Thank you gentlemen, as always, much appreciated and Terry, OH BOY what would I do without you!!!!!!!!!!!!!.................................
It's not been a good day, first up I had a large Pyrex bowl explode on me and I do mean explode....
........I was about to make some Salmon Patties and took the bowl out of the drawer to use for mixing and suddenly I was just holding a shard of glass in my hand, it exploded into a million pieces spreading all over the kitchen, the lounge room carpet, the main computer station
all over the drawer I was taking it from and even under the door into the hall. Then while making the patties, I'd taken an egg from the shelf of the fridge but for some reason it would crack open. Taking a knife to it I found that it had been hard boiled
it seems that Hilary had done this a couple of days ago intending to make a sandwich, then changed her mind.
Then I logged on and found your 'if it's not too late' message. OH BOY, I'd decaled the model, it's just not fair.
But, I rise to the challenge and have corrected the errors and my thanks to you for pointing them out
Having done this and re-decaled where needed I tackled the weathering, particularly as it is my intention to have this machine look very battle weary. This done I started on the final refinements and added the IFF aerials and the radio aerial, this done the undercarriage went on and I left the model to set. Returning later I found the radio aerial wire has snapped
must have been a kink in the fine wire I'm using and on putting the model onto its legs, it promptly collapsed. At that stage, the sun was almost over the yardarm, so I departed the hanger and cracked open a bottle of wine.
Maybe more updates with photos tomorrow after I've been out bargain hunting for reference books.