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Found a little “Oopsie!” Paul made. The wing extension at the tail on each side was about 3/16” too short. Had to glue up some Evergreen stock and CA it in place and then shape it.

Slow progress. Well, it is summertime and too many distractions. House guests, floating in the lake and filtering beer through my body, taking the boat out… Elevators, flaparons or elevons or whatever they are called. Wiggly things on the back of the wing are up next. Then I’ll do the slidy things on the front of the wings.

Just a hilarious update on my Squadron order. It’s still being driven around on a tour of postal facilities. Columbia processing center is roughly 45 min to an hour down the road. I wonder how many time it will bounce back and fourth?

That’s awesome! I wasthisclose to jumping into O scale model railroading at my last home. New place just doesn’t have nearly the room. Now the wife did suggest an outdoor train, hanging from the bottom of our screen porch where our hot tub and patio is at. But that’s no fun. Can’t build buildings, etc with a hanging track. This post reminds me I need to go buy a sheet of plywood and cut it down to put our Lionel Christmas train set on it. I finally figured out a perfect place to display it last year. I can build it out with a few buildings and Christmas scenes. Just store the 4X6 ply with the track attached in my storage building off season.

Check out the spelling on the box.

I’m already wearing bifocals. My close up is pretty good and I can even see better really close up without glasses. I have my close up prescription set to read the dash on my car more than anything else. But I’m so use to magnification now that trying to look into a cockpit is out of the question. I went a few years without going shooting and last time out I had issues with iron sights. Red dots have made a world of difference.

I couldn’t build models without my OptiVisor. I sometimes sit down at the bench and forget to put it on and start to wonder why I’m so blind.

The mains are G-Factor. (I’m sure you knew this because it was your kit at one time 🤣) Front is resin and I’m assuming Paul made it with an internal wire like he did on the Cougars gear.

They’re just sitting in place. I’ll glue them in when I have a fresh start tomorrow sometime.

Side 2 was almost a drop in fit!

You left out “curse”. Multiple times. Over and over. I whine a lot, but I’m still having fun. I did forget how time consuming these resin projects can be. Off to the next rudder now and then I might start adding some legs to it.

BaaHumbug! Cut your rudders out if you want to get all fancy! He does mention drooping the wing control surfaces a little and having the air brakes slightly cracked open though. epoxied in place. Needs a little edging with some files and sand paper still then priming.

For the life of me, I cannot figure out why Paul didn’t design these vertical stabs with the rudders cast into place as one piece. Gaps too big, angles different, rudder too wide at the base. Looks like I’ll have a couple to three hours in each rudder making them look right.

I remember reading a tip Paul Fisher had put in his instructions for one of his kits I built some time back. Use white glue to fill minor wing gaps. But my gaps were so small the curved tip hobby syringes I had were just too big. So I just tried a medical syringe with an 18 gauge needle and it worked like a charm! Angles cut squirted glue right into the gap. Cleaned up using a cotton swab and spit.

If they were selling navel lint brushes, I might have done a group purchase for all of us.

Naa, spammer dug them up. I just deleted his post bump. That’s what caught my attention. A 10 yo thread resurfacing about paper towel lint.

Post deleted due to spam for pushing their paper towels.

Carl, you’re a genius! But that shipping though. 😱

Supplies and aftermarket is wide open for delivery!

But this just showed up from Taiwan. Looks like I can now jump back on the Phantom bandwagon with these and BiggTim’s early wingtips for the Revell Phantoms! Now if I could just get this resin albatross off my bench and in the display case I’d have it made!

Well I was supposed to be posting pics of the Master Models A-10 brass gun tips I ordered for my two kits. Of course our wonderful postal system seems to have an issue finding my package now. It hit our main distribution center Tuesday and I was supposed to get them yesterday. Tracking has it listed as “In Transit to Next Facility, Arriving Late” Last two times that happened they never showed.

Ok, rough cut in and primer done. Need to fine tune with Tamiya putty and recut the panel lines.

Believe it or not, we had a certain way of mixing up body filler as well to keep down air bubbles from forming. Air bubble in filler out in the hot sun is a disaster.

Tim, question. Why a pressure pot and not a vacuum chamber? Or do they both act the same way?

More Bondo to the rescue! There’s a cut out in the wing where on the bottom you epoxy on the lower half of the wheel well. On top you epoxy on the vertical stab. The two meet at the bottom rear. Unfortunately they don’t line up too good. And that’s the good side.