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Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Canopy capers!

As I said yesterday the canopy to the Airfix Curtiss Tomahawk needs fitting but before that can happen it also needs to have the frame parts painted. Now the last time I did one of these I probably painted the frame with what would have been like a tar brush as a young lad with lots of imagination and keenness but no skill or patience! Things haven't changed much then in the passing years as Mrs Woody would no doubt say!

However, with this caper I did take my time and thought about the issue of painting fine lines on a clear canopy moulding. You can, if you hunt about on the internet, find firms who sell self adhesive masks that you can mask up the clear parts of the canopy with and from what I have seen most are really good. However my wallet is empty, I am not patient enough to wait for delivery and in my typical way I am sure I can manage without. Hence the mass of masking tape in the picture below. I did the vertical lines first and then masked off the horizontal once the paint had dried and....


Airfix Curtiss Tomahawk11B

...it turned out quite well in my view for a first attempt. The good thing about clear parts on a model is that you can generally clean unwanted paint off them using a soft blunt instrument such as a cocktail stick which is what I did.

Airfix Curtiss Tomahawk11B

I trial fitted the canopy which seems to fit and just need to fit the two rear canopy side pieces that are in front of the model in the picture below.

Airfix Curtiss Tomahawk11B

In other news, and of interest to those loyal blog readers with an interest in canals, a bike ride past the recently dried out canal has revealed that it is full again! Not sure if this is down to storm Ashley and its rain or whether some flow stopping device has failed or if all the repair works that required the drained canal have now been finished? 

Airfix Curtiss Tomahawk11B

Airfix Curtiss Tomahawk11B


3 comments:

  1. Most impressed with all this cycling.

    Good to see the canal has been restored to “functional”. Now we just need boats. And swans. 🙂

    Mrs B

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  2. It was nice to see the canal back as a canal! The local volunteers do boat trips during the summer and when the Dirty Duck pub was open with the camp site next to it there was quite a crowd. In fact before the days of health and safety they used to have a local tug of war competition ⁹with the teams either side of the canal. Those were the days!

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  3. Very much liking the sound of the tug of war.

    Mrs B

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