Hamden Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 Pods and pylons starting to come together now Bill! Hope your Midget gets well soon Seasons greetings Roger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
71chally Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 Nice work on the pod carriers Perdu, looking forward to seeing the pods. As for references of either, I think the 4+ book is going to be as good as you can find, bar an AP. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huvut76g7gbbui7 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 14 hours ago, perdu said: "What will Massimo give us when we get the flying Wyvern? This perhaps? 6 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 What a great pic! Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted December 23, 2017 Author Share Posted December 23, 2017 Brilliant Can't wait Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 That must have been one heck of a long selfie stick! Ian 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
71chally Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 Merry Christmas Gannet fans! Pictures courtesy of Fleet Air Arm Association Australia https://www.faaaa.asn.au/gannet-images-media/ 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huvut76g7gbbui7 Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 One from me too! Just kidding and checking that you haven't had too much of the Christmas sherry yet. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 So that's what a Gannett f*rt looks like! Merry Christmas all! Ian 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 On 24/12/2017 at 21:49, Scimitar said: One from me too! Just kidding and checking that you haven't had too much of the Christmas sherry yet. Just when you think Christmas can't get any worse, some Muppet reminds me I have the Fonderie Miniatures 1/48 kit in the stash. It was a present from the Martianess and as such will have to be built at some point. Martian 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massimo Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 8 hours ago, Martian Hale said: Just when you think Christmas can't get any worse, some Muppet reminds me I have the Fonderie Miniatures 1/48 kit in the stash. It was a present from the Martianess and as such will have to be built at some point. Martian This is another of those ugly things that makes me shiver, but it's some how Gannet-related, and may result an interesting build for the future!!! Go for it Martian!!! 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted December 27, 2017 Author Share Posted December 27, 2017 Massimo you should be helping our alien to forget these horrors, not blatantly encouraging his dearly beloved to divert him too deeply across La Manche Tut tut Not elegant like the dear ol' Gannet at all... 🎅🎅🎅🎅 😲 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
71chally Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 I love the dear old Alize', used to regularly see them up close when they were on exercise at St Mawgan. Again, another clever ASW package. I've considered getting the FM 48th kit but a bit costly for me, I'm getting bad vibes from Martians post though, are there issues with it? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 39 minutes ago, 71chally said: I love the dear old Alize', used to regularly see them up close when they were on exercise at St Mawgan. Again, another clever ASW package. I've considered getting the FM 48th kit but a bit costly for me, I'm getting bad vibes from Martians post though, are there issues with it? Are there issues with the kit? Well, the shape is OK and the canopy fits but the kit very poorly moulded and other than the main airframe parts just about every part, large and small in the kit needs replacing from scratch or completely reworking. Add to this Fonderie's instructions which are all but incomprehensionable to even native French speakers, I checked this point with Corsaircorp and some of his friends at Telford, and you have all the ingredients for a one way trip to the funny farm. I still shudder when I remember the fun and games I had with their Piasecki H-21 Flying Banana. Don't let me discourage you though! Martian von Still having Counselling 2 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
71chally Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 20 minutes ago, Martian Hale said: Don't let me discourage you though! I thank that you probably have! I either like to buy a cheap kit and improve it, or buy a more expensive kit and build with few improvements, the FM kit sounds like the worst of both worlds! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 2 minutes ago, 71chally said: I thank that you probably have! I either like to buy a cheap kit and improve it, or buy a more expensive kit and build with few improvements, the FM kit sounds like the worst of both worlds! Just about sums it up! Martian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huvut76g7gbbui7 Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 3 hours ago, perdu said: Not elegant like the dear ol' Gannet at all... Could be worse though! 12 hours ago, Martian Hale said: some Muppet Just as well you used the capital M there. If you hadn't I was going to send you the 1/48th Starfix Spitfire..the one with the two starboard wings. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted December 27, 2017 Author Share Posted December 27, 2017 😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 On 24/12/2017 at 9:36 PM, 71chally said: Pictures courtesy of Fleet Air Arm Association Australia https://www.faaaa.asn.au/gannet-images-media/ Clearly fake news; you can see the flex running out of shot on the left. [Great photo! I love that silver and orange spinner combo] 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted December 29, 2017 Author Share Posted December 29, 2017 (edited) I am not modelling snow for anyone... I have however been lazily making new jetpipes for the exhausty end of the ducts And getting my baggage pods ready for casting, moulding to begin over the weekend if I can get the garage ambient up a tad towards b**** freezing so the latex will set - brrr Postimage is running very slowly today... really slowly Frog's jetpipe ends are a little bit "OK ish but needs definition... and a hole out the back" This ought to look OK when the paint is on it Soon, now they are done I will be bunging the wings and tail surfaces on Edited December 29, 2017 by perdu 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 On 12/27/2017 at 11:07 AM, Ex-FAAWAFU said: Clearly fake news; you can see the flex running out of shot on the left. Isn't that the pull cord that you start the engine with? I had one of those on my old lawnmower. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massimo Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 Very nice jet pipes and baggage pods!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 9 minutes ago, massimo said: Very nice jet pipes and baggage pods!!! Agreed, both looking the part Ciao 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBaron Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 I had a blonde moment here: Quote ...thinking: 'Gosh - the real thing looks just like a resin part - Bill shouldn't have much trouble with that.' Then a bit later I saw the tweezers. And noticed that the pod was levitating in mid-air. I'm going to go now. It's clearly all a bit much first thing in the morning. (I likes them exhaust ends very much however!) 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 (edited) 13 hours ago, hendie said: Isn't that the pull cord that you start the engine with? I had one of those on my old lawnmower. We used to try that gag on sprog Tiffs (inexperienced Artificers, for those who don’t speak military). Stick your head into the line (having first plotted with the Watch Chief, of course) and shout “Just out for a ground run on 508; someone to marshall the start, please”. The others would look to young Tiffy & offer encouraging words about how a simple ground run is a great way to learn, so out he’d trot... to find a spread Sea King with a vast length of rope running from the rotor head to the towing hook of a trusty Fordson tractor [this was ashore; you’d never get away with this embarked!]. Pilot would then do a deliberate failed start on No.1 (“forgetting” to make the right switch could guarantee this), and then stick head out of window and shout that they’d have to jump start the engines from the rotor. Few fell for it, but on one occasion I had to intervene before a young man raced off on his tractor... Edited December 30, 2017 by Ex-FAAWAFU 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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