Zenrat's Flying Circus

[NARSES2]

Interesting version of a 110 that's for sure 

[Librarian]

That's really inspired me to start modelling again, my Mohawk still remains unfinished. I've had bad experiences with bright blues recently so I'll avoid them but greens and dark blues always work for me .

[zenrat]

Glad to help.

The Bf 110 was inspired by Tophe - he has an Asymmetric 110 somewhere on here.

[PR19_Kit]

The Bf 110 was inspired by Tophe - he has an Asymmetric 110 somewhere on here.

Tophe has an asymmetric EVERYthing somewhere on here!   

[zenrat]

Another weekend on Uncle duty so no modelling done as I was spending time with The Boy.
The Boy's dad was Mrs z's nephew.  He was a security guard who was murdered in a robbery 10 years ago when The Boy was 6 months old.  His mum has done a great job bringing him up and we're there when we're needed but you can see how not having a dad has affected him and has meant he's missed out.  When that trigger was pulled one life was ended and others were profoundly affected.

Ach, I get so angry.  It's at times like this i'll advocate for the death penalty and would gladly do the job.

[Librarian]

Ach, I get so angry.  It's at times like this i'll advocate for the death penalty and would gladly do the job.

There's a referendum I'd like to see. Bring back the Circus Maximus (or whichever is the correct location).

[zenrat]

The Mohawk is decaled and now awaits clearing before I progress to the fiddley bits.  Having stuffed up some decals on the Porco Rosso stand by clearing them too soon I am waiting at least 72 hours so they are completely dried.

Having finished the Hurricane and the Porco Rosso planes I of course immediately started something else.
Being inspired by a recent post on here of a japanese jet fighter float plane (I now can't find) I dragged out a Hasegawa Kawanishi N1K1 and did this to it.  Removing the big fat wing root fillets gave me perfect places to fit jet nozzles.

[zenrat]

Thanks bud.

[zenrat]

I'm concentrating on finishing a build for the Ballarat NNL on Sunday 24th May at Buninyong Golf Club (plug plug) and so most of my building time today was taken up scratchbuilding a roll cage for a real world car.
I did however put the cockpit interior into the Jet N1k1 and start on the cockpit of the Mohawk.

[zenrat]

Jet N1k1 is now in 1 large piece sans floats and will get some paint soon.  I found an Elhiem figures chopper pilot who'll fit into it and have started painting him.

Mohawk fiddley bits continues including painting the crew.

I've started scratchbuilding the Delta Dagger's gun pack.  As reported the fit of the provided doors is terrible.  My original plan was to add an additional centre support, use them and then add barrels and putty bulges.  The fit is however so bad that i'm only using the outermost doors and will fill the rest with styrene sheet.  Two 1/35 minigun barrels will protrude from a pair of tubes with slash cut tips.

On the Caproni executive prop i'm about to PSR the nacelle to wing joints.

[Captain Canada]

The Mohawk looks great. The Kawinishi is going to be pretty cool as well ! Great idea there.

[zenrat]

Thanks Cap'n.  Not my idea on the Kawanishi, I was inspired by this one that Dizzy found.

I put satin clear over the decals on the mohawk today plus some filler on the Kawanishi and a bit of sanding on the Caproni nacelles.

[Captain Canada]

Yes that jet floater is a real beauty. Love the little dio as well. Always wanted to finish my scale-o-rama Catalina somat like that. Love the central float layout on almost anything !

[zenrat]

Primer on the Kawanishi today.  It was looking like it wasn't going to need PSR until I decided to deepen some of the panel lines and the scriber slipped...

Wheels on the Mohawk.  Seems I got enough lead crammed into it.


Dagger gun pack all closed in.  Now the PSR starts...

[Spey_Phantom]

love the mohawk, especially in that scheme