perdu Posted November 12, 2017 Share Posted November 12, 2017 And, almost inevitably, I agree with him You have the look, a look many a chap might have at the start of a great adventure Follow me on the skidding ride Its awesome Kinda like your modelling when I