The Rat's Nest

[Old Wombat]

"(There is) no red port left", was the old version I learned.

[kitnut617]

"(There is) no red port left", was the old version I learned.

I didn't know port came in any other colour   

[The Rat]

#1 son is a nautical buff, so I've started on this one for his shelf. No whiffery involved.

[The Rat]

Here's what I use as a mat on my modeling desk. One of the clients our courier company has is Habasit, a manufacturer and distributor of various belting materials. This is a scrap piece of conveyor belt that was liberated from their garbage bin. Tough as a bear, it will no doubt outlast me.

[The Rat]

Tamiya Fine White Primer, you can't kill this stuff! I think most of us already know how awesome this paint is, but it's strength is something new to me. A few minutes ago I needed to remove the paint from a couple of wings, so I scrubbed it with an old toothbrush dipped in brake fluid. Came off in no time, revealing the primer underneath, which wasn't touched. If anything it looks harder, with an interesting sheen to it; not quite gloss, not quite semi-gloss. Indestructible.

[Captain Canada]

That's a good idea Rat. stop things from sliding about, and there's no way you'd gouge the table underneath !

[The Rat]

Hard enough trying to gouge the belting material. That stuff is tough.

[The Rat]

Salvaging a stuff-up



Things didn't go well with my first attempt at the Matchbox Vickers Wellesley. Construction was okay, but the decals couldn't be revived from their ancient state even with slatherings of Micro Superfilm and varnish. They insisted on suicide.

What's left of the starboard roundel after carving it off.



The port wing walkway markings weren't much better than this even before scrubbing them away.



So let's strip the paint soon. But what markings? Hmmm, there were two different ones with the Airfix Fairey Battle...



Belgian might look good!

[Captain Canada]

Belgian roundels always look good !

[NARSES2]

Indeed, it will suit Belgian roundels 

[The Rat]

Kicking around a Wellesley idea. One more in the stash to play with, but what to do? I've seen them as twin-engined and, I believe, three-engined conversions, so that idea is covered. So how about...

NO engines?!

Those long wings might be practical for an assault glider. So you take a few from the scrapheap, remove the engine, lengthen the nose a bit to compensate for C of G, perhaps add a forward cockpit instead of the top one, maybe not, and Operation Overlord has a new silent infiltrator.

[PR19_Kit]

....and lengthen the wings. 

[Captain Canada]

Jettison able rocket pods where the under wing pods went. Maybe several tubes per pod to keep altitude for that final push into enemy territory.....

[The Wooksta!]

Nah, twin engined biplane.  DO the same twin engined thing but using the engines from two aircraft and then shorten one set of wings to fit where the wings normally go and join the other set and fit above the aircraft on the usual strut arrangement.

[The Rat]

Nah, twin engined biplane.  DO the same twin engined thing but using the engines from two aircraft and then shorten one set of wings to fit where the wings normally go and join the other set and fit above the aircraft on the usual strut arrangement.

Or under, like the Heyford.