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[The Wooksta!]

"Now, you knew that anyway, and we don't care, so where's the surprise?"


It's started. 

Officially, I am now starting to thin out the Spitfires.  Not much really and it's just tinkering at the sides, but I've pulled out some of the lesser kits that I now are useless for my purposes and can be disposed of to a gullible public for very little. 

Basically, I was asked if I had a Frog/Novo mk VIII and I said I did, but didn't know where it was.  As it happened, I found it within five minutes of starting to look, although having to shift some of the boxes around to actually get to some of them.  While I was going through, I had a look inside some of the boxes in them, finding at least 3 old KP mk IXes, an old tool Airfix mk Ia, a Frog XIV and 2 Smer mk Vbs.  That's them in a pile to get shot of.

As I was looking in the first box, I found a load of the old Aeroclub vacform fuselages.  I know I have at least two full boxes of them - how many more are there???!!!  I *really* need to do this inventory soon!

Just about to start decalling the two 607 mk 16s that have been waiting to get their codes.  Another was decalled, but needed a replacement u/c, so that's now on and awaiting paint.  Should have all three tidied away by tomorrow and that's yet more finished off, so it's back to the Tempests!

Finally, one of the Attackers has been masked so I can spray the green.  I'll get the other one done later and get them both sprayed when I do the Tempests tomorrow.

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[The Wooksta!]

"Vyv, Vyv, uh, can you, like, actually kill yourself with laxative pills?"


Well, it's done.  I've gone through the Spitfire boxes and pruned out all of the kits for disposal.  And there was a lot of junk!  11 Frog/Novo Spitfire 14s with the V1s.  Decided to keep one as it was part started, five were complete so they can be sold off separately and t'others had bits missing, so a big bag for them marked Spitfire bits and flog them off as a job lot.  I nearly lost count of the old KP mk IXes that were in there, although I kept one for nostalgic purposes as it had a Beatties sticker on it.  Shame to dispose of them as they were the gold standard mk IX until the Hasegawa one came out in the late 90s.  Two Academy ones also popped up, so I was only too pleased to throw them on the pile.

I also managed to condense a few boxes down and get a fair few loose kits lying around tidied away.  So the back bedroom/workshop is a bit less cluttered, but not by much.

I did find a few things I'd forgotten about, such as the Legato resin Spitfire PR.Ig, which is really nice although the canopy is now a beautiful shade of gold.  The Esoteric mk VIII/IX was expensive when it came out and was the CMR of it's day, although looking at it now, it's quite clear that's it's a tarted up Heller mk XVI.  That's not going to stop me moulding up some of the parts - such as the tailplanes and the radiators, quite possibly the wing, for use in other projects

The Freightdog reboxed AZ 14/18 kits - I have two but I'm sure there's a third one somewhere but I haven't been through all of the boxes due to space issues and the pile is somewhat ricketty.  Trust me to be killed by being crushed to death under a pile of collapsing Spitfire kit boxes.  Apt perhaps, but I'd rather go by  wrapping an Aston Martin round a tree.

I'm also at the amazed at the sheer number of particular kits I've amassed.  No, not the Airfix ones, as I know I have a shedload of all the marks in the shiny red boxes - and that was BEFORE the Great Home Bargains Airfix Treasure Hunt added a three figure sum to the collection - but the likes of Sword, AZ/KP and even Aeroteam.  I discovered at least two of the International boxing of the Sword mk XVIe I didn't realise I had, plus at least three Pegasus Spitefuls and one RS Spiteful - I thought I had two RS Spitefuls, but no, there was a third so where and when did I get that one? I know I got one at Telford in 2012 and one off ebay but the third?  Even more Aeroclub fuselage conversions, although at least these were boxed with donor kits.  Two boxes full of various conversion and detail/replacement bits acquired at shows.  Three A4 boxes full of the Ventura kits, numerous Heller XVIes.  It just goes on and on and on.

The sooner I get this inventory done, the better.  But at least the bulk of the pruning has been done.

Finally, the Attacker prototype has got it's green disruptive coat on.  I pulled one of the two AZ prototype Attacker boxing out during the search so I could nick the decals for it.  I'll get it masked tomorrow so I can do the undersurface colour.  Now - Medium Sea Grey or Trainer Yellow?

