A new scratch built Bucker Jungmeister 1/3 scale

Awesome build!

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Quite right Skydanz They don't grow at all
John no she is not an Italian beauty, she is a Chinese beauty a Chinese Crested, the white one that got attacked was
her daddy, we have five of them
And they still have not had a walk since the attack

Im pleased with the fairings and the fit just got to trim and fettle them in place



After a lot of filling and sanding I got two layers of fibre glass on the cowl

And started on the plug for the cowl blisters

Shame ! I bet they miss it

So off I go again filling sanding then a coat of primer, filling sanding and a coat of primer, did that seven times

Until I was happy with the finish, but then the next morning I did two more times

Now I was happy with it, then thought I would make the mudguards for this one

Anyway to cut a long and bad story short today was a disaster, got to my hanger at 8am and the sun was on the cowl plug
and the heat had done something to the foam under the fibre glass, as it was all dented on the top, so had to spend many more hours putting it right
Then I had glassed the cowl blister plug with polyurethane instead of epoxy glassing and it had not gone off, had this once before with this stuff



So the rest of the day was spent cleaning and repairing, but I managed to get it and the mudguard plug ready to glass the moulds

Its now 4-30 in the morning and im off flying, 27 deg now

Not doing any modelling at the moment as it is to HOT, now that is something you did not expect me to say
Its up at 47 deg today where we live but feels hotter, and the house has no air conditioning
We don't normally get these temps until the middle of August but we have had them for the last week and they are talking for the next two
The shed is also very hot inside as any sort of breeze I get through the windows is hot, I did mix some resin today, thought I would do a little glassing, mistake, it went off with the brush in it
Its 10-30 in the evening and and still 35 deg, sleeping outside under the stars
NN

The hot weather continues and we have wild fires here now, with two firemen this week loosing there lives fighting them, terrible, and maybe all because some one threw a cigarette end down, RIP
Igot the moulds for the cowl blisters and mudguards done and polished



And started repairing the cowl plug where the sun damaged it

A couple of coats of mould release sprayed on then glassed

Came out ok

Blister on the cowl, need 6 more

But its to hot out there

Made up some brackets to fit the wing struts to

Then made up a couple of jigs to hold the top wing in place while I make the stuts, theres a name for them but I forgot it




I have ordered the stainless steel tubing for the struts and other bit from Toni Clark in Germany,
expecting to get them next week
Had a email today telling they had dispatched them
To my billing address in NORTHAMPTON not the shipping address here

Lovely job Great motor.Re Stsinless tubing have a look on the Ali Baba site for next time Well done sir

Still no word from Toni Clark Ref my parcel they sent to the wrong country
I thought they were a respected company

It seems that Toni Clark passed away a few days ago so that might explain the lack of reply's to my emails,
But
I think they should have someone there on duty dealing with customers, he had a partner and quite a few people working for him, someone told me to have some compassion , and as I told him
Its not his parcel that's been delivered to my sons house 2000 miles away from where it should be and I need it to get on,
Someone told me I make my own bad luck how do they explain this one

Bad luck While I commiserate with Toni's family and staff I agree that business should be as usual.No way to run an army as they say.Keep on at them matey John