>> GB #34 - START QUIBBLING

[Robert Porter]

I have some! The are great! Much sharper than the older ones, however nothing beats a scalpel for sharp. I just can't find a handle to fit the blades I have. Scalpels are bloody confusing in what works with what.

 

[parsifal]

maybe something new, such as "Desert storm" or "The Falklands"

 

[mikewint]

Robert, not sure wherein your scalpel confusion lies. Blades are of various shapes and sizes all numbered just like X-acto blades and most of them are very similiar though the X-actos tend to be thicker and will take more pressure.
Scalpel handles also come in a wide variety of shapes and styles. It is important to note that NOT all blades fit all handles so make sure the blade style you want fits the handle. Blades #9 through #17 fit handle #3 while #18 through #26 are for handle #4. GENERALLY handles #3 and #4 are the most useful for modeling and personally I prefer the #4 handle in the comfort style with a #36 blade. I also have several style X-acto handles with several blade styles though #11 seems to be the most useful the majority of the time

 

[Airframes]

Trainers works for me, if it includes post war to current.

 

[Robert Porter]

Robert, not sure wherein your scalpel confusion lies. Blades are of various shapes and sizes all numbered just like X-acto blades and most of them are very similiar though the X-actos tend to be thicker and will take more pressure.
Scalpel handles also come in a wide variety of shapes and styles. It is important to note that NOT all blades fit all handles so make sure the blade style you want fits the handle. Blades #9 through #17 fit handle #3 while #18 through #26 are for handle #4. GENERALLY handles #3 and #4 are the most useful for modeling and personally I prefer the #4 handle in the comfort style with a #36 blade. I also have several style X-acto handles with several blade styles though #11 seems to be the most useful the majority of the time
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The supplier I have found, the only one, sells blades as for LG, SM, MED handles not fitment numbers. So I now have 200 blades of the types that I wanted that do not fit any of the 3 types of handles I have. Their handles use an entirely different numbering scheme that does not match the one for their blades so I gave up.

 

[Crimea_River]

Guys, can we keep it on topic? This isn't about scalpels!

Trainers work for several people now. More comments welcome.

 

[Robert Porter]

Yep no worries

 

[rochie]

This build is my jam! I might actually build something!

No f***ing way Jim !

 

[rochie]

Trainers works for me, if it includes post war to current.

Me too, only really got a BAE Hawk, though could do my Bf 108 as a transport ?
Edit: just remembered I have a Sword models EE Lightning T5

 

[Airframes]

Got a Vampire T.11, Gnat T.1, Jet Provost T.5, Hunter T.7 (conversion kit with Academy Hunter F.6), and Hawk T.1, all 1/48th scale, and a possible Spitfire T.9 scratch-build project, again 1/48th scale.

 

[Wurger]

The Spitfire T.9 scratch-build project sounds great Terry. I would follow that one.

 

[Airframes]

Thanks my friend.
If i do it, it will be this one, for my friend Max, who got a flight in it in 2015 - lucky sod !
The original aircraft was flown by New Zealander Johhny Houlton (as a standard Mk.IX), and retains his Squadron markings.

 

[Wurger]

 

[fubar57]

Look forward to it Terry if you do. My options are a PT-19 Stearman (RCAF) and then a T-6. Have to check references on this one and see what it takes to make a Harvard IV

 

[Airframes]

Geo, have a look at my Harvard build, somewhere in the S to F threads - it's a Mk.IV, built from the Italeri (ex Occidental) kit.
Main external differences are a longer exhaust, and the rear (fixed) canopy section was slightly longer. I 'winged' it by adding an extra vertical frame which, although not 100% accurate, it still being short, looked OK.
Also, many Mk.IVs had the main gear doors removed.

 

[Crimea_River]

I would do an RCAF Avro Anson.

 

[mikewint]

Quibble...Quibble...are you then switching the build to trainers? Or keeping the original "Prototypes/Weird". If I get my Maus finished I was thinking of my Huckebein 1/48 as an entry

 

[Crimea_River]

The original build theme would still stand. We are talking about a possible second theme for a split build like we did for GB33.

 

[mikewint]

Okey, Danke Andy

 

[Wayne Little]

Seems like a plan is forming for the alternate....