What is on your bench right now ? Share a picture :)

[belugawhaleman]

How about field grey for the tubing...used on some German equipment.  Greenish ....Might look good.😀

[Martinnfb]

@Count0 Carl is after die  U.S.Navalized scheme. No nazi technology here, but genuine us research like zee Apollo and @$#@%

 

[Count0]

1 hour ago, Martinnfb said:

Carl is after die  U.S.Navalized scheme.

What kind of heresy is this!?! 

[HubertB]

13 hours ago, Count0 said:

What kind of heresy is this!?! 

The ancestor of the A-12 … and great-grand-father of the X-47B.

If in service before 1955, it should GSB, or NMF (imagine these wings in NMF, to push the heresy to its end …)

Hubert

[Spitfire]

Slowly but surely coming together.

 

Cheers

Dennis

 

[BlrwestSiR]

14 hours ago, HubertB said:

The ancestor of the A-12 … and great-grand-father of the X-47B.

That's exactly what inspired this bit of frivolity.

Further work on the navalization involved swapping the landing gear out. 

The original gear leg on the left is a bit, spindly. I cut down a spare set of F-14 legs instead. 

The nose gear is also swapped out, again for F-14 bits. 

[Martinnfb]

Sick! 

[BlrwestSiR]

I just did a very quick mock up to see how things look. 

Nothing's glued so it's all a bit skewed. 

[DocRob]

3 hours ago, BlrwestSiR said:

I just did a very quick mock up to see how things look. 

Will there be folded wings Carl?

Cheers Rob

[HubertB]

Just like on the original, you need to increase the take-off incidence by lengthening the nose gear leg, à la Cutlass or UK Phantom FG-2 …

just my two cents

Hubert

[BlrwestSiR]

3 hours ago, DocRob said:

Will there be folded wings Carl?

Cheers Rob

My first thought was to use the natural wing break in the kit and depict the wings folded but then that would ruin the look. I'll probably just scribe something into the wings instead. 

[BlrwestSiR]

2 hours ago, HubertB said:

Just like on the original, you need to increase the take-off incidence by lengthening the nose gear leg, à la Cutlass or UK Phantom FG-2 …

just my two cents

Hubert

It should hopefully be a bit more nose up than in the pic once things are glued in. 

[ScottsGT]

Just started a WIP thread.  But don’t expect much yet.  Today was my day of hell in the heat.  

I started the day picking up a load of sod for a huge low and dead spot in the yard. 

[BlrwestSiR]

Man, putting down sod is not fun at all. 

Scott, where you are do you have any trouble with wildlife lucking up the side? Here, the raccoons love to roll up back up at night and dig for grubs. So you end up having to roll the sod back out again every morning. So it can take forever for it to take root as a result. 

[ScottsGT]

My only issue are your damned Canada geese.  Can’t you keep those buggers up there and out of my hair?   
I don’t mind them coming in the yard and eating bugs and weeds.  But when they poop everywhere it turns the yard into a minefield and my pup thinks the Easter bunny left her Tootsie Rolls to snack on. 
 

Lately I’ve been turning on my irrigation system when I see them out there.  They run like their butts are on fire!  I’m getting too much enjoyment out of it. It’s great to have an app on my phone for the system.  
 

 Since I have a hose spigot out there I might buy some of those sprinkler heads with motion sensors to deter wildlife. 
I think my neighbor has reached his limits and is about to start taking them out with a pellet rifle.  

[Martinnfb]

I know that they are protected by law, but... I always wondered how tasty they actually are? They are also quite big, " turkey" dinner every week