hendie Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 excellent work there Crisp - the irgb is a nice piece of scratch building Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bzn20 Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 Those Tail lock lugs/eye ends had to be hand filed on build to fit to the locked position (because they don't !) and checked with Feeler Gauges, took ages. Could got out of tolerance (which is 0.0 something of an inch) in one bad move. Then it's curtains! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Posted December 23, 2016 Share Posted December 23, 2016 That belly pic is one of thebest befire and after shots I've seen. The tail rotor gear box is pretty impressive too! Merry Christmas all! Ian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonM Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 On 18 December 2016 at 0:28 PM, Ex-FAAWAFU said: Keeping the US Navy dry following prohibition is one of those odd quirks of history that makes little sense. They do carry alcohol - they're allowed a drink after 100 days continuously at sea, or something like that - but for some odd reason almost never use it. As a result their sailors get into all sorts of bother ashore when they over-correct when out of the habit. On the other hand my father was impressed when embarking 'somewhere in England' (actually a spot on the South Coast one of unit was totally familiar with and amused himself telling officers exactly where they were!) to find US ships had taps every few yards with proper coffee on tap - sadly he brought most of it up from the seas in July 44! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted December 24, 2016 Author Share Posted December 24, 2016 Good point. Still... coffee or alcohol? It's not a tough choice (especially as I get all my caffeine from tea!) 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted December 24, 2016 Author Share Posted December 24, 2016 More small details which gradually take the build forward. Firstly, the horizontal stabiliser is now almost quilted up: Then the IRGB is now complete, awaiting a coat of paint: The platform on which it will sit is duly be-rivetted, soon to be painted Interior Green: Finally - someone (I forget who, but it must have been someone who has worked on Sea Kings a lot) asked me aeons ago - when I was still doing the drawings, I think - about the bonding straps that are a feature of the aircraft's port side. These prove the adage that a Sea King is x-thousand rivets in close formation, because they exist to prevent a build-up of static electricity between the various panels of the tail, and are quite prominent once you know what you are looking for. Real bonding straps - the two double dots above & to the left of the SEA KING caption: My effort at reproducing them, which I think will look good under paint: Happy Christmas, everyone - I doubt there will be more work done now until Boxing Day at the earliest. Crisp 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moaning dolphin Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 (edited) Trivia alert!! Why only on the port side though?? Looking right tasty now! Edited December 24, 2016 by moaning dolphin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted December 24, 2016 Author Share Posted December 24, 2016 I don't know why they aren't on the starboard side, but they aren't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bzn20 Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 (edited) On 24/12/2016 at 8:10 PM, moaning dolphin said: Trivia alert!! Why only on the port side though?? Looking right tasty now! Bonding is bonding. If its in contact, IE no paint the (electrical, prevents static build up and sparking)) bonding continues around the airframe. It was me WAAFU btw ! They look good. L59 (almost pure Ally) soft to really sit on the airframe , joggled in some areas, SP80s and a washer under the head. We had to drill out the rivets put in on a previous build sheet/ Op cab build , take the paint off on the skin contact area and rivet (up a size 5/32") the Bonding straps, joggle if required. Alachrom 1200 and re prime. Edited December 26, 2016 by bzn20 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted December 24, 2016 Author Share Posted December 24, 2016 By the way, the bonding straps are Micro-Mark O scale rivet decals. Useful (and I have some at a smaller scale as well), but no comparison with the HGWs. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moaning dolphin Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 (edited) I spent years trying to find out why and then I found a wise old Pinky Chief (old and pinky were easy but wise! I really did struggle!) It is apparently to provide a good backdrop to the HF aerial, hence they are only found around the area of the aerial. You would not believe how long I have been waiting to dispense of that knowledge, years have passed waiting for it to pop up in conversation lol!! Very nicely represented by the way! Merry Crimbo Bob Edited December 24, 2016 by moaning dolphin 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueFlyer Posted December 25, 2016 Share Posted December 25, 2016 Looking the part Crisp. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted December 25, 2016 Author Share Posted December 25, 2016 One completed IRGB: Happy Christmas from Zebedee: Crisp 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 Cute dog Crisp! Martian PS: The modelling is pretty good as well! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simmerit Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 Excellent detail - those rivets are spot on. how sad are we?.................. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted December 26, 2016 Author Share Posted December 26, 2016 That is Zebedee, the killer attack stunt hound that is a Sporting Lucas Terrier. I love him to bits. Anyway. I have now pretty much finished the tail pylon; this shows the small flash of pink through the IRGB oil sight glass, plus the visible presence of... something gear-boxy through the mesh, that is the effect I was after: So no longer any excuses for not closing the pylon up. Some seams to sort, plus another grille or two on top at the TRGB end, but getting there. The assortment of colours used to check seams make this look a right mess, but it's OK in real life. Now I just need to sort out the join seam up the spine, so it has a sausage of Vallejo putty on it drying. Crisp 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 I had sausages this morning. They were American breakfast sausages. They were horrible. I like the work on the tail pylon. Very helicopterish - and very neat work with the PE 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBaron Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 Forensically beautiful work Crisp. Why do grilles look so visually-satisfying on a model...or is it just me? Zebedee is one cool hound. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bzn20 Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 Apart from the rivets.................You absolutely nailed that pylon, outstanding work and the end plate with flutes too. BTW Your grills are better than Westlands ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted December 27, 2016 Author Share Posted December 27, 2016 (edited) A bit of old-fashioned dry brushing to bring out the detail - the raised bumps are added Micro-Mark decals, cut down, but the rest is all FlightPath: A couple of Peter's irreplaceable data placards and then just the hinges to scratch build. You can't see it in this phot, but the seam up the spine has been filled and sanded. Crisp P.S. As a reminder, I am trying to build the right-hand side of this: Edited December 27, 2016 by Ex-FAAWAFU 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bzn20 Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 On that real pylon pic.. The bit that's been filed flat on the pylon locking pin eye ends, top on bottom, are what had to be made to fit. You can see how much was taken out. On the cab side ,left that's where the feeler went to get the measurement. No Robots required for this Op ! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 On 12/27/2016 at 16:45, Ex-FAAWAFU said: P.S. As a reminder, I am trying to build the right-hand side of this: You seem to be making a decent fist of it! Martian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted December 27, 2016 Author Share Posted December 27, 2016 Thanks, everyone. Placards duly added, and while everything dries around the pylon, a quick move to the other part of this folding tail malarkey. With the tail folded (i.e. as I intend to finish this model), the real thing looks like this: Mr Hasegawa, clearly intending that you will be building the aircraft with tail spread, gives you this as the starting point: More a sort of impression of a folding hinge rather than anything else - but could be made perfectly adequate with some fettling for a spread aircraft. Hopeless for a folded one, though. The short section of Albion Alloys tubing (0.6 inside 0.8 inside 1.0mm) seen above the tail gives you the clue as to how I proposed to tackle this. The only only difficult part was drilling a suitable vertical hole to fit the 1.0mm section, but once that had been achieved it was pretty simple. Here is the final outcome, with which I am pretty pleased: Much crisper definition, I think you'll agree (no pun intended). We're going away to Holland for New Year, so I only have one more day of modelling left this holiday. Onwards and upwards. Crisp 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 Looks like an upside down Wessex ratchet (etc) to me. I wonder if that's what they did? Nice bit of modeling there though. Wilkommen im de Nederlands (Or something like that) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted December 27, 2016 Author Share Posted December 27, 2016 Could easily be exactly that. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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