Recent content by Joe York

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    [Free Model #3] - Building the Bald Eagles

    Great job Kathie
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    canon's bald eagle

    Metoo, I spray the future wax on after I'm finshed. It tends to bring out the colors and protects the model from moisture. I have never used the other sealers you mentioned. You'll need and airbrush for the spraying.I'm watching your builds with intrest. Joe
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    canon's bald eagle

    thanks Peter it was from one of your post that I first read of using Future wax. I've been using it ever since and it works great Joe
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    canon's bald eagle

    When the model first came out I started to print it out at full size using the best print function and it was sucking up all kind of ink so I put it away. A coupla weeks ago I decided to try again and reduced the size and printed it out in normal quality and it didn't use that much ink. Then I...
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    canon's bald eagle

    at 65% sitting on Yoshikazu Fujioka's rainbow trout at 55% sitting on the base that came with the model at 100%. The wingspan is about 25 inches. The head is 28 lb paper. the internal supports are 110 lb cardstock. The rest is 67 lb cardstock. Nice model.
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    Elephant's head

    going to do more Hi everyone, thanks for the comments. You did a great job Greenelf, looks great. But I have made up my mind , no more bodies just heads. Plus I'm kinda short on room to pu full size one. I have one nice empty wall. P.S. I know I posted this in the wrong place. My first post so...
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    Elephant's head

    heads I'm going to start a collection. The heads always seem to come out ok but the bodies give me problems. Joe
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    Elephant's head

    I got so frustrated trying to glue on the hindquarters of Canon;s elephant that I cut off the head and put on a plaque and hung it on the wall I kind of like it.