As promised heres a few pics of what ive been up to. Heres the beauty of a kit that im working on,
This MC.200 is the early version that was fitted with a fully enclosed cockpit. Which incidently was very un favoured by the pilots, hence the later .200's were given open cockpits? I know very strange. Anyhoo, the kit. Just look at all that lovely resin,
To start, i set about assembling the engine. This is a fantastic load of resin bits. With a central crankcase and then all the resin cylinders sprouting from it. The only problem is, after sticking a couple of cylinders in place, it turned out that the resin cowl needed seriously opening out,
To do this i used a rotary sanding attachment in my dremel, and with the Hoover sucking the resin (Between my legs) dust away, i attacked it cautiously....very cautiously,
Just when you think youve sanded enough.....sand some more...and more. When you start sweating profusely, panicking that your going to drop the thing on the floor and its goingt o shatter like a wine glass or let it get sucked down the hoover tube, your probably there,
The cylinder heads arnt quite right, the real ones should have a 'V' in it to represent the rockers, but im just going to wire it and add pushrods. More later,#
...Guy