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Post by cfesmire on Aug 31, 2005 22:12:36 GMT 1
Wouldn't it be nice if someone made a Shelby decal set, that way one wouldn't have to risk it all by painting stripes. Good job, too. There are decal sheets of solid color and you can cut the stripes to whatever size is needed. If I could paint as well as Sylvain, I wouldn't bother though. One also has the option of masking the stripes.
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Post by skunk on Sept 2, 2005 3:39:06 GMT 1
But dang it, I want there to be a little text saying "GT 350H" on the front fenders... Easy for someone with the right coimputer...
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Post by Sylvain on Sept 4, 2005 22:04:57 GMT 1
Yes, I know, it's missing. I definitively must try to find some decal sheets for my ink jet paper.
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Post by DavidJohnson on Sept 17, 2005 3:05:15 GMT 1
Sylvain, I see you have added many model photographs to your albums. Your Ford collection alone is near the size of my entire collection. A few favorites among many are the 1940 Fords, the 1948 Magnuson Ford with the visor, the 1952 wagons from Stoney Mountain, the 1956 Weico, and the 1956 Williams Crown Vic with the green tinted roof. I especially like your 1949 Convertible converted from the Alloy Forms model.
Great conversion to make the 1957 Corvette Hardtop, and your 1953 Corvette looks better than my 1/25th model of the same car!!! .
Thankyou for showing these models, Dave
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Post by Sylvain on Sept 19, 2005 17:42:49 GMT 1
Thanks Dave!
The 1949 Ford convertible is one of my oldest conversion. Easy to do in fact.
The 1957 Corvette Hardtop was more difficult to do. If you remember, Praliné's beautiful 1957 Corvette was also available with a very simple and rather awful hardtop (I believe Busch proposes today only a open or closed convertible). I have strongly modified it to get the roof and used clear plastic for the new rear and side windows. I remember that one difficult thing was to find a color for the roof that matches exactly the color of the main body.
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Post by nickvoges on Nov 11, 2005 21:49:50 GMT 1
Hi Sylvain, s ´nother fan of your paint(art)work. Could spend hours by hours looking on your Website. Really good idea assort them for types and year. Maybe there are more people interested in learning your technic. How you start, which colour you normally use and how is the finish. Why not an essay in the 87thscale Web? Thanks for sharing your hobby with us. nick ingmar
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Post by Lee on Nov 11, 2005 23:54:45 GMT 1
Poor Sylvain. I can remember when Sylvain was looking for new models to finish and was unhappy when he got one or two kits behind. In another thread he states he is now 40 kits behind. That must be driving poor Sylvain right up the wall.
Maybe it's time to send Sylvain another "package" ;D
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Post by DavidJohnson on Nov 12, 2005 4:31:24 GMT 1
Hi Sylvain, s ´nother fan of your paint(art)work. Could spend hours by hours looking on your Website. Really good idea assort them for types and year. Maybe there are more people interested in learning your technic. How you start, which colour you normally use and how is the finish. Why not an essay in the 87thscale Web? Thanks for sharing your hobby with us. nick ingmar I believe I have spent hours looking at Sylvains photos, and to much benefit. There are several threads in "The Workbench" discussing finishing of models. Also read through the "All Done" threads discussing the models. Everyone is a little different in materials and methods which work for them. There are bits and pieces all over this site. Essays are a nice idea.
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Post by Lee on Nov 13, 2005 3:03:26 GMT 1
Hey Sylvain!! When you get caught up and have some free time, how about doing an editorial about painting and detailing? Maybe even better would be to do an "in progress" with step by step photos being as you are very good with both the detailing and the camera. ;D Jerry and I have talked many times about sending Sylvain a solid block of resin and telling him just remove the unwanted material. Oh, and the keys are under the mat.
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Post by skunk on Nov 13, 2005 5:39:30 GMT 1
Hey Sylvain!! When you get caught up and have some free time, how about doing an editorial about painting and detailing? Maybe even better would be to do an "in progress" with step by step photos being as you are very good with both the detailing and the camera. ;D Jerry and I have talked many times about sending Sylvain a solid block of resin and telling him just remove the unwanted material. Oh, and the keys are under the mat. I would definitely appreciate such an editorial. No pressure, though, Sylvain. And Lee, make sure to tell Sylvain that inside of said chunk of resin resides a Talbot-Lago America:
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Post by Sylvain on Nov 13, 2005 10:41:38 GMT 1
Thanks all for your interest and your confidence. I don't think there are many tricks in what I'm doing. But with the 60 kits (60, it's even worrse than I thought), and which include almost every kind of models (resin, metal, etc…), I could try a "in process" series. That is, next time I'll find the time to build models again.
Nice looking car this Talbot. But sorry, that's not what will resides in my block of resin. In fact Lee, the resin is the magic stuff the modeller's dreams are made of. Only kind genius like Jerry, Joe and others are able to bring these dreams to reality.
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Post by Sylvain on Mar 4, 2006 13:38:42 GMT 1
So here they are. I’ve posted in my yahoo-gallery a new folder with some pictures of models I’ve done. Be indulgent, don’t forget that these models have been done almost 20 years ago for most of them. The 2 first pictures are models of American buildings. These 2 ones I still have, and I would like, if I ever find the time, to make more buildings of the same type. The idea would be to make a small diorama of a square city block, with 5 buildings… and a parking lot! Two other buildings, of 4 and 3 stories are at a various stage of work, and the larger one, a small Art-Deco Skyscraper of 12 stories is designed, but still “on paper”. The problem now, since many years, is time. Whenever I get the time to do models, I always have a car kit to build, so… The other pictures are from old models of more French type buildings. Sorry for the bad quality of the pictures. Some pictures were made for a model railroad magazine contest, and all I still have is the printed page of the magazine. All of these models have been sold. All models are done with paper, cardboard and wood. fr.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/archi187/album?.dir=c117&.src=ph&store=&prodid=&.done=http%3a//fr.photos.yahoo.com/ph/archi187/my_photos
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Post by cfesmire on Mar 4, 2006 14:44:34 GMT 1
Fantastic work Sylvain! Those buildings are just incredible. They must have been extremely time consuming. More terrific work from you, a modeler par excellence.
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Post by DavidJohnson on Mar 5, 2006 6:53:12 GMT 1
Sylvain, Everything is just right. My wife enjoyed these, especially the French which she said brought her back to Paris. I hope you find tme to build more. Dave
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Post by skunk on Mar 7, 2006 4:57:30 GMT 1
Those buildings are very charming indeed. I especially like those funky French chimneys. And what do they sell in the "Wizard of Oz" store?
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