Almost Ready

The decals arrived at the weekend. They look OK. I'm a little unsure if they printed as they were supposed to. We'll see.

The kits finally arrived in Phoenix, at 6:45 last night, just as we were settling down to our Burns Supper. mmm... haggis.

Still on schedule for delivery tomorrow.

I need to get on with my frisket test, this evening. 3 options; cut out the whole wing pattern and tape it on. Just do strips of frisket, or use Tamiya tape cut in strips.

Boxes almost done

Added a coat of Shellac to the boxes. That's supposed to keep the labels on, but I'm not so sure about that.

My kits are in Lenexa, KS. They are on schedule for a Jan 27th delivery. No word of my decals yet.

But My Over the Front calendar arrived. Looks great. I like the Nieuport 17s on the January page. The nearest one looks worth doing, but I can't see the complete markings...

Ammunition boxes coming along, kits in mail

I have the boxes stained and labeled now. I added the dovetail joints as well. Once the glue dries I'll give them a coat or two of shellac.

My contest kits are in the mail from Roll Models. Maybe my decals will arrive from MisterkitUSA today.

Waiting for Models.

My contest orders haven't arrived yet.

Tbf, there was a 3 day weekend without mail.

Busying myself building ammunition boxes.

I have 3 built and stained, and I added the rope handles yesterday.

I aged some printer paper and printed out the labels. FIL will rout out the flanges on the tops this weekend, then I can stain them, screw them on and add the labels. Then shellac the whole box.

Labels and instructions from Tommy's Pack Fillers.

The People Have Spoken!

OK. Polls closed, Here are the results:

WW1 list contest poll.

Vote here for the kit we'll all be doing.

What kit to build for Contest?
	Fokker Dr.I (Any)
	Fokker Dr.I (Eduard)
	Albatros D.Va
	Nieuport Ni-17
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Poll closes 09:45am Arizona time, Jan. 10th 2009.

Is now open for business! Our first guest arrives from the UK on Friday.

The wallpapering and painting is all done.

The sky has been painted, including secret nighttime surprise ;) This is not easy to do with 12' ceilings.

I discovered a cool way to liven the sky up with aircraft pics. Print them on "Clear Sticker Project Paper", from Avery (4383). I do, however seem to be having stickiness troubles. I may need to go over them with wallpaper paste to get them to stay up. Our problems appear to be twofold; Arizona daytime heat, and textured walls.

Here's how it all looks so far.

I'll be having a 1916 corner, 1917 corner, 1918 corner and a Home Defence corner.

Starting with the 1916 corner, I have a Somme battle map with some pics on the wall. And some of the aircraft types in the sky.



Models to follow!