Model Forum / General / Models / May 2008

My wife incautiously signed us up for a new ISP and I no longer have a
Usenet account.  It's taken me a few weeks to discover that I can get
back to RMS via Google Groups!  It's surprising how much I've missed
you lot.

Last year, I only managed to make one model and I completed that on
31st December so that I wouldn't have to admit that I'd let a whole
year go by without finishing a model.  This year, I got stuck in early
and I'm now working on three kits.  They're all Gloster Meteors and I
fear that they're the start of one of Enzo's obsessions.

So far, I'm half way through an Xtrakit Meteor F8, almost finished a
Matchbox Meteor NF14 with the nose shortened and up to my neck in a
Meteor PR10 conversion of another Matchbox kit.  I'm already looking
ahead to the Airfix F8 as the basis of a FR9 conversion and the
Xtrakit F4 and T7.  I'm also trying to decide what to do with the Frog/
Novo F4s in the loft.  Either this will be the year of the Meteor or
I'll be so sick of the damn' thing that most of these never get
built.  At the moment, the PR10  is using a lot of filler.  Between my
clumsy work with a razor saw, the roughness of the Aeroclub conversion
parts and the vague fit of the Matchbox parts, it's becoming the most-
filled model I can remember making.

Is there a cure for these obsessions Enzo?

Gordon McLaughlin