What's on your bench?

[cutter]

Say, Cutter.....what's your opinion of that Titebond transluscent, also the holding and trim formulas, compared to say Titebond 2, yellowish wood glue. If you've any opinions, would like to hear 'em....I gotta travel a bit to Home Depot for 8 oz size Regular or Titebond 2 often (not always) in the Paint Dept (forget phone inquiries) and when in store, not much help... its kinda self service. Do those 2 you show have a faster tack than Titebond 2. I seem to be looking for the tack of like Testors quick dry, but at the convenience and price of old Elmers White Glue.....yeah, in my dreams I guess. I want it all! But really, any advice would be helpful. Thanks

Both of these glues are very much recommended. The molding & trim glue is very tacky, almost a paste and the translucent is a little thinner but still quite tacky. Both dry clear and I think are easy to sand. I can't really say about about drying time as I am a very slow builder. Put some stringers on, come back in a couple of hours and they are dry. Each 8oz. bottle was under $4.00 . I have a old bottle of original Titebond that will probably never get used again. Hope this helps.

[kittyfritters]

OK, Here are a few pictures of whats on the bench.

The nearly completed Comet P-51A is temporarily occupying space on the ceiling while the 300 Series Piper Cub is being finished.




The Piper Cub is almost a straight out of the box build except for the removable nose and my usual all tissue decorations. There is a structure with two formers in the plastic nose. The mating surfaces of the nose former and former 1 are covered with 1/64" plywood. There will be a couple of rare earth magnets holding the nose on that also serve as ballast for balance.





Here is the 600 Series Piper before the damage



And, the 500 Series Spitfire before the needed repairs. Yes, the markings are authentic.



The P-6E has been posted before. I started covering it with silkspan but I decided to take that off and cover it with colored Esaki tissue.



As you can see, I'm juggling a few balls at the moment.