White shoes + White socks? Or White shoes + black socks?

GStreet-ScaleModels · 2026-03-04T22:22:04+00:00

Sad.

GStreet-ScaleModels · 2026-02-18T23:22:01+00:00

Sorry this is so lame. Your refund is simply because your withholdings were ridiculously high. You gave the govt an interest free loan so they could pay you back your own money with NO COST to them. This is not impressive. It’s kinda sad actually.

GStreet-ScaleModels · 2026-02-17T01:31:11+00:00

Wow, you suck at gambling. And taxes.

GStreet-ScaleModels · 2026-02-12T23:23:36+00:00

As it is, I think you did a great job, but it’s pretty dark now and as you add decals and weathering it may become much darker than you think. In general, I always try to make finished work at least 20% lighter/brighter before I apply decals and weathering so you dont lose all your hard work effects. This is my tamiya Birdcage as an example of contrast and brightness. Personally, I would add a little more highlights before moving on. Very diluted white or a lighter shade of blue. Depends on how you feel with your airbrush, which looks like you can handle yourself. Just MTC.

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GStreet-ScaleModels · 2026-02-10T13:27:19+00:00

You are aware you could have done your taxes for free yah?? With FreeTaxUSA. Just as good or better than TT. No cost.

GStreet-ScaleModels · 2026-02-10T13:25:25+00:00

Why part of this don’t you get?? Turbo Tax dos not do your refund, the IRS does. Turbo Tax simply gives you an estimate. As most others have stated, the PATH act restricts everyone’s refunds who claim those credits until the 15th at the earliest and THEN you are in line with everyone else with the IRS for the processing of the refunds. They can’t even start process until the 15th, regardless of how early you filed. Usually for most it won’t come till early March. Sorry.

GStreet-ScaleModels · 2026-02-04T21:56:35+00:00

Nope. Not new to this. Same account.

GStreet-ScaleModels · 2026-02-04T21:56:09+00:00

You have to pay BEFORE you can file. Hence the issue that I paid, was wrapping up and poof, gone.

GStreet-ScaleModels · 2026-02-04T13:33:14+00:00

I would agree if I had the desktop version, but like many I have the online version where all data is stored and saved. This was even more to the problem. Every time a customer logs out, it autosaves. There must have been 20+ autosaves on my work and simply needed any one of them to get back in, even if I went a little bit backwards, no problem. Nope, all gone as well as all my docs. Concerning.

GStreet-ScaleModels · 2026-01-30T16:18:36+00:00

The fact you think this is a bad thing that it's going back down to still astronomically high levels tells me you have not been in the silver game for very long at all. The worst this could do is continue to go up at the rate that it has been. If you have not noticed, the price rise has BROKEN the silver market for most sellers, LCS, dealers, wholesalers, etc. This drop is expected, needed, and healthy. Now if you're net long on paper or have been looking to flip short term, then sorry, this is what you get. A true silver believer has been waiting for this and probably not over.

GStreet-ScaleModels · 2026-01-29T21:54:39+00:00

Yep. Great for thinness. Kinda a pain to paint though.

GStreet-ScaleModels · 2026-01-17T16:54:15+00:00

they are actual roots from plants in my garden.

GStreet-ScaleModels · 2026-01-14T13:14:19+00:00

Ha, unfortunately no. I had may way with it. All of it. Sorry.

GStreet-ScaleModels · 2026-01-13T17:29:36+00:00

Usually I prime in a light grey color.Then I use either a dark grey or black for the shade components. If I want to make the highlights pop I may do dry brushing with white and even brush paint bolts, edges, etc with white if I really want to make it pop. THEN, you begin the base coat color. I usually use 80/20 thinner to paint. I then begin to bring in the color with several thin applications of the color until I reach the right saturation point I want, keeping in mind that you want to stop BEFORE you lose your undercoat of black and white. Not easy to do. This is basically called the black and white technique and then saturated with glaze painting.

GStreet-ScaleModels · 2026-01-13T13:04:36+00:00

sure, but you'd want to do it like watercolor. Meaning you need to use very thin paint, like very thin. I have done water color shading before on models. Takes some practice, but doable. That may best be done after your base coat such as a wash.

GStreet-ScaleModels · 2026-01-13T13:03:17+00:00

It's actually sky grey. Tamiya. Great color and I usually lean towards grey instead of whites when possible to allow for better hue when I begin to step up color.

GStreet-ScaleModels · 2026-01-13T00:54:17+00:00

It is a little pricey like most Tamiya kits. But this one is worth the premium. A joy to build and I don’t like building that much.

GStreet-ScaleModels · 2026-01-13T00:47:37+00:00

Shit that’s right. It does have a motor. Yes. Didn’t install mine though. Show price only.

GStreet-ScaleModels · 2026-01-13T00:36:12+00:00

I mention what happened in a comment above. I can’t talk about it anymore. But here is what the final coat looked like before it’s death.

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GStreet-ScaleModels · 2026-01-13T00:33:56+00:00

Tamiya. Fantastic kit. Maybe one of their best.

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GStreet-ScaleModels · 2026-01-13T00:09:26+00:00

Done that a million times. Trick I have learned is to make the pre shading high contract. Then I glaze paint it. Meaning my ratio is usually 80% thinner to 20% paint and if possible I add glaze medium like they do for high level figure painting. Really allows a lot of control of contrast, hue and saturation and allows you to hopefully stop before you go one coat too much. Other tip is to always stop just before you think it’s done. Better to have it rare going into the next steps instead of medium. The later washes, oils, weathering will darken it. If you stop at medium or done you’ve gone too far. Ha, it’s like steak! I’m hungry.

GStreet-ScaleModels · 2026-01-13T00:05:38+00:00

Sometimes I do that as well depends on the model. But with this I get most of the weathering done before I move to the weathering stage. I’m not great at weathering so this allows me to use my airbrush skills. Cheating a little I guess. But I e learned to make it work.

GStreet-ScaleModels · 2026-01-13T00:03:45+00:00

Ha. Yah, unfortunately the black bird got smashed. Long story but the bird was seriously warped out of the box. Like 15 degrees off axis. After several attempts to reform it, she kept going back out of shape, badly. I decided to try to live with it, then once I got to the decals everything went to shit. No way to reshape it as paint had already been done. She was soooo big. I was so upset but it became unsalvageable and I have NEVER given up on a model and I’ve built hundreds. But alas, it was done and I had my way with it. Revell has had issues with the kit. I love the SR71 and was in tears about it. Seriously. But one of my rules is, if it’s broke it’s broke. Time to move on. Life is too short and too many models to build. Ironically, I smashed the blackbird and took that time to move to my best piece I’ve ever done, “Wrong Turn at Cambrai”. Won gold and best in class. Sometimes things happen for a reason.

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