mikewint
Captain
The FUN of modeling
1/48 He 51B-2 Float Plane - Seaplanes / Floatplanes of WWII
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Can't beat modelling for it's rujevinating energy. Calm and peace meld into eternal bliss.......
Trying to use that Wint philosophy mojo methinks
mikewint
Captain
Yup, If at first you don't succeed, EOD is not for you
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N4521U
Plastic Pirate
My a$$
And now a float strut has come loose?????????????????????????????????????
I couldn't finish this for another milenia!
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parsifal
Colonel
You can do it Bill. They are going to give you more time Im sure.
I'm happy for you to have an extra week Bill if it helps get you over the line, say yes other Judges
Vic Balshaw
Major General
No problems here.
I started another thread on this very issue which seems to have been missed probably on account of our down under time difference. I will go in an extend the GB until Sunday, 7th September.
http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/22-seaplanes-floatplanes-wwii/gb-22-extension-proposal-41525.html
I started another thread on this very issue which seems to have been missed probably on account of our down under time difference. I will go in an extend the GB until Sunday, 7th September.
http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/22-seaplanes-floatplanes-wwii/gb-22-extension-proposal-41525.html
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Donivanp
Major
Super clean filling of the gaps, Ive had to do that before, works well if done like you did.
parsifal
Colonel
bill, you seem to be having a devil of a time with those stiffening wires......
Vic Balshaw
Major General
How's it going mate, you still hanging in there................!
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N4521U
Plastic Pirate
Nope, this sinus virus has nocked me out.
Just sat down to look at the wires, and they are all loose again in the struts. Will have to replace all ofem AGAIN! I am ata loss. Is there a slightly elastic thread that can hold the tension????? Like the rubber for antennas????? This really is getting old. Somethin has to work, and I don't know what. I thread thru the brass sleeve, then thru the loop set in the strut, back thru the sleeve, draw the sleeve to the loop and drop some super glue in the sleeve to set the thread. When that is set I do the same on the other end, adding just enough tension to make the thread straight. Snip off the loose ends and should be done. But they just seem to come loose.
My old MIL is in the hospital, oxygene up to 6 liters a min with clogged lungs, a fibrosis. The wife has same thing I do but she's still going to work, then visiting her mother, then home and drops to the floor exhausted. BIL is coming up Sat in case the old woman doesn't survive this episode, so we have to entertain him.
Just Not goin my way on this one.
Just sat down to look at the wires, and they are all loose again in the struts. Will have to replace all ofem AGAIN! I am ata loss. Is there a slightly elastic thread that can hold the tension????? Like the rubber for antennas????? This really is getting old. Somethin has to work, and I don't know what. I thread thru the brass sleeve, then thru the loop set in the strut, back thru the sleeve, draw the sleeve to the loop and drop some super glue in the sleeve to set the thread. When that is set I do the same on the other end, adding just enough tension to make the thread straight. Snip off the loose ends and should be done. But they just seem to come loose.
My old MIL is in the hospital, oxygene up to 6 liters a min with clogged lungs, a fibrosis. The wife has same thing I do but she's still going to work, then visiting her mother, then home and drops to the floor exhausted. BIL is coming up Sat in case the old woman doesn't survive this episode, so we have to entertain him.
Just Not goin my way on this one.
Crimea_River
Marshal
Sorry to hear you're under the weather Bill. I wonder if there's some oil on the wires that prevents the CA from setting up properly.
Vic Balshaw
Major General
Bill, there is an elastic thread that is a sort of milky white that I have, If you want I will send you some if you think this will help. It kind of looks like catgut and stretches quite well and would be about the same dia as your using now. Text me if you want some.
ccheese
Member In Perpetuity
I have no problem granting an extension for Bill. He's busted his chops long and hard on this one.
Hope he gets the rigging sorted out.
Charles
Hope he gets the rigging sorted out.
Charles
Agreed!
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N4521U
Plastic Pirate
I've come across some Strong Stretchy thread, .2mm diameter. Like a rubber thread..........
Has anyone used this before???? For beading.
Going looking for some tomorrow evening.
Has anyone used this before???? For beading.
Going looking for some tomorrow evening.
fubar57
General
Hope it all works out Bill.
Geo
Geo
mikewint
Captain
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
- A. Lincoln
Sept 30, 1859
- A. Lincoln
Sept 30, 1859