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[The Wooksta!]

"I'm afraid I couldn't find any needles, so we'll have to use 6-inch nails."

Been a while since this has been updated, largely because finishing the Magna Buckmaster and Brigand was so soul crushing, it knocked out any enthusiasm I had for the hobby and I just didn't want to do any modelling for a while.  Didn't stop me buying things though - especially the Eduard kits - but nothing gave me any real push to want to do anything. 

I did think of doing something simple and real may have done the trick - the Airfix PR19 in the markings from the new boxing was my intended victim - but that never happened either.  Besides which, I begrudge paying a tenner for something I bought 60 of last year when they were less than 3 quid each just to get a serial code I'm pretty sure I have anyway on two separate decal sheets. However, time was running short for Telford and I have to have something new, so into the boxes and off we go.

So, what am I doing?  Nothing really new, just getting together airframes I started in the wake of Telford last year.  I'm pretty sure I know what they were for - largely, more 607 Sqn malarkey and some different schemes on various Heller 16s.  Czech, Portuguese and Turkish sprang to mind.  There's also some airframes from last year that are primed and some of those painted that may get a review to see if I can push them a shade further.

The only thing that has been started new is an MPM PRXI, which will end up in the late scheme worn by the PR19 and possibly with 607 Sqn markings.  I've also though about digging out the Spitefuls for another one in their markings but they're more involved than can be done in the limited time I have left, although there is one that could be used as a PR option.

So the ideas are flowing, but again there just isn't enough time in the day and I've left it very late in the day now.  3 weeks left and nothing has been sprayed so it's going to be a close one.  Again.  You'd think I would have learned by now...



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[The Wooksta!]

"NO! Before that, Michael! Oh God, I've got to stop sniffing this Ajax!"

So, where am I up to?

Well, the construction phase is now done, with the last airframe substantially complete.  All the priming is done - just in time as the weather has changed for the wetter.  The canopies are all cleaned up, had their customary bath in Klear and where possible attached.  I think there's a touch of filler required here and there, but other than that I'm pretty much ready to start spraying.

The revised Plan for this year is set out, so I know what I'm doing and there's a few holdovers from last year that I'll try to advance a shade further, mainly as they already have their paint on and I know the relevant wheels, props and exhausts are all done.  Just a case of add the decals and a coat of varnish and almost over bar the shouting and swearing.  I may have to call on Kit for one or two serials for a pair of PR19s.

So, all being well, I should have the first part of the spraying done by tomorrow night.  Really need to get to the end of the second phase by monday night as I'm back at work from Tuesday having had a week off.  Trouble is, one or two still haven't been nailed down as to what I want to do - one of the Czech ones is either overall Dark Green (possibly RLM82 if I have some) or has a light blue undersurface (either RLM 65 or 76).  I'm saying nothing else about that one apart from it's given me an idea of a sideways development.


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[The Wooksta!]

"You didn't know I was going to do that, did you?"


It's happened.  Yet again.  I get the build plans all set, everything to a certain stage and then shoot myself in the foot and add something else.  Another mk XVIII with a Spiteful tail this time.  I was looking in some boxes and just found it.  The wing was done, so it just needed the fuselage assembling, and... well, I just couldn't help myself, yeah?

I did one a few years back, albeit in overall Silver with deleted cannons and second line codes.  This one will be armed - four cannon and in a three colour scheme, I just don't have a squadron use for it yet.  It's now together, with filler everywhere.  Hopefully, if it stays dry outside for an hour, I might get it primed.

It doesn't help either when i find an assembled airframe for a Seafire IV (basically a Spitfire  mk VIII with all the Seafire mods, including a resin wing) that got abandoned at some stage.  Again, quick coat of primer and we can advance it a bit further.  And in the next box was the assembled Martin Baker MB3...

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[The Wooksta!]

"I hate these places. They're so depressing. You know, Michael, I would rather go to a lecture than a laundrette."

