Zenrat's Flying Circus

[zenrat]

Re-reading words I wrote in a backstory sparked some inspiration and i've started and Airfix Swift.

Something along these lines...

[NARSES2]

Interesting 

[zenrat]

Love that pic.  Hasegawa used it as box art and I am very tempted to build the kit OOB (the Hasegawa Sabre Dog, not the Swift).

As both the Swift and La200b will be in NMF I am going to build them in parallel with the aim of painting them at the same time.  Maybe I should also build the Sabre Dog?  Although I feel that trying to build three in parallel might be one too many.

[NARSES2]

I tend to work on three at a time as that normally means I have something to work on whilst glue, paint dries etc. I tried to emulate Dizzy and work on one at a time, but just couldn't 

[zenrat]

That would be three Aircraft at one time...

...plus at least five cars, one clipper ship, and if I can't resist the temptation some 1/48 armour.

[NARSES2]

That would be three Aircraft at one time...

...plus at least five cars, one clipper ship, and if I can't resist the temptation some 1/48 armour.

Ah right 

[jcf]

Re-reading words I wrote in a backstory sparked some inspiration and i've started and Airfix Swift.

Something along these lines...

A Swift with a similar Mighty-Mouse pack?

Remember to always make sure the pack is fully lowered before firing. 

[TheChronicOne]

Yikes!!!   Aircraft nearly shooting themselves down or actually achieving it has happened a surprising number of times. --Any number above zero is "surprising." 

[kerick]

Good thing it didn't shoot the nose gear off!

[Rick Lowe]

Itchy Trigger Finger... 

Just as well he didn't have to pay for the damage!

[scooter]

Good thing it didn't shoot the nose gear off!

Or shoot up a high school

[Old Wombat]

A quick note regarding bashing a La-200B to a F-86 Sabre ......... Use a 1/48 Sabre & a 1/72 La-200B.

I kinda missed that the La-200B was a two-seater & the 1/72 A&A kit could swallow my Italeri 1/72 F-86F whole, quite literally!

So, unless there's a 1/144 kit of the La-200B out there, you're going to be building a 1/48 bash.

Further to this, my 1/48 F-86K could swallow the 1/72 La-200 whole, too, however, if you cut the noses off both just in front of the cockpit*, the 1/72 La-200B nose should fit the 1/48 Sabre with minimal building-up or PSR work required.

Now I just need to buy myself another 1/48 Sabre!




[*: Just leave the nose-gear bays in place when you do that.]

[zenrat]

Busy busy busy.
Minimal bench time although I have managed to squeeze in a flame job on the '49 Ford and a basecoat of Middle Stone on fence the Gun Car.
That was in-between making a second minion to decorate stately zen manor's front fence, building a platform to sit on top of a dining table to take the xmas tree and xmas Lego, mowing the grass, and building the aforementioned Lego.

[PR19_Kit]

Was that all you managed? 

[Rick Lowe]

Was that all you managed? 

He's in Holiday Mode...