LOOEY'S FENDER SHOP 3: MAN FROM UNCLE PIRAHNA: MISSION COMPLETED!

Well, believe it or not, two half days of concerted effort have seen the Uncle Piranha fully roadworthy once more.

1) My blob of putty on a stick is finally finished and sorry modelmakers, but it took a bit of hard yakka to do it! It was all suck it and see, as I sanded and fitted it again and again until it fitted inside the roof properly. You can see how I tinted the top coat of putty with red spray paint to give me a sanding guide. After a sanding block and coarse wet and dry paper, I polished it to a decent shine on my jeans clad leg!

2) I then traced the putty block over a piece of 3mm MDF (Aw man, I just threw all my scraps away!) And cut and filed a hole that it would just slide through.

I found some clear 1mm scrap plastic and glued it over the hole with superglue. I then heated it up with a hot air gun and pressed the putty block firmly into the hole (use something like a jam jar to provide a good support beneath it). I didn't get a deep enough draw on the first try, so I reheated it and went again. This was only meant to be a test but the result was good enough to use. -Doh! I slipped while I was trimming it from the frame, but luckily the gouge didn't show when the transparency was glued into the roof with a spot of superglue.

3) Woodsie is a renovation wonder with his Chrome pens, but for my money (about fifteen Quid in your cash) this Green Stuff World Chrome is the cat's whiskers and you can get into the tiniest places with a suitable paintbrush! Look at those before and after hubcaps!

4) After I clipped the completed pieces back together, I found a dab of superglue in the rivet hole was quite enough to keep everything together. Of course this wouldn't be a proper Company car without the Company logo -just like the Thrush Buster Oldsmobile!

5) Ilya is back, still clasping his pump action shotgun. I wondered if it might be a stolen Thrush rifle, but there's no big Infra Red searchlight on it...

6) "Thank you, Mr. Waverley, it looks as good as new!"

"Indeed it does, Mr. Solo. Please remember if you roll it again, it'll be coming out of YOUR salary!"