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What happens in our house if I accidentally change the channel when the wife's watching Escape to the Chateau.

That's a lot of plastic strip stuck there. There's a few scratch builders who won't be doing much for a while.

Lovely job, that bulkhead looks good. You could get away with putting an extra bit of evergreen sheet over the part you aren't happy with; alternatively, what about a piece of manufacturer coloured black foil from a wine bottle? It's metallic and the black is very fine and to scale. In future it might help to put a pinprick from an awl where you want to drill- it stops the bit slipping.

That's special, I love a good target tug.

Beautiful job on a truly hateful kit. If I recall correctly the undercarriage was the worst part of it. I felt like setting myself on fire when I was doing it.

It's likely to be, yes. Even now it's quite inaccessible. There's a shooters track nearby but I suspect it wasn't there at the time. Apparently the local farmer who's land it is was supposed to be on the plane for a trip to an agricultural show somewhere- it was chartered especially for that purpose. When it didn't turn up he went home to find the police waiting for him to ask for his help to access the site. There's a lot of scarring and disturbance on the hillside to this day, some of which may be due to the crash. There may well be stuff buried under the surface as when you walk through the heather you can often feel metallic scrunching. It's not easy to find but if you want an OS grid reference send me a pm- its nowhere near where certain books say it is.

Great job. What's left of this aircraft is still on the side of Croglin Fell where it crashed. There isn't very much really, just a few fragments of metal and bits of glass and vinyl.

Can see it now, looks great. Thanks for amending that, I’ve never seen photos do that on here before.

I don’t know if it’s just my screen but the photos appear to be horribly pixelated? Looks like a nice job aside from that but it actually appears like Lego on my screen?

Cool, beautiful job.

Really nice work. I can see a lot of effort went into that BMF, which looks great by the way. Did you ever read “Whip” by Martin Caidin? It was a sort of novelisation of the work of these machines, with the subtitle “He’d take on every damnJapanesein the Pacific if they’d let him”. A true classic.

I’m pretty sure I saw some convincing looking health & safety warning sign stickers for sale at a show once, something along the lines of “Risk of Broken Fingers”. Wish I’d brought a few now. Nobody gets left unsupervised in my hobby room now as in my experience most people are basically cretins who want to “see if the propellers go round” for some reason.

I just went for both as they were getting on for ten years old and were pretty worn. If I’d just bent the tip of a relatively new needle that would have been different but I didn’t see the point in farting around.

Is it white and grainy? If so that suggests that the varnish is drying before it hits the surface. Better thinning may take care of that, or maybe some flow enhancer. I usually thin with cellulose, seems to work ok with this stuff which I find is the best Matt I’ve ever used.

What colour is the base kit? If it’s light grey like most models then I’d just paint it black as you have done then lightly sand the raised detail. The paint on the raised areas will be removed, et voila you have a perfectly finished dial with almost white details. That’s what i do anyway.

Quick update - I replaced the (eye wateringly expensive) needle and nozzle and it’s all good now. I also replaced the nozzle cap which had picked up a dent somewhere and may have been throwing the spray pattern off a bit. For info when I use IPA I cut it with flow enhancer to prevent tip drying, seems to do the trick usually,

Cool, good job. I built one of these myself a couple of years ago, they go together quite well for a kit of this age.

Let me guess, someone stole your sweetroll.

I don’t think I’ve ever actually played as a Nord. My current build, “Fishy Hiss”, is a Kajiit mage. Awesome job by the way. I just showed my daughter, also a Skyrim fan, and her response was “Sick” which is the highest praise imaginable. Now, go cast your fancy magic someplace else.

Great work, I know from recent experience what it takes to get something as nice as this from a vacform.

That’s the plan, not sure how I’ll do it just yet though. I’ve got some 10mm microbore heating pipe in the shed, that might do the job.

Thanks, fair to say a fair bit has gone in. What I did on the engine mounts was to glue some flexible plastic sheet inside them to create a level front and the blanked the cavity off with a bulkhead. I then filled the shallow cavities around the bulkhead with filler; having the strips of plastic I’d fitted inside the mount housing minimised the amount of filler I’d need, if you see what I mean? Anyway, I realised afterwards that one of the bulkheads was out of true to the wing so I added a half bulkhead to the front of it on the side that needed to be built up and then levelled the whole thing out with some filler. Once it’s cured I’ll be squaring it off and smoothing the whole thing down. I’ve noticed that the trailing edges are way thicker than they should be, possibly due to my formers but I don’t think so as I was quite diligent in how they fitted. I’ll make an honest attempt to thin them out but I think I’ll probably have to live with them being out of scale.

I got out into the garden to do a bit more this afternoon which made a pleasant change. I decided to get on with the remaining sub assemblies, such as they are; the wings, tailplane and nacelles. As expected the fit was tenuous to say the least. The wings have a sort of blob on the end of the engine mounts that look like they’ve been formed around wet tissue paper. They do have a distinct cut line that I followed carefully with a razor saw. Dear God what is this evil that we must have done? The other wing was the same Obviously the whole structure had little rigidity so I put some formers in there to give it a bit of strength. Then it was time to break out the filler; no way was I using the expensive Tamiya stuff for that, it was out with the Holts knifing putty. I think it was about 3 quid from Halfords and in many ways I find it better than model specific stuff, especially for low sink qualities, hard wearingness, and excellent feather edging. Needless to say I’ll be needing a whole lot more of it when it’s time to fair the nacelles in because they’re a totally different profile to the mounts.

It says that it’s the Airmodel kit in the tags at the top of the post.

I’ve got to say, she’s looking very tidy. I’d have preferred a more visually interesting scheme but I’m not complaining. Minimal progress today, complicated by my scribing tool being blunt. Nothing worth posting here anyway.