Mike

Going back to rivets, MDC make a riveting tool that is essentially a bradawl with a hollow point. You twist it round on the plastic and it makes a circular "scribed" line, leaving the plastic in the centre untouched. A quick way of getting the outer circle, and if you were feeling really anal, you could then drill a shallow hole in the centre of each one.

It's a turret... for attacking German invasion barges, apparently linky

Westland Wendover anyone? Well, you wanted ugly

Now that's tantamount to sacrilege! Burn the witch!

Ok - to clear up my major concern, I'd like you to look at the two pictures below & tell me which is the mouse, and which is the resin kit:

An injection moulded Tunnan and Lansen in the Lord's scale (1:48) would be my most fervent prayers... the ESCI/Airfix Viggen is doable with a lot of elbow grease, corrections & squinting. The Hasegawa Draken is a sweetie

to the play room Rafa...

I was wondering where this had gone! More praiseworthy progress

Can't fault your taste in aircraft

Hi Martin, You're more than welcome here old boy... As has already been demonstrated able by the members posts in any whiffy thread It's also entirely up to the whiffer whether they post in the "aircraft" forum, or the "Whiffer" forum... I'd imagine the audience would be about the same, as most people view the forums using View New Posts anway. Happy days for all of us, as we get more diversity of members & subject matter

I used to keep mine in the fridge when it was closer to my route to & from the workshop, and it DID last longer. If you've not got access to a fridge, buy smallish bottles, so you don't waste too much, or invest in a fridge for your workshop I thought of using our camping fridge to store CA & cold drinks, but with the cost of electricity these days, it'd bankrupt me

A very sharp paint job there Ted... nice one

It's 1:48 Graham, from our chum John @ Aeroclub. Nice kit I seem to remember there was a guy by the name of Timmy! on ARC that was building a 1:32 Gnat from scratch. The work he'd done last I saw it was amazing

Git! Nah, it's a nice kit. The foot wells are a bit tight, as is the space for the bang seats, but that could have been my building skills. Check your refs for whether you should use the original kit supplied bang seats, as they're quite different from the later ones. Other than that, the only seam that really needs work is where the white metal intakes meet the fuselage. There should be no gap Get on with it!

I did it before I got very involved with forums, so IIRC there either aren't any photos, or at least not many. It went pretty well actually, and was quite easy to build for a novice like me. I just bottled it on the masking, which is quite complicated for even the simplest of schemes included with the kit. It will get done at some point - just need to remember it's there next time I have the urge to paint something

You're gonna be in SO much trouble when people see that!

Looks really good Stef... I can see what you mean about the panel lines though, although it's only really noticeable when you look closely.

Yep... Liking that one

What he said. Mine's all built up though, and just waiting for paint (I was too chicken to attempt the masking at the time).

Nice pics... which poser turned up in their works car?

The 1:48 Revell kit IS the Hasegawa kit in a crap box Not so sure about the 1:49 scale kit though

Well, then we probably have you to thank for the impending release! Modeller's Sod's Law in full effect!

I can only just make out the wings! Do they mean that the fabric sags too much between the formers? Could be a trick of the light, could be real, more likely to be somewhere in between. Just so long there are no rivets on the fabric sections!

Pretty grainy pics, eh? That's a short belly tank, innit? I'm not going to be able to resist... the parts breakdown is very similar to the Airfix Lightning, i.e. fuselage in halves & wings on each side... clearly a copy!

Not a job I'd fancy "Can you just nip over to that bomb there & drill some holes in please?"... I could think of a few replies, but they'd all end up with me in the Indian equivalent of trouble