?

Günther Decock
Inderdaad. Het was weer een mooie beurs. Ik voelde me net als een kind in een snoepwinkel. ????

Holger Kranich
And two 12,8cm FlaK Twins are included, too! Would become a nice dio, once finished...

Martin Oostrom
Scratch build an aft deck part
Perhaps that's more for Kerry

Holger Kranich
LOL!

Martin Oostrom
Welcome gents!

Stephan Ryll
Ah a PE battle Martin looking good

Maciej Bellos
Oh a small Viper full of metal. Totally in!

Peter Hardy
Carpet monster is about to be fed!

Sergej I
Oh wow, another 86-295 in 72nd! In! Martin, which paints are you going to use for camo?

Oleg Bogolei
Following!

Martin Oostrom
Welcome to PE wars; where men launch tiny metal parts into parallel universes.
Sergej, it will be brown/black/green. I have a couple of those but not the correct FS numbers. So I will go for the closest match I have, still tbd.

Daniel
grabbing a seat!

Peter Hardy
Marty, quite easily the best thing you have ever done! Actually, keeping Tim speechless would come a close second! The birdshit was a brilliant idea.

Spanjaard
none of the comments about is undeserved. this is a wonderful job what you have done. to be proud of! and this is your first in chipping and heavy weathering.... looking forward the next!

Alec K
Agree with the mates above - excellent, excellent work

Neuling
Very realistic rust and mud. Sehr schön!

Daniel Klink
Fantastic MArtin it s so authentic that i really feel sorry for the machine..
Wow congrats mate

Martin Oostrom
Tim, silence is golden
Peter, whoever came up with the shitty idea to do birdshit is one big pile of .... But I like it as well. As long as every last build is my best, I'm one happy camper!
Spanjaard, not sure if I want to do such heavy weathering on the M41. I think I'll give the Spanish Method a go (black & white). Okay with you?
Alec & Neuling, vielen dank für ihr compliment.
Daniel, this little tractor received so much love from me, don't feel sorry for her

Spanjaard
of course!

Patrick Hagelstein
Cool! I like the way the chipping turned out!

Peter Hardy
One of these days Alice! One of these days!

Martin Oostrom
Peter, I actually saw an ancient Tamiya dino kit at SMC last Saturday….
I did find some time to progress with this little relevation. Quite a lot actually. This is it: roughened up the decals, added some streaking (mildly successful), glued the last bits on, put her on her base and added some extra mud to the base.
I still need to do some stuff. I need to paint her lights, add some water to the seat and …. some stuff I forgot at this hour

Danny Meer
A work of art, looks so cool for just a "simple" kit. way better then just build the normal tractor

Chris Greathouse
That's amazing!

Martin Oostrom
Gentlemen, it was a joy to have you along for the ride. Thank you all for your compliments, it has made working on the little baby a whole lot easier. Gracias!As usual there is a new album for pictures of the completed model: Completed Porsche Junior 108 | Album by Mahoo76 (1:24)

Spanjaard
fully agree with Lode

Peter Hardy
Don't mention beer Lode! Holger will appear magically! With a smile and empty pockets!
Marty, I have expressed my thoughts but, just so you don't forget, this is the best thing you have ever done!

Martin Oostrom
The best felt compliments come from The Bunch. Heartwarming

Spanjaard

Spanjaard
i may get one too myself....