One too many mornings

March 11, 2008

Springtime

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Spring has sprung. The daffs are poking their heads through the overgrown grass in the back garden.
I’ve planted out quite a lot of veg this year. Some in a raised bed, leeks, carrots, chard, onions and scallions.
Cabbage and carrots and onions straight into the ground. The rose hips I took from the park are germinating. That is pretty amazing from one rose hip you could grow a whole rose garden, there must be fifty to a hundred seeds in each one.
Got to get some garlic and spuds. I’m going to try growing the spuds in tires or a bin to get max yield.

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Do-17 Fuselage halves closed

Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 10:53 am
Here are some pictures of the cockpit with the fuselage halves closed. The “reading the seams” thread in the beginners section of the forums is a great education as to how cement is actually supposed to work as opposed to how I’ve been using it.

Spent an hour or so last night cleaning up the the seams on the fuselage and engines, then fitted the wings.

No locater pins on the fuselage or the wings but after lots of test fitting it went together very nicely. Will need a little filler around the wings but otherwise looks passable. Far easier than the old sb6 and i-153 kits I’ve made recently, they had massive steps.
Next, clean up the wings fit the canopies and apply masking to all that glass, hmmm wonder if there are commercial masks for this? oh yes! eduard do one. Ooh and Extratech do PE flaps too. Tempting… need to find a site that does both, or maybe the local shop might piggyback them on their next order.

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March 5, 2008

Building Do-17

Filed under: Uncategorized — admin @ 3:57 pm
clipped from aeroscale.co.uk

Started my Dornier at the weekend. I’ve cleaned and test fitted the major fuselage parts, built the cockpit and engines, primed and washed the interior. This is a really nice kit so far. And the first time I’ve use resin and PE. Looking forward to seeing the cockpit when it is assmebled. The wash looks kind of messy, I’m not too worried as it is inside. I used black enamel and thinner. I’ve not done a wash on the undercarriage area, I’ll experiment with some other washes there.
Here are the results so far.
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Dornier Cockpit wash

Next putting the PE details in the cockpit. It should look like this when I’m done.

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