The Mule

[Wardukw]

First off I never use the cap..mine always has a .5mm piece of piano wire in the tube ..bent at the end ..the glue always flows but when I didn't do that I'd use a lighter to burn the blockage out.
Burns out very fast and doesn't set the rest of the glue on fire .

I remove the dispensing tube/needle and then hold it with pliers while I burn it clean.

Oh that works quite well and when the bottle is empty I rip out the tube and keep it..they come in quite handy 

[Gondor]

First off I never use the cap..mine always has a .5mm piece of piano wire in the tube ..bent at the end ..the glue always flows but when I didn't do that I'd use a lighter to burn the blockage out.
Burns out very fast and doesn't set the rest of the glue on fire .

I remove the dispensing tube/needle and then hold it with pliers while I burn it clean.

I have mentioned elsewhere that I remove the tube and hold it in pliers while burning the glue out of it over my gas cooker. Started using the wire recently and was supprised at the blockage which I drilled out as I could not be bothered to "toast the tube". I may have a go with the wire and drill on the second Contacta glue I have which for some reason has always appeared to be blocked 

Gondor

[Gondor]

Finally got around to painting over the excess white, only taken three months 

Parts of the fuselage roundels ended up comming off with all the palaver with the masking etc back last year but as I have a decent white to use now I will touch up the missing areas. Once that's dry I need to paint a blue band around the centre of the rear fuselage white band, that's going to be done free hand as I have confidence in using the new brushes I am using.

So progress!

Gondor

[Gondor]

Not the best but with the way masking had gone previously I had decided to go free hand

Happier with this side



than this side



This is 1/72 scale and it's never been intended for a competition either. Sitting in the middle of a table at a show it will be good enough, especially if I tidy it up a little as this was the first pass with the blue.

Gondor

[frank2056]

Looks pretty realistic... These guys aren't using airbrushes or fancy masks:

[PR19_Kit]

Even the codes are rubbish on that Spitfire! 

Ah, maybe because they've been 'over painted' by the Stripe Crew?

[frank2056]

Maybe they wanted to see how strict the German judges were?

[Rick Lowe]

"And it's a 4.5 from the East German Judge! Oh, rotten luck Johnny!"

Even when they're painting markings 'properly', they can sometimes be pretty rough - the Squadron Signal book on the P-40 (I think) has a close up of yellow/black checkertail markings that could have benefited from using some masking tape!
The comment was 'Modellers take heart!'...

[Gondor]

Got a bit of mojo today so had a go at improveing the stripes.





I did the rework today because there was a lack of colour density for some of the blue and I was sure that I could get the edges of the blue better in some places and I am sure that I have. It looks better, not perfect but better. Think I shall call that part done. I also touched up parts of the roundels and the fin where the white had either come off or looked too thin.

Gondor

[Gondor]

So work had stopped on this build because this happened



Now the Bf 109 family is known for its spindly undercarriage and building a model in 1/72 is no help so the result is not much of a surprise.

Remedial action has now taken place. First, find some thin wire and a corresponding-sized drill. I happened to have some wire left over from creating a plug for the tube of my Revell Contacta glue which was small enough. The drill bit is 0.6mm in diameter.



I forgot to take a picture of the drill bit with the wire 

So I cut a rough length of wire based on how deep each hole was



Then I fitted the wire and then the leg onto the protruding wire



I did say a rough length of wire, looks as if it needs a trim



That's better, although I am using a different piece of wire and the other one disappeared from my tweezers 



The result of small amounts of super glue applied to the wire before insertion into the wing and then before the leg was fitted in place. Just enough time to bend the leg into position to match the existing leg.

A result I am happy with, so another model on the way to being finished. 

Gondor

[kerick]

I've done that a few times. I need to do that with the RF-23 I need to finish. Just looking at that gear you can see how it will break immediately.

[Pellson]

I actually mended my Lightning refuelling probe like that as well. And it seems to work so far, also for such a long and slender piece.

[Gondor]

That one leg was actually weak anyway, I had probably fitted it slightly off and stressed the plastic when trying to sort it. Later when moving it around on the bench while painting it the leg just gave way. All sorted now which is the main thing.

Gondor

[Rick Lowe]

I actually mended my Lightning refuelling probe like that as well. And it seems to work so far, also for such a long and slender piece.

I completely replaced an A-4 probe with wire, in the first place - saved all the potential stress and angst... pics may follow on my blog, in due course...
(oo, you tease! )

[Pellson]

I actually mended my Lightning refuelling probe like that as well. And it seems to work so far, also for such a long and slender piece.

I completely replaced an A-4 probe with wire, in the first place - saved all the potential stress and angst... pics may follow on my blog, in due course...
(oo, you tease! )

I'll take that as a promise..