Entry on Facebook this morning...
Right....breakfast (fat boy fry up)...check
Strong tea in big mug (decorated with warbirds)...check
Mr Miller on the stereo (LOUD !)...check
Sun is shining...check
Family's gone shopping...check
YIPEEEEE...its Mustang time, yeah baby (off to make the instrument shroud)
Fast forward 3 hours....
Well...that was a total cluster...what the word ?...rhymes with truck ?...ummm, errrr, oh yeah, disaster. !.
First I missed off a part of one of the blueprints...then my drill went t*ts up...then one of the Starlings on its way back to feed the chicks in the nest under the eves, left a little present, end result ?...Starlings one - Mustang zero. Little bastids do it again and my '51 is gonna have its first kill marking recorded (anyone any idea whose side Starlings fly for ?).
And then to cap it all, the bit I was working on, I decided just wasn't right. Folowing a loud bout of tourets, its now sulking in the far flung reaches of my shed...with a sodding great hammer dent in it !!!. What I was trying to do was to make the instrument shroud in 3 parts as I dont have access to a metal press. The main gunsight part went quite well...it was when I started on the side sections that things went downhill.....and stayed there.
Grrrrr.
I've decided that today just wasn't meant to happen, so she's chocked up in the hangar (shed) and will be looked at next weekend weather permitting. I'm hoping that a fresh start will enable me to make this shroud and then I can finally mount my sight and she'll start to look like a fighter.
Heres a few shots of this morining..