I started looking at the rods on the sides and they are wrong. Too small diameters on the large ones and the smaller ones are slightly small, way too short and the mounts on all the parts are completely fictitious.
Why should I expect otherwise.
So it will be even more mods on the trails. Some of which I have already started. The large rods I am going with some Evergreen 3/16th tubing and making the large rods. I suspect they are some kind of pry levers of some sort. The smaller rods are pointed on the ends and those ends fit into these cup mounts. They have (from what I have counted) 11 red and white stripes on them they are supposed to be about an inch (on the model) longer than they are and should be a bit thicker as well. I am using 1/8th Evergreen rod to make them. I made the cup mounts already and the rear mounts are somewhat simple, but will be a bit of a challenge to make. All the mounting holes for these are now plugged with white plastic and new mounts will be made.
I am so close to getting this to a done point, but just could not get myself to work on it.
I have been on a bit of a downer this weekend. I did go out and chop back the bush that was the Crepe Myrtle in the back yard yesterday. Last Saturday I did the big job of chopping back the two LARGE holly bushes in the front. Trimmed up the sides and took about a foot off the tops so now I don't need a ladder. That and the fact that Walter Koenig and Sir Patrick Stewart passed away this week has bothered me.
I so enjoyed the short Picard series that I have watched it several times.
Finally the election is Tuesday and so much is all effed up these days. with the indoctrinated pink haired useful idiots running around calling everyone that doesn't agree with them a Fascist or Nitzi or something else even though for the most part they have no clue what they are talking about.
You just can't fix stupid.
Sorry for the rant, I'm just in a downer mood and it won't get better till Wednesday at the earliest. Nothing I can do about anything at this point.
Hopefully things will pick up a bit this week and I will get some of my go juice back.
I also have notice that the ridiculously expensive 1/32nd Do17Z kit is on the way, YAY! Getting that should hopefully help. I thought it was coming to the house, but sent the address correction to them and then found 2 messages in my spam box this weekend where they asked for the work address, and where they received it and were sending it.
Edit:
Just checked, it is in New York and has been released from customs. Which means it should show up this week maybe in the next couple of days.
I saw a partial unboxing of the kit and it is FULL of 3D printed parts, engines, and all kinds of stuff.
