Pete's Wildcat

[yak face]

Great job pete , it should be fairly easy to make good the cut , the razor saw looks nice and thin, cheers tony

[stillp]

Do you mean to glue it to the cut surfaces Jakko? That would be more appropriate. Might not be needed though, those saws are thin! Thinner that any plastic sheet I have anyway.
Pete

[Guest]

Yes, sorry, I should have put it like that: glue the card to the cut surface, to reinstate the thickness lost to the saw. If you don’t have any, then of course this idea isn’t going to help much

[stillp]

I don't think it'll need any Jakko.
Pete

[Guest]

Brave man! Looks like you've cracked it Pete.

[Guest]

Well you've sorted that well Pete.:thumb2:
Nice to know that I'm not alone in realising that something needed doing in the right order !
That video of the take off and landing was good, how you would do all those checks, settings and fly while under extreme stress of war time conditions is amazing.

[papa 695]

Don't know how I missed this one Pete. Looking good so far, pity about the mistake, but it looks like you've got it all in hand.

[stillp]

Brave man! Looks like you've cracked it Pete.

Only the easy part so far Peter, but thanks anyway!
Pete

[stillp]

That video of the take off and landing was good, how you would do all those checks, settings and fly while under extreme stress of war time conditions is amazing.

He (Kermit Weeks) has a number of similar videos on youtube. He has a collection of warbirds and his own museum in Florida. Yes, all those checks! Presumably in the Battle of Britain the ground crew did some and the pilot did the rest while taxiing to the takeoff, but there's a hell of a lot to remember, and different for each type of plane, so Winkle Brown's achievements for number of types flown must have included remembering all those checks for each type.
Pete

[colin m]

Read the plans!!!

Objection. We're blokes (not you Monica) we don't do plans / instructions. Unless we're told to of course.

[colin m]

A new tool Airfix. I've been a bit of a fan of these for a while. Price to detail ratio is generally very good. Looking very nice here, including the surgery.

[stillp]

Undercarrriage is now in.
and the bulkhead is the colour it should be, rather than the colour specified by Airfix. A few touch-ups needed, then I can try to glue the front back on.

A new tool Airfix. I've been a bit of a fan of these for a while. Price to detail ratio is generally very good. Looking very nice here, including the surgery.

It is good Colin, everything (nearly) fits, and there's plenty of detail.

Thanks for watching.
Pete

[adt70hk]

Looking good so far Peter.

Keep up the good work.

Andrew

[stillp]

There's some sanding approaching, so I thought it time to put a canopy on to help keep the dust out. Airfix include both a closed (one part) and open (two parts) canopies, so I'll fit the closed one for protection during the rest of the assembly, and painting, and then remove it and fit the open one. However, just in case I mess up, I've masked the closed canopy before fitting it, so I can always leave it in place.
I've heard good things about Bare Metal Foil for masking, so I thought I'd give it a try on the open canopies. It certainly conforms well to the frame lines on the canopy, but I found it tricky to cut - it cuts easily, but being shiny metal it's hard to see the tip of the blade against it.
I brushed some interior green on the closed canopy. I'll do the open one later.

I need to practice more with this stuff.
Pete

[colin m]

I've never tried bare metal foil, so will be very interested in your findings.