Although I only started my latest job a couple of weeks ago, I had to take a day off work at short notice due to the car needing its breaks repaired. It was short notice as I was let down by someone that was hoping would do the repair. One of the calipers had its piston refusing to retract thus forcing the break pads onto the break disc. The result has been to almost friction weld the pads to the disc, not good but its sorted now

Modelling wise I am still using a shotgun approach to modelling. If I start enough kits I am bound to finish one of them

Saying that I am looking at started models more and more rather than starting new builds in a vain attempt to clear some of the part builds from around my modelling room.
To that end I have been fighting with the nose undercarriage bay of a Sword Harrier T2/2A kit. Finally got it together only to find that the modification I attempted to make it fit better need not have been made

probably my hamfistedness and requiring three pairs of hands to hold every thing together

I have also dug out my 60 Sqn Lightening F6 to do more work on, its nearly ready for painting anyway so hopefully should not take too long, the colour scheme should help as it will be all over metal other than the spine which will be in a nice eye catching colour.
I keep coming up with ideas though. One of my latest ones requires the nose/engine etc of a 1/72 Academy Typhoon which will get transplanted onto something else

I have just literally come up with an idea for the rest of the Typhoon
In a similar manner to the DB601 engined Spitfire, I will attempt a BMW801 powered Typhoon as a captured machine in KG200 markings

Another idea mulled over while at the Scottish Nationals was to finish my SR.177 naval fighter as Indian Navy. The basic fuselage is assembled so this also works for helping to clear the backlog.
Anyway, that's enough for now
Gondor