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  1. A £10 special, Functional resto for the summer, needed a nose job, pan of hot water, glue and filler. nose retract with trailing link and larger wheel, larger diameter mains, trailing links to follow-may be. Top cheater curtesy of Leccyflyer. Plenty of previous owners mods to tidy if its still with us come winter. Roughed out a rudder plan, single servo with connecting rod aft and in-line with the elevator, so kind of hidden. Cheap Powerfun 4S 12 blade edf en-route from aliexpress. Silver was Humbrol met silver, exact match but shiny so a splodge of matt minwax and nose Tamiya red, will supply codes if anyone asks.
  2. Unfortunately a waft of steam wouldnt cut the mustard with this one, brown out and a vicious old bramble in a forest of brambles, two hours, loppers and brush cutter later
  3. Read the contents cant see PVA, im attempting to make both a little more flexible/sticky. The rolls happen if filler is still damp under a dry crust, paper pulls the crust off the wet layer and causes the roll. I work in the construction industry, see it all the time when people rush or apply in thick layers rather than a couple of thin ones. These lite fillers tend to dry hard and powdery and easy to sand
  4. I use two pack wood filler. I suspect very few products are actually model specific as that would mean researching and testing a product that would produce very little or any profit. However relabeling a product is a winner. The Screwfix filler is 100% the model light product, have completed two repairs over the weekend one in white model lite and the other in Screwfix light filler. Same drying time, sanding, smell, texture etc etc. Did a further drying test one of each in the shed and in the house, same results. Buy the Screwfix product and save yourself 80% plus, Not sure, splash out £4.78 as a tester. Planning some tests adding PVA and Minwax Polycrylic https://www.screwfix.com/p/no-nonsense-lightweight-filler-white-500ml/75073?tc=VA2&ds_rl=1249416&ds_rl=1241687&ds_rl=1245250&gad_source=1&ds_rl=1247848&ds_rl=1245250&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhOSl16L7hAMVupNQBh1DBATSEAQYASABEgJp8PD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds#product_additional_details_container
  5. I may be so far behind the game thats its actually finished. I've been buying Model Lite Filler, usually around £9 or £12 delivered for 240ml. Today I discovered Screwfix No Nonsense Lightweight Filler at a Screwfix near you for £4.78 for 500ml. product code (75073) Using my best 1970's Incomprehensive school! matriculation I'm guessing that comes in at 15 -20% of the delivered Model lite price. It is 100% the same product.
  6. Just need a million £ worth of batteries now
  7. Sounds like a transmitter/receiver fault/connection issue if its all up and running on a servo tester. If using the fly sky 6 channel you can do the firmware upgrade to 10 channels for a little future proofing
  8. Undoubtedly a silly question, has anyone tried a different fan on the olde 5 blade ie 10-12 blade
  9. https://www.dbsportandscale.com/vampire-vac-canopy-8012-p.asp Any use, may be it could be cut down
  10. Im not a Spitfire person but I like the look of this one, I had two of these for some reason a while back, V1 with 4 blade and a V2 with the 5 blade, I remember the 5 blade V2, blades from HK International and hub/spinner from USA via family but they nosed over as soon as they saw grass so they got moved on.
  11. Re the replacement cockpit, I saw a video of a guy making a cockpit from glass fibre of some sort, wasnt completely glass like but quite effective/clear
  12. I've been looking at the new vent and am certain its for the top of the fuselage.
  13. I did end up fitting new cables to the Vixen but I have to use a couple elastic bands to stop the trailing link nose gear turning once the tension eases. They have a short life span, I should probably source some pull springs.
  14. I've been looking at the cable steering, has to go. I've seen one image somewhere of a single pushrod conversion, slidey thing, name escapes me. Looked at it for the Sea Vixen but the servo is directly behind the gear
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