Hobbying In Place #6 Building the Airfix Handley Page Victor K2/SR.2

A Tale of How Sanding Leads To Distraction

I have watched grown men pull their own heads off rather than build a kit with intakes. Because I am building for fun, because there may never ever be another judge or contest, because I simply need to build just to keep my frail sanity, because if I get stuck not finishing this, well, you know.

Hobbying In Place #5 Building the Airfix Handley Page Victor K2/SR.2

More Ugg. But first a hunk of Junk:

I always work on multiple projects.

Hobbying In Place #4 Building the Airfix Handley Page Victor K2/SR.2

More Finishing...Ugg.

This upper panel is a problem. Highly visible, unless the seam matches the other seams, it will be highly noticeable. I.e., it will look wrong. And this is a secret to quote good modeling unquote. Consistency.

Hobbying In Place #3 Building the Airfix Handley Page Victor K2/SR.2

Welcome to the Dust Farm!

So, I am literally forced to use putty from time to time. When the the nice people appear to enforce this, I use Tamiya basic type. If it were not so expensive I would spread it on bagels and bathe in it. Let's move on.

Hobbying In Place #2 Building the Airfix Handley Page Victor K2/SR.2

Building the 1/72nd Airfix Handley Page Victor K2/SR.2.

Today we are going to do a lot of fillink and sandink. Here was that big gap from part 1, now properly sanded flush. Pretty exciting.

Hobbying In Place #1 Building the Airfix Handley Page Victor K2/SR.2

Building the 1/72nd Airfix Handley Page Victor K2/SR.2.

Once more “Joy” springs up like a weed during this time of pandemic meltdown. So let's get down into the weeds and learn how this scale modeler practices the fine art of social distancing. This is an art form in which I am well schooled. Let’s begin.

Victor from Butch O'Hare Show

For the last couple of weeks I have been downstairs building the 1/72nd Airfix Handley Page Victor K2/SR.2. Typically I claim to build either Soviet or Japanese in 1/32nd scale. This is none of those.

So very Tired...

The last few weeks I have been so very tired. No energy...one might even say "sad", but of course this would mean that either I or someone who knows me would be admitting that I do have emotions after all.

Too something to do real work (as if doing one's hobby was real work), so I pull out boxes of half built kits. The potential of finishing an old project, thinking about what could be...at least it's distracting.