I’m spending my afternoon with a very small biplane.

It will, when it’s finished, be an Avro Tutor, which was a pre-Second World War RAF trainer aircraft.

Getting those wings and struts on is trying my patience, I have to admit. It’s when one strut doesn’t meet its location point that frustration mounts.

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Well, this is about as far as I can go with this. Like so many projects I do, it doesn’t quite come up to the finished standard I hoped for. Still, I know how to make another one, and that will be even better.

Sorry the photos aren’t better. I’m not setting up the full photo rig for this at present. Throwing unwanted shadows at the backdrop will need some creative lighting to solve.

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The sliding doors have to go somewhere. On the real thing they run out onto parallel tracks, on outriggers to either side of the hangar. These are relatively simple polystyrene constructions, with sections from Evergreen and the angle truss from Plastruct. They need to be painted, but that’s a job for tomorrow.

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Getting there. The basic carcass is together. I need to find a better paper glue because the printed sheets tend to lift along edges. Another time. Next, working out the door runners and the protective curtain sheets. I’ll also ponder if I need to add a roof.

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We had our first micro-christmas day yesterday. Our children are arriving in a sort of relay from the various places they live. So we did a big roast, wine, presents. I will be making an ice-cream van next year is the upshot of the last bit (#OnlySmaller). Anyway, they have returned to whence they came. And onward we go toward part 2 tomorrow.

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I’m pleased to report I know exactly what size a lamp post is only smaller #OnlySmaller

Intro: I’m Typejunky, the name is no longer indicative of my addiction to typefaces, but I’m stuck with it. I design things, take photos, write, collect stuff*, make scale models/miniature #OnlySmaller, renovate things and am the owner of the #HouseFullOfShite I also work in publishing a bit, long story. Pun intended. I run and manage projects, do visual arts stuff and installations too. And I’m a musicholic. My optimum wavelength is melancholy.