Thanks guys. More togetherness. Bondage not really needed but we were going uptown and occasionally things move if I leave them on their own for a while
I really want to get everything together before I head back to work so all I have to do is start spraying when I get home. I've started something new for nightshift. I used to take the bus in that would get me into camp as soon as the first nightshift started. As I would already be up for 12hrs, it would be another 13 before I got to bed so now I'm going into camp in the morning, sleeping all day and then starting. I began this last nightshift and what a difference. I hope to have the wings and innards glued in shortly
I never can sleep before the switch. I work a double shift going end so by the time I get home in the early am I'm so tired I go right to sleep and by "interior clock" had adjusted, more or less. Then I'm back on days a few days later and all screwed up. Any way you look at it, night work sucks!
Ignore the rough edges, clean up tomorrow. It is my understanding that the forward and rear canopy "frames" were not painted, yes/no? The "?" mark arrow is Tamiya's attempt to reproduce the support bar between the bulk heads.....and they want it painted gold
IIRC the whole cockpit canopy frame was painted. Because the slide back hood was movable the scratches and peeling off happened often. The bar between the bulk heads was of the cockpit colour or just silver because it was an inner part of the fusealge structure but not of the frame. So it should be done inside and the one on the model cockpit glass should be sanded down. The silver ( aluminium ) colour at the frame seems to be at the back edge of the front windshield only Also it is omitted often there was a thin pipe with a line of the hood quick releasing/jettisoning system.
Both the Spitfire bulged hood with the flat sides and the full bubble Malcolm Hood type one had the frame. And the frame was painted with the camo colours. The Malcolm type canopy without the frames was used for the P-51B/C Mustang.
I did a month of night shifts in Japan, finished work and went on the beer, as you do, with my colleague, it drew some strange looks from the other guests having their breakfast between 7.30 and 9 AM in our rather nice hotel, the late arrivals obviously thought we had been drinking all night.