Zenrat's Flying Circus

[NARSES2]

I opened a container to get a sanding pad and there it was.

So it's learned how to open and close containers ? Evolution in progress 

[zenrat]

Yes.  Worrying isn't it.  Am I going to find 1.2mm holes drilled in places I have no memory of drilling them?
Wiil it teach #2 and #3 it's tricks?
Do I need to segregate them and lock them away when left unwatched?

Mostly Gnat work today in the time I had (I worked until 12:30 then needed to buy food) plus LHC GB and Harpy but I did paint the props and wheels of the Me 410 and glued the crew in.
Footy was on the radio but Essendon vs Sydney held no interest so I plugged in the iPod and had Hawkwind blaring all afternoon.  Took me back to my youth and was very conducive to whiffing.

[zenrat]

Steyr ADGZ (M35 Mittlere Panzerwagen) with Soviet T-26 turret (45mm anti tank gun).
Hobby Boss, Hobby Boss, and Panzer Art barrel.
As it stands, this is currently a RW build...

Steyr ADGZ WIP 24-06-2022 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

Anyone building one of these don't do what I did above.
Don't, despite the instructions telling you to do so, glue the doors onto the lower hull before joining the upper and lower hull.
I discovered today, while dry fitting, that to get the top half and the bottom half to meet the bottom half needs to bend upwards (you can see the gap wn the photo at the RH end).  If the doors are glued on then they will fight the required bending and bulge either out or in.  I have had to cut them off destroying them in the process.  No problem though as they are just flat rhomboid shapes.  Easy to remake from thin evergreen sheet with rod for hinges.  I'm more concerned that when I join the top and bottom the required bending will lift wheels off the deck.

In other news I painted the Me 410's prop blades and glued it's wheels on.  I also offered up the canopy.  It's not going to fit without a fight.  The vertical window in the extreme nose has a very different curvature to the nose it is meant to be flush with.  I'd like to keep this as it is something distinctive to the 410 so I am going to try cutting the clear part into two or three sections so it will follow the curve.

MiG 23 got a dirty wash to make it look, ummmmmm dirty.

[NARSES2]

Yes.  Worrying isn't it.  Am I going to find 1.2mm holes drilled in places I have no memory of drilling them?
Wiil it teach #2 and #3 it's tricks?
Do I need to segregate them and loc them away when left unwatched?

I suppose it could of been in the box because it wanted to hibernate or perhaps it was simply looking for a quiet, warm, comfortable place in which to have its litter, or whatever a group of pin vice young are called. 

[Rick Lowe]

I suppose it could of been in the box because it wanted to hibernate or perhaps it was simply looking for a quiet, warm, comfortable place in which to have its litter, or whatever a group of pin vice young are called. 

A 'Sin of Vices', perhaps?

[zenrat]

Or a den of vises?

[NARSES2]

I suppose it could of been in the box because it wanted to hibernate or perhaps it was simply looking for a quiet, warm, comfortable place in which to have its litter, or whatever a group of pin vice young are called. 

A 'Sin of Vices', perhaps?

Very good 

[Rick Lowe]

I suppose it could of been in the box because it wanted to hibernate or perhaps it was simply looking for a quiet, warm, comfortable place in which to have its litter, or whatever a group of pin vice young are called. 

A 'Sin of Vices', perhaps?

Very good 

Eye ThankyooSir

[zenrat]

Vises, not vices.

<pedant mode off>

[NARSES2]

Isn't that the US spelling ? Vice covers all the meanings in English ? (I think)

[scooter]

Isn't that the US spelling ? Vice covers all the meanings in English ? (I think)

Vice = Yes

[zenrat]

Hmmm, seems the correct Australian spelling is vice.  Vise is the (an?) american spelling.

For clamping tools anyway.  When it comes to sex and drugs and all things nice then the universal spelling is vice.

[NARSES2]

Hmmm, seems the correct Australian spelling is vice.  Vise is the (an?) american spelling.

For clamping tools anyway.  When it comes to sex and drugs and all things nice then the universal spelling is vice.

Yup and it's also used to refer to the second in command or deputy ; vice-captain, vice president etc. English is a strange old language 

[zenrat]

Four builds coming close to conclusions;
  The Harpy (which has its own thread) is awaiting undercarriage and canopy.
  MiG 23 is awaiting undercarriage, canopy, hardpoints and weapons.
  Bv P.194 is awaiting canopy.
BV P.194 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
  Me 410 needs only a lick of paint.
Me 410 WIP 14-07-22 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[NARSES2]

Both very nice sir, but I particularly like the B&V P.194