Jeff's What about BoB build***DNF***

[TomW]

Great to see the progress on this one Jeff

Regards

Tom

[jssel]

Finally getting another update in. The kit is starting to give me a bit of "push back" at this stage. Everything seems to need extra attention. That is punishment for building a Tamiya. You get spoiled easily.

So here is the wing/fuselage joint in the raw after a bit of filling and sanding:



Touched up and Tamiya Surface Primer added. Much better.



So far so good and with a little more clean-up painting will commence.

Now on to the prop. Using the Humbrol cutting mat as a guide the aircrew blades are added to the hub. I am impressed at this point.



One little issue.............The blade shafts are to short and the spinner will not fit. So.....enough for one night until I can think of extending the shafts to correct the issue.

[jssel]

Sorry friends but I will not be able to finish this one. So much push back that I am not feel good about it. Better to set it aside and tidy it up later than push it and screw the whole thing up.

[PaulBradley]

No worries, Jeff - I did the same with my Tamiya VIII last year. When it starts to fight back, it no longer remains fun....

[OllieSmith]

It's always a bummer when things like that dart to happen :/ just a thought if you haven't already thought of it, easy fix for the spinner not fitting, rather than extend the blades, just trim the blades back a bit to extend the blade shafts Without actually extending them if that makes sense giving the required clearance,

Ollie