They shoot horses don't they?

StephenLawson · 2 February 2009, 07:59 PM

Greetings all. You may remember this from Oct. 6, 2008.
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I will begin. ". . .Well a couple of weeks ago I was out at the foundation where I volunteer. And I was presented with this.

StephenLawson · 2 February 2009, 08:01 PM

So goest the repair.

StephenLawson · 2 February 2009, 08:06 PM

Painful as it is to look at I can count my blessings I used brass "STRUTZ" Clean breaks and it will go back together ok. Minimal decal damage.

StephenLawson · 2 February 2009, 08:20 PM

This particular build goes back to January 2003 when we had one of the first (if not "the first" ) Group Builds here at the Aerodrome. See the original thread here.

The reasoning was that the kit had so many issues we all got together to brain storm our various fixes. Most kits have one or two issues that we can get through with a simple three or four posting thread. There are certainly enough people here to help a fellow modeler out. We are also fortunate enough to have several master builders here. Everything I replaced in the kit is in the text of the original thread. At any rate here she goes. Back into the breach dear friends. . .back into the breach.

davecww1 · 3 February 2009, 09:49 AM

So that's the old Battle Ax clunker? looks damn good compared to what came in the box. One question - the ribs look like black or dark green to me, shouldn't they be light blue or lozenge color? Good luck with the repairs.
Dave

StephenLawson · 3 February 2009, 11:36 AM

They are lozenge. The Battle Axe sets are translucent and tend to pick up underlying colours.

spacecrow · 3 February 2009, 01:42 PM

This is a side to modeling that, up to now, I have never seen talked about: repairing damage. All our skills and ingenuity get put to the test.

Willi Von Klugerman · 3 February 2009, 06:23 PM

I remembered that.Such a sad thing to happen to such a beautifuly built model such as yours,but it was an accident.Were cheering you on from the sidelines Stephen!I admire the great detail you did on it and it looks quite splendid.You were lucky to have just the struts and wheels diconnected instead of the decals severely scratched!Can't wait to see her in full glory!

Fight on fly on!

FOKKERJ · 3 February 2009, 07:07 PM

Greetings Stephen,

I believe that you have several "Repair Shop" Diaramas.
With those at your command I have complete faith in that this will be just another stroll through the park for you.

Another admirer from the side-lines.

Cheers FOKKERJ

P.S. The hardest thing that I see may be dealing with the starboard Spandau,
it looks just slightly frazzled, but passable!
Beautiful guns by the way.

StephenLawson · 4 February 2009, 01:40 AM

Thanks all for your kind words. Jay good eye! It was the first thing I had to attend to. The struts are in place and curing up.

The joy of using brass is logevity and if the build is damaged usually the struts can be reused as well. The key is removing the old glue and in most cases (for dried superglue) a dull edged drill bit chucked into your motor tool will clean the tips and the strut socket out.

Case in point after I stripped the interplane and cabane struts and drilled out the sockets again it took about 47 minutes to re-attach them and was able to keep the wing true. more later.