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GusMac

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  1. Well, a major bit of progress tonight.... Glued the front fuselage on, so we have the bulk of the airframe together. This view gives a better sense of scale and clearly confirms that it's not fitting in the spray booth! May have to look into Rob's suggestion for expanding the booth to let it fit. I also got the front windscreen removed from the casting block and trimmed and sanded to fit. Haven't glued it yet as I'm slightly unsure as to the best adhesive to use for a resin clear part. My go to is the PVA you can see behind it but I'm not sure how well that works with resin. All suggestions welcome!
  2. Steep Grade from Burnside Brewery here in my own village. It's a barrel aged Belgian Quad at 14% - it's a 750ml bottle, so equivalent to bottle of red wine! Very drinkable which dangerous at that strength. Aged in casks from the Fettercairn distillery just up the road. The photo is taken at the top of the Cairn'o'Mount which is the local high pass over the hills into Royal Deeside after which the beer is named. It's a route I cycle occasionally as the 'steep' but of the name is well earned. The brewery owners are friends of mine, so got to give them a plug!
  3. Not sure if I've just been unlucky Peter or if I've screwed something up somewhere. Other's builds have shown some gaps but nothing quite as big as this. It's almost like the 3D printed tail section is too small but anyway I think I'm there with the fix. Fingers crossed anyway!
  4. Thanks Peter, I think I'm just learning about the challenges of resin kits. In the end I've gone for a hybrid of your's and Carl's suggestions. A styrene base with a skin of Miliput over the top. It's looking good so far but just needs a bit more blending and sanding. Will post some pics later.
  5. All the best to you and Mary, Scott. It sounds flippant but it is one of the best cancers to have nowadays. As others have said my mum had breast cancer 40 years ago and is fit, healthy and about to turn 84 in a weeks time. That's also the reason I've spent 30+ years as an imaging physicist mainly doing cancer work.
  6. Nice bit of the Right Stuff. You've got me digging more old albums out of the cupboard now!
  7. Some supplies for the Viggen, reckon I'm going to need plenty of primer! The kit weapons are probably the weakest point so I got the Reskit offerings which were a better price than the Brassin ones and look as good to my eye.
  8. Never seen such a detailed kit of a polished turd before. 😁
  9. It's good but I preferred the original film. Always fun to see Hugh Grant in his natural state playing a scumbag.
  10. Thanks fellas. I might give the Milliput a try Carl as saving on the sanding definitely sounds like a plus.
  11. So after a couple of rounds of filling and sanding with the Bondo putty I've put some primer down to see where we are. Apologies for the crappy pics, it's big and heavy enough now to be difficult to move and hold and hang onto the phone! So, a bit more work needed, mainly on the underside. A lot is just hairline cracks in the Bondo so I'm moving on to the grey Tamiya putty as I hope the finer grain should deal with this. I'll now show what I'm facing next and it's got me a bit worried as I'm unsure how best to approach it. The wing root is correct at the leading edge and tight against the 3D printed tail piece at the join area but I've got this big gap and the bottom of the wing sits about 2mm proud of the corresponding 3D printed section. Another angle to show what I'm meaning. The problem is I'm constrained by the position of the inferior reverse thruster vent as you can see below. I can't grind down the wing as the flaps wouldn't fit correctly so I'm going to have to lose the difference in the short distance to the thruster vent. My plan is to plug the worst of the gaps with plasticard and then blend it with filler as I think all filler would be too prone to cracking, etc. Does anyone with experience of these type of kits think that's a sensible plan? I'm kind of stuck until I sort this out. It's a bit weird as the tail piece and wings fit perfectly everywhere else but something seems to have propagated to produce this. I know others have moaned about the wing fit on other forums but that's mainly been around the topside fit.
  12. Looking really good. The paintwork is nice and faded. πŸ‘
  13. Grey Mr Surfacer 1500 is obviously easier to find in the US. It's like rocking horse poop over here at the moment. I spent a good hour hunting online for a European stockist with some in last night for use on the Viggen. Finally managed to track down 2 jars on Evilbay.
  14. I remember reading a book which was written by one of the survivors, Parrado. Absolutely terrifying and a true testament to human survival in the bleakest circumstances.
  15. That was Harry Secombe's nickname for himself
  16. Nice bit of trivia. He was one of the great British eccentrics. I did dig out The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse for a listen last night after seeing his name. Hadn't listened to it in years and it was a nice shock - Urban Spaceman and Can Blue Men Sing the Whites still make me laugh
  17. Wow, loads of brilliant builds. Love the Jackie Stewart and Kenny Roberts ones especially.
  18. Looking great Peter. It is such a joy to build, as close to trouble free as I've experienced in a long time.
  19. Why did I expect anything by Bob Calvert and Viv Stanshall to be anything other than bloody weird.......
  20. Yes, she's getting fairly weighty now, will save me doing some of my weight training with the missus. Given the length she's going to be, I've been pondering your method with the Lightning and contemplating doing at least some of the basic painting before I add the nose section. It'll be a very tight fit in the paint booth either way.
  21. Well, it hasn't been drinking a well known energy drink BUT it has got wings! Sorry, that joke probably only works if you get the same annoying RB adverts as we do in the UK. Anyway, after a lot of trimming, scraping and swearing I got the wings to a point where the gaps were as small as I was going to get so they've been epoxied in to place. Had to give it a wipe down as well to remove the blood from where I stuck a micro-chisel into my thumb, which just helped with the bad language. 😁 Still some fairly sizeable gaps so I anticipate the next few days are going to iterations of the fill, sand, prime routine until I get it looking reasonable.
  22. Thanks Carl, except it pinged off as I was sanding it down! Should have trimmed it a lot closer before I glued it to save putting so much pressure on it trying to sand it. I've trimmed and reattached it and I'll have another go tomorrow.
  23. And now today's progress. First got the casting blocks roughly removed from the wings and started the repairs to the damage. The broken forward section has joined really nicely so I'm hoping once it's cleaned up it won't be visible. I also noticed the other wing tip was broken so I've epoxied a piece of the casting block to it and I'll sand to shape once fully cured. Then I attached the rear section to the mid section of the fuselage. Join is pretty even so just going to be a bit of filler required.
  24. Made a bit of progress this weekend. First of all got the rear exhaust painted up and weathered and the reverse thruster petals installed with the top one drooping as the hydraulics bleed out. The flash has washed out some of the weathering in the photos but I'm pretty happy with how it looks. Also painted the reverse thruster nozzle so I can mask that off when I paint the exterior.
  25. Darwin Award nominee....
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