silverfox63

Me please.

Your Excellency, I, too, would like to volunteer for a place in a galaxy far, far away. Cheers, Chris.

All duly noted for my future builds.

Something arrived in the mail yesterday. Yes, it's another partial Merlin. No, it's not going into the Hurricane (I'm not THAT stupid). Yes, I'm going to Franken Steen this with the other Hurricane Merlin parts for one of my 1/24 Spitfires. And set it up to run the motor.

I've been known to use bits of paperclip, guitar string, even old drill bits to pin and repair my models, usually after I've broken said model, which happens a lot, lol. When I break the micro drill bits, the remains get kept for use in future repairs.

One of the joys of Old Airfix.

I might give it a try, but knowing my luck, I'll probably break something in the process. I have previous, lots and lots of previous, lol,.

Update time. Just as well I bought those parts as it turns out I needed the inner sleeve for the front cover. That's the piece near the top right of the pic, the tube with the flange. So, said pieces got cleaned up and fitted to the engine block. While I was doing that, I knocked off the oil tank and line piece off the lh side, again. Right, I'll fix you I thought. I cleaned up the mounting surface, drilled a hole where the mounting pip had been, drilled out the engine block and looked for something to use as a pin. I also had to remount the rh ignition piece, doing the same thing to it as I did to the oil tank. Found a broken micro drill bit that was the right size for what I wanted, broke it into shorter pieces, glued them to the parts with superglue, then glued them to the engine block. Let's see you fall off again! Also glued the rocker covers back on, Just need to clean them up a bit, and then I can repaint this assembly, and hopefully move on with this build. More as and when. Cheers, Chris.

Fished from the depths of page 4, a small update. I glued the voltage reg to the seat station. That's it, nothing else at this stage. Oh crap, premature posting. Sorry for the slightly out of focus pics. More as and when. Cheers, Chris.

A small update, no work done, just a pic for @marvinneko, as per his suggestion. Yes, the tailplanes are not anywhere close to level, but then again, neither are the wings. For the purposes of this exercise, they wont be fixed, I will do better on the next one, promise. More as and when. Cheers, Chris.

Let there be life! Just a small update, but an update nevertheless. I glued a small piece of plastic strip to the rh seat to replace the missing leg. Waddaya mean ya can't see it? It's right there, inner on the rh seat, see middle picture. Like I said, just a small update, but at least you all know I'm still here, pottering along. More as and when. Cheers, Chris.

This is coming along nicely. I'm liking what you're doing. I also have that MkIX kit, and the MkVIII. They are light years ahead of the original Spitfire kit, unsurprisingly.

Fantastic! That looks really good. Well done. Cheers, Chris.

Wouldn't know anything about that.

I feel a stirring in the Force...er my wip in the GB.