Terrible news. My replacement decals arrived yesterday, and I started last night to apply them. Everything was going really well. But it was really cold last night, and at one point I decided to go into the house for a cup of tea. Had left the heater on, and inadvertently left the model near the heater (absent minded mistake). Got distracted inside and the model was exposed to radiant heat which warped one of the booms and part of the tail from the superharger intake and back. . i was lucky I didnt have a fire actually.
I have a friend that gave me an incomplete (unassembled) copy of this kit, so i do have a lot of spares, including the parts needed for this repair. I think I can remove the warped bits and replace them with the spare tail assembly. Most of the model is undamaged, but its a huge setback. The biggest problem is that the radio aerial that I had done so sucessfully will now need to be redone.....B*gger, b*gger, b*gger......
Put this one down to stupidity. I thinkk I can recover, but its not going to be easy. most of th model is okay, but now i have a major recovery operation to undertake. Very upsetting I can tell you.
Quick question. Am I correct in saying that the GB runs until the end of August, or is it the end of July? I always forget that sort of thing. If its the end of August I can still do the two entries I have in the GB....but if itsd earlier, I will probably need to make a choice as to which one I will finish in time.
I might post photos of the damage the model suffered for your opinions