After a monumental effort, we're now about a week behind where I should normally be.  And that's despite adding extra airframes into a build queue and primed ones into the spray queue.  The most recent and last one - promise! - is a IVb that was converted from the Airfix Vb with a resin nose I got as part of a box of bits bought at 'uddersfield last year. I've now got to think about making an appropriate 3 blade Griffon prop for it and the IVa I deferred last year.

All the aircraft with their single schemes are ready for decalling, the two and three colour jobs are ready for the main mask with tape, although the 3 colour ones will need the maskol peeling off and clean-up with tape to get the loose bits off.  I'll do that tomorrow and then start with the tape masking on wednesday.  That's going to be slow, as I'll only have a few hours to play with when I get in from work.

All the wheels are done, bar one or two sets, whilst the exhausts are all sorted.  Two have them already in place - one as they were already glued in with it being an inherited airframe (thanks, Robert! That FRXIVe is going 607 Sqn 2TAF), the other as they're cast as part of a complete resin nose.  Still not entirely sure of what some aircraft are going to be and I've a feeling that I'm starting to repeat myself with some ideas.

I think I still need to mask up an Attacker - as part of a whif within a whif - but I can see some light at the end of the tunnel.  Again, I think it could be close and there's a few other things I'd really like to try and advance but they're not Spitfires although one is masked for it's undersurface colour.  A choice between PRU Blue and Medium Sea Grey.  Difficult to choose and that MB3 is gnawing away at me too.


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[The Wooksta!]

"Listen, Michael, there's no need to worry! I've got a plan with which to thwart them!"

It's going to be down to the wire - again.  Several minor disasters - wrong colours requiring total respray, decals being non available as I'd stolen them earlier, amongst others - have conspired to set me back. I can never settle decalling and I've still got three Czech and a Portuguese one still to decal, plus finishing off two others which have their national markings on.  I've ruthlessly cut two out of the build and can see cutting out another three, possibly four which will help get the numbers down.

Having finished decalling the last of the F14s, I've some to the conclusion that there's something dreadfully wrong with the Fujimi kit.  I don't mean it's dreadfully over-engineered nature that resulted from their desire to get as many out of the mould as possible, or the lack of cockpit detail, or the poor fit, or the balloon shaped canopy.  It's the fuselage, which seems too deep or perhaps squashed is a better description.  It's nowhere near as bad as the Academy kit but there's just something wrong with it.  By comparison, I've an F14 that's a crossbreed of Airfix IXc wing and PR19 fuselage which seems to look more accurate, and that's despite the fuselage being short and the wing chord too wide.  Given that I've a vast quantity of both kits in the stash courtesy of the Great Home Bargains Airfix Treasure Hunt last year, I may well take the decision to flog off me Fujimi highback 14s  and just cross-kit the Airfix ones.  I also have quite a few of the Ventura kits tucked away and despite their challenging nature, they do look far better than the Fujimi kit.  If only Eduard had went for the XIV rather than the late Merlin ones...

I'll be varnishing tonight, so tomorrow to add all the bits and touch up the u/c legs and doors and we should be ready by the end of Wednesday - even if I have to stay up all night to do the props again.  I don't have thursday night as, foolishly, I'd volunteered to go into work. Wish me boss could write a proper rota so I wouldn't have to volunteer - I lost saturday night for the same reason and I'm still a bit miffed at that.

So, pack everything thursday morning - I'll have to get some new boxes and get some comestibles - and try to relax a bit after I come in from work, possibly via the curry house...


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[The Wooksta!]

"No, but it doesn't say, "Ensure the machine isn't full of washing-up liquid"!"

I've not done much post Telford, usually because I've been too busy at work and thus knackered when I get in.  However, January is a bit quieter - read dead - so that affords me a bit of time to make a start on what I want to do this year.

I've tinkered a bit with a few Heller 16s I got at Telford, if only to ensure I don't have to find a home for the boxes - I've always said that you can never have enough Spitfires, but unfortunately you do run out of space in which to keep them.  The Supermarine 327 is now underway and prompted by one of Narses2's comments, I've dug out an AZ Attacker.

It looks to be quite a nice kit in the box, with some restrained detail - but the fuselage does seem to have one half deeper than the other.  Pretty sure I can fix it with some hot water and a lot of bending.  If not, then I'll align it along the top and build up underneath where it's not quite so noticeable.  The belly tank should hide a few flaws.

