This morning I found that I had glued a clothespeg to the nose of the Swift 

This was due to superglue running out of the air intake and down the side of the nose because I was glueing weight behind the cockpit. The clothespeg was helping to hole the fuselage in the correct orientation. Fixed now, just lost some panel lines.

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So far so good, or at least reasonably well.



That's the wings on, so work on the joints tonight and PSR tomorrow as I am back to work though my back is starting to play up a bit.

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Better than gluing YOURself onto it Alastair! 

The majority of the PSR has been done, I will apply some paint later to see if there is any remedial work required or not.

The next thing on the list was to attach the moving surfaces. I decided to start with the tailplanes and realised this was an ideal time to use a jig I have had around for a year or two. I also have the space to use it as well.



An overview of the Swift placed in the jig.

And from the rear



The camera was not exactly level with the table but you get the idea. The two white items under the tail are pieces of paper with the top surface at the angle given in the instructions so I knew that the angle was correct.

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A quick coat of paint over the main joints to see if any additional PSR is required. I think there is one or two spots that will need attention but I will see tomorrow what turns up.



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First coat of paint on the upper surfaces. A second coat will follow later today and tomorrow I try to work out how high the undercoat will go.



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And that's the upper surfaces with a second coat on. I'm quite happy with the finish, tomorrow I need to start on the underside which will be fun trying to get the upper/lower demarcation worked out. I better get a move on with the undercarriage and wheels as well as the seat I suppose 



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For my PR Swifts I used the base of the tailplanes as the demarcation.  This is the PR6 from the Magna F7.

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It has the F7 wings as I'd got it in a Swift box with a load of Airkit bits and it was already assembled.  So I went with the not unreasonable premise that RR had sorted out the reheat issues and the late production PR6 had the F7 wing for better altitude performance.

I don't have the 535 to hand, so here's an older photo.

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Thanks Lee. I had been musing about the demarcation line and whether I should go that far down or not. Having now seen the pictures of yours, that's what I shall do.

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First coat of PRU Blue is on.



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And that's the second coat of PRU Blue on which completes the majority of the painting. The undercarriage will be added tomorrow and I will attempt to get my finger out and finish the ejector seat 

 

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No idea if I will be finished by midnight on Sunday. The tyres have just been painted, all the undercarriage doors are on and so are the flaps. I still need to put the canopy and windscreen on, varnish the model prior to adding decals. The seat belts also need painting on the ejector seat so it could be a close one.

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Looks like I will not finish this in time. If I had started on Saturday rather than Sunday last week that extra day would have made all the difference. I should finish it by next weekend though which will not be bad for me.

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Could someone move this to Current Projects or whatever it is.

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Moved as per request