Zenrat's Flying Circus

[NARSES2]

Perfect Plastic Putty - this seems very close in consistency and texture and ease of sanding to premixed acrylic wall crack filler (Spackle, Polyfilla if you will - I'm using it by the litre as i'm renovating the house) which is now thoroughly high tech and completely different to the old powder filler you mixed with water which I used on models as a kid and which was porous, pin holed and always fell out.  When my PPP runs out I may try using some new school wall filler to see how it copes.

That is a thought I have long harboured. Is PPP simply Polyfilla repackaged and repriced as a "niche" hobby product ? Be interesting to see what happens

[zenrat]

They both have the same "feel" but I don't want to use the DIY filler on a model if it's going to fall out after i've painted it.

[PR19_Kit]

They both have the same "feel" but I don't want to use the DIY filler on a model if it's going to fall out after i've painted it.

The Fine Finish Polyfilla has stayed bonded onto my various older airliners for many years now, no problems.

[zenrat]

Turbocat ! Turbocat ! What ?

To be civilian, with a sun lounge at the back under the blisters.

It's funny, as I recall the first time I had seen the extensive stencilling, and it was on a USAF F-4. I think it was a trainer type, but it still flew. I just liked the look of it !

 

The Red Phantom got her wheels today and I painted the canopy.  Not far to go just got to paint the inside of the U/C doors and the missals.

[Captain Canada]

Turbocat looks great !

[Old Wombat]

Ooooh! Catalina! I like it!


I was thinking "Turbocat = turboprop-Tigercat" but yours is much, much better!

[zenrat]

Thanks guys.

I glued all the bits onto the Red Phantom today.  Just a few touch ups and some light weathering and it'll be ready to be photographed.

I also dug out a long dormant Gundam build.  Its a Guncannon i've demilitarised.  It's almost finished but needs a little work done on its head and a lot of work on its surfboard.

[zenrat]

Dinner and (too many) drinks with the oldest BiL last night.
I gifted him my wood lathe which used to belong to his son and which I have never used.  This freed up room in my shed for a shelving extension and another display cabinet (Ikea flat pack book case that's been sitting in the garage for a year).
Ive put all the shelves in the bottom half of the bookcase with the intention of using the top half for the bigger builds which will go flat against the back board supported on hooks under the wings.  Well, that's the plan anyway - I still need to obtain some perspex and magnetic latches to make doors for it.
The new case has increased display volume by 40% but will be the last increase in this way as i've run out of wall to put book cases against.  I have a cunning plan though.  Shelves on wheels that I can use as a mobile divider.  I just need to get all the crap out of there that is temporarily being stored (garden furniture, jigsaw puzzles and obsolete computers mostly).

[zenrat]

A little bit of modelling today but mostly I rearranged my aircraft and 1/72 vehicles moving some into the new bookcase.

[zenrat]

Thought i'd knock up a quick build and pulled out another of my chinese knockoff Matchbox kits - a Mystere IV.
I glued the fuselage halves together and the wing halves together and then had a better look at the fuselage.  It has very soft detail although the usual Matchbox trench like engraved detail is a bit shallower.  Maybe due to the copying process used?  The whole silver sprue is like this.
The wings, in fact the entire grey/green sprue, however look like Matchbox had made them.
What made me abort building though were the big sink marks on both sides of the fuselage just aft of the cockpit.  Almost like someone had picked it up with finger and thumb while not quite set.
So it's now parts.  The wings will look particularly good on something piston engined and the fuselage could, with the dents and lines filled be the basis of something interesting.
Unfortunately this mould dates from 1987 or i'd earmark it for the Old Crap Kits GB.

Turbocat (Academy Catalina) is coming along.  I added a floor to the blisters section and put in some comfy chairs making that area a sun lounge.  Hull halves are joined.  While I have the nacelles blended in I haven't sorted the exhausts so i've started doing that.  Also primed the hull to see where it needs filler.

I've also got an Academy Super Etendard in primer.  It'll be an OOB build but in RAN service with ASMs other than Exocet.  It looked to go together well with little filler needed but then I checked the dihedral and she was down on one wing.  Correcting this opened gaps.

Watching Avengers Assemble as I type this.  I hadn't noticed before that although the aircraft they deploy to take on The Hulk is an F-35 there are Harriers in the Shield Heli-carriers Hanger Deck.  Hmmmmmm.

[Captain Canada]

Avengers Assemble eh ? I'll have to check that out ! Look forward to seeing more Turbo Cat pics.

[zenrat]

Just won my remaining "holy grail" aircraft kit on evil-bay.
So that's it.  I don't need to buy any more aircraft now...

More details when it arrives - I don't want to tempt fate...

[NARSES2]

So that's it.  I don't need to buy any more aircraft now...

That you or the other half talking ? 

[Steel Penguin]

is that even possible?   
gentlemen, we may need to place the appropriate counter measures on standby,  this may be serious

[ericr]

So that's it.  I don't need to buy any more aircraft now...