Zenrat's Flying Circus

[zenrat]

...I had trouble working out what it was 

I've been having that problem all through the build...

[kerick]

We have the boy this weekend so i'm on Uncle duties.  Unfortunately try as I might I can't get him to take an interest in building any form of model.
That means no real modelling time until Sunday pm.
However, I did mange to sneak out and take this pic.

I've got a couple of rolled tarps to detail up and glue on and it'll be finished.

Everything in the background is tilted one way or another. Reminds me of the bad guys lair on the the old Batman TV show.
Awesome work, is that from a wargame or Star Wars or some bashing work?

[Go4fun]

We have the boy this weekend so I'm on Uncle duties. Unfortunately try as I might I can't get him to take an interest in building any form of model.
That means no real modelling time until Sunday pm.
However, I did mange to sneak out and take this pic.

I've got a couple of rolled tarps to detail up and glue on and it'll be finished.

It's well camouflaged with the workbench background at least.

Everything in the background is tilted one way or another. Reminds me of the bad guys lair on the the old Batman TV show.
Awesome work, is that from a wargame or Star Wars or some bashing work?

[zenrat]

It's a parts box build/kitbash.
All will be revealed...

[zenrat]

The Handley Page Henfield is finished.

Words have been flowing from my fingers again and i'll take some beauty pics tomorrow when I work out how to fit something this large onto my 1/25 car sized picture setup.

[ericr]

 

[Captain Canada]

Gorgeous. Love the tank thing as well.

[NARSES2]

Absolutely glorious 

[zenrat]

Thank you gents.

Apart from setting up Gypsum Flats (a large offcut of Gyproc plasterboard on a pair of saw horses) and taking pictures of the Henfield today I got some paint on the XFV-1, procrastinated over rigging the He-51 and started blending the Turbo into the Stuka.
Then a storm hit, the shed gutters overflowed, water made it's way under the door seals and through the shed (it's set up for that - up to 2 inches is OK) and I dropped a freshly painted dragster chassis into a puddle  :roll eyes:

[zenrat]

Just fiddling with small stuff today...
...and then I dropped the XFV-1 snapping off one tail and loosing the castor.
D'oh!
Tails glued back on and i've made a new castor.

Day improved somewhat with today's tomato harvest.

[PR19_Kit]

Just fiddling with small stuff today...
...and then I dropped the XFV-1 snapping off one tail and loosing the castor.
D'oh!
Tails glued back on and i've made a new castor.

That seems to be endemic with those tail-sitting VTOL birds. I've lost count of the number of tail castors I've had to replace on my RW XFY-1 and Whiffed Convair/Hawker Osprey. Good thing I have a ready supply of Kopro XFY-1 kits. 

[zenrat]

The flimsiness of the castors as made by Valom was one of the reasons I added retraction pods.  The other was because I could 
My replacement won't break being constructed from 1mm diameter paperclip wire and a slice of plastic rod.

Ironically I dropped it because I was being carefull not to hold it too hard as the clear wasn't completely dry.

[zenrat]

Today I;
Got decals on the XFV-1 and started to paint the weapons load.
Built a single seater canopy for the TurboStuka and started to graft on a Swordfish Undercarriage.
Added some small finishing parts to the He-51 and put some paint on them and other bits.
Pondered, pulled boxes out of the cupboard, rummaged through them, ummmed and ahhhhhhed and put them back and then started a stock, out of the box build of a Finemolds 1/72 Savoia S21 Porco Rosso.

[ericr]

Pondered, pulled boxes out of the cupboard, rummaged through them, ummmed and ahhhhhhed and put them back and then started a stock, out of the box build of a Finemolds 1/72 Savoia S21 Porco Rosso.

a nice one, indeed

[zenrat]

I still don't know what job this is going to do.  Current favourite is a mail plane for urgent parcel delivery to outlying destinations.