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g u l p anyroadup nice hammocking birthday boy

I'm sure now, I do.

Lucky you

Wow

Can I just suggest something John, in the interest of my passion for Wessexes The green you have painted the rear wall sound proofing is not very soundproofery green I use a variation of Vallejo Green Sky with a dash of grey in it for this

Indeed I have/do Adrian Hereby a pair of upper frames in Ni Ag/Cr tubing drilled at the proper angle to coincide and be held together by cyanomigod glue ready to receive the correct angle to incide with the uprights tomorrow morning Probably I understand there was a time when the Fujimi was considered to be a good SH-3H, my money if I had any would be on the Revell instead, so many silly mis-shapes round the cockpit/engine interface take it back down the table for me. Still leagues better than the old Airfix of course but... Nowhere near as good as the new naked Airfix version, rivets Airfix. Why no rivets...

"she dies..." Pterry©️

I have one little piece of the thick one from the assortment packs Terry obviously kept for reasons of sentimental attachment. I think I need the thinnest, not ten thou, version which was about twenty/ twenty five thous of an inch for this task and if you have some I might come a-begging but for now I am hoping to make attachments with Albion Alloys nickel-steel rods from the slide fit set. I'm planning to stupergoo it into holes drilled all over the place round the mounting fish plates. Fortunately the logging, Revell version stands firm on her spindly legs, it's only the Fujimi version giving me pause and I hope I'm getting it right now. (Before anyone who knows military Sea Kings complains that I have the seats wrong because of hard scrabble plastic survival packs, these beauties have nicely leather upholstered seats instead.)

Getting nowhere Tom One worked fine t'other flew miles offside... Grrrr

😳 Sadly Ced it's not all going well here, I keep breaking the undercarriage off when I pick the little monster up Evergreen isn't working well at all, I do wish Slaters still made their red extruded rods, they were stronger than Evergreen and were easily able to flex with any dynamic sideways motions which have completely b*ggared up the struts here, I wonder if I can solder some brass rod to suit? Must I revert to the skills taught me by Lol the silver solderer at Clissold's? It's been a hell of a long time.

I just knowed...

Or file the openings to size then add flat clear windows to suit?

Daco Strong, that'll sort the decals if you can get them And I might possibly have saved an image of them from the image on the site to play graffix with... I love playing with imagery

OGODGODOGODGODOGODGOD........... Like Terry I vaguely remember your ride round the lakes a while back Alan, this is going to be a wonderful ride for us. Already de-recalcitranting a Hobby-craft wonder too, on board amigo I'm buckling in. But a problem already, no not for you, me. Billos why did you? Look what I got? But I will now have to operate my searching bots to find more images if it's to happen in a different place. I'm here to observe and learn.

good, very good. 👍

What a wonderful update Tony Makes me wonder why I'm messing about with making my little bubble windows when I see you get results like this Interested in sub contracting making windows for others mate? Stunning work, absolutely tremendous.

Have to finally fix the undercarriage though but the Water Bomber is ready to be brung on now I think.

Me sir, I can sir! Oh what fun we'll have, as Ced hits his Madness Vibe.

One out of two ain't bad

That said! I love it when a plan comes together. Oh yes Three more to go. OK

Ah yes, well, some of them did. But not all of them A couple of pumps too many on a good one

On the nose of the Monster plane every diamond must surely be a slightly different size as the shapes follow the curvature to the front Yukkk Still as ever with Ced and his 'impossiblethingsbeforebreakfast' regime it is going to be an entertaining 'watch'

Me too Adrian, it makes a stunning difference, of course now to satisfy the needs of @giemme I need to paint the pair of yellowcopters in Mr P or Tamiya with an airbrush. Never mind I already have perfectly fine aerosols from Tamiya, tssk tsssk. As I mentioned it was time to reassess the sizes of the bubbles, yesterday's being useless and suffering from megalotheria or something weird and important sounding. Today I tried the brass sheet version for size. I like it I used several pieces of clear formable plastic to give them all a fair go From the right, yes? PETg, blimey its thick and didn't like taking the sook from the hand pump much either but it does form eventually (Possible OK?) Next in from the right, this was my local artists supplies shop disappointing me with acetate sheet Its clear but is also clearly blue cast plastic, now the previous acetate sheet they had was crystal clear throughout and got used for a variety of helicopter cabin roof mouldings. This however is blue tosh and is unlikely to make its way onto my models. Pity really an A1 sheet can be cut down to make a bunch of A4 ones which was very useful and useable. tssk The rest are made out of clear plastic packaging sheet, various examples of suction effect making differences over the length of the hour I played with it all Here's the preliminary results with the mould 'hole' reversed part of the time to get both sides of window bubbles. Some of the right side ones are guaranteed to fly on the model. Possibly none yet for the starb'd side Some of the best acetate ones I got were made from recycled Oral-B Brush clear bubble packaging. Moulds up lovely, see.

There's a fair old bit of dismay hanging round my gaff this morning, this doesn't look at all promising NOT THE PAINT- THE TRANSFERS No matter what I do I cannot get the right yellow backing area for the decals which NEED to be printed on white decal paper. But actually just looking, casually, it seems I may be on the right track with the outlines and lettering, #gettingthere On the bench in front there is a sheet of brass which will now be asked to control the bubble window process, the bubbles I made yesterday are rather huge compared to the actual hole we need to fill. day two of bubbling begins after brekkie

Ah T'is lovely work in there Ced