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>>> Enzo Matrix wrote:
>>>> I'm building an Airfix 1/48 Seafire FR47.
>>>>
>>>> Well... "building" isn't really the correct word. I'm currently
>>>> destroying it... I intended to put an Aires resin cockpit in it.
>>>> The Aires parts are beautifully detailed and look absolutely superb
>>>> when they are painted up. The problem is... they don't fit the
>>>> Airfix kit! I've tried thinning the kit fuselage halves...
>>>> thinning
>>>> the resin parts... and still the resin simply refuses to fit
>>>> properly. I've trimmed here. Trimmed there. Trimmed every flippin'
>>>> where. No joy. And then this afternoon, disaster struck. I've
>>>> thinned the fuselage
>>>> halves and the resin so much that even applying gentle pressure
>>>> caused the rear fuselage to break away and the cockpit sides to
>>>> collapse! And this is a kit that I spent ages tracking down on >>>> Ebay!
>>>>
>>>> But all is not lost. I have six Airfix Spitfire 24 kits that were
>>>> intended to supply the engine parts to be added to a Hasegawa MkIX.
>>>> I've taken the fuselage halves from one of these. The broken bits
>>>> from the Seafire will still be perfectly usable for a MkXIX. So now
>>>> I'm starting again with the cockpit. The odd thing is that I've
>>>> thinned the resin cockpit sides so much that much of the moulded in
>>>> detail - fuse boxes, switch panels, throttle quadrant - has become
>>>> a selection of parts in their own right! So I can use those to >>>> detail
>>>> the Airfix cockpit and add the resin cockpit floor. This could so
>>>> easily have ended in tears before bedtime. But for
>>>> anyone else using this Aires detail set - beware! It simply does >>>> not fit!!!
>>> Are you the same Enzo Matrix that stabbed himself last week?
>>
>> Yers.... Anyroads... that's nowt. I superglued my fingers
>> together the other day. I don't have any fingerprints now!
>>
>>>
>>> Is your nickname "lucky", by any chance?
>>
>> No......
>>
>>
>>
> REBOOT!!!
> (couldn't resist, enzo)
BEETROOT! :-D