An eventful time since my last post. I was getting on well with reinstating my man shed, workshop, whatever you want to call it.
Work was going apace to clear space to work on the build after my wife decided, in my absence, the workshop would be better utilised as storage space and surprise, surprise,
not all of the stuff she had deposited was mine!
I was almost ready to move back in when my remaining leg decided it was feeling left out, took the huff and stopped supplying my left foot with blood. So, back into hospital with visons of going full Bader
Four weeks later, another round of angioplasty and a dose of Covid caught from the guy in the next bed (he was diagnosed on the day of my discharge!
) I was thrown out to stop me clogging up what was now a Covid ward, thankfully still only half Bader!
with instructions to self isolate for two weeks. Not a major issue as I'm pretty anti-social to start with and Nicola/Boris et al, had shut the world anyway.
The one year recovery clock has been re-set and I have to admit, the consultants are right, I get tired very easily and fairly quickly.
My earlier plan was to try and do some work that would be relatively easy and would not require a lot of time on my feet (foot!
) so I decided to continue with doing the stencils for the student as it had a plethora of them. I think Buckers sign writer must have been paid by the letter.
First thing was to find the closest font to the 1930's aircraft. Libre Franklin appears to fit the bill and is period. The next thing was to get the correct font size and the ones on the restored version owned by the Quax-Flieger group appear too small when compared to the archive photos.
I printed out the stencils at various font sizes from 8 to 16 point and offered up to the model for comparison with the archive photos.
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12 point appeared to be the correct size. This was too small for paint masks as weeding them out would be near to impossible and the results would not be as sharp as using waterslide decals.
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I used "Experts Choice" clear decal paper which I have used with great success in the past and printed out the stencils.
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I got two complete sets to one sheet to allow for any mistakes in applying them to the model.
Thanks for all the messages of support but hopefully I'm on the mend now and can get back to the serious business of aeromodelling.
More to follow.
Otherwise I may have ended up paying for Jerry Bates or Nick Zirollis Caribbean cruise. 