Rebuild Thread - EF 104 Extra

Looks like your making good progress, keep the photos coming will be interesting to see how you repair everything

Nice work Jon! Nice to see you are not frightened of a bit of major surgery on a model, as many would have binned it :woohoo:

flyingpete wrote: Nice work Jon! Nice to see you are not frightened of a bit of major surgery on a model, as many would have binned it :woohoo:

Thanks Pete, there are a few reasons I'm doing it, the model is too good to bin, I quite enjoy the challenge and I'm too tight to buy the spare parts

Inspirational work Jon - just shows what can be achieved with a potential write off.

When I had to re-glue the wing tube on the Giles I smeared the joiner with silicon polish, assembled the wing to the fuse and rotated the joiner periodically while the glue set. The epoxy wicked through the glass fibre wing tube and would have stuck the joiner fast without doing this. I don't know whether you can reconstruct the wing sufficiently to be able to do this.

Just looked at your pictures on the rebuild stages. Very professional Jon. Well Done

Great job so far! As Pete said many would have binned it. That includes me