Steve's Models

[Sailor Steve]

I said yesterday that I felt like starting a new project. I got the box out and looked at the kit long and hard, and then decided I felt more like finishing the current one. The rigging is extensive and intricate, and will undoubtedly get broken with handling, especially the rudder and elevator control cables, which run outside the tail framing. I don't mind. It was made to be played with. I'll always have the pictures. There were also bracing wires running from the nose to the wings, and from the rear axles to the lower wing. I left those off because I had to have somewhere to pick it up by. Anyway, it's now in the suitcase and ready to go with the others.

One funny note: I was reading the building log of a modeler who built the Flashback resin kit. He was complaining that he couldn't get it to sit on the nose wheels, so he figured a way to secure it to the base he mounted it on. Mine was fine with the tail assembly and rudder, but I noticed the same thing when I mounted the elevators. When it was finished it sat nicely on the nose again. Then I figured it out. The pilots I used were lead figures, and added just the weight it needed. On the other hand it will always be mounted to the stand in a flying position, so who cares?