Luft46's Blog

Well it’s been a week of various things. I’ve had a week off work and had time for some modelling at least.

I’ve had this blog for 11 years free for a total of 3GB uploaded. I finally hit that ceiling and am now paying $5 per month for an additional 3GB. The service from WordPress to effect this was great. I’m happy to pay this given I’ve had so long for free.

Below are some more shots from Expo I was unable to upload as I had hit that ceiling.

Next up is the weekend’s purchases.

This week has seen me doing work on the Avrocar which looks like a Flying Saucer. Unfortunately over Friday and Saturday I managed to send it flying twice and that put me back to where I was a week ago as I had to repair it twice. In the meantime I did do work on the U/C at least.

And lastly a bad joke.

The week started with a public holiday so I managed to get some Milliput down on the UFO at least and it’s ready for some PSR next week.

In Melbourne I’ve been to both Hearns and Metro Hobbies. Hearns continues its slow decline with buzzer controlled entry now needed. It’s not a good sign and yet again I bought nothing there.

Sunday saw me at Expo at 9.30am with half an hour spare to check out a few traders before    following the emptied long queue upstairs. I bought a few decal sheets and headed back downstairs to buy a few things and check out the entries.

On the whole there seemed more entries and traders compared to last year and more people there which is a good sign.

I’ll post a few pictures below of the entries below finishing with what I think will be best of show. I’ll post a few more in another post.

It’s been a quiet modelling week with more stuff on other fronts occupying my time.

The UFO got a fair bit of work in part due to the very vague instructions which caused me to put the main cockpit in the wrong place. It’s a typical short run kit with a bit of wrestling required to get it done.

Anyway that’s all done now and after it sets up overnight it will be onto putting both halves together as tomorrow is a Public holiday.

Also my gold plated decals for the Mystery Machine arrived quickly enough. I’ll look at these properly tomorrow.

Apart from making very little progress on the wheels the Ki61 is nearly paint ready. Unfortunately as the inner rims are poorly defined it’s proving troublesome. I may have to resort to wheel masks.

The bin got more primer and I gave another one I have a coat also as I’ll be using it as a test bed. I’m getting a brass mask to help with this from Ali Express to do the rust effect.

I’m also getting a few other items from them that will appear in later posts. I’m blaming this on a friend who has led me astray in discovering this company.

Last up is the new shiny thing being the Avrocar VZ9 from Fly. It’s limited run and includes resin for much of the interior details. I’ve started in detail painting after cutting out most of the resin. The engine exhaust vanes are tricky as they are easy to break off which I did on two of them having to replace with plastic card but this was pretty simple to do as they are just rectangles.

Last up is my latest attempt to airbrush. It’s closer but that’s next week’s problem.