71chally Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 That Wasp is looking pretty darned good now, incredible with the tiny detail embodied 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 On 09/05/2017 at 0:44 PM, perdu said: I don't want to snaffle one from your stash Keith, You know what Bill - I've only got one copy - that box with all the bits & supposedly two complete Scout kits only has one set in it ! But should you have needed it you'd be welcome to it as I'd be quite happy to scan it & send you the original. Are you OK anyway to finish the kit without the destructions? If not give me a shout. K 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted May 10, 2017 Author Share Posted May 10, 2017 Thank you Keith, I was worried in case you thought I wanted it but as Martian has confirmed it will not be a problem in a modified class I hope you will keep it and build me a nice one later You sir are a gentleman b 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody37 Posted May 10, 2017 Share Posted May 10, 2017 Just catching up Bill, beautiful and amazing. So much detail to drool over 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted May 11, 2017 Share Posted May 11, 2017 just catching up on this after a couple of days away. Brilliant work Bill. It is impossible to tell this is 1/72 with the amount of detail you have packed, and are continuing to pack in 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomoshenko Posted May 11, 2017 Share Posted May 11, 2017 On 5/9/2017 at 9:03 AM, Fozzy said: 17 PM, perdu said: Couldn't agree more. Notwithstanding the fact that it is enlarged 3+ at least. I calculate about 3.5/1 beer mat scale. I know cos I measured a beer mat against it on the telly screen... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted May 11, 2017 Author Share Posted May 11, 2017 Hmm, guys thanks for the flatulence... Oh maybe I got that wrong What is that word I was thinking of? Oh well no doubt it'll occur later Thanks anyway And for my next thick here's a conundrum Can you see anything new? Yep the lamp standard is flat now, or will be even flatter with a wipe over from a four way sanding stick to level it I have used a tad of stuporgoo to horizonta-dise the tail rotor And raise the pylon to the proper parked position In this position I was also able to confirm the floats are at the right height, there needs to be clearance when the doors are opened The floats are often seen on fully 'doored up' Wasps too so the doors have to be openable and for the rarely seen port side, ditto Jobs to do list is down to seventeen items I can remember, including posting her to her postage stamp base I'm orf now to get on with it night guys 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehnz Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 I think I shall have to resort to some flatulence flattery too Bill There is some wonderful work on show here. Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 Nice! Seventeen items to go plus the extras on top of that that we find for you to attend to! Martian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 18 hours ago, perdu said: Can you see anything new? you're using a different backdrop for the photo's ? I'll be sorry to see this one finished. Thankfully, my regret will be assuaged by the prompt introductiveness of a new perdu build..... which is.... ? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted May 12, 2017 Author Share Posted May 12, 2017 Buccered if I can remember just now Hendie 😀 One of the seventeen jobs done now, pictures later Of the rotor blade pins I made five of the eight and left them on the workbench by the pooter's keyboard One left this evening after the guvner has been on the pooter. 😕 My fault, I forgot to advise her to miss that little area Albion alloys nickel silver thin tube pin, next size up cap piece, as I said there'll be a picture or two later on 0.100" long with a skinny cap piece 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted May 12, 2017 Author Share Posted May 12, 2017 (edited) I did say I would, so I am Showing you what I did earlier A familiar by now I suspect, field of red plasticene with passengers There and a spare As you MAY recall I do like to get a bit jiggy and this task is another jig-gable one The jig is very simple for this job, double thickness of 0.060" glued together (gives less than 0.120" bytheway, 0.115" after glueing together) and a tiny teeny teency wincy hole drilled through near the edge Take the thinnest Albion tube and find the orifice Slide to the bottom where the melamine starts Fixed depths ensue (ish, this is ME remember) so take a sharpish blade Don't use the newest, freshest sharpest one you've got then blame me In real life do not hold the face nor edge of the blade if/when cutting, this was only because I have no more than two hands to use when demonstrating the method In fact hold the rod at the top to hold it down in the hole (why did that remind me of Baltimore?) to keep the length as you slide the edge across the tube, thus cutting a groove into it Take it out of the hole giving it a little tug laterally first, et violet the required depth and the cut ready to be trimmed off and return to the hole for the next one Here ready for the cap to be fitted, if the cap fits that is Take a length of the next size up tube and cut off a thin sliver (with the same blunt sharp blade) on the work top Here's one that didn't get dispersed to the wide in the diaspora of the afternoon, awaiting being put into service When you look at these tubes as they slide into each other you'd think the gap was somehow smaller (sorry Martian but I suspect there may be Cedification later but I was lost for other wordses) But then you have to take up the slack with stuporgoo, seen here in its pool I usually put a little dollop of glue of whichever type is needed into the little pot at the end of this old tray, this has CA now but is often found with a dipperful of PVA or Cockpit Glue so I can get no more than I need on the tip of a cocktail stick. Dip the tip of the rotor pin (see, they have a real name now) in and apply to the hole not a good photo but I am right handed and was trying to press the button with the third finger of my left hand The proper hand was driving the pointy tweezers, the rotor pin is vaguely visible a millimotor in from the tip and 90° to it Kind of grey line thingy, just there /\ ish All of which endeavour gives us good innit... Edited May 12, 2017 by perdu 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted May 12, 2017 Share Posted May 12, 2017 Great stuff Bill, thanks for the step by step. