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Posted
On ‎11‎/‎4‎/‎2018 at 10:42 AM, MikeC said:

Dark red nose - 356th FG at Martlesham Heath by any chance? 

 

Looking good in any case.

Thought so. Still looking good - good luck with the diamonds. Incidentally, MrsC and I drove past Martlesham only the other day.

Posted

Thank you men !

 

Shawn , since , in this case, none of the diamonds actually touch each

other, the connection between each diamond would be verrry thin.  I

personally decided it woud be unmanageable.  I suppose you could

do it tho ...   if you were a masochist !

 

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;)

 

Posted

Looks great as it is so I can't wait to see what happens next, shame about the diamonds, I wouldn't have a clue where to start with them !

 

Cheers

 

Dennis

Posted

That looks really nice! A scheme you don't see often. Still have that delicate job of the stripes on the spinner, though.

:goodjob:

Posted
15 hours ago, LSP_Ray said:

            ... Still have that delicate job of the stripes on the spinner, though.

 

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  • 7 months later...
Posted

Wow ! time flies, didn't realize how long it's been since I last posted but

I'm getting close to the finish line. Ray , I tried a couple of different methods

for the spinner stripes and finally came up with the following.

I cut a plastic disc from .020" sheet and attached it to a Dremel cut off wheel

shaft. Then smashed the disc inside (blue tac) the spinner (already painted red) and

chucked that into my 18volt Black and Dekker drill. Using a C-clamp so I could

adjust the trigger / speed , I found I could spin the thing verrry slowly , then

just hand painted the blue stripes.   Turned out OK so I'm finishing up the

odds and ends which shouldn't be too much longer.

 

In these pix, the stripes are white as an early experiment I tried brush painting

Aim toothpaste (with a little white in it so I could see it better) so I could mask

the stripes and spray them rather than hand brushing. Didn't like it so I switched

to brush painting the blue instead.

 

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:)

 

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