SteveT
SMF Supporter
okay, small update. I've not done much on this because I was kind of stuck. I got to the joining of the fuselage pieces but it needed a 10g weight in the nose.
This stumped me for several reasons: 1 - I don't do metric, my brain only works in imperial still.. so I had no idea how heavy 10g was until I "borrowed" some scales from the wife.
Then I just couldn't find anything to fit the weight and the small space, tried all sorts of things, ball bearings, screws, magnets, even tried 2 20p coins glued together
but nope, they were slightly too wide to fit. so I was at a loss until someone suggested fishing weights and something called liquid gravity.
I decided on trying the liquid gravity which is like a bottle filled with tiny balls, so I weighed out 9g of those and mixed them with some pva glue and splodged the lot inside the model, just in front of the cockpit. it should work (we'll see!)
So.. having finally done that, I've finally glued the sides together and started work on the wings.
I've decided on having the speed brakes closed but one gun bay open and the other closed. (you can see my awful painting of the guns/ammo belts here)
This stumped me for several reasons: 1 - I don't do metric, my brain only works in imperial still.. so I had no idea how heavy 10g was until I "borrowed" some scales from the wife.
Then I just couldn't find anything to fit the weight and the small space, tried all sorts of things, ball bearings, screws, magnets, even tried 2 20p coins glued together
but nope, they were slightly too wide to fit. so I was at a loss until someone suggested fishing weights and something called liquid gravity.
I decided on trying the liquid gravity which is like a bottle filled with tiny balls, so I weighed out 9g of those and mixed them with some pva glue and splodged the lot inside the model, just in front of the cockpit. it should work (we'll see!)
So.. having finally done that, I've finally glued the sides together and started work on the wings.
I've decided on having the speed brakes closed but one gun bay open and the other closed. (you can see my awful painting of the guns/ammo belts here)