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Peter
“These are the most-active of the things on the workbench, though some haven’t been very active recently:"
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Welsh Models Shorts 360:
Not sure where the transfer for the fuselage cheatline has gone. Not really a problem as this and the ATR42 kit have a transfer sheet covering both, so I have access to a replacement. The main problem with this one is the tendency of the transfers to break into a dozen pieces. Not a Novo-like explosion, but a pain all the same.
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Aeropoxy Spartan Cruiser:
This one is making progress. Next, I need to see whether the aircraft I plan to make had an undercarriage that resembles what is provided in the kit.
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Aurora Mercedes 300SL:
A modern production car when the kit was made. Everything has gone together very nicely, apart from the windscreen, which doesn’t seem to have been made to fit the same car. Not sure why.
From an era when it wasn’t felt necessary to provide clear plastic parts for the windscreen, so it just came with a frame. I think I might start the whole screen business again from scratch.
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Heller (Airfix boxing)
1:43 Land Rover:
A nice little kit. Would have been better if the body hadn’t been folded nearly double down the centreline when I bought it. Needs the roof and a couple of details painted, but also really needs a spare wheel to be fabricated for the bonnet to cover up the repairs to the fold damage.
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Dora Wings Percival Mew Gull:
Making slow progress.
On to the doors next.
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Scratch-built things:
From front to back they are Arrow Active, Aeronca 100 and Aeronca C3.
Only the Aeronca 100 is really getting anywhere so far.
There are also a
• Heston Phoenix (nearly finished),
• Percival Mew Gull (Fuselage and one wing – scruffy and possibly best scrapped),
• DH Hawk Moth (nearly finished then broken apart again)
• Edgar Percival EP9 (tail feathers only but feeling hopeful).
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Avis Lee-Richards:
The original aircraft flew quite well; the kit is a determined tail-sitter.
I thought I had stuffed a fair bit of lead in the nose, but clearly not enough. I have a sneaky solution to the problem, however. Slowly gaining bracing wires.
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Amodel Hawker Hector:
The entire set of sprues had been sprayed with a strange metal flake silver colour, which is unsuitable for every single component of the completed model. However, like the Mercedes, the Land Rover and the Shorts 360 it had the advantage of being cheap as it was part-started (even if the start was just a poor spray job).
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Airfix Control Tower:
Discussion on the web seems to suggest that this kit doesn’t match the design of any RAF control tower ever built (the first floor balcony should be cantilevered from a flush wall, rather than the ground floor projecting beyond the first floor). So I guess it’s a model of the control tower of RAF Haldane Bridge (that name sounds about right). Just about finished. This one was also cheap, not because it was started but because a mouse had chewed a hole in the corner of the box and started in one corner of the instructions to turn them into a paper doily before breaking into the inner bag and being sorely disappointed.
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"That’s just what’s at the front of the queue, leaving aside 2xDC9s, 2xBAC 1-11s, a VC10, Varsity, HS125, DH89, Citroen Light 15, Lincoln Continental, Hoverfly 1, Genet Moth and Piper Pawnee. I do feel that perhaps I ought to be making a Churchill though, as they seem to be in fashion.”
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