Read Time: 2 minutes KSM Club Boot Swap & Sell Barbecue July 27th, 10:00 am to 2 pm. This is the second fabulous event everyone has been waiting for. Rain or Shine Ample Parking: RSVP KSM Club Boot Swap & Sell LocationCommunity Living Trent HighlandsLower Level Meeting Room205 McLaughlin Road, Lindsay Location details: https://kawarthascalemodellers.com/
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Read Time: 3 minutes Reducing Viscosity: Acrylic and Lacquer Paint Solvent-to-Paint Ratio Countering the Vague Dairy Reference Social media abounds with decision fatigue when making up one’s mind as to properly thin paint for the perfect airbrush ratio. Often a vague reference is made about thinning paint to the consistency of milk or topping up the new glass bottle
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Read Time: 4 minutes Crosstie Use During WWI & WWII From original publications and source material: “It is estimated that there are at present throughout the world about 1,250,000 kilometres of railway track for which approximately 3,000 million railway sleepers (cross-ties) are used, 95 percent of them made of wood. Since railway sleepers are heavy, bulky, and relatively cheap,
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Read Time: 5 minutes Stranger Than Fiction Colourful – Larger Than Life Character John (Barney) Hines The extraordinary apocryphal tale of Private, No 2296, John (Barney) Hines, of the Australian Imperial Force, 45th Battalion. Photo: September 27, 1917. A great coffee read. The Story ‘Barney’ Hines was also a kleptomaniac who became known in the trenches as the “Souvenir
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Read Time: 4 minutes Lacquer Like Hard Finish No Tip Dry Acrylic Paint Thinning Dilution Rate Colours: 1:1 – 7:3; 3G Acrylic Thinner to Paint Metallics: 8:2; 3G Acrylic Thinner to Paint Primers: Thinners: AK 3G ACRYLIC THINNER or DISTILLED WATER 3G ACRYLIC THINNERAK11500 3G ACRYLICS PERFECT CLEANERAK11505 Reduces brush wake 3rd Gen Acrylic and Vallejo Airbrush Cleaner Skin
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Read Time: < 1 minute BRITISH WW I SERVICE BROWN EQUIPMENT COLOUR 𝗣𝗶𝗴𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀Ground white lead – 38lbsStone ochre – 26lbs 8ozsBurnt Turkey Umber – 9lbs 8ozsGround lamp black – 12ozsPrussian blue – 12ozs 𝗙𝗶𝘅𝗲𝗿𝘀 & 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁Patent driers – 9lbs 8ozs (film-forming materials)Raw linseed oil – 2 galls 1 quart (drying-agent)Turpentine 3.5 – quarts, i.e., 7 pints (solvent) Produces 1 CWT
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Read Time: 2 minutes to TAMIYA X-20 & X-20A THINNERS Thinners, also known as reducers, are complicated and confusing at the best of times. As if we don’t have enough thinners already, another thinner is becoming more prevalent. X-20 in the Blue Cap is for TAMIYA ENAMEL PAINT only. Comprised of White Spirits it doesn’t work with TAMIYA COLOR
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Read Time: 2 minutes Lacquer Thinners: Notable Differences Blue/Yellow Label Mr.COLOR THINNER (Blue Label) and Mr.COLOR LEVELLING THINNER (Yellow Label) are identical products except for a levelling agent retarding drying time. The retarder allows the paint to level out along with prolonged outgassing to help reduce orange peel formation. Mr. LEVELING THINNER (Blue/Yellow Label) is added a ratio of
Read Time: 2 minutes DIORAMA TOOLS LUKAS Palette Knife There are palette knives, and then there are palette knives. This tooltip is about the latter. I’ve used three types of metal palette knives for diorama products including the LUKAS Palette Knife from Italy. Out of all the palette knives I’ve worked with, LUKAS by far is the best. In
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Read Time: < 1 minute On the Run Moving out of harm’s way Great colourization. Gotta luv the tracks. Moving out of harm’s way17 pdr. gun) of ‘B’ Squadron of the East Riding Yeomanry, 33rd Armoured Brigade, came to a halt at the Esso Petrol station on the ‘Wilhelmina-Square’, October, 1944, Den Bosch, Noord-Brabant Province, The Netherlands. Mr. Jo Van
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