Red Letter Day it was too with the arrival of a WNW Duellist Felixstowe and HB12. Having turned seventy one a week ago this Monday past it was a slightly belated birthday 'pressie' and a well received one for sure - what an awesome pair of models. Boy would I like to see the tooling first hand - that must be truly something.
Having had a good peruse of all the sprues it was time to get back to work on the Camel but it would not be long before smiles turned to grimace
You may recall this -
.......... I note you tweaked the dihedral on your lower wing Des so I may have to try to do that in situ - not looking forwards to that if so..
The wing proved to be well and truly fast to the cabanes so the model was tentatively removed from the jig and transfered back to the holding fixture for the struts to be attached. It was obvious that the lower wing would have to be bent upwards as if not a curve would be induced in the top wing so with some trepidation I began to scribe a line into the first wing just beside the fuselage and then deepened it with a thin blade saw. The wing was flexed to increase the dihedral and the struts fitted with CA. Everything went fine and looked good
The second wing was then tackled but the flexing proved more resistant and the original wing fixing to the fuselage cracked. Re-glued without too much of a problem a tiny drop of MEK was applied to the groove to soften things a tad and that did the trick. Yep it did the trick alright - so good the wing fell off
Oh deary me indeed
With those immortal words of Corporal Jones ringing in my ears ''don't panic don't panic'' I drilled the fuse and wing for two small hard brass wire pins.....
...and soon had the wing back in place without too much visible damage - phew, hot flush panic subsides
Struts in on the second wing and the strut rigging was stretched and glued ..
Back on track then - the slight amount of distress visible should be easily overcome with some weathering
It has left me feeling a mite 'what else can go wrong'-ish however
Anyway it's great to be back at the bench after this break, hopefully that should be for a good few weeks before the usual spring distractions kick in.
Regards - Tug
