Zenrat's Flying Circus

[zenrat]

Yes.  You get lulled into a false sense of security.

[zenrat]

But enough about my teeth.  "What about the Whiffing" I hear you cry.

Well having fulfilled my target of finishing and submitting another assignment for TAFE and then having rain postpone the planned trip to the storage bunker with another car load of stuff we don't want to get covered with building dust I found myself free to print the decals for the Caproni, Porthus, Morris Van and FW 189 and kidaddle to the shed.

I started building the nose wheel for the Porthus.  I am using XFV-1 spats and a Ta 154 wheel.
 
Babs got some filler in the wing joins that sprung apart when I dropped it on Thursday.

But most of the time I spent painting the huge amount of cockpit framing for the Caproni.  I'm using the long streamlined nose not the one with the setback windscreen.  Mainly because to was a pic of a 311 with the long nose that inspired me to buy one as I seem to have a thing for planes with teardrop shaped fuselages (Ca 311, Blenheim Mk1, Mitsubishi Dianah, He 111).

[NARSES2]

I am going to build the Caproni with the long streamlined nose as it's a favourite aircraft but I have the Special Hobby kit (indeed I have all their Caroni twins) which comes with a full masking set both inside and out 

[zenrat]

Is it the Special Hobby kit which has the whole fuselage moulded in clear?

Not much done today as it was raining and when it hits the tin roof on my shed the noise drives me back up to the house.
I did however take this picture.

Greenhouse is just taped in place for now.

[Librarian]

Beautiful colour scheme, really works with that design too.

[zenrat]

Thanks Max.  I have some Zenrat Industries decals to go onto it.

[ericr]

very delicate indeed

euh, may I say it makes me think of the Milka Ju-52? 
which is an example of lovely livery, IMHO

[NARSES2]

Is it the Special Hobby kit which has the whole fuselage moulded in clear?

Yup it is.

Your Caproni looks stunning, mine has run off down the road screaming "I'm not worthy, I'm not worthy". Not sure if I can coax it back 

[zenrat]

Thanks guys.  I'm sure yours'll come back Chris.

Decals on today.  Nothing over the top just a logo on the tail, Zenrat Industries & rego on the side behind the windows and the name on the nose (Miss Direction).  My thinking is she's a deniable/smuggling plane masquerading as an executive prop hence colours that won't stand out against the night sky and minimal signage - but without going the whole unmarked black hog.

[zenrat]

Good news <drum roll> it appears that PSR on the Dagger is completed.  Next I have to rescribe some of the panel lines i've lost in the process.

I've also abandoned  attempt one on the Porthus nose wheel and started attempt 2.

[Captain Canada]

Painting a greenhouse in a garden shed...there's a joke in there somewhere  looks good tho ! Sleek.

[zenrat]

Thanks Cap'n.  Sleekness probably down to Caproni though.
Put a coat of satin clear on it her today but that's all I found time to do.

[zenrat]

The Caproni's clear has reacted slightly with the paint.  But only on the control surfaces which were painted separately and didn't get a coat of gloss clear as they have no decals on them.  It's fogged slightly but not enough to worry about - call it weathering.
Touched up the interior paint today preparatory to putting in the fuselage windows and interior.

Bit more PSR on Babs.  Wing to fuselage join a bit too obvious on the underside.

Most of today however was spent cleaning out and then fixing loose joints on the gutters on the house.  Mmmmm, I love the smell of decomposing leaves in the morning...

[zenrat]

Dramas yesterday.
After pulling down the lounge room ceiling (how else would you spend a Sunday?) I was ensconced in the shed and had just finished painting parts of the Caproni and the Tilt Fan when there came a violent kicking on the door.
It was Mrs Z.  I was about to say "use the doorbell" when I realised she was flustered (unlike her) and clutching her hand.
"I fell over and cut my hand on some metal" she said.
And then showed me...

3 1/2 hours later we left the emergency department with 8 stitches in the wound.
She'd tripped over some plaster cornice the builders were storing in the garage and in falling landed with the ball of her hand on the sharp edges of a stack of the metal pieces that trim up external plasterboard corners.
I'd never seen the inside of a hand before.  There's all this weird frilly stuff that tried to come out of the gash.
She's OK now but probably no driving (it's her gear change hand) for a while.

[PR19_Kit]

Oooer, that doesn't sound much fun. Eight stitches sounds sort of serious, but they ought to keep the frilly stuff back inside.

I hope Mrs. Zenrat recovers quickly without too much pain.