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I’m away from home on Sunday so the modelling week has ended early.

Just some more yellow on the Raumer S and that’s it for the week. This coat went on a little pebbly so may need a little gentle sanding in parts.

I’ve actually worked on three kits this week die to the weather today. I’ve done some more assembly on the Ki61 so the body and wings are together but not joined to each other yet. No issues on the apart from a little sanding after using some Ironlak chrome to look for any joint problems. I’m now up to adding in the rear spine part which along with the engine cover needs a little fettling. This may in part due to me painting the insides of these parts.

The Raumer S had some pre shading added with Ironlak black and just this arvo I did a quick spray if the Vallejo Dark Yellow. This seems to come out as quite a bit drier than Tamiya’s version and in a greater quantity but maybe that was me holding the can back a little further. More uses will straighten this out.

Lastly is the Ekranoplane. Because it’s so hot 45 minutes was all I could manage in the garage. On the plus side it’s all my own man cave but on the negative side there are some days that are too hot or cold to do anything. Today was such a day.

Given it is a kit of a not large number of large parts even in 1.144 I dragged this inside and sat on the lounge mostly watching Australian Survivor. Judge me if you want but at least it’s not MAFS or it’s ilk.

This was a snip and sand exercise but at least it’s started and I can do some assembly another day.

There are some smaller parts still to do another day from the A sprue.

Finally a bit of progress despite today being out most of the day. I’ve dug out the Minenraumer and finished off the last few details. I also did a little rattle can spraying this morning and got some Tamiya white primer on. I normally use the grey but this wasn’t available last time I bought some. It’s more of a flat white at least. For a change I am doing small light coats and this seems to be working better with another coat needed tomorrow. I’m happy so far.

In other news the Ki61 is going well. It’s been a long while since I’ve done a Tamiya kit and I’d forgotten how well they are engineered. The cockpit is done and the wings are together but need to be sanded. As the cockpit is designed to slide in from underneath the fuselage the next step will be to get that glued.

The Kaiten has unfortunately gone back in its box. I’ve managed to break off half of the horn on the front and lose a propeller blade. I’ve emailed the manufacturer in hope or failing that I’ll have to fabricate replacements but that’s for another day.

The Ki61 did get a little paint in the cockpit area so it’s advanced slightly but not enough to make it worth showing.

For a change I thought I’d drag out a kit from the nearly ready to paint shelf which consists of quite a few kits after all the Covid lockdown modelling.

The 1.72 Takom Krupp Raumer is mostly assembled so this arvo was adding exhausts and the turning mechanism. Just a few more parts and it will be ready for primer.

And lastly some shots of the workbench area while it’s still relatively tidy.