Fred's Gladiator

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Re: Fred's Gladiator

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I am officially giving up on this one.
I'm going to send it to someone who rescues sad cases.
I spent about two hours rigging. Got the starbrd wings just about done, 3/4 way through the port side ones when the cabane strut joints just popped loose. The force pulled some of the nylon fishing line out of the holes, broke some of the lines, broke the joints of the port inter-wings struts.
I haven't the care to strip it down, which it needs, remove all the lines, drill out the rigging holes yet again.
More models await me to build them.
This is the first model I have given up on for a very long time.
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That is very, very bad luck Fred. :cry:

Move on quickly!
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Bad luck Fred. Just put this one down to experiance & bin it.
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Sorry to hear about this Fred but some models are just like that, the build seems jinxed almost from the start.
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Old_Tonto wrote:Bad luck Fred. Just put this one down to experiance & bin it.
No, its not for the bin. I'll add it to a couple of others I don't want and send to someone I know who 'restores' lost causes.
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It's a shame Fred but sometimes things don't always go as planned. Put it behind you and put your efforts into another model.

You can always keep the Gladiator for the next prevaricators GB ;-) .
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