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Folks, Just started this build... or conversion, as in converting an Olde Ayrfyxe Kytte into something that looks like what it's supposed to be. My intention here is to build the Battle Target Tug no. 6 of an "unknown unit" in Canada in 1940, as on the Xtradecal sheet X72143 "Commonwealth Trainers". Nice sheet. I am following the In Progress article here started by Sprue, being too lazy to try to get my own plans... First job on an olde Ayrfyxe, off with the rivets, in with an interior, and off with the bits that are wrong! Seat is actually from a discarded Hobby Boss T-6 and stick is scratchbuilt. The original one looks more like a DF loop. Kept the fuselage halves loose until all the cutting and bits were added. Not much to see here... The nose job. The kit nose is too short and I think too square, so spacer made of styrene bar and work with file and sanding (wet or dry on a rubber block, or old decorators foam sanding block!) takes care of all that. Humbrol putty is like concrete but works well. Oh yeah, the wings. Reprofiled with sheet... On with the concrete - I mean putty... File and wet sand, more putty thinned with cellulose thinner... Jump cut to the wheels! The kit wheels are weedy so I did what Sprue did and use some old 1/48 wheels (probably off a Hurricane though)... trouble is they are a bit big. So; I jerry rigged a lathe out of my rotary tool and reduced them with file and wet or dry. Finished one in foreground. Undercarriage legs are now wrong shape to I made new ones out of plastic coated steel wire and scrap. I got this stuff from EMA/Plastruct and it's quite useful. More when I can get round to it!
