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Busy busy busy and it is Dave's fault.
Air-Toon
F-102 completed and posted in 64th FIS colours
F-102 in sanding shop - anticipate completion within 4 to 5 days
F-104 awaiting space in paint shop anticipate completion by week's end
F-104 for wife???? Tail and wings started - wood selected for fuselage
F-101 drawings complete - dream stage
F-100 up for consideration
F-105 up fro consideration
F-106 up for consideration
1/144
HMCS Bonaventure - awaiting allocation of time
1/72
Nil
1/48
Canadair Argus - Fuselage shaped awaiting sanding - wings thickness being tapered, anticipate tapering completion by week's end
1/32
F-104 still in paint shop. White colour being applied to vertical tail surface. Having problems with dark primer showing through.
Bristol Bollingbroke - horizontal tail surfaces carved
Beech 18 - shelved again
F-86 shelved still
Plastics on the bench - 1 1/72 Corsair II, 3 1/72 BAe Hawks, 1 Ford Mustang
Finger is healing slowly.
In process
1/72 Bristol Spaceplanes Ascender: nearing completion (primer paint only at the moment)
1/500 Wilkes class Destroyer: I'm going to rebuild the superstructure out of different Bristol board this time (third try) and see if I can make progress
1/72 ID Model of Bristol LRQ-1 Troop glider/seaplane: rough cut parts (no change from last month)
1/48 Speed Spitfire: no progress (fuselage shaped, wing rough-cut)
1/350 PT-10: need to re-cut some pieces
Comet PT-9: no progress. Torpedo tubes nearly complete. Basic hull and cabin done.
non-solid:
picked up my nickel-scale (12-inch wingspan) balsa and tissue Hawker Hurricane and built the wings last night. Fuselage framework is complete, and tail surfaces are nearly finished. (was stalled two years)
Peanut-Scale balsa and tissue Helio Super-Courier needs paint and details. (stalled for 12 years)
Yak-17 plastic model (stalled since I started solids years ago!): need to finish correcting wing shape, assemble fuselage
Planning stage:
Looking at Air-Toons. Lou says you can draw your own :-)
Selecting another submarine for a 1/350 model
Scaling up SIPA S.70 drawings
Still planning a Nike-Smoke rocket (collaborative project with my brother)
Work Environment:
Working through house project backlog (balcony repairs, new coat racks, paint touch-ups, etc.)
Cleaning out garage workshop
Still planning new basement workshop workbench
Getting an air tank for the airbrush plumbed up with quick-disconnects and regulator
Still thinking about building a spray booth -- have blower fan(s) already
Gee Lou, I didn't know that would happen ::), don't blame me.
Barry doesn't have time to post a ping report with his workload.
Garet, maybe you should contract some of your unfinished (stalled) projects out to other members. I like the one that has been stalled for 12 years.
Dave, last year I finally got around to painting the wheels of a balsa and tissue plane that I made in high school. :o
It took 5 minutes to do this one. Once I got on to the trick, it was easy.
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Lou-E-Toon
Garet, I don't know whether I've got you beat or not but if and when I paint my P61 - which I built when I was about 15 - it will have been many many years between start and finish! It's nice to know that sometimes we all experience short delays.
Cliff.
Yesterday I was at the Oregon Historical Modelling Society's annual contest/show held in Mcminnville OR at the Evergreen Aviation Museum and under the horizontal stabilizer of the Hughes H-1 . I entered my basswood Heinkel in the scratchbuilt aircraft category and although it is an IPMS event the judges weren't perturbed that I didn't use any plastic. There were only three entries in the category so I managed to bag second place.
In the dealer area I found an old Strombecker F-84 kit to add to my list of things to do.
Paul,
Great showing! Your Heinkel is an incredible model and certainly deserves the award, even without the plastic ;)
Garet
Concentrating on the monster Hellcat while the F-102 sits there on hold.
Ken Pugh