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted May 16, 2017 Author Share Posted May 16, 2017 Note to self... Club on Sunday, finish the damned model Got to paint the winch then fit it, make the aerials and fit them, hook up the type44 on the port station ( not sure if I need to mount the starboard weapons point if it's to stay empty) Fit rotors after colour banding them Screen wash and wipers, oh yes OAT probe Nail to deck with four straps,only two tie downs though (space precludes...) RBFs too And I am hoping to get the auxiliary door screens ready, but... Busy few days coming, I'll try to remember pictures but I've noticed the last hectic days of a build can cause pictographic fatigue I'll try! 🚁 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritag Posted May 16, 2017 Share Posted May 16, 2017 3 minutes ago, perdu said: I'll try! Don't try Bill. Succeed. Tis vicariously very exciting seeing all the finishing touches on this little gem. Need blow by blows of the last several steps...... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted May 16, 2017 Share Posted May 16, 2017 Good luck Bill, I'm sure you'll master it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted May 16, 2017 Share Posted May 16, 2017 I'm with those two Bill, too close now not for this to be a winner (which in my eyes it already is!) Keith 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted May 16, 2017 Author Share Posted May 16, 2017 I'll do my best Hoist frame is painted now, pics this after... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheshiretaurus Posted May 16, 2017 Share Posted May 16, 2017 Nicely done Bill, pin cutting method now entered into the grey matter storage system of good ideas. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fozzy Posted May 16, 2017 Share Posted May 16, 2017 Nearly there Bill! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted May 16, 2017 Share Posted May 16, 2017 6 hours ago, perdu said: ...not sure if I need to mount the starboard weapons point if it's to stay empty Completely up to you; the flight would fit & remove weapons carriers all the time for all sorts of reasons (not a big job), so your sublime wee Wasp would be equally realistic either way. It really is a thing of beauty (the model, that is; only a Waspie could love the aircraft purely for its looks!) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBaron Posted May 16, 2017 Share Posted May 16, 2017 For a brief moment or two I would like to be really really tiny in order to sit inside there, just to see what it felt like. Glorious work, just glorious. Tony 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomoshenko Posted May 16, 2017 Share Posted May 16, 2017 23 minutes ago, TheBaron said: For a brief moment or two I would like to be really really tiny in order to sit inside there, just to see what it felt like. Glorious work, just glorious. Tony Well if you PM Bill your schematics I'm sure he can knock up a 1/72 scale version of your good self to fit on the beer mat. Or of course you may be able to source a Fantastic Voyage shrinking machine on evilbay, and make a personal appearance.... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted May 16, 2017 Author Share Posted May 16, 2017 hard seats Tony 'tain't really sheepskin tha kens OK a brief round up rotor head colour banded and just before that I ran a test of the pins in a couple of holes Looks OK to me, there are not going to be any lower retaining clips pins or springythingys Plenty of stupor goo for when its 'lock down' time after all I hate this macro stuff but never mind eh? Tail warning beacon on method: melt the end of one red plastic cocktail stick (hint and tip 73a the cockerel onna stick ones have too much wasted plastic in the cockerel bit, stick with plain, double pointed ones) and drop it into a predrilled hole in the Formica worktop slice off --- glue on... you cannot see it clearly here, but trust me there is also a Little Cars 1.5mm lamp at the very bottom of its nav light mounting braking cables are on now and attached to the uprights as well as the fuselage They have an odd to automotive eyes, sideways mounting at the uprights I have now cut them off at the ends, they may get a tad more black paint to finish them I will have a better look in daylight tomorrow The filler cap has been painted red, because 430 has a red filler Horrid view, reminds me of all my co***ps tidying up round the tail warning markings, not a pretty sight in other news I have been working on anti-sub measures viz, a pair of type 44s one is for Waspie, the other may grace the side of my HAS3 Wessex later on When Crisp posted the pictures of the type 44 at the museum it shows a pair of circumferential lines, one black one at what is presumably the C of G and a yellow one round the green nose cap which must be ditto for the warhead purrups I dont think I will bother attempting them in 72th scale, what does the team think? I got the hoist painted up but lost the steady brace in a quite exciting pinging moment so I had to make up a paint to suffice Vallejo Blue and Vallejo Nato Green, close enough for artificial lighting I am quite pleased with the hoist It is difficult to make out on photographs of Wasp Ditto here so I must have it right Just about visible here I'd say, the hook and weight not yet fitted I'll take that 'un as OK After I finished picturising I also made (same method as tail warning beacon) the red and green nav lamps for the door-side plinths I'll do a pic or two tomorrow Armaments day tomorrow and aerials too, then MRBs to be added to the rotor gear and the tie downs attached ciao y'all 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted May 17, 2017 Share Posted May 17, 2017 The Baron only wants to be reduced to 1/72 scale so he can have his wicked way with Maureen in his Barracuda build. This build looks ever better Bill Martian 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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