Ripaman

Hi Peter how is the 1:1 build going, just wanted to give you a quick thankyou for your pictures you took of the build and thought I would show you some work in progress pic's of the nav seat Using a drawing and scaling it to 1/32 to get a size of the seat (height and width) used your pics of seat to get length so its approx Anyway thanks again stay safe. Regards Richard

Thanks very much Peter just what I wanted 👍 Regards Richard

Same here, posted on this couple days ago and it didn't show up here Now it worked in a flash

Was the measurement of 1.3m inside of cockpit back of open windows Peter, if so model is correct On another note could you take a couple of pictures of the underneath of the Nav's seat I would like to see what it looks like so that I can make it. Regards Richard

Have some drawings of formers (frames) but not of A, B, C and D which is a shame, but do have a good drawing of former F and G which are a channels and both are 2 3/4" in width and 5/8" +/- 3/32 legs 20GA thk Alclad material. Regards Richard

Did drill through the side and measured it to be 1.4mm which works out to be 1,7" at those points, this makes the inside frames look small, but the good thing is the outside is very close. But did find the glass canopy a little long Regards Richard

Nice shot of the right side Peter it shows the second frame from the front in the correct place another small item HKM got wrong. Regards Richard

Thanks Nick for stopping by and your nice comment Regards Richard

Hi Steve can you explain "only in a temp box where the cab rear will go" Regards Richard

Hi Steve thanks for looking in and also thank you for the website there are some nice pictures of the machinery inside the coles crane, do you have a the drivers manual and if so where can you get a copy? would be nice to see what the 6V batteries look like and size. Regards Richard

Well put all the pictures back in now have to find time to start back on it, don't think it needs to much work to finish off Regards Richard

RIP Lawrence Goodman

Don't mind at all Ian you had done an excellent job of the refueling Matador it will go well with your Lancaster Regards Richard

Thought I would start putting pictures back into this partial build, still more to put in. Regards Richard

Hi Peter just to be clear this is the vertical panel between the radio opp and the navigator as per picture in post on Feb 25th, not seen a picture yet of the table which will be nice to see. Regards Richard

You say "you are not sure what the two instruments are that sit above the cockpit coaming" the left hand one is D.F Indicator and right one is the D.R. Compass Repeater

Finally made some time to add all the pictures back Regards Richard

Thanks for the pictures, from the last pic I now know what the control column servo looks like 👍 Regards Richard

Hi Peter just thought I would show you want I have come up with from some of the measurements you have provided and the from the side drawing still got more to do just wish I could get some good drawings with dimension of this area. Have seen some pics on the column and it proves that the HKM column is too small Don you said the the nav's desk is to small and I agree but does anyone have the dimension for the table, I think it should go to the next rib forward which is about 8mm Again thanks Peter for posting all these pictures they say a thousand words, Regards Richard

Thanks for the dimension of the wheel Peter 👍 Regards Richard

Hi Peter Thanks for the dimensions but could I ask for some more I have drawn to scale the side view of the plinth and have put dimensions which I think are close but need verifying these I have circled in red, also scaled up the drawing of a control column and as you will see got a few dimensions from this, ( this is to help with the build if this is not allowed please remove) The next two pictures are yours and I have tried to get some form of dimensions by scaling which are in red and others I have marked with a question mark but if you can confirm these that would be fantastic. Last pictures need to know diameter of the wheel and how high of the plinth floor also and could also get a dimension from the corner to center of wheel Regards Richard

Thanks very much for these measurement Peter as Ian says above very appreciated Regards Richard

Put together the kit seat and you will see it is to big Did my changes (doctoring ) to the seat before I came across this blog but this will give you an idea, Peter can confirm if I'm out The kit seat width I have not changed so that has come out as being 16" wide Regards Richard

Hi Don I have doctored HKM seat quite a bit do have a second Lanc will put that one together so that you can see how much 👍 Regards Richard

Peter Going back to my re scaled drawing I measure 1/16” for the plinth thickness which works out to be 2” real scale and you have said dimension is 3” thick can you double check please I am working on building the truss which goes underneath Did take one of your pictures worked out a scale at a given point and it comes out as 2” 🤔 Regards Richard