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    That's very nicely done. The 3 together look great! Ian
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    Well that's certainly an unusual subject, but of course, up to your usual very high standards! Ian
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    Beautifully done! I have all of their injection kits in my stash and really should get around to building them.. Ian
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    I gave you a like for the humour, not the promise of what's to come. I had one about 14 months ago. The surgeon was a friendly sort of guy (I guess you have to be..) and just before I went under I remember saying "just promise me you're not using an iPhone and a selfie stick and we're good"........ Ian
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    Don't post them....TonyT's Mrs might see and then you're really in it! Ian
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    Thanks Sarge! Not much to show this time around but I have been busy...drilling holes! All the rigging holes have now been done (I think!) and for the sadists out there here's the count: Lower wings: 32 each side Upper wings: 42 each side Centre section and fuel tanks: 20 Fuselage: 8 Horizontal stabiliser: 8 each side Elevators: 7 each Ailerons: 9 each Rudder: 8 A total so far of 232 holes at a cost of 3 0.3mm drill bits killed in action! A pretty good rate! (The 10 additional holes in the fuselage for the control cables were done much earlier and haven't been included in this count!) That of course does not include all the holes I'll have to drill in the struts and undercarriage when I make them........ I feel a beer coming on! See you all later..... Ian
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    She's got Procopius' shades too! Ian
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    I don't know about guessing what it is, but it isn't a Sopwith Camel! Do I win? Looking forward to the final pics! Ian
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    To quote one of the Polish pilots in "Piece of Cake"......"ees cock up!" Ian
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    If you need decent lozenge I would highly recommend Aviattic. I think they do night lozenge too. It would be a shame to go to all this trouble and then have the lozenge colours wrong.... ian
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    I'd forgotten about Airfix's ubiquitous "man trying to read a book while trapped in a very small sleeping bag"! He was certainly checked out on quite a few aircraft..... Ian
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    Mars, as usual! ian
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    Cheers John! Actually it's Boris, Igor's older brother and esteemed Who fan. He's waiting eagerly for his chance..... I have now left the building on account of the fact that I've been drillin' 'oles all day. Normal (?) service will be resumed after a pint or 3! Cheers! Ian
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    Lovely work on the decals, they've come out much better than mine did. I'll have to find some of that masking sheet..... Ian
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    There's a parrot missing then..... Ian
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    Postage from the US is NOT reasonable I'm afraid! Ian
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    Sorry to hear that Hendie, although good to hear your wife's ok. Ian
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    Thanks P! I'm ok with actually doing the rigging, it's drilling all the bloody holes I'm not looking forward to! I added all the support wires to the tanks using 1.5lb monofilament... (yes, it is there!) then attached them to the side panels. After that there was only one thing to do...attach the assemblies to the fuselage and finish them off. That meant adding the support braces under the tanks, attaching the support wires, and rigging the centre section. For that I used 2lb mono as it is a little thicker. The rigging on the real thing consisted of single wires, and double/triple wires taped to batons to stop any broken wires fouling the props. I will use these 2 sizes of mono, plus thin strip for the larger 3 wire assemblies, to give a better sense of the variation in the rigging. Unfortunately there's more touching up to do. I clamped some scrap plastic against the sides while attaching the cabane panels, to keep them vertical and aligned with the fuselage, I then used a little PlasticWeld and some must have crept under the scrap. When I removed them some of the paint came away too....Other than that I'm pretty happy with how it's coming on! Thanks for looking in! Ian
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    WOW, I had no clue that the nav was in the nose...you learn something new everyday! Another good reason to learn to fly! Ian
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    Good to see you found the control yoke, it would have been a bummer to have lost it...even if it won't be seen when on the ceiling! It'll stop Fritz the pilot getting irate at not being able to control his aircraft! Ian
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    I'm sure you could get replacement gun panels from Airfix. Send them an email through their website. Ian
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    I did a little more on the fuel tanks today, but they needed a little touching up so I've had to put them down until that dries. I used .010" brass rod for the vents and level indicators (calling them gauges is perhaps being a little optimistic!). they have been fitted and painted as necessary. When the touch up on the brass is dry I'll dirty them up a little and attach them to the side pieces. Then I can attach the whole lot to the fuselage and rig it all. I also started to take a more detailed look at the rigging, and creating a plan for it. Harry Woodman provides some very useful diagrams in his Datafile special, but these are for the later blunt nosed Veh. The sharp nosed one had some extra wires (MORE? Really?) in the inner bays. There were two more double wires, one from the top and one from the bottom of the inner engine struts to the bottom of the cabane struts (both front and rear), and the inner two bays had single cross bracing wires on the lower halves for and aft, presumably to aid the engineer if he needed to clamber out and fix the engines in flight. I've marked the extra wires on the diagram.... If i'm going to do all that, I might as well do it correctly! Ian
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    That doesn't look pretty, but I'm sure you can rescue it and give it a decent finish! Ian
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    I can't argue with what the photo appears to show, but the sun is shining on the lower surfaces, not the upper! I can only offer these two pics, taken by myself, without flash. Both are in the lobby of the IWM and in the same sunlight conditions, on the same day.. Ian
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    Very true, but sometimes it's easier to make all of them, than try to make kit parts fit! Ian
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