It’s great to be building again, and the new F1 Rocket kit in our shop is coming along nicely.
Back before Christmas we did an inventory of this very early (but untouched) kit, and found it to be very complete - and anything that was missing has been worked with Vince at Team Rocket. Removing the variety of very old plastic and vinyl coatings proved (once again) that an impossible task becomes possible when you just dig in and work at it - most of the really bad stuff has been removed, and that remaining is the easier stuff. Louise has been busy with floor panel stiffeners, and is now busy with rudder pedals, while I have done all the baggage compartment stuff, battery tray, flap mechanism - and am now working on cockpit rails. It‘s great to have a variety of sub-projects on a project, so that if you get stumped or bored, you move to something else. For instance, every once in awhile, I take a piece of weldment to the blast cabinet and clean it up for eventual paint or powder coat….
Here’s last night’s status pic:
Back before Christmas we did an inventory of this very early (but untouched) kit, and found it to be very complete - and anything that was missing has been worked with Vince at Team Rocket. Removing the variety of very old plastic and vinyl coatings proved (once again) that an impossible task becomes possible when you just dig in and work at it - most of the really bad stuff has been removed, and that remaining is the easier stuff. Louise has been busy with floor panel stiffeners, and is now busy with rudder pedals, while I have done all the baggage compartment stuff, battery tray, flap mechanism - and am now working on cockpit rails. It‘s great to have a variety of sub-projects on a project, so that if you get stumped or bored, you move to something else. For instance, every once in awhile, I take a piece of weldment to the blast cabinet and clean it up for eventual paint or powder coat….
Here’s last night’s status pic:
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