Navy-ation - Wasp The last post

[Cheshiretaurus]

Fantastic level of detail Bill

[hendie]

it's like a little wasp wearing a little tiara - all it needs now is some sparkly stars on the end of those rods!  oh! and some tinsel

[perdu]

(quiet sniggers off stage...)

 

 

thank you guys

 

I really appreciate all this b... stuff

 

(what did the fat lady on M&W always say? ah yes  "I LOVE YOU ALL!")

 

 

 

ta guys

Edited February 28, 2017 by perdu

[CedB]

She is a thing of beauty Bill, and she's not even dressed yet!

Great stuff.

[Ex-FAAWAFU]

Black undies.  You know it makes sense.

 

She's looking lovely, especially with her sparkly tiara.

[Tomoshenko]

Superb Bill. Blimey though I miss a club meet and I miss out on seeing you buy some bits of metal... welcome to the dark side. Seriously though, although they can be a pain to glue and cut, they don't arf look good.

[perdu]

Black nethergarb?

 

Its a thought but I have none of that stuff you use Crisp and little favour for the stench round here

 

(not me I hastens to remind ye all, but Mrs P has a strong detestment for any stinkies)

 

In all honesty I expect the first coat of thin Compucolor2 will act as a virtual undercoat and its dark enough anyway

 

Ill be adding as many of the RAF BG items as poss before I paint, that's lashing eyes and loops, the weird brake line traces round the legs and an assortment of other oddities to boot (yes including I band transdooberries)

 

Now I am happy with the basics for the flot gear I am working out whether I need more fifteen thou for the Forth Bridge assembly which is quite complex and has multiple crossframing

 

I'm going to be using another two or three inches of what is left on the floats, that will leave no more than five inches to build bridges with

 

I may be away for a bit, shopping...

[Martian]

2 hours ago, perdu said:

 

Mrs P has a strong detestment for any stinkies)

 

Just what Mrs Martian said to me the last time I had baked beans!

 

Martian

[huvut76g7gbbui7]

20 hours ago, perdu said:

I'm a bit chuffed with this so far

Quite rightly so too.

 

[perdu]

As the floats will be the most prominent things on the helicopter when (IF) I finish I have been adding stuff to sit atop each side

 

The air bottle and the three way union next to it

 

The actuator blocks at the outboard ends and some of the piping that makes it go "phutttt!"

 

Also the pressure release valve at the opposite end to the air bottle and the fixtures which make the arms stay stuck on in use

 

 

The fuselage rear mounting points now have their rods attached and I have been making new channel section pieces for the lower piece of the clamshell underneath

here in full glorious colour in the foreground

 

Can you see where they are yet? 

 

These are five thou plastic sheet form wrapped around a six inch steel rule and then persuaded to stay in shape by wafting a lit ciggy lighter along the folded edge

 

I gave up the fags nearly forty years ago but I can't bust the fag lighter habit for the life of me

 

if I'd kept smoking I would still be using a hot red end to make rivet heads....   (NO, there is a place you must not go)

 

There is no known substitute for that in plastic handling, mushroomed heads are fabulous rivets

 

The channels are what holds the arms to the clamshell in real life and after lots of worriting I decided if its good enough for Westlands it might do it for me

 

I didn't fancy trying to drill little holes, then bend the nickel rods at tiny angles just to keep the floats on the arms and glue them with stuporgoo

 

I may yet still need to mix up some five minute epoxy for adhesive poipoises, we'll see

 

The airbottles don't have their fastening straps attached yet, tomorrow will do for that 

 

 

night night, bed bugs and all that

[hendie]

very nicely done.  I can just about see them here on my huge monitor.  I look forward to seeing them strapped in

[CedB]

There's tiny and there's tiny - those bits are tiny. Good work Sir, can't wait to see how it all goes together.

[Tomoshenko]

Well tasty Bill, but Dr Tomoshenko advises you to give up smoking cigarette lighters post haste 

[Miggers]

Adhesive poipoise eh.

 

I'll pop a farthing on a greyhound that the highly esteemed Mr Attenborough has never seen one of those

on his "Blue Planet" adventures............

(Mrs Miggers is at her most thriftiest when such frivolous activities as financial arrangements with greyhounds

are mentioned,so no more than a farthing it shall be)

 

You're making me want to bung my doobious effort of many moons ago in the bin and have a goo at a nother

Vasp Villiam!!!!!

