Thanks Lance, Rick, much appreciated!
Terri, I hope your wanderings went ok! I used some watered down Gators Grip to try to fill the gaps under the stitching, I forgot to spray it today though to see if it worked. Tomorrow!
Ken - yes, it's free too! It's quite a lot to get used to but the tutorials included are a great help and make getting started pretty simple.
A slow couple of days yesterday and today as far as the amount of work done on this, but progress is being made. Yesterday I fitted the lower wings, using gators Grip to give me time to adjust them. Needless to say that was pretty much it for the day as I wanted to be sure they were properly set before doing any more.
This morning PPP was applied over the pins and sanded down. Of course there's only one way to be sure that it doesn't need more work so...back into the paint booth!
I gave the wings, ailerons and tail surfaces a coat of Tamiya white.
While that was drying I decided to test my eyesight and assemble the engine.
It's small!
All 9 cylinders were successfully removed from the pour frames, a task not made any easier by the fact that in between the cylinders are the spark plugs (yes, you read right!) and there are only 2 spares! It's almost impossible to get a fine saw in without knocking the plugs off, so I used a number 11 blade and scored either side then they snapped off easily. Phew!
Cylinders and spark plugs added
Of course it would have been much easier to paint it first... bugger!
Anyway, it now has a coat of Tamiya gloss black in preparation for Xtreme metal aluminium/steel tomorrow, then I can fit the rocker arms and puch rods. The rods are also supplied but they are so ridiculously thin that the last one of these I built I didn't manage to get one single push rod off without breaking it. I'll use nickel silver rod! In fact the kit I received has 4 sets of rocker arms/push rods just to provide the 9 push rods needed, the others are missing or broken! Fair play to Small Stuff for that!
Well that's it for tonight folks, stay safe and thanks for looking in!
Ian