Zenrat's Flying Circus

[McColm]

To add to the fun both Mrs z and I have a cold.  That is never fun with her asthma and now when I sneeze it goes like this...
Both hands on chest, brace myself and "AAAAAAAAAAATISHOOOOF**K! that hurt".

I winced just thinking about it 

Same! 

+1!!   

Summer colds are no fun at all, mine started as a throat infection, lost my voice followed by coughing and sneezing. Yes I do suffer from the symptoms of hay fever but I've never had this reaction before. Paracetamol does do wonders but honey, lemon with ginger sipped from a mug until the water gets cold then drink the contents down and eat the slice of lemon is my cure. Takes about 10 days then back to my usual self.

[zenrat]

It's winter here mate.
I'm on Paracetamol anyway due to recovering from the surgery but I do keep a mug of honey water close to sooth my throat.

As today was warmer I ventured down to the shed and tinkered with some models.  Unfortunately a lot of where I am at is either sanding filler or airbrushing.  The first is to be avoided as the dust is likely to make me sneeze (see earlier post) and it was too cold and damp to spray paint.
DId some gluing of parts though.

[Rick Lowe]

Hey, progress is progress. In your Health and on the Models. 

[zenrat]

Thanks Rick.

Spent a little time down there again today but I can't do too much until I shake this cold.  It's improving, but not quick enough for my liking.
Back indoors i've masked the canopies of the Ginga (have I mentioned I hate masking) and glued them in place.  The kit came with a choice of two canopies and the masking set in the box.  The masking set fits the canopy the destructions show as redundant.
Should the worst happen and the lurgi hasn't released its grip on me by the time the 1WGB begins I reckon I can get most of the work done at the kitchen table should I need to.

[NARSES2]

Should the worst happen and the lurgi hasn't released its grip on me by the time the 1WGB begins I reckon I can get most of the work done at the kitchen table should I need to.

Where all my early year's modelling was spent 

[Rick Lowe]

Should the worst happen and the lurgi hasn't released its grip on me by the time the 1WGB begins I reckon I can get most of the work done at the kitchen table should I need to.

Where all my early year's modelling was spent 

Same - also when I was flatting... though I did have a small tray I used, rather than the actual table.
Ah, memories... 

[zenrat]

My parents got a new dining table when I was about ten and put the old one out in the sun room on the back of the house which my sisters and I used as our playroom.  I immediately took it over for model building.  About eight years later my mother, wanting to borrow it back for something was horrified to discover I hadn't put down newspaper and the surface was "ruined with paint and glue and whatever else you have been doing on there" (wax was involved).  This reaction came as a surprise to me because no such instruction had ever been issued and it had been in plain sight for all that time (albeit buried under the detritus of my nascent whiffing).
 

Progress.
Ginga WIP 07-07-26 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr
KV2 WIP 07-07-26 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

Since the pic more small parts have been attached to the KV2's hull and I have begun work on the wheels and rollers.
Research (yes really!) has shown me that the road wheels of the KV2 were plain cast steel with no rubber tyres.  This will simplify painting no end.

[NARSES2]

Nice masking    and I've always had a liking for the KV-2 so looking forward to it.

[zenrat]

Nice masking    and I've always had a liking for the KV-2 so looking forward to it.

I used to hesitate over paying out for masking sets but i'm a convert now.  Doesn't mean I like putting them on but.

[NARSES2]

Yup first "extra" I look for when buying a kit is to check if it has a masking set. Eduard and Peewit are my favs 

AZ/KP have started including sets in their latest kits, but they are not in the yellow kabuki tape and are a bit of a    However I simply stick them to Tamiya tape and then use a new blad to make my own Kabuki masks 

Airfix have started to produce sets, but I've not seen any yet so can't comment.