SmashedGlass

I live north of Orlando; we had several days of a high temp in the upper 40s.... Though I grew up in lake effect snow Ohio, spent five years in Bavaria, and then twelve in Colorado Springs, I've now lived here so long that 40s feel like Antarctica.

Newsflash: tis also quite cold here in Florida!

If those old decals don't seem to want to bleach out for you, a company called APC Decals (available at hobbyshop.cz) makes high quality replacement sheets for many of the old Frog, KP, and other kits. Aero A 100 decals

Could be worse, Bill. I have a tree on my next door lot that is not only dropping leaves all over the place............ It's shedding as many limbs! I believe the poor thing (a rather tall and stately oak) completely and rapidly died due to some unseen illness. Hopefully the main trunk holds together, because we don't really have the funds to allow for a professional tree removal at this time.

Ah, a warm reminisce of the days of yon when mine father would simply slap us with a fresh caught cod if we got out of hand.

It's even going to drop into the low 20's F (-5C) here in Florida.....I don't have winter clothes. 😬

We'd all rather you take your time and get better than have you try to force yourself to do some "work" just for our edification.

Bill, having to unfortunately (for the present time) reside smack in the midst of "AIR BOAT HEAVEN" here in central Flooreeduh, I can say that this resembles nothing on any local machine. They mostly use either good 'Murcan V8 car engines or flat-6 small aircraft motors. Occasionally some weirdo will even put a Subaru engine in one.

Lead fly tying wire is available in sporting goods stores (fishing section) in sizes down to .010.

Stephen, are you doing any vacuuming of the silicone when molding and/or using a pressure pot when casting the resin?

Having built the Frog Javelin, and put quite a bit of work into it, yes it does "look the part". But one glaring error with it is the positioning of the leading edge bullet fairings and thus also the cannon openings. Not something easily fixed, so I left them as is.

I gave that last posting a like simply because of the IPA in it.

Your best bet is probably going to involve fabricating a longer wing spar for it, either brass or aluminum tube or square section, or from wood dowel.

Vallejo do now have a complete set for "Pre-war to 1941" available, I'm not sure how much of their range you may already own. Here are the colours listed for a BOB Emil: RLM 65: AV71255 RLM 71: AV71015 RLM 02: AV71044

For clears, Falcon Clear-vax set #9 includes the bits for the Airfix Greif.