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Aero-space / Re: Zealandia Aero Corporation BR-26
« Last post by Old Wombat on Today at 10:40:12 AM »Well, that was a frustrating couple of hours, last night. 
I was doing the last bit of parts clean-up on the last steering fin from my Sidewinders (AIM-9L/Ms) when it dropped out of my fingers, onto my leg & onto the floor with a gentle "click".
OK, can't be far.
Look down ... Nothing.
Carefully put my feet in obviously empty areas, stand up & lift my chair out of the way ... Nothing.
Anyway, long story short;
I spent almost 90 minutes looking for the damned thing! I even sent the other fins out looking for it, by dropping them onto the floor & watching where they went, sort of on the "set a thief to catch a thief" principle.
I did that at least 2 dozen times, even with my eyes closed, I even bounced some off my leg to imitate the original fall!
Apparently, Sidewinder fins aren't thieves - it didn't work.
None of them went further than 10" from where they landed, & most were in the 3"-4" range.
So, eventually, I gave up &, with a small amount of trepidation, used one of the fins from the atrocious single-piece Sidewinder from the old, original Airfix 1/48 Buccaneer kit (that got submarined) to scratch up a replacement.
Could have saved myself a lot of heartache, if I'd just done that to start with.
Anyway, photo's of the result;
And a shot of the proposed load-out;
Still have to fit the fins for the Sea Eagles (Would've got that done last night, if ... [size=21]rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb![/size]
)
I was doing the last bit of parts clean-up on the last steering fin from my Sidewinders (AIM-9L/Ms) when it dropped out of my fingers, onto my leg & onto the floor with a gentle "click".
OK, can't be far.
Look down ... Nothing.
Carefully put my feet in obviously empty areas, stand up & lift my chair out of the way ... Nothing.
Anyway, long story short;
I spent almost 90 minutes looking for the damned thing! I even sent the other fins out looking for it, by dropping them onto the floor & watching where they went, sort of on the "set a thief to catch a thief" principle.
I did that at least 2 dozen times, even with my eyes closed, I even bounced some off my leg to imitate the original fall!
Apparently, Sidewinder fins aren't thieves - it didn't work.
None of them went further than 10" from where they landed, & most were in the 3"-4" range.
So, eventually, I gave up &, with a small amount of trepidation, used one of the fins from the atrocious single-piece Sidewinder from the old, original Airfix 1/48 Buccaneer kit (that got submarined) to scratch up a replacement.
Could have saved myself a lot of heartache, if I'd just done that to start with.
Anyway, photo's of the result;
And a shot of the proposed load-out;
Still have to fit the fins for the Sea Eagles (Would've got that done last night, if ... [size=21]rhubarb, rhubarb, rhubarb![/size]
)
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