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I'm not anti-vax. My wife's teacher's-aid got the AZ jab and is now losing sight in one eye. What is a modeller without eyesight? Nothing.

I've heard enough bad about the AZ jab that I'm not touching it.

Alright, my friends! Getting very close... got the matte coat on the dorsal surfaces yesterday. I'm pretty pleased with the appearance. And now, the final non-rigging/final assembly detail left: adding the windscreen. This isn't a thick plastic windscreen a la' WNW. This is a thin flat piece of acetate. The Part PE set comes with metal frames that go nicely with the Roden Acetate... just have to paint them and attach. To attach them, I used canopy glue (a relative of white glue) backed up by CA. Macro shots show a little excess glue... Once dried (gave it a few days) and bent a little to fit the curve of the fuselage, I used more canopy glue to fit it. Canopy glue is thick, and very tacky... so, the windscreen stayed vertical straight away. Again... the large photos don't help my cause. In reality this thing is about half the size of a pinky fingernail. I hope to get the upper wing set this weekend, and maybe the rigging too... so this will be the last update until it is completed. Bis später!

Nice! Sleek looking beast!

Wow! You really have a penchant for detail work.

Some nice tips shared for my future builds! Your work look good... but I get that sometimes you don;t want to 'work' on a kit.

That's great news, Peter!

Looks amazing! Reminds me of egress training in case of a wet landing. -- find a piece of structure when you first get in so that you can mentally align yourself towards the doorway. Cuz in the water at night... you can't see anything!

I'm glad you had another windscreen which looks nicely installed. Nice touch on the parachute housing too.

VEry nice!

Being a principally Luftwaffe builder or whipping out foil on my latest USAF and USAF builds have left me a little knowledge poor about possible paints to choose for my F9F. Please... what colors am I wanting for either application, and who makes them in nice, easy to spray lacquer?

That is good news!

Anyway... how about a micro-update. Last night I painted the combing for the cockpit. I will try to give it a satin gloss once all else is said and done. Same with the prop. I've decided not to use speckling anymore. It just doesn't look right to me. inadvertently I always get one hugely out-of-scale speck seen by the camera's unfailing eye. So... I did this with an airbrush: Then.... I remembered this picture I'd saved from Farcebook. You won't find many better images of the underside of a used aircraft from WWI. Happy modelling!

Thank you Harv.

Eventually there will be. I have a few other victims in the queue to ruin first.

Here are some quick and dirty pics. You'll notice Bob's buckle used on the albatros along with monofilament fishing line.... I used Stren 2lb. test. The tubes look really large in macro shots. Here... on the Fokker, I used elastic line and only glued the tips of the line where I wanted... You really don;t need turnbuckles if you don;t want to use them...WNW says not to bother. It's all easier than you think.

Hi Kai, There are a couple jigs out there that are useful. You've seen the one I'm using on this build which is the Vertigo Jig. It's made out acrylic with some hardware and is held together with CA. I actually drilled holes and put copper pins in the joins because I kept knocking parts down. MIG makes another one that looks like it secures the model better than my Vertigo jig. Here is a link: https://www.migjimenez.com/en/scale-model-kits/2232-biplane-plastic-jig-stand-transport-evo-bi-3224.html Let me introduce you to Bob's Buckles: https://www.bobsbuckles.co.uk/index.html This is my preferred method to rig. What you get from Bob's Buckles are eyelets and brass tubes. My favorite method is to drill a hole and place and glue with CA, the eyelet in the desired place. Then I slide my line through a the tube, through the eyelet, and back through the tube where I can snip it off cleanly. Stretch line is great for this as it disappears back into the tube. This image is from Bob's page: I prefer this to Gaspatch buckles because IRL, turnbuckles don't jump out at you. But Gaspatch buckles draw my eyes every time. But to each his own. Like Rob has said, you can use monofilament fishing line. The trick with that is that I heat shrink it with an incense stick. I will be honest... I have actually melted a line before, or burnt though the wrong line. But it is stronger than elastic line. You have WNW kits... And they are Fokker's Dr. I and D.VII. So, rigging will be limited. Very limited. If you don't wish to buy a jig, here is a home made method that looks relatively simple: https://modelpaintsol.com/guides/a-brilliantly-simple-biplane-assembly-jig There is little that can go wrong with Bob's Buckles. Because the line is only glued inside the tube, it avoids glue blobs on the surface. If you make a mistake, you just cut your line, grab a fresh tube and start again. There is no need for tying tiny little knots. Because the line is drawn taut either by elastic action, or by heat shrinking, and because the ends are attached to eyelets and free-moving, there is no chance to get the angle wrong. That is one of the most common mistakes with the Gaspatch turnbuckles... getting that angle wrong on either the vertical or horizontal axes. ... tell you what... I'll see if I can manage some close up pic's of the finished installation.

Say Merry Christmas to me, my brothers! Today, Santa delivered a Fisher F9F. It's the most resin I've ever seen in one place, and everything looks pretty awesome! Thank you Santa! (Ernie)

There is no need to fear rigging. Especially on most German fighters. Uschi and mig make great elastic line. Rigging is a bogeyman we've created with our minds. It can be as simple as 1 piece of elastic line between two holes with 2 dabs of CA. That's how I started with a 1/48 scale Eduard Roland C.II. Actually... it might be a useful way for you to start... something cheap and disposable to learn on. Personally, I don't really find it an enjoyable experience until it is finished. Because most of the time you are afraid of what your fingers may do... or worst case, knock your model off of it's jig. ....speaking of jig.... do you have a biplane-capable jig?

It's so Tubby!

Loving all of your scratchbuilding! Love the little details... and the fact that the engine hangs on the bearer!

Looks awesome!

Thank you!

That's very cool!