Detail painting mostly done. It needs a little touching up, decals and rigging.

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Decals on, engine installed.

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Rigging started.

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I didn't touch this model for more than two weeks. Every day I would look at it and think about it, but couldn't bring myself to get started again. I wasn't sure why, but now I know.

Thursday I cut a slot in the foam in the case for it, and took it to game night unfinished, to show what I had so far. When I got back home I figured I would be ready to start again. Friday I took it out of the case to find two struts and the tail broken off, plus what rigging there was all messed up, just from riding in the case. Then I remembered the frustration I had when I started the rigging and had struts breaking off until there was more glue than parts.

Today I tried putting the tail back on only to find it wouldn't line up straight. Then I replaced one of the missing struts, and looked at it, and the wings were now crooked. So I gave up again.

Tomorrow I'm planning to take off the tail and the top wing and all the rigging, clean up all the glue mess and try starting again. If it's not done by the end of this week I might just set it aside and start something else.

I want it done, but the frustration is getting to be too much.

I meant to take the FE.8 apart yesterday, but didn't touch it. Today I decided I might keep waffling for another month, and it had been long enough. I put it aside and got out another project to start.

This one is another resin kit of a Royal Aircraft Factory plane - The RE.8. It was meant to be the next generation reconnaissance plane, but ended up being another mediocre stop-gap. Looking like a slightly larger BE.2e, the RE.8 was powered by the RAF-4a V-12 engine used in the BE.12 single-seater. The main improvement was in finally having the pilot in front and the observer in the rear, the former having a Vickers machine gun and the latter a Lewis gun (or two) on a fully-developed ring mount. By the time it entered service it was already outclassed by the Armstrong-Whitworth FK.8 and it was only a few months before the DH.4 made them both completely obsolete. Because of the number it was commonly called "Harry Tate" after a famous contemporary comedian.

The only 1/72 scale kit has been the Airfix model, released in 1956. Big, clunky and poorly molded, it could only be made into a realistic model with a lot of work. This kit is a fairly new resin version made in Poland by Choroszy Modelbud.

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Interior assembled and painted. I left out the seats because the pilots I'll be putting in have seats molded in. There are also some small wheels and levers that I didn't bother with because they'll be hidden once it's finished.

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Fuselage, lower wings and tail assembled. Needs a bit of putty and sanding before the next step.

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First primer coat was done this morning. Had to wait all day for it to dry. Seams sanded, game tube mounted, putty applied.

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Seams sanded down, landing gear applied.

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Painting is done. This is my second one in PC-12, Mesopotamian front.

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Engine, Fuel Tank, Crew painted and installed.

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Lookin' good Steve. This model seems to have more detail than some of the others. Or is my eyesight failing me?

No, you're good. It's a resin kit, and they tend to have a lot of goodies. I still left a lot of the interior out so the pilots would fit.

Top wing and struts, propeller, intake cover. All that's left is the decals and rigging.

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Got the decals on, and realized I had forgotten the aileron links and wing kingposts. Installed those and got the tail rigged, but nothing else.

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