Not being able to do any model making at the moment until my hip recovers from its operation does not mean I can not plan things! It was my birthday not so long ago and Mrs. Woody got me this rather interesting kit.
This looks like something that should have come out of Thunderbird 2 but it is an actual armoured vehicle complete with bulldozer blade and excavator bucket! Now this is one that I shall enjoy having in my collection!
On my road to recovery there are certain milestones that will happen and some of them are not to do with my hip recovery! In this case the milestone is completing the jigsaw I started a few days ago! I can argue that this has some relation to model making in that it requires assembly and features a Meccano and Dinky toy van and model shop! All very tenuous but oh so enjoyable to make and it takes your mind off other things like pain!
I'm really pleased with that! Must get another one out to do!
Cornwall! The one County in England that I have not visited and I don't know why but thanks to some very kind friends I have an ability to taste the County of Cornwall with this wonderful gift delivered today! It may look just like a cardboard but the insides are the treat!
So what is inside?
Just look at that! A wonderful cream tea for two and as the leaflet says 'Too good not to share' not that Mrs. Woody would allow me to consume it all myself! Thankyou Heidi and Bill! I may well have to go and visit Cornwall once I am fully back on my feet!
Not the best of nights but better than the one before and the level of pain is subsiding which is nice. The problem is when trying to get to sleep in bed at night there are no distractions so you focus on the pain! Anyway enough of that! Hopefully improvements will continue.
On my current project, the jigsaw, progress has been made which all goes to divert attention from the pain of the hip op!
Well, it's the second full day of recovery from my hip operation and boy is it painful! There can be times when I just sit or lie and the pain is a background dull pain but try and move and it's pain on a level I have not had before and that includes several crashes on my bike. However, hopefully things will improve in the next few days. In the meantime Mrs. Woody has been providing the highest level of attention and assistance and it was her suggestion that I take my mind off things by doing a jigsaw.
If you are reading this on the day of posting I am now sore but with a new hip! The operation itself is something I have no memory of as I was out of it before even going into theatre which was good! Hopefully back to WMD HQ today if I can prove I can walk with crutches up and down stairs and do all the exercises I am being given! I'm sure Mrs. Woody will ensure those are done along with dispensing the chemist worth of pills I have been given! All in all a hip, but hip, hooray day!
Well, hopefully, after last weeks last minute cancellation, as this is posted I will be or will have been fitted with a new hip!
With the wheels painted up its time to mount them on the hull of the A39 Tortoise.
I had masked up the various mounting points before painting so I removed the tape from the hull...
...and the Maskol from the wheels. The Maskol did what it was supposed and just peels off.
With the glue faces clear of paint the attachment process began and before too long all eight sets of wheels were on the hull.
I test fitted one of the side skirts which shows just how much of the wheel structures are covered. Once the drive sprockets and rear wheels are fitted I can get on with the tracks.
Time for a bit of highlighting of the running wheels of the A39 Tortoise and that involves my usual dilute wash of black paint.
With eight sets of wheels to do this will keep me amused for an hour or so!
Well, things do move on as the running wheel sets to the MENG A39 Tortoise now have all their rubber tyres painted in a grey which I prefer to the 'bright' black that people think rubber looks like. It may do, fresh out of the factory, but stuck on a wheel as a tyre and put out on the road or ground it soon weathers!
I have touched in parts of the green as well With hindsight (what a wonderful thing that is!) I would have painted the wheel centres before assembling them. As they stand, there are still unpainted parts but once the tracks and side skirts are on it will be mostly be covered - I hope!
