Recent content by Heavens Eagle

Orange? (yeah, there is a numb nut in every crowd :silly::facepalm:)

Looking really good Greg! Glad to see you posting again. How is your mom doing? Yeah, doing the chronolog on the posts really comes in handy on complex projects that you had to set aside for one reason or another.

Looking good Paddy!

First movie? I don't remember. Going to have to pull it out and watch it again.

Here is one trail basically done. I am sure there will be some piddley stuff that I have not addressed yet, plus the rods that are not yet placed on the sides. With the rivet pattern I found that if I take and heat up a fair amount of sprue till it is REAL SOFT, then I place the...

That is an ETO scheme with the invasion stripes. It is also a razorback so not sure of the squadron or where the markings come from.

Yeah I tend to ponder and think about it for a while before jumping off the cliff.

The typo monster has struck again.

Have one trail almost done. Made a second "mold" for larger rivets that were used at the ends of the trail plus had to do more modification on the ends per the photos. Some was carving some was doing some creative work to get a circle opening in the right place so the rivets would place around...

Looking really good Tim!

Hi Dave! Welcome to the site! I have one of the Monza Pocher kits in my stash. I built the Spyder way back many years ago (still have it packed in a box) They are very challenging kits and you came to a good place to ask for help. The old Pocher kits are not easy nor for the faint hearted. I...

He did this 30+ years ago. Woulda, coulda, shoulda. My dad had a lot of mechanical aptitude, but there were a lot of times that he just did NOT think things through. The drawer units on the desk I have (that he made) had the cheapest cheesiest tracks for the drawers that I have replaced 4...

Still waiting on you to reach the point where you put this all together on a single display. It it going to be huge and awesome.

Sorry to hear of the finger tip issues Paddy. Thanks for the link. As it is a UK link I did a search on US Amazon and came up with something similar, but has other pluses so ordered it and a mini fractal vice. They should be here Wednesday. Am always needing stuff to hold things for machining...

Looking really good Paddy! What is it that you are using to hold it? Kind of looks like a movement holder for a watch. Sometimes a sharpened tooth pick can make the tiny stuff easier.