CJP Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 Good luck with the micromesh on the screen - great little model so far 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted April 15, 2017 Share Posted April 15, 2017 Bill - a good abrasive plastic polish should do the trick. Even brasso might be worth a try. It wasn't until I saw this photo that I realized the scale of the frame ! and your rotor blade.... I thought was a sliver you'd just taken off something with the scalpel 39 minutes ago, perdu said: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 More great tiny modelling Bill - that support frame thingy looks really good and I can't wait to see what it looks like fitted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamden Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 Frame looks the dogs do-dah's Roger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritag Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 Bill, as well as the micromesh cloths I have a set of the foam micromesh pads. I've found that slicing strips of a pad - anywhere from a few mm to 5mm or so wide - and then supergluing a small length of strip (say 3mm x 5mm) to a cocktail stick, makes a very controllable polishing pad. Great for small areas etc. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 She seems to be recovering well Bill. Martian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted April 16, 2017 Author Share Posted April 16, 2017 (edited) After an excellent breakfast I advised Jeeves that I would be glueing and painting the rotor support frame components "Ah sir" he oozed "you will be needing the Ultra Violet Setting adhesive for that simple task sir" Of course the fellow was exactly right, keen as I always am on a dampish Sunday morning to avoid stirring the stumps and getting the motor out of the mews We considered a task whereby UV light could reach into the glue blob would allow the new addition to the repertoire to 'shine' as it would when glueing a support arm to the main frame would be bang on "Bang on then Jeeves, let's be having at it" So as we had to apply the two rear support braces to the upperworks I tackled that first by bending the inner end pieces to the rear braces I'd made from Mr Albion's tubing And when they were rather flimsily stuck to it I mixed a light spray of Humbrol Enamel Matt Red and visited it upon the frame "Chalk one up for the Drones Club Jeeves" I cried, that looks rather spiffing I'll say I admit I'm not over certain about this glue, today will be a suitable test I think I'm a tad upset about the Wessex I took down for a layer of RAF BG before attempting getting that horrid yellow right Lots to do to that soon, including the Webley Hawk treatment if I don't get that yellow better than this Having the RAF BG in the airbrush was handy though There was stuff to do At this juncture it behooved me to give the frame a test run I surmised One of the UV glued joints gave way Godamighty that looks too big Goshagolly that looks too small Oh dear it just looks ungainly Still a slight touch with Cockpit glue stuck the rear starboard frame back on pro-tem On the basis of a line from my favourite fillum We'll always have Paris Or in this case a picture Because of the impossibly awkward task of making it all up now then breaking it down again to fix the front screen here's a single shot tryout of the rotor frame in service, three blades not rigged yet, but this is it for now Rerigged a bit better Oi oi, that's yer lot Edited April 17, 2017 by perdu 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 Lovely stuff Bill - it looks great to me I've used BluFix UV glue - the 'original' German stuff - a few times now but only on canopies and I've never been brave enough to tug at the result to test the strength. Mine does change transparency slightly when the light cures it but it is hard to see. Fingers crossed it holds. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBaron Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 Your Wodehouse is pitch-perfect old plum. I now know who to ask over to speak at the end-of-term prize-giving. That rosy Forth bridge thingy looks like one of those damnable folding picnic table affairs from Argos; your craftspersonship has truly invested it with dignity at this scale. Quote We'll always have Paris Hitler? Nice work as always Rick err...Bill. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heloman1 Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 Bill, I've just found your build thread and have to say, you are a wizzard. Colin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomoshenko Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 Bill the abstract geodesics look great and to scale. Maybe if you make enough of em you could have your own display at Tate Modern in the Turbine Hall (though it will probably take several lifetimes at this scale!). Seriously though it's like any DIY, building job, repair, Pulitzer Prize essay etc. we do; when we come back to it we always find fault and look for improvement, but that is one of the reasons we enjoy this lark. Last two pictures look superb, especially the last one with the rotor in place. Gonna look great on a Carling Black Label beer mat! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 23 hours ago, perdu said: Oi oi, that's yer lot and highly entertaining it was too ! that rotor head looks good enough to spin. That crazed red spider mounting your little Wasp from behind looks rather intimidating. It's almost as if Dali had brain flatulence and went cubist for a brief moment 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBaron Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 I'm beginning to suspect a Soviet influence on that 'red spider' via Tatlin's Monument: Tony 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritag Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 On 16/04/2017 at 10:51 PM, perdu said: glueing and painting the rotor support frame components I'm sure I've seen one of those in Tate Modern1............Whatever. It's a little work of art - just like the rest of Wopsie. 1 Made me think of Fiona Banner's polished Jag displayed upside down in the Tate c. 2010 (along wth one of them up, down, left, right Harrier things). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted April 18, 2017 Author Share Posted April 18, 2017 Did I not like those 'artworks'. I never saw the merit of getting an army of dozy elves to whip off the Poly-u and add shine And then make like an artist Posey twit. The red is as like the real things colour as I can get but it looks too 'in yer face' so I intend damping the brightness down a tadlet, a thin layer of Tam's Smoke might do the trick On the test fitting I think the frame looks about right but if I have to when the tail is fitted to the hinge I might whip off half a mm from the uprights It can't be far off because the tail rotor does sit at a good flat horizontal, as per the real thing That was the essential bit of calculating coming good Oh yes windows, the ones on the front I took several versions of polishing devices, fabric Micromesh, plasticated sanding sheets ( from Mr Models in Brum) and the ubiquitous sanding sticks I always buy three or four at a time when I'm at a model show and got them looking fairly flat Gave them a single flood coat with Humbrol Clear and now feel a lot happier I'll picture that when I'm finished with paint touch-in and the transfers for the nose and the tail serials 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamden Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 Another outstanding save, sounds like your almost over the finish line now. This is a Master Class in micro engineering Roger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigdave22014 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 I've figured it out! Martian must have lent him one of his shrink/enlarge ray guns. He makes it bigger, does some work in normal size, then shrinks it down to model size again! It all makes sense now! Or he's just very very good at modelling.... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 What a lovely little thing that is Bill ! Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 I'm sure I've seen that red gizmo on a Japanese Gundam movie. Nice reproduction, Matey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 The Turbine Hall needs a Nimbus, nearly. Stunning stuff, Bill. I might have to investigate that there UV malarkey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted April 18, 2017 Share Posted April 18, 2017 11 hours ago, Bigdave22014 said: I've figured it out! Martian must have lent him one of his shrink/enlarge ray guns. He makes it bigger, does some work in normal size, then shrinks it down to model size again! It all makes sense now! Bugger! Found out yet again. Martian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted April 18, 2017 Author Share Posted April 18, 2017 Well there was always a chance that some clever geezer would figure that out Martian Probably time to stop this then now we've been rumbled... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted April 24, 2017 Author Share Posted April 24, 2017 Home brew decals Proper nonconformists are they not? 😠 Trying for pics later today 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritag Posted April 24, 2017 Share Posted April 24, 2017 32 minutes ago, perdu said: Home brew decals Proper nonconformists are they not? Tease Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted April 24, 2017 Author Share Posted April 24, 2017 Moi? Ah well maybe But I'm still broadcasting How about dem Hawks then? I am referring to the DANGER markings on the tail They need to sit along the centre strake down the tail cone but I am having to rethink the concept I might have to run the imagery in Inkscape to alloiw a vertical stretch to cover the 'fold over' part of the central lettering The 'bar' of the E and G need to be on the ridge and the home brews don't want to stretch enough even under a cocktail of 'Sol and Decalfix. Happy days... 😬 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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