Richard's Dragon 1/72 He 219 A-0 UHU Night Fighter

[rtfoe]

Hi Scottie, other times I would have left well alone or just stuck on the broken propeller but since I still had the mold I thought trying another resin formula. Good thing it turned out ok.

Meanwhile one of these things fell off and went missing so it had to be scratched...



This was what the other one looked like below...



Cheers,
Richard

[papa 695]

Nice repair.

[rtfoe]

Thanks Ian. The little bubble dots in the first picture give this away as the casted wheel. :smiling6:

Cheers,
Richard

[flyjoe180]

Looking good Richard

[rtfoe]

Hi Joe...a bit late on the reply, apologies and thanks. The delay is partly due to getting the right frame of mind to cut out the stencils...



All masked...just needs a steady hand and a sharp blade...truth is I'm having a ball with the Kure Harbour dio so this gets put aside for a while.

Cheers,
Richard

[scottie3158]

Richard,
The stencils look good.

[Jim R]

Hi Richard
Difficulties keep cropping up with this build but you're getting them all sorted. Strange reaction on the resin props. Stencils are looking good.
Jim

[rtfoe]

Thanks Paul and Jim for looking in and commenting. The plane is in the glass cabinet to make sure the cats aren't on a chewing frenzy for the time being. Slowly but surely this will get completed. For all these years the bin has never devoured any of my builds yet.

Cheers,
Richard

[rtfoe]

Hi Guys, it's not binned, just mothballed. The last thing that got it stalled was the PE instrument panel fell off it's attachment. Should have used CA instead of varnish to hold it in place. With the canopy closed it's not easy to get at it. Finding ways to pry it open and not damaging the clear part.
I will restart this some time once that is done. Meanwhile you can reread the posts and refresh your memories of the calamity I had to go through up to this point. Obviously COVID and my gall bladder operation got in between and I just had to get back to diorama making.
I'm guessing the maskings have gone old and will leave residue. Also to locate my decal substitute maskings...they're somewhere on the table.
Wish me luck and hope this gets off the ground.

Cheers,
Wabble