Luft46's Blog

Not much modelling this week again. I’ve been rearranging things but haven’t finished yet as you will see below.

I’ve packed away a few kits and tidied the shelves under the second desk and in the process discovered a lovely colony of a dozen red backs one of which escaped. Stern measures are coming for him.

At the moment my main side is clean and clear with the mess to be tidied on the secondary desk. That is where my laptop is going as it has proved a distraction on too many occasions.

I’ve also added a small shelf to stop things disappearing off the back off the desk and reconnected up the British Airways neon sign so that it automatically goes on when I turn the rest of the lights on.

That should help the lighting a bit also. Last up is a memory jogger for all the biscuit lovers.

Whilst I got a bit done on Thursday I was unwell most of the weekend so very little done overall.

On the sub I’ve got the two control rods attached at the back end but only 4 of the supports on. I used superglue to attach the brass strips I hand cut and folded as support and guide for the control rods. Thinking myself smart I went back and added some Plastic Magic glue to strengthen the bond as the contact area is quite small.

Unfortunately this actually seems to have dissolved the bond on two of the supports so I have to redo these. But not today.

In the meantime I’ve done a little interior painting on the Ki61 for a bit of light modelling.

Hopefully this week will be a little more productive. And lastly a late night visitor.

Well the Miniart 1.35 Triebflugel cockpit has defeated me temporarily. The muse has left me on this.

I spent much of this arvo dragging out boxes of possible next kits. I’ve got tomorrow off so I’m going to have another go at the submarines propellers.

I also dug out a few part finished kis that mostly need painting and if the weather ever get a bit drier I might need to do some airbrushing. In the meantime I’ve dug out the Tamiya Ki61 and this does look nice as I have some Tamiya decals and a bomb to make a Kamikaze version.

Fortunately I got some modelling in on Thursday being getting the Triebflugel cockpit together and assembly and painting of two of the guns. I still need to do some dry brushing and wash on these but that’s an easy after work job.

Saturday night was a party for my youngest sons engagement so the model desk was a little overwhelmed. There was some putting back of things today but it’s not really work ready yet. The toaster etc are at least gone now.

Perhaps because of that I was feeling more like reading and finished off this one.