ScottsGT

I edited the title to reflect the latest developments going on. She decided to take our youngest out to Colorado to do some skiing and see our son that’s stationed at Ft. Carson. Can you believe she went as far as breaking her foot on the slopes so she can now stay home from work to monitor the package deliveries?!?! The nerve of her!! Thankfully it was a “slow motion” fall and the ski didn’t release from her boot. Acted as leverage to break her ankle. Apparently broken in three places. Emergency crew had to come get her off the mountain and offered to drop her off at the car or take her in for evaluation. Thankfully hard head chose evaluation. Did the X-ray and was shocked, as was the staff because she’s not in pain unless she puts weight on it. I told her on the bright side the Denver airport will provide her transportation to her gate now instead of the something like 1 mile walk. And she’ll get early boarding.

Now that Carl has reignited my interest to take another swipe at an Me 262B nightfighter, I’m going to have to keep my eyes open for one.

Yea, I can already tell I’m gonna have to pick me one of these kits up to one up my build I did when I was a snot nosed teen. Lookin great Carl.

I’m out working on my hot tub steps and heard an airplane overhead and said “That’s a damned Rolls Royce Merlin V12.”

Well I sure don’t want this milk man’s delivery on my front porch!

Yea, up inside these goobers.

To use a word our friends from across the pond coined…. I’m dealing with these fiddly bits now. Sadly I think once I’m done they will no longer be visible.

One thing I’ve learned on the He 111 project is to look forward in the instructions at the diagrams and parts layouts if anything looks suspect. I got bit with the steering yoke assembly and how it mounts. I put a main (gardan) shaft in upside down because in that step it showed the yoke mount ears were round on top. But if I had looked ahead I would have seen that I was supposed to mount it with the holes up.

Hey Carl, I thought about trying the AK colors. Might give them a shot one day. I’m on day 4 and still no shipping notice from USAGundam. Last night I placed an order with Gundam Place out of Atlanta for a couple bottles of the RLM02 and white primer. Let’s see which shows up first. The 02 is the one color that’s holding me up right now. And considering I have a few German aircraft in the stash, it shouldn’t hurt to have a little inventory in stock. I’ve got a feeling I’m going to need a bigger paint rack.

Power company is finally getting around to swapping out the power pole in front of my home today. Wife was teasing me because no lights to work by. She forgot about the Milwaukee M18 converter she bought me for Christmas’22.

Went to order paint for the newest build on the bench and of course Sprue was completely out of RLM 02. Scratch that…back to USAGundam for the paint. (Slow to ship, but they have it ). RLM 02 is like the primer, base color coat for everything German. Ugh…either Luftwaffe is very popular right now or someone forgot to stock up!

Well, this is the plan at this point at least.

And side two done!

And it works!!! These are the two piece hubs that lock together during construction. Using my painful twist drill I poked a hole through both. I then cut off the ends that go into the end of the brass legs. This is the hubs held in place how they will be glued after painting. The wheels will still roll freely after it’s built so I can practice my touch and go’s! Music wire glued to one end of the cut off axle. Slightly started. Pushed in a little further, but not all the way. Once painted, I’ll assemble and glue on the other cut off axle into the other side.

Thought more about it after reading your post. I’m going to do a “hybrid” of our ideas. Cannot really drill it out to the actual size axle needed, but I can drill it out for a piece of .030 music wire and still use the ends I cut off. Thanks for the idea!

Oh, well. Excuse me. La-tee-dah.

I honestly have no idea. I bought it because all their stuff has been pretty good for me. 🤣 I think GT Resin has one but their QC has been very spotty over the past few years. I’d rather not chance it. There have been some fitting complaints even for the Rhino online. Something about the cast in lower part of the fuselage you cut out is too narrow. My thought was to grind this area off the resin intake and make it fit inside the fuselage.

Postman dropped this off today. It popped up on LSP last week and I jumped on it. Yea, I think I paid about $10-$15 too much, but Rhino is long gone. So pay the price!

I also fiddled around with the G Factor legs. Short of bending these things wide open and hoping they don’t break or not bend back correctly, I cannot figure out how to use them without just cutting off the wheels axles and gluing them back on down inside the brass. And honestly, I just came up with that idea as I was putting this on paper.

Spent today assembling some of the larger sub assemblies. Probably be a week before I get my paint order in so I want to progress as much as I can. This was four sprue trees cleaned out. .

Yea, very old! Were talking 48 years ago. 😳

Ok. So far this is an interesting experience. As most kits, it starts out with the cockpit build. I’m getting a real steampunk vibe off the cockpit. I’ve gone about as far as I can without painting. Speaking of paint, made up my shopping list and went to my usual place, Sprue Brothers. Of all the colors for them to be out of, RLM 2. That Germany’s “interior green” primer and corrosion control paint color. Back to USAGundam since they’re a retailer of Gunze paint. This little detail caught me off guard with this kit. Bulkhead at cockpit is made up of three parts. What appears to be an outer panel with circuit breakers is to be glued directly to main bulkhead. They even have an outline of where it goes. Problem is, it doesn’t fit the outline. I had to sand it off to get the panel to fit the bulkhead. instructions pic: After I will add, I do like how there are 4 pages of parts call outs for every part in the kit. What I’m finding frustrating is that there is no order or rhyme or reason as to the parts layout on the sprues. I think the cockpit alone was scattered on 5 or 6 different sprues.

Priceless. I honestly have no idea, and really don’t want to know. Gave my wife the phone number to Squadron if I die since he resells collections and is a few hours away in Atlanta. Told her to tell them to just come get it all and send her a check if he feels he can make money after expenses. Otherwise, the county dumpsters are at the end of my street 5 miles down the road and I know that’s where they would end up.