**** DONE: GB-43 1:72 Ju87 G/D - Aces' Aircraft of all Eras
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N4521U
Colonel
BTW heard quote on a horders show....
"Put it Away, not down"!!!!!
Just sayin
"Put it Away, not down"!!!!!
Just sayin
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Bustedwing
Tech Sergeant
We get about 1100mm of rain a year. We do have a lot of teenagers that can't do anything without a smartphone though.
I would like to mess with those youngsters and be able to switch their phones off randomly for extended periods.....see if they can actually do anything else...
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Bustedwing
Tech Sergeant
Nice work so far!
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Bustedwing
Tech Sergeant
Still raining, snuck out to vote, otherwise hiding in my hole. Some progress is being made. The prop sits on a large pin that fits inside the engine. The engine doesn't fit worth beans and with the exhausts I made forget it. I mounted the prop on a pin inside some tube from a hypodermic needle. Spins real nice !
I want to have the cockpit open and the kit glazing is way to thick and not very transparent so I ended up making my own. It's a bit misshapen but I doubt it will be too noticeable once the frames are painted up.
I want to have the cockpit open and the kit glazing is way to thick and not very transparent so I ended up making my own. It's a bit misshapen but I doubt it will be too noticeable once the frames are painted up.
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Nice work Graham, and i agree - once that canopy has the frames painted, it should look the biz.
Nice work.
Crimea_River
Marshal
Did you make your own vac forming rig Graham?
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Bustedwing
Tech Sergeant
I did, it's pretty cheesy but it works, used an old flash light, some 1/2 inch expanded metal screen, shop vac and a toaster oven. I first made it years ago when I was building a Blohm Voss 141, posted pics of the build here. I gave up on the kiln, too hot and would cause the plastic to have little blisters. Toaster oven works perfect, well apart from when it caught fire !
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N4521U
Colonel
Necessity is the Mother of invention!!!!!!!!
Ahhhhh maze ing.
Ahhhhh maze ing.
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Bustedwing
Tech Sergeant
Purely for your amusement. Said toaster oven. It played out like this. I was making a mold and the mold compound wasn't drying. Figured I'll put it in the toaster oven to warm it up. Set the temp control to 120f and the timer to 20 minuits. Then the war dept, called me for something. When I came back after about 10 minuits there was a nice little ( what GM refers to as a) thermal event happening. I kind of panicked and used the first thing I could grab and stuffed it in the oven. It happened to be the towel I clean my air brushes on and it sort of turned the thermal event into a bit of an explosion. I pulled the power cord out and carried the flaming hulk to the laundry tub and ran water over it til it was out. Ok the public service part. If you want to warm something in a toaster oven. Make sure you set the control knob on "bake" not toast ! Still works though. Stinks a bit.
Crimea_River
Marshal
So the war department wondered why her toasted bagel tasted like polyethylene I guess.
fubar57
General
Good stuff
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Bustedwing
Tech Sergeant
Something like that, more POed at having to explain to neighbours why the fire alarm was going off than anything else ! Don't try and burn the house down when she's watching her favourite show !
