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    DJPinter's wife in under ventilation, he has his family have COVID

    All my support and thoughts, DJ. But to all others, please PLEASE observe the recommendations to fight this terrible virus: Keep 1.5 m / 5 ft distance to all other people, Wash your hands after touching anything outside your house, Wear masks, Do not go out if you don't have to, Do not visit...
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    Building the Comet

    As I said, I have prepared some pictures of the comet with the leading edge tanks. It makes the airplane even more awesome. Now that the corona pandemic enters its 3rd wave, I wish you all a safe and healthy Christmas and Newyear, Take care, wear masks and maintain 1,5 metes.
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    M4A4 Sherman VC Firefly, Halinski 1:25

    Wow! Those tracks and wheels are more work than the long row of lifeboats and davits on a transatlantic liner. And those 20 or 30 boats and double the davits uses up all my patience. You are doing a wonderful job here.
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    Building the Comet

    The BOAC livery was a repaint by me. I used Paint Shop Pro X3.
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    Building the Comet

    I also got the design of the wing leading tanks from Lex. I'll prepare the photo's for you one of these days. I also have a building report on the ss Nieuw Amsterdam of the Holland America line. Any interest in that? I noticed there are not many mail liners on the forum.
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    Building the Comet

    I still have some pictures of the finished model, which didnot appear yesterday. I'll see, if it works today. I have discovered the problem, my original picture was too large, like 2500 by 3500 pixels. Apparanly the system would not handle that. So I made them smaller, and now you can see...
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    Building the Comet

    Let me try once more. I tried making a separate file for these pictures and save them in this new file, but when I open it, I get a message, saying somthing went wrong and contact Administrator. Administrator, can you help please?
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    Building the Comet

    The disadvantage of highly shining silver paper, is that you can see every seam. It is very difficult to achieve a smooth effect with burnishing. Next time, I'll use a more subdued aluminium coloured paper. Meanwhile, here are some more pictures. Another one from below The photo I want to...
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    Building the Comet

    The engines and the wing construction of the comet make it such a special project, and when that is completed, the fuselage and tailplanes follow normal procedures, nothing special. So let me show you, how it looks like as completed.
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    Building the Comet

    Another view of the wing fuselage center section. The shiny cardboard is perhaps getting a bit too silvery, but it does give a nice "metal aircraft" feeling. I'm afraid, that I don't have many photo's from this stage on, fuselage and tail are straightforward, so I just built them, without...
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    Building the Comet

    Time to cover the wings. Because I don't have a leading edge nor a trailing edge, only a planform and wing profiles, |I can make each wing section with a closed treailing edge, and slide them as a glove over the wing profiles, see picture 1. The light blue light card is used to avoid sharp...
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    Building the Comet

    Interesting. It is a bit like the light bulb (sure kids, grandpa used non-led lights in ye olde days), you can design them for an everlasting life, but then the manufacturers would go out of business, so they design them to burn out at a number of hours. Ink is the same, with large tanks, the...
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    Building the Comet

    That's right, normal ink tanks contain 11 ml (Canon) but you can buy ink tanks that contain up to 54 ml, saves a lot of money for non light resistance prints. I print my model kits at the local printer shop, very good colours, and cost like 50 or 60 cents (Euro, of course;))
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    Building the Comet

    Some pictures on the wing construction, pic 1. I used a planform to keep the front and aft spars at their correct distance, and put in place the wing profiles with half way slits. That will facilitate the covering of the wing , as I will show in the next posting. I love the way the engines are...
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    Building the Comet

    I always believed, that pigment ink printers need to be used very regularly, otherwise the jets will clog up with the drying pigment. Is that true? The link shows refill systems, which are only send to American zipcodes. Not for us Europeans.
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