Chapter 6 of my Airspeed Horsa build,I am sorry to say this is where it all started to go wrong, in the words of Holly the ships computer from Red Dwarf ,I Flamingo'd up, it's like a cock up but much ,much bigger. I knew those stripes would be a challenge and I think that is why I lost my concentration , in a nutshell I marked up the stripes at 13mm each when they should have been 11 mm, 2mm doesn't sound much you may be thinking but over 5 stripes that makes the whole thing 1cm too big, if I'm honest the wings didn't look too bad but the fuselage was totaly wrong, I thought about just re-doing them and leaving the wings but it's one thing realising a mistake when a build is finished and it's too late to do anything but knowing it's there halfway through and just ignoring it is quite another, right ? anyhow I masked up the whole aircraft using Tamiya tape along the edges and then kitchen clingfilm and sprayed the whole of the three area's white then masked up again for the black and then masked up again to make good the camo ,so now a week later here I am back where I started !
The next stage will be sealing the matt paint with Johnsons and decaling then another coat of johnsons before the final varnish.As I am going to attempt a dio my next instalments will probably cover that so I am really only halfway through my build
6 attached images. Click to enlarge.
