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Have to go to the gym again next week. Having deep conversations at the gym with people who are glued to their phones with their headphones on: "Are you using this?" 😅

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Age yourself with a childhood crush.

Cherie Lunghi - Death in the Morning (1982)

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

White stripe sorted, next challenge: the blue stripe. The model kit did include decals for the blue stripe but I am not going to use them. Put together several images and also an image of the real thing to find out what to do for the next paint job 🖌️

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It seems I'm enjoying soothing music more the older ⏳ I get. My taste in music from the '80s to now (2026) 🎶 However, it's very unlikely Frédéric Chopin will get into #my9albums soon. I'am not that old yet 😅

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Vallejo white colour does not cover very well. A black primer base coat does not help either, as the base coat keeps showing through. So, applied paint with a brush again, removed the paint streaks using sandpaper and sprayed white again. That is how it turned out, will leave it as it is. 🤔

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Saw this big guy at the local hardware shop. Suitable for model kits? It has an external tank 😅

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Another icon has passed away: Cronos (Conrad Lant), the founder, vocalist, and bassist of the heavy metal band Venom. I have two of the band’s albums, with “Black Metal” being my favourite.

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Never watched MTV TBH. On the other hand I still remember TMF from the 90's. Guess it had to do with VJ Bridget Maasland who was in her early twenties 🤩 at that time 😅 Also remembered that Laser PC. Had one and its Power Supply Unit blew up 🔥🤬 Had to do some soldering for installing a new PSU 😳

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

With artificial light 💡 you can't see the difference. However, in direct sunlight 🔆 you see what is silver and what is aluminium 🔎 So buying aluminium and silver paint was not a completely waste of money 🤑😅

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Also a paint mystery on this quiet Sunday morning. With sunlight 🔆 one sees the difference between silver and aluminium. However with artificial light 💡 the colours are alike 🤔

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"...No need to thank us, sir, as we will not appreciate it. We have no consiousness whatsoever..."

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Looks like those mini strips I used to have. Some were crap, some were very good. This comic is a good one although somewhat amusing. High ranking psycho SS officer, loves hunting down his victims. The crook overestimates himself, lost the duel by surprise, in the end got shot by the good guy 😅

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Paint mysteries.. did spray White-Grey (AV 71.119) but the Mustang's underside looks more Light-Gray irl 🤔 Guess spraying an extra layer might help in reducing the differences in colour 🙄🤷‍♂️

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Some steps to go before doing the panel lines for my WIPs. I did not (over) accentuate the panel lines in my previous builds. Have to admit the model looks better with panel lines popping out. However, that's often not the case on looking at the planes irl. What do you do with your panel lines?

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

First computer growing up was the Exidy Sorcerer, mid eighties.

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Quote this with a picture of the aircraft you'll accept as a bribe. Is this a good bribe? 🤔 The Swedish Air Force donated this Saab 37 Viggen to the Aviodrome aviation museum (NL) in 2006. Exposed to the elements ever since the plane starts to decay and looks more and more weathered by the day 😳

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I have a compressor without an external tank as I am not doing long sessions and it also needs less space. After 1 hour I was already finishing & cleaning stuff as the compressor stopped because it got too hot. How long does it take before your processor needs a break because it gets too hot?

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Hardly can see the differences between the various AV Model Air metallic colours 🤔 So save some money 🤑 using your aluminium 😅

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Guess you will apply Italian markings? Not those of the KLU 😎?

F-104G Starfighter at the Nationaal Militair Museum / National Military Museum Soest (NL)

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wChV... Two icons on screen and William Shatner still amongst us

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

De "Zeven Provinciën" (1665) was a flagship of Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter. The Batavia shipyard started building the replica in 1995. The project was put on hold indefinitely 19 years later. Pictures are from 2017. Hope Association Tourville do better in building their Jean Bart.

Pictures were taken in 2017 at the Batavia shipyard.

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

35 years ago by now 🎧😎🎧 Founded in 1990 - from the Rotterdam area where I studied & lived in the '90s ⏳

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

As we are promoting tourism in our countries I would nominate Scheveningen being tourist trap no 1 in the Netherlands 🇳🇱😅 As for a model shop I would recommend Aviation Megastore ✈️😎 in Aalsmeerderbrug (NL). A wide range of aviation items/model kits and they are not that far from Schiphol airport 🛫

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hope this will protect my clothes somewhat against paint specks / drips 🎨🖌️

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Glad Spock was with the good guys 😅

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I think you visited the museum as well. My visit in 2017. Guess the tank is still there.