Edited March 2, 2017 by Miggers

[TheBaron]

I cast a speculative eye over the Airfix Scout recently, thought of this build, then quietly backed away into the shadows. Every stage of this has been mind-boggling Bill. Panache and precision: love it.

Tony

[perdu]

Tony old bean build it, there's a lot of meat in a Scouty sandwich all fun and enlightenment

Anyway, just to prove it isnt only Fireflies, Baccycuders and Seekings getting ready to go out, here is Wopsie awaiting a first wave of the airbrush

 

I have bunged on the bean can, the little thin spiky tube under the schnozz and the pair of obscure little brackets on the tool box at the backside of the aeroplane

 

The uprights are ready for trimming for the floatation doohickeys and the jury frame is sat downstairs with the front float frames awaiting a little dab of RAFGB

 

 

And a view from the stubbord side

 

Entertaining times await me now as I wrassle with the rotor gear and get the paint onto the weapons carrier racks

 

Whose Dumb Idea Was This?

 

(the title of my next book when I can cut a deal with the publishers of The Dandy And The Beano)

 

I was contemplating getting paint and transfers on and making  the Mini Forth Bridgey thing for the folded rotors when I realised I still haven't worked out a way of making the tail pylon act as if it is hinged and locked

 

I suspect I will be following the CrispAFU's plan for a disguised rod through the lot

 

Onwards and onwards and...

 

 

[Hamden]

 

 

Looks good all the extra work is really paying off!

 

  Roger

[HAMP man]

Them buttery castors (a piece of toast always falls butter side down?) and all the sticky out dangliy things look too good to paint.

 

Vunderful Varspie

 

Box on

 

Strickers

[Cheshiretaurus]

This is looking cracking, Will it be ready for Cosford?

[perdu]

52 minutes ago, Cheshiretaurus said:

This is looking cracking, Will it be ready for Cosford?

 

 

Sadly Tomo's and my club failed to get a space booked in time for the closing date.

 

The club have decided to take the gear just in case they get a 'drop out' at the last minute, not sure whether Tom will be there

 

I have however arranged to be with the Midget And Sprite Club at the Practical Classics And Restoration Show at the NEC for a change

 

All the major dates for either hobby seem to gallop along on the same dates, Telford included so with Cosford only a 'possible' it seems a timely excuse for a change

 

Only fair to support a club I served as chairman for a couple of years isn't it

And as a pensioner I get free travel to the NEC and I'm hoping to wangle an entry pass

 

Maybe...

 

Sorry though, I'd have enjoyed another natter, maybe Neil might be there too, I bet Bomber Command got their request in time

[hendie]

looking marvelous Bill, it really is.  There must only be about 20% of the kit in there after all the scratching and rework you've done.

I can't wait to see paint on this one

[perdu]

You love a little bit of an exaggerate don't you Hendie

 

There's 45 pieces in the kit, plus transfers (FAR FAR TOO OLD TO CALL 'EM DECALS)

 

by the time I'm done eleven of them will be in the model

 

two halves one rear wall one floor and one engine deck

 

one rotor pylon

one rotor head

 

four main rotor blades

 

and one cyclic, which isn't actually off a Scout

 

This one is off an Airfix CH46 Sea Knight but I'll count it so lets call it a dozen

 

Ah shucks lets make that  a baker's dozen, I'm using the base of the centre console too

 

Hardly using anything Airfix didn't make any more 

 

 

 

Having fun tonight shaving plasticard to make tail rotor blades

 

Rounded front and two different tapers at the back of the blades

 

Starboard side gets a plain taper to the back and the port side gets a concave section like the real thing's flat bladed tail rotor

 

I confess I don't know the sections of the early tapered blades, these are the rectangular blades in later service

 

Started the main rotor head gear too, more fun

 

night all

Edited March 4, 2017 by perdu

[AMB]

This is staggeringly good!  Just thought I might mention my Warpaint book on Scout & Wasp is advertised in this month's issue of SAM and is at the printers now.

Will be available at the Southern Expo show.

[CedB]

Pretty little thing ain't she? 

Great stuff Bill.

[perdu]

I don't suppose you need a cheap reviewer do you Adrian?

 

 

Not to worry, I will be checking it out

 

I have been waiting for that almost as long as Freightdog's Wasp, which I may not have any further interest in...

 

 

More's the pity, I've seen the castings and they are brilliant

 

 

Thank you Ced, She has always had a soft spot in my heart

 

Ever since Alan Hall's Airfix mag article back in the stone age