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Coasters were a thing of my youth, the whole of England is smaller than California and as a island it made sense to use the surrounding sea as a highway. Coasters were shallow draft , usually flat bottomed so not suitable for the high seas and i doubt they ever went out of sight of the coast but...

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I predict some long sessions here today. Forecast today is 95f with tomorrow over 100f . We are lucky here we have a natural water supply in my area, water from the natural Artesian wells ranges from 100,000 to 1 million years old so not to fussed about 3-4 month droughts ;-)

I feel your trepidation Bob 🤣 I have skirted round the rigging so far but last night i started some planning ...Magnifying glasses out chaps :-)

Yea sorry i mean wear and tear, not so much weathering. ?Remember these things didnt have airfields or runways or hangers. They lived at best in tents like their crews in muddy fields.

So this is where i got to last night. The top wing has the faded blue which by accident might be a good move, the bottom is std RAF blue., the top now has white borders against the olive drab which is correct. The bottom also have white borders which is probably wrong but i was really...

Yea i never seem to get a good set of decals unless they are cartograph. Anyway once again i find myself rescuing a build and it was the most fun part so far 🤣

Pretty chunky wings and struts help ? My DH-9 has a 17 inch wing span, Its top wing wont sit on the center 4 cabane struts :-)

Warm water and a wire brush :dude: Dont panic, i am good at rescue missions.

Things are going from bad to worse :) I found some older WnW decals but because they were on white backing paper i didnt notice that 2 had white rings round the edge and 2 didnt, you couldn't see that really on the paper. Now i have the white ring roundels on the bottom and they should be on the...

Probably just duff decals, i found some left over from my Brisfit build which must be as old and they seem ok. Not quite right but no one will know :-)

Bad news...the decals are hopeless, just falling apart on the backing paper. I refuse to spend another £20 on generic WWI roundels so it down to what i can find in my spares box. This is the problem with old models now, i supose these are 15-18 years old. I dont remember the decals being a...

That looks good, i quite like the idea of a dedicated car forum, the correct link is https://forum.modelcarmakers.com/ your link is their email Thanks for that, i might see you over there next time i build a car :)

One of the things i really like about MRP paints is its ready mix so the colour is constant , so not dependent on dilution . Secondly its very fine/thin so while it needs about 6 coats it makes it very easy to vary the coverage of coats to give a more varied finish/shades You notice on...

Looks like my bench :-) you build as large workshop, a huge bench, loads of storage and every thing ends up on a 2ft cutting mat 🤣

So how is the " dont spend anymore money" plan going Paddy My poor old Badger Krome has become obsolete over here as you can no longer get spare parts From badger in the UK. ( thanks Badger) so i splashed out on a European model with a decent spares back up ( I hope) This has 3 bowls and...

Trade secret alert Take a small length of 0.2mm tinned copper wire or similar and hold it between finger and thumb like this. Small electric drill or electric screw driver with an L shaped bit of hard wire like piano wire in the chuck. use a dia the same as the eye you want, this in 0.5mm...

about half an hour Bob :-) i have these down to a tee

Not sure what i will do yet but i made some "bobs buckle" type buckles today, the wings need 44 in total so about 60 should do it. These are 0.2mm tinned copper wire with 0.5mm eye. A handy tip here is if you take your age, divide by the Dia of the wire then add half the quantity you need...

Not so much a plan as i think i remember what i did before Bob 🤣 Paul, a thought worth experimenting further :-)