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I do use a magnifying lamp (Lumeno 815 XL) - 950 Lumen and satisfied with the lighting so far. But you can also use a construction lamp, they are not that expensive and even cheaper 😅

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Was treating my DC-10 with medium gray and decided to spray the Mustang medium gray as well. It might not do justice to the RAF 268th squadron's historical accuracy but I decided to give the underside a white-gray colour 😎 anyway. Like Italeri's RAF colour scheme that looks more whitish 🤔

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The programming languages I earn a living are within the top 10 according to the TIOBE programming Community Index. That’s why I like building my scale models. It makes me forget programming languages and statistics like that for a while.

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Guess those will be Skynet's first words on becoming self aware 🙄

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Some dry fitting of what i made of the DC-10 wings so far. The Tamiya masking tape did well, no bleeding. And the AV Model Air paints behaved as well. Now on to the upper sides of the wings.

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Solar powered watches are already there for some years. Have this one (Casio WVA M650) for some years, solar powered and radio controlled. Quite content with that watch.

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Passed the test. Went to the shop for flow improver and I left the shop with... just flow improver 😎 Although that Tamiya model kit was very tempting but I could resist the temptation 💪 #buildthestash

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The P-51A Mustang had its primer. Now on to the next paint layers. Unfortunately it's always AFTER cleaning the airbrush and throwing away the paint that I found out I had forgotten parts that could be sprayed in that spray session as well 😳

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

It's not the "Artesanía Latina" with its 10.000+ parts 😳 what I am having, It's 'only' the Airfix one what is in my stash. Looking at pictures of the real thing, how many ropes does that thing have? 🙀 Is there some kind a wiring diagram whenever in the future my HMS Victory is ready to be rigged 🤔

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This girl is the neighbours' cat. She doesn't ask for permission to enter our house, she demands it 😳 🙀 Don't think she will make a request to be adopted by us. She is planning a hostile takeover instead 😅

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Got something similar with Vallejo primer, although AV primer is a story itself 😬 It didn't peel off on removing the masking tape after applying a 2nd layer and after it had been given many days 🥱 to cure (and I tried AV Model Air Silver that imo looked better compared to AV Model Air's Chrome)

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Spent some time on the hobby this weekend. Will do some extra sessions next week. Content with the AV Model Air Silver and the AV black primer but several paint sessions need to be done to get satisfying results 🤔

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

If time, money and space are no object and not having a stash anymore (built/binned), I would do this: Artesanía Latina - HMS victory 1:84, anatomy version Length:1202mm, Height w/stand: 875mm,over 10.000 parts 😳 With all its rigging till the last rope, guess it will take me 30 years to build 😅

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

No not for me, don't find it an attractive plane/time/money/space/Mrs etc. 🙄 but I think most will buy an air fleet of this 😅: 1:72 scale - wing span: 1018 mm - length:960 mm, so almost 1 square Meter. Additional requirement for the model kit: after buying six of them, a Mrs who does not object 😅

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"I hope so, Commander, for your sake. The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am." - such a pleasant working environment 😅 -

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

My stir sticks are from my local super market (don't know who supplies the super market, might be that coffee shop [watery dreck coffee ☕, not weed 🌿, not everybody lives in Amsterdam 😅]-chain . Not actually recycling but I do use the sticks several times before I bin them.

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

On our way, 10 years ago (2016) - la Route Nationale, somewhere between Bourges and Troyes. For a tourist most French villages look similar, hardly changing over the years. Really did enjoy my holidays in France.

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Could have saved the effort painting the wheel wells. Unlike a Spitfire nothing of it is visible once the landing gear is retracted. Seems the Italeri P51-A model kit is focused on an extended landing gear. The parts in question don’t have the best fit if you want to have a retracted landing gear.

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Wasn’t satisfied with the sprayed paint layer so i decided to do some sanding as a preparation for the next layer to come. Just a little bit of sanding giving it an appearance of being in decay on a scrapyard 😅interesting 🤔

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Once painted you won't see much of the interior. (behind the iron-curtain-Eastern-Express-logics 🙄 - why that large transparent part for the fuselage that, consistent as usual 😩 doesn't fit well on the other parts resulting in gaps and ugly seams 🫣)

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Don't forget to order the chairs 🙂 (Vallejo 70.844 Deep Sky Blue)

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Will add dark aluminium as well. I'll mix the aluminium with some white or black to get a "real" alu-colour. Sprayed Chrome. Could have saved grey-white if I'd sprayed chrome first 🙄 Chrome-colour looks what the silver-colour must be and the silver -colour looks like chrome-colour should be 🤔?

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

The silicon masking putty goes back to the tool box. Will try some cotton wool combined with masking tape to mask the interior.

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MRA @mrasoft.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Museum Steam Depot Beekbergen (NL)

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