The Cyprus A10 THUNDERBOLT

Very nice work so far BB, hope your feeling better soon, boz.

To tell you the truth Boz I could walk away from it now, reached the stage that I hate :evil: and im no good at, the painting
What I need is a partner to do the finishing while I start the next one

Been sanding it, filling and more sanding, will it never end
started to do some detail work on the cannon as i suppose it will always be of interest to viewers

Not much to report on this one

THE BLACKBIRD wrote: Not my week, just run out of glass cloth so that is a two week wait to get some from the UK, though I had another 3m but it turned out to be nylon, so with the wait for this and the painting not going well on the OD jet im looking for something else to do, the only thing I have is the Lancaster, making the automatic glow plug igniters that Fly Navy sent me the parts for
We don't seem to hear from FN lately

Don't you worry about me Tonto, I'm still keeping my eye on you.
Don't hear from me!!! Madam books these feckin holidays (I pay) ,May- devon 2 wks, june -Scotland 2 wks, june/July -Norfolk broads -2wks july/Aug- wales 2wks, Sept -Cornwall 2 wks and you think I have time for forums [badass]
The kids, bless em, visit every three days to water garden, pots baskets etc they do their best but it is still catch up when we get back and when i retired ten years ago I said to madam," Dearest I know how you hate ironing and it hurts your back, so from now on I will do all the ironing" always told I had a big gob.
That's coming along nice Tony, back on subject, looking at your Hunter especially your painting seems fine to me.
Final note wish we had your bloody sunshine.

Eric wrote: Perhaps he went to have a look around that new carrier, and can't find the way out? [badass]

Didn't have to lower the masts on Hermes when we went under the Forth bridge did we mate. :woohoo:

No, but Sydney 'arbour was a bit tricky, we needed a high enough tide to get over the sand-bar, but a low enough tide to get under the bridge!

could you not brake and stop in between the two until the water went down
Good to hear from you John so sorry about all those horrible holidays, must be so hard for you :lol: :lol:
Tell her to book Cyprus next time at least you can count on the weather thats for sure
It is just starting to cool a little now heading for our two months of winter

Do you think i eat to much ice cream

If that is one day's rations - well, maybe! :woohoo:

Talking of excessive consumption my Dad smoked a pipe for most of his life and his favorite brand was "Three Nuns - Empire".

The tins were useful in his workshop. They are now in mine.

There are 90 of them.
J&F Bell stopped using these tins in 1960s? otherwise I suspect there would have been quite a few more!

He enjoyed his pipe then

Could not be bothered to do any modelling today,so thought i would clean up the hanger as it is in a mess
The lanc is a big model Tony as you know, here is the fuselage resting on top of the A10

spent all day moving things around and putting most of it back in the same place :S still cleaned up a lot of mess and gained some extra space



And for the depron boys look at this lot 40 sheets of 6mm and 3mm aero depron i want to throw away


Sorry about the brightness on the outside pics, its the lovely hot sun that causes it

Throw it my way BB [badass]

Its a long way to throw it from Cyprus!

I keep doing a bit on this one sanding filling sanding, decided the tail plane was not up to scratch so started to alter it,
I used proskin to cover it and all i had was the thin stuff, but where it overlaps the hinges it was not good enoughso
i cut it out and replaced with balsa if that dont work ill scrap it and build another



Do you think ill have enough room to get the radio gear in