It’s a bright summer day outside, but I am sitting at my desk contemplating the world of my desktop manufacturing plant. There is a long list of things to do and it has taken me the whole morning to just clear away the mess that had built up on my desktop. My mouth is parched dry from long hours of concentrated work at accomplishing nothing. Who says that organization is merely mental exercise?
I did take one picture of a pair of machineguns newly painted and set to dry. I have yet to find some material for the ammo belts that should feed the closed breeches from the carved out ammunitions boxes. Then the pair of painted machineguns have to be mounted on the fuselage ahead of the cockpit.
I have already painted the engine cowl a dark green. I used a spray enamel that had to be scrapped off the outside of the outboard electric motor. Some spray also made it’s way back to the battery box cover. I didn’t bother to do anything about the overspray that will be covered with some sort of paint scheme anyways.
The battery box is giving me some trouble with just staying together. I can see that more reinforcement has to be glued in to keep the battery box from breaking up with general use. It does mean extra weight and that is another problem I face. The weight just keeps piling on as I go from one thing to another.
It’s a bright summer day outside, but I am sitting at my desk contemplating the world of my desktop manufacturing plant. There is a long list of things to do and it has taken me the whole morning to just clear away the mess that had built up on my desktop. My mouth is parched dry from long hours of concentrated work at accomplishing nothing. Who says that organization is merely mental exercise?
I did take one picture of a pair of machineguns newly painted and set to dry. I have yet to find some material for the ammo belts that should feed the closed breeches from the carved out ammunitions boxes. Then the pair of painted machineguns have to be mounted on the fuselage ahead of the cockpit.
I have already painted the engine cowl a dark green. I used a spray enamel that had to be scrapped off the outside of the outboard electric motor. Some spray also made it’s way back to the battery box cover. I didn’t bother to do anything about the overspray that will be covered with some sort of paint scheme anyways.
The battery box is giving me some trouble with just staying together. I can see that more reinforcement has to be glued in to keep the battery box from breaking up with general use. It does mean extra weight and that is another problem I face. The weight just keeps piling on as I go from one thing to another.
There is a real art in making the control rods. I have been able to make a reasonable set of control rods for the sesquiplane. There is a bit to be desired for the fit of the wires into the holes of push tabs. I do think that I will have to break down and make another set of control rods because of the poor job I have done with the present set. This means that I should be prepared to rip off the paper covering at some point in the future.
Meanwhile, the fuselage frame is being filed down at various places to fit around the protruding control rods. Some of the rough work will be covered with the paper covering. I can see my way to removing the control rods easily enough with wire cutters and needle nosed pliers. The hard part would be replacing the control rods. Still, I dread the thought of undertaking such a task in the first place.
I should be prepared. I should go out and buy a new pair of actual wire cutters and the stainless steel piano wire I would be needing in the first place, It isn’t much, but it is worth the effort should the time come to do that dirty work. Oh, I managed to misplace the battery. Come out, come out where ever you are! Drat it! The little blue battery took legs and disappeared.
I started looking into what was on my desktop. It needed some cleaning and rearranging of the debris from previous work. I cleaned a bit and then decided to cut some cloth into an ammo belt for the two machineguns. Snip Snip. Cut to measure and then a coat of rust coloured paint to simulate a strip of leather. The real ammo belts were made of leather. What could I use for the cartridges that were fed into the machineguns? Scale means that I should be able to see the cartridges. Hm.
I still haven’t found the silly little blue battery. I should have two of those at least anyways. I have concluded that the lost battery isn’t on my cleaned desktop. I stuck it into a place for safe keeping. The question is where that safe place might possibly be. For now, the battery will simply remain lost in the confusion that is my desktop. Finding an earring doesn’t make up for the misplaced battery even if it’s cost could buy a dozen batteries.
I did use cloth for a hinge on the battery compartment door. I added more glue to the cloth to reinforce the hold. It is in a precarious spot right next to the exhaust vent from the engine compartment. Air will enter the front screen and pass through the engine compartment. I have to devise some sort of vent covers evenly for both sides.
Time has clicked by in it’s ponderous way while I have fussed and mussed through the debris in boxes on my desktop. I have saved a lot of material in the form of bits of balsa wood in all sorts of shapes and sizes. I might just as well have thrown out the lot but for the odd chance that I could use some of it somehow. It is the small scraps of materials that I do use to add details to all kinds of stuff I have worked with. I can equate my collecting to a sort of hoarding that can easily get out of control if I am not careful.
