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  1. Papa
    All the topmast ratlines are done. T’gallant next
  2. Papa
    I used a masking set on the canopy. Tedious to put on but way better than trying to freehand the paint.
  3. Papa
    Thanks for all the comments I expected the silvering on the decals. The finish is quite matte and I thought about painting a bit of clear gloss where the decals went. Decided that would probably look worse. The shine is only visible in certain lighting. I may try a bit more decal setting solution when I return from our week in the mountains 😀.
  4. Papa
    She is finished. Bad lighting on the decals. Perhaps a spray of matt finish will fix that
  5. Papa
    I just noticed the date of the Dam Buster operation. May 17, 1943. I was 25 days old!
  6. Papa
    Thanks! Once the canopy masks arrive i can finish her.
  7. Papa
    Thanks
  8. Papa
    She looks real mean sitting on her landing gear. I am not looking forward to painting the canopies 😬. I am going to see if some commercial masks are available.
  9. Papa
    Thanks.
  10. Papa
    Seems that only iPhone pics upload inverted.
  11. Papa
    Top mast shrouds are in place and the backstays. Now i have to tie another bazillion ratlines
  12. Papa
    😁
  13. Papa
    Damn. Upside down again🤬
  14. Papa
    Current status on my Morgan. Finished the top mast shrouds. Almost done with topmast back stays. I am going to have to hire a new rigging crew. The current crew is a bit lazy. They install 2 or 3 shrouds and then quit for the day. You just can’t get good help these days.
  15. Papa
    Thanks
  16. Papa
    My first attempt at camouflage of this sort. It needs a bit of touch up around the windows but other than that i think it came out pretty good. Masking tape and rattle cans.
  17. Papa
    A turtle, made fro separate rocks.
  18. Papa
    Installed the landing gear struts. Very finicky.
  19. Papa
    Fantastic job on the coach. I am impressed with the intensity of the yellow. I have found that every brand of yellow paint I have used, including house paint, will not cover without a nearly infinite number of coats! What is you trick for getting that great yellow?
  20. Papa
    Photo of the wing problem i was trying to explain. I had to remove the round thing, cut off the part that would be exposed and glue in place after attaching the wing.
  21. Papa
    S Scalemates does not show this exact box, but nearly identical was retooled in 2012
  22. Papa
    That works a step at a time, and i do it. But dry fitting multiple steps isn’t practical. That many pieces will not stay together. I have the sense that the kits have zero tolerance. If a few pieces are just a tiny bit off, like the thickness of a glue joint or paint something further down the line isn’t going to fit. I’ve been building plastic kits for over 70 years and I think most of them have gone together fairly well. But every once in a while one hits a real devil of a kit. A few years back i had a Lockheed Electra kit i was building as Amelia Earhart’s version. That was a nightmare every step of the way.
  23. Papa
    I have no idea? How does one determine this?
  24. Papa
    The desire to trash this kit and give up resurfaced yesterday when i tried to assemble the wings. Lower pieces went on easily but the upper halves were not going to fit. There was not enough clearance to allow a part that forms the rear of the engine nacelle to fit in the opening provided. Once i determined that was the issue, i removed it and the wing then went on smoothly. I then removed the lower part of this whatever it is, and glued the upper part where it belongs. I should have taken some pictures. The next step was assembling the elevator halves. The instructions here had the part numbers wrong. They said glue B6 and B7 for one side and then An and Am (don’t have instructions in front of me) for the other side. Wrong. The B parts just had alignment holes. While the A parts both had pins. One needed to match a B and an A. Fortunately I discovered the problem before the glue had set on the joined B parts. I thought it was strange the there were no pins for the holes. I should have looked at the next step right away. One wonders if someone actually tried to build this kit from the instructions before release.
  25. Papa
    I was certainly tempted to toss the whole box in the trash. But sanity prevailed

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