Zenrat's Flying Circus

[zenrat]

You can still see the pencil on the sides as I have yet to scrub it off.

[PR19_Kit]

IMPRESSIVELY worn! 

[NARSES2]

Beat me to it Kit. That is very, very well done 

[Captain Canada]

Yes that looks great !

[zenrat]

Thanks folks.

[zenrat]

Got The Boy again this weekend so Uncle duties preclude modelling.
I did get a flow-chart drafted for my Diploma in WH&S though, which I suppose is something.
Plus, he wants us to make him a helmet (we made scabbards for his plastic swords last visit).  I got him to draw up his design and by the next visit i'll have gathered the necessary materials.  I reckon the old Papier mache on the balloon trick is the go.

[Librarian]

Your JetRex is going to be a winner, the Kyofu has so much potential (and a great source for a top float). Since viewing this thread I've found the two fuselage sides in the spares box. I'm wondering if a twinned DB605 would fit in that cavernous space under the cockpit floor driving a nice big contra-prop at the front. Can't wait to be compus and get on with some serious fiddling (models ((plastic)) that is ).

Looking forward to the end result....the weathering appears spot-on.

[zenrat]

Thanks Max.  Jetrex sounds like a fuel additive (or laxative!) from the fifties doesn't it?
My thinking it that there is a centrifugal flow jet engine in the space where the radial piston engine was and the exhaust splits and is routed under the floor to the wing roots.
It's ready for the floats to go on but I am uming and ahing whether to try to paint on some weathered identification numbers.  I risk screwing up what i've done plus where they'd go there isn't much paint left anyway.

[zenrat]

Main float is on the Jetrex and the pilots in place.  I'm leaving the outrigger floats until last as i'll only knock them off if I put them on now.  I've also scratched up a pair of jet nozzles and put a coat of primer on them today.

on the Hotspur i've scratched a bulkhead for the rear of the cockpit (now single seat) and glued the fuselage halves together.  I forgot about all the windows along the fuselage but I reckon i'll fill them with Window Maker when i've painted the thing - they're not too large.

More putty on the Dagger - this one's a real filler hog.  I doubt many raised detail will survive by the time i'm finished with it.

And some putty on the Caproni.  Nacelle to wing joints need sorting as does where i've filled the turret hole in the roof and the underside seam.

[zenrat]

My old mate Hamster has sent me some photos he took at one of his previous jobs.
I can feel the next stage of Captain Fat Hamsters buccaneering life being Tank Pirates of the Nullarbor...

It is a T55 I believe?

So what got done today?
Well after my 3 hours of work followed by lifting, shifting & stacking about 550 paving slabs (small ones - 8" x 8") preparatory for the builders next week I got the wings on the Hotspur, did some car modelling, did some work on the FW-189 and then had to go back inside to light a fire as Mrs z was due home earlier than usual and she doesn't like it when the house is cold.

[Captain Canada]

Great pic ! Sounds like you're a busy man eh !?

[Logan Hartke]

It is a T55 I believe?

T-62, actually.

Cheers,

Logan

[zenrat]

I always try to keep busy.

Thanks Logan.  I'm not up on armour.  I knew it was Russian and it looked like the pics of T55s I found so I stopped looking.

[zenrat]

While I was building the Morris truck I grabbed this of the model table where its been languishing for far too long.

It's the powered beaching trolley for the Gully Godwit.  I'd built the structure but it needed some bits & pieces to finish it off like front & rear ballast, snorkel and exhaust.

It's an Airfix jeep (from the Buffalo & Jeep kit) with Zvezda 37mm AA gun trolley wheels out the back and all the plane support gubbins scratchbuilt.  I'm hoping it'll look a lot more together when its all painted one colour (yellow or orange or pink...).

I also got some undercoat on the Caproni.  PSR looks to be finished.  Unless I drop it again...

Dropped the Hotspur instead today.  No damage.

Jetrex is finished apart from rigging an ariel.  The beaching trolley isn't painted jet but i'll photograph it on the one from the pink/white Rex so there won't be a delay for that.
Obviously having finished one build the temptation now is to start another one despite the many already on the go...

[ericr]

beautiful trolley!