Still not sure quite what I want to do with it yet.  Probably RAF.

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"Even mindless violence seems boring today!"

I got bored with the Attacker.  Got some preliminary work done on the intakes and the wings together but I didn't have a lot of enthusiasm for the build in general, so it went back in it's box.  I had more pressing issues.

Namely, the Supermarine 327.  The deadline I'd set myself and promised Colin I'd have it finished by - the Huddersfield show - was looming on the horizon and coming up fast.  It's only been the past few days that I've actually done any real work on it and with some effort got to the decalling stage.  Resin kits by their nature are generally easier and quicker to build (pause for sarcastic response vis a vis current CMR output), so once the cockpit was all buttoned up, it rattled along quite quickly.

I have to be honest and say that it wasn't one I was particularly interested in - I'm more partial to the Taurus engined Type 324, so much so that I blew up the 3 view in the relevant BSP volume and started looking at what bits to use (a Hornet fuselage and an Airfix Spitfire Vc wing with Mosquito tail surfaces and possibly parts from an LS Dinah) - but it's started growing on me more and more, especially seeing the castings and knowing that they were mastered by Paul Lucas.  I'm exceedingly happy that I didn't shell out for the Unicrap abortion, although I may well have to try and get his Type 325, even though I dread what I'll be letting myself in for.

Future ones?  Something with underwing rockets and four blade props, with markings from a Mosquito unit, and another with a training unit in a late war scheme. There's a PR one I've got a scheme in mind.  It does mean that Colin could well be in for a few of my hard earned Grotzits, although not this weekend.  I want to get the second one done first.

As is usually the case, there's a Spitfire on the go.  Not saying much other than I started it at Telford, it's a Heller 16 as a base and a sideways development of something I was quite pleased with.  This won't be ready for Huddersfield, even though it's together.  I've a feeling that the canopy could be the problem here.

Future projects?  I have a Magna Gloster F5/34 that slots into The Plan as a parallel development and I'd also like to do another MB2 at some stage.  Both are likely to be second line aircraft in the later Grey/Green/Grey scheme.  The Gloster I think is already part started, so could well be a quick build.  I hope...


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"Then what are you looking in the cellar for?"

I've not updated this in a while, largely because I've not been doing anything Spitfire related, although the modified 16 I alluded to in the last post got primed and then refilled.  Still not entirely sure what scheme I want it in - and there are several in the air force I have in mind for it -  although something dark could well be what I want.

I've been doing some tidying, largely to see if I can get some kits stashed away but it's really a fruitless exercise given the sheer volume of Spitfires that I have, somewhat akin to trying to put toothpaste back in a tube.  I'm constantly surprised by the sheer number of certain kits that I have - just when I think I can't find any more, another will reveal itself.  Such as a '96 tooled CMR Seafire FR47.  Or Airkit Spitfires.

Anyhoo, I did open an Xtrakit Spitfire F22.  I've slagged this kit mercilessly and with good reason - it's short, the fuselage too wide and the wings have an odd shape in plan view, plus the fit is appallingly bad - but I'm seriously considering finishing this, because I'd done some work on the wings and the cockpit internals are all in.  Quite what scheme and air force I'd finish it in is open to conjecture, but I'm leaning towards Lebanese to go with the mk 9e low back I did some years back.


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"Look, I haven't started hiding yet, have I?"

It's just turned September, even though the last few weeks have felt like October.  My sense of timing is so screwed...  And this means Telford is looming and I need to start thinking about this year's contribution to The Alternate Spitfire.

I've a feeling this could be a warmed over retread, largely with stuff held over from last year or 2016 due to the non availability of various decals.  I'm talking about the middle east exports I had started, although quite a few of them were repurposed as 607 Sqn aircraft.  There are still quite a few painted ones that just need serials to finish them off, so I may ask Kit to print off a few so I can at least get them done and dusted.

I've still quite a few ides, but these involve two seaters and I'll have to use up the rougher T-bird conversions rather than the decent AZ kits in the stash which are earmarked for real world builds.  Unfortunately, I don't have the time left for involved builds, so that's been knock on the head, at least for now.  However, I have done some test fitting with an Airfix 19 wing and the Brigade Tr9 conversion as the thought of a T-bird using an armed wet wing makes a bit more sense, at least from the pure flying aspect.

I was given a wrecked AZ T-bird which looks to be salvageable, certainly easier than doing a Brigade one and I think I've a spare Hasegawa wing that may well fit.  I'd really like to do some RAF T-birds as I think they'll look quite fetching in silver with yellow bands and post war roundels.  The other scheme I'd like to do, albeit with the PR19, is something akin to post war transports with white top decking, silver everywhere else and a blue cheatline.  Again, possibly not enough time and the decals could be fiddly.

I've started divesting myself of Fujimi Spitfires.  If it wasn't started or at least all the bits were there, all the highbacks for starters, are being disposed of.  I've still quite a few left - at least ten - but I've quite a few part started ones so I'll have to finish them off.  At least one is a low back so I may have a go at another mk XVIIIe as the Egyptians were looking at them, along with PRXIs although I did one of the latter.

Need to get thinking as time is running out.


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"Here they are, El Presidente!"

Finally!  I searched high and low for days, went through every Spitfire boxing to hand but I couldn't find that part started AZ mk IX UTI trainer.  Today, doing some tidying, I open a PRXIX box to see what's in it and there it is.  Cue lots of rejoicing.  I can get another Czech one done, although I'm leaning more towards an armed Isreali version.  I also used it to check the cuts I'd done to an Airfix IX to do another UTI, although I'm still unsure of what scheme it's likely to get.  North Korean or PLAAF perhaps?

I'm slowly slogging through various Spitfires with no real goal in mind, so I really should get the thinking cap on for what I really want to do.



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"Eenie, meenie, meinie, mo. Oh, by the way, there's a couple of strange girls in the bathroom."

Well, I've drawn up this year's copy of The Plan.  It's not very big, manages to use several airframes that are part started, if not actually together, and a few new ones, the last few I've just closed up, although I think I need to do some casting to do the cockpit for the Egyptian mk 18. 

It's also meant that I can put aside several mk 16 lowbacks that I'm still not sure what I was going to do with.  Portugese? Turkish?  Possibly some middle east ones - IIRC one may have been earmarked for Syria but I'm bunging a few to one side for now until I figure out what I want to do with them. I'm also minded to throw together the part started AZ mk 18 that's kicking about and there's a PRU Pink late Vb that I mentioned some time back that I wanted to do.  Again, I'll have to do some casting for the tailplanes.  So, two extra to stuff into a plan that was almost finalised.  Typical!

I'm still in two minds about several almost done ones - do I stick them in with the aim of finishing them or do I concentrate on the new stuff?  Time is running out...


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"Well, of course you hate it, Neil, it's not finished yet!"

Thanks to Bungle, I have another Airkit Spitfire F21 to play with and as it was already part painted, I decided to carry on with it.  I have a not inconsiderable stash of this particular kit and Airkit Spitfires/Seafires in general, so it's really about time I did something with at one or two of them.  It was also the first resin kit I ever bought - back in September 1990 IIRC (it was the same saturday I bought the DWB photonovel of the Doctor Who story Power of the Daleks) - and one I still have very fond memories of building.  It's still kicking about in a box somewhere but I don't have the heart to strip it and redo it.

Anyway, I digress.  I've got it underway and it's been highly enjoyable so far, although I've yet to put the wings on.  They'll go on later tonight.  I'm unsure of what I want to do with it, although I started it with a particular idea in mind - another unit hack, albeit with aluminium undersides rather than the PRU Blue of the one I did some years back.  Then I remembered that there was a built up one that I got as part of a lot of Spitfires bought on ebay last year, so I'll finish that one off as the hack and use the other one for another unit.

Another Airkit product I may go back to is a Seafire F17 that got the cockpit in and then abandoned.  I've quite a few of those wretched beer barrels in the Eduard royal combo and as I'm *NEVER* going to do anything flown by Johnny Johnson, they're really surplus until I thought about a Seafire carrying a rum ration aboard a carrier and as the Airkit one is part started, I'm tempted to use that one. Just got to find it now...

