What's on my desk? Part 68.
Good morning,
Welcome to your Tuesday blog post.
I've finally attached the last ratlines to the Fram. And as I'm a huge numbernerd I counted them all: there's 252 in total, which means I've laid 504 little knots and made 519 loops around the middle shroud lines...
Looking over the rigging diagrams, I've now actually arrived at the point where sails are supposed to be mounted. The sails are ready-to-use: pre-cut with stitching:
The edge stitches are very overscale, and real ship modellers will probably want to replace these with home-made sails, but I'm just doing this model out of the box, so this is what I'll use.
Looking at the diagrams, I'm not entirely sure how to read these. Some internet sleuthing will be needed...
To be continued...
On the Bf108 I've finished the seatbelts and have glued the cockpit into the fuselage shell. I'll add a little pigment to dirty up the floor somewhat. The version I'm making was used in Germany in 1939, at a time when these machines would still be well taken care of. So I shouldn't weather it too heavily. I'm hoping the cockpit hood will cover the gaps between cockpit walls and fuselage...
I dry-fitted the wings to the fuselage and there are large gaps all around and a big step at the bottom rear. Filling and sanding aren't over yet... You can see in this overhead shot the gaps in the wing root:
Nothing that's impossible to handle, though. The cockpit was the most involved assembly in this kit, so the rest should go pretty fast. The Eduard model comes with pre-cut cockpit hood (and wheels) paint masks. I like to carefully pull off the mask's frame so I'm left with all the individual parts. Makes it easier to identify the pieces and remove them from the backing sheet:
That's all for now.
See you next week!