LIPSTICK LUNAR TRANSPORTER: CALAMITY AND RECOVERY

Disaster struck my lipstick transporter.

I thought I'd struck gold with these orange plastic ties.

But super-gluing them round the cockpit proved too much for my meagre skills. The glue has also fogged the inside of the translucent cockpit which there's nothing I can do about now.

It looked like a dog's dinner!

I ripped it off, cleaned off the dried glue and started again with the pesky cockpit border. 

In the end I used an elastic band. Not brilliant to look at but simple to use!

With a decent second wind I replaced the plastic exhaust with a metal one purloined from an old e-cig my Missus chucked.

I also began the chassis for the wheels using orange plastic from a Jaffa Cake box.

I also took Wotan's advice and ditched the original long nosecone and created a new shorter one using another Sharpie pen lid.

This session's efforts were rounded off with a metal ring edging the main fuselage,

Next,

the wheel braces and the wheels. Blimey!

Wish me luck!