Zenrat's Flying Circus

[Captain Canada]

You're a busy man ! Love the 102.

[zenrat]

Busy painting walls today.

But I have perused my decals folder.  I think I might make the Dagger USAF (make a change to use decals form the "correct" country!) but I can't decide about the nationality of Babs.  I have a choice of Swedish, Polish, Czech and East German.
I'm swaying towards Polish simply because they look so good.

[zenrat]

Polish it is then.
Thanks Brad.  I'm crap at making decisions sometimes.

[Captain Canada]

Polish sounds good ! And making the 102 USAF ? Interesting !

[zenrat]

I may be mistaken but my very quick bit of research (goggling Delta Dagger and looking at images) shows that most F-102s after the prototypes, were painted.  Possibly related to corrosion of the metal skin from the rocket's exhausts?  Of course mine won't have that issue as it has a pair of 20mm Gatling guns mounted in the missile bay.
A lot of Daggers seem to have had red tails so that's one colour to avoid.  Maybe blue along with some interesting squadron artwork. A Chupacabras (my avatar) maybe?

No modelling today.  Out spending what seems to me an obscene amount of money on light fittings and a ceiling fan.  I wan't allowed the fan I liked best which bore a remarkable resemblance to a small wooden 3 bladed 1930's propeller .  So it would have been out of place in the big room but it looked like a small wooden 3 bladed 1930's propeller!

[zenrat]

More house painting today (all the fresh plasterboard now has at least one coat of paint on it).  But I did track down and order, at decent prices and both from the same source Revell versions of the Matchbox Privateer and Norseman.

[zenrat]

I have a cold.  The Snotgoblin has started up nightly visits to do his usual trick of pumping my head full of mucus (where else does it come from then?).
In addition to that I have started coughing up phlegm (without brown bits now since quitting smoking 6 years ago - a good thing).
Combine that with house painting and a visit from The Boy and I only got an hour in the shed.
Apart from what I did on the tilt fan I painted Babs' engine cowling and the Caproni's props, undercarriage & pilot's shoes.
The Caproni is nearly finished.  I just have to sort out the exhausts, assemble the engines and fit them plus the wheels, pilot and glazing.
The Porthus is currently undercoated awaiting a coat of Frankston Skycabs yellow and the Dagger is awaiting decent weather so I can airbrush some candy over the silver.
I haven't touched the D9 Dozer but I have sorted out crane parts.
I may also have accidentally started building the crew van from a 1/72 Hasegawa US Pilots & Ground Crew set.

Of course as the Caproni & Tilt Fan are coming to an end I have to make a decision on what to start next.  Something Soviet maybe...

[NARSES2]

I reckon the tilt fan looks very Sovietish actually.

As for the Snotgoblin ? I've had it in one nostril most of the summer. Won't go into details but I'm wondering if you can develop hay fever in one nostril ? 

[zenrat]

Feasible.  I suppose the mucus membrane in only one side could become sensitised to pollen or whatever (glue, paint, resin dust).

The Snotgoblin is a compatriot of the Diesel Man.  It is the Diesel Man who, after you have been drinking, comes into your room, pours diesel into your mouth and steals your money.

[NARSES2]

I suppose both are related to Vegamite man then ? 

Strangely after a decent session it's my legs that go ! head and mouth tend to be ok but my legs ache like no one's business  Happens very, very rarely now however....getting old 

[Captain Canada]

There's a wee resin 350 scale flying sub that would make a perfect Snot Goblin lol

[zenrat]

Got a bit of time for myself today and concentrated on finishing the Caproni.
Not much to do now although some seam lines have appeared on the cowlings which need dealing with 

[comrade harps]

Not much to do now although some seam lines have appeared on the cowlings which need dealing with 

Seam lines? I rarely bother about them. They given a model a model look! 

[Captain Canada]

I guess it all depends on the look you are going for !

I'm still drooling over the F-102....don't see enough of those.

[DogfighterZen]

... I'm still drooling over the F-102....don't see enough of those.

Same here, that's looking real good!