Right - time for one of these things ...updates. In tune with updating the whole site, great effort there MP. Reading through that technical stuff made me feel 20 again ..... mmmmmmmmmmmmmm...... DNS..........mmmmmmmmmmm. Very Homer Simpson-ish.
Anyway, things got crazy here, as in broken kind of crazy. Plus me trying to fix a very thin strip of resin which was bent. Didn't go well. Even tried cutting it and replacing it with strip styrene ... nah. Feels like my pride got hit by an out of control freight train. But, never give up, no matter how much it sucks. So, bought another kit, a Tamiya this time, because you know, Black dog is only supposed to be used on a Tamiya bird.
This means that I have to open a ton of panels, cut the big resin blocks into small chunks that would fit in those open panels. Here's the biggest one in one piece then cut into pieces.
The tail electronics are particularly challenging:
I have to cut that resin carefully - this is one side of it, there are more on the other side. Cut them, then along the length so split them up and file them until they fit in the new tail assembly.
Nose wheel bay- Kinetic vs Tamiya ....booooooooooooo. Cut Kinetic, make it fit in the frame of the other one and job done, that was the easy one. Photo taken before cut-file-fit-glue.
I know I am going to lose some portions of the resin, but that's fine. This will take much longer than I thought, but, oh, well .... stupidity and lack of planning come at a price.
Thanks for watching this train wreck,
Laurence