In the same box as the ebay F21 was a Ventura Spitfire F.14e (that's what it says on the box - the original kit was released as a post war aircraft with Belgian markings), and that had the hard work already done - the fuselage all cleaned up and assembled, complete with the Griffon upper cowls in place.  The Ventura kits are much like the Fujimi ones in that respect, but have a much better outline.  So, all I have to do is sort out a cockpit interior - already done with some resin bits from my bits box and assembled the wings, which are also cleaned up.  Like the F21, I've yet to consider a unit, although it could fit into my 607 Sqn history when they transfer from ADGB to 2TAF but before getting FXIVe lowbacks.

The AZ mk XVIIIe alluded to earlier is now assembled, although I had to sort out the rudder.  Like most people, they assume the 18 had a bigger rudder attached to the same fin as the 14 when in fact the fin on the 18 is shorter by at least 6 inches which when compared with the tail assembly of a 14 makes it look even wider.  Miraculously, I had a rudder to hand in the bits box and I'd already started cutting the fin down.  The Fujimi 14 that's been converted to an 18 now has it's cockpit assembled and that'll be going in later as I'd like it closed up tonight.

Holdovers.  I'm going to try to finish off a few of those that got their decals on and varnished.  There's a good five or six of those and I may have to call in some help from Kit for one or three of those.  Mention of Seafire F17s above reminds me of one tat suffered Cat.2 damage but I've a feeling it wouldn't take too much effort, possibly less than building a complete airframe, even if that airframe is as enjoyable to build as an Airkit one.

Pretty sure I'm now in the end stage of building, so priming can start at the weekend, with a week of tidy up before spraying can commence in October.  I'm not looking forward to that bit...


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"Yeah, my potion! My potion as well!"

After trying unsuccessfully around various large supermarkets (but not ASDA as I detest their parent company and won't give them a penny of my hard earned), I managed to get a bottle of Pledge off ebay.  Supposedly, this is the rebranded Johnsons Kleer, but whether it works just as well is open to conjecture.  More as and when.

The two Airkit items under construction have now reached a significant milestone in having their wings and tail feathers attached.  The Seafire seems to be fighting back, but it's more an issue of duff casting than actual buildability.  The fin is somewhat thick, but that seems to afflict all the Airkit stuff.  Hopefully, I can get a coat of primer on it before I go any further.  Looking at it a bit more cloesly, I've a feeling that the Airwaves Seafire III folded wing could fit it, although I rarely do folded wing stuff and in any case I have a pair of the similar CMK sets for their own Seafires.  As for the F21, I'm still unsure of what unit it'll end up with, but one under 2TAF control and equipped with FXIVs could well be likely.  A flip through the final volume of Chris Thomas' 2TAF set hasn't yet yielded a unit but gave me an idea for one of the two F18s on the blocks, t'other being Egyptian.

I've had to do a modicum of casting with some indifferent results.  I thought I needed a set of mk IX tailplanes for a late Vb but the castings came out imperfect and then I find a set in the resin bits box. Cue quick clean up and they're now on.  I just have to find a pointy rudder with a beefy enough width to go with the Airfix Vb fin.  May have to raid an Eduard kit...

I did however cast lots of wheels. I need quite a few of the four and three spoke hubs for various Heller Spitfires that are kicking about. Attacker solid canopy plugs and Firefly tanks are also being cast but cockpit parts are more important.  Unfortunately, their fragility is impeding efforts to get them out of the moulds.  I just need one set to get that 607 Sqn clipped F14 lowback all closed up, although I know I need to sort out another wing as I'd filled the wrong panels...

Finally, on the subject of resin bits, I dragged out my box of Blackbeard Spitefuls to see if I could get any further, largely because I'd an idea for another 607 Sqn gate guard, although I may have to do it somewhat differently to what I'd planned and at the moment I don't  - actually, a quick check has revealed that I can actually do both, as there's another part started airframe I can use if I can find some extra bits in the resin bits box.  There's two Seafangs and whilst I have an idea for one, I'm not quite sure what to do with the other.

Still no further getting anything primed, but I'm plodding away.  Time is ticking...

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