Zenrat's Flying Circus

[ericr]

that future conan kit has a lot of appeal to me ... one day I might try and find it

[Captain Canada]

That's going to be cool ! And sorry to hear about your paint woes.

[zenrat]

Skyray really is very nice.  I should build more kits of this quality.  Cockpit is nearly all paint detailed and soon it'll be time for painting the FAA scheme.

The Falco has planks moulded into the interior floor so i've taken the time to give them a wood effect paint job.

And then there's this.


It's for the 2015 Scale Cannonball Run on the Model Cars Magazine forum.  The theme is :Sleepers".  It's a Chevy Citation on a Plymouth Prowler chassis (both 1/25 AMT).  I've retained the Prowlers rear mounted transmission but replaced the V6 with a 440 ci V8 from a Revell Dodge Charger.
The engine ends up in the passenger compartment (shades of Sports Sedan race cars) and i've had to stretch the nose of the Citation by 5 scale inches to get the wheelbases to match.  Still got a long way to go but today I finally got the body to chassis connections sorted out.

[scooter]

Skyray really is very nice.  I should build more kits of this quality.  Cockpit is nearly all paint detailed and soon it'll be time for painting the FAA scheme.

They really hit it out of the park with the Skyray.  The 1/48th is also very nice, and give you the option of folded wingtips.

The engine ends up in the passenger compartment (shades of Sports Sedan race cars)
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Or shades of the 24 Hours of LeMons' CBR-1000 powered RWD MetroGnome-

[Captain Canada]

Now that is cool !

[PR19_Kit]

  I've retained the Prowlers rear mounted transmission but replaced the V6 with a 440 ci V8 from a Revell Dodge Charger.

That should move it on down the road quite nicely! 

[zenrat]

  time.

I glued the 2 halves of the Skyray nose yesterday.
I realised I hadn't put in any weight today.
There is ship loads of room between the cockpit and the compressor fan so I can put some there but obviously being further back i'll need more weight.

[Captain Canada]

I've got a great big tin of shot gun shot, leftover from my Grandfather's estate. The good thing about that, is you can drill a small, easily filled hole, and then start feeding them in after, and stop as soon as you hit the fulcrum.

[zenrat]

I use spherical fishing weights which have a hole through them.  I glued a length of plastic rod to the back of the pilots seat bulkhead and slid weights onto it securing the last one with a blob of epoxy.  This method has the advantage of there being room for growth when the lead oxidises and goes furry.
I then glued the cockpit to the wing/fuselage part.  Another perfect looking seam.  At risk of putting the mozz on myself I might not need ANY PSR on this one.  I certainly haven't had to use any filler yet.

[scooter]

time.

I glued the 2 halves of the Skyray nose yesterday.
I realised I hadn't put in any weight today.
There is ship loads of room between the cockpit and the compressor fan so I can put some there but obviously being further back i'll need more weight.

IIRC, it's pretty nicely balanced.  Of course, it's also been many years since I last built one

[Captain Canada]

Good news !

When somebody says somat that brings on their own demise, in the wireline logging terms, we call it " the black chicken". As in " who called in the black chickens ?"  or " leave the chickens at roost " lol Also applies to the real and modelling worlds. Defo a superstition I believe in !

[zenrat]

Skyray is all buttoned up now ready for paint.  Close examination however revealed the need for a smear of filler along the join between the upper and lower halves at the wing root.

[DogfighterZen]

I'm waiting around for that Skyray, i love that plane!!

[zenrat]

Skyray is primed and i'm experimenting with pre-shading.
Hopefully it'll be subtle and not look ready to be scrapped like some models can when this is done.
Next stage is to mask and put on some white as a base for the yellow of the Suez stripes.
Given that the Skyray has no real fuselage as such i'm only putting stripes on the wings.

[Rheged]

How's Mrs Z's hand doing?  Properly healed yet?