jssel's Red B or hooking a big big fish***finished***

A fast and furious month-long build, to take place during July, 2011. Gentlemen, grab your string bags (either Airfix, Matchbox or FROG in origin). We have a running start.
Each builder is to have a unique build (i.e There will be no two Eugene Esmondes in this GB).
For further information, please PM either JRatz, Brews or PaulBradley.
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Re: jssel's Red B or hooking a big big fish***finished***

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Thanks Merlin. The rigging went ok as I took time to lay out in my mind a sequence that would keep my fumbling fingers and tweezers out of the way of completed sections. I did the four sections of inner struts first and than the flying and landing wires next.

One issue I had was that I did not use accelerator with my super glue. My bad as I read the other threads about using it. Also, being the first time I used "stretchy thread", I kept getting my tweezers stuck either to the thread or the attachment point. Accelerator would have prevented that as I could have held the thread away from the glue point.

Lessons learned and I am more than willing to do it again.
Besting 60 years of mediocre building of average kits in the stand off scale
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