Well hello at last
Actually I did do this on Friday night but decided at the last moment to add another pic, went to the top to minimise and clicked close instead and promptly lost the lot. Golly gosh I quietly murmured to myself and went quietly off to bed - well something like that
Gregory, I am sorry to hear of your health issues and wish you well towards a speedy recovery to see you back at your modelling. Modelling of varying kinds has always played a major part in my life so to have it curtailed is something I would find hard - I can certainly empathise with your situation
Lukas - hope you are now well established after your move. I've long given up all hope for 'stash-itus'. My long suffering but ever tolerant wife has now deemed I am now suffering from 'Wingnuttafillia'. I have recently sold an old model aircraft engine which made far more than I anticipated so it was quickly converted into two kits. Inspired by Squiffy and Rahmi's postings I have the FE2b special (late) winging it's way and the remaining cash bought a DVa before that too joins the 'sold out' list.
Well the F-104 is completely finished and put to bed ready for next years outings so it's back on the Camel. I don't see any distractions looming so I should be able to keep on with this right through now.
I began this phase by getting the two side frames ready to fit. Once they are fixed in place the dash board shape can be established and made and once that's fitted the lower parts that make up the rest of the internals can be tackled.
The starboard side frame had the pressure pump made from Evergreen rod, silver plated wire and a ball handle shaped from evergreen coated with PVA. The piping is .011" copper wire the crossover made from Evergreen too.
The port side fittings took much longer, the fuel sight glass proving particularly tedious. A throttle was cobbled together from some redundant armour etch parts and a semblance of a fuel filter made from rod and copper wire piping.
No attempt was made to replicate any grain in the frames, just painted with a mix of Tamiya overcoated with Clear Orange which I hope will give a reasonable and contrasting illusion
The sight glass was made from stretched clear sprue, several unsuccessful attempts to drill the ends were made before a different approach was tackled using plastic rod etc at each end to take the piping (I've just noticed it is upside down in this pic). The fuel cock was another conglomeration of plastic rod and stretched sprue.
With those installed on the frames the parts are ready to be fitted to the fuselage tomorrow.
Not much to show then for some fairly concentrated hours but the project is back on song at last and will hopefully progress fairly quickly now.
Regards for now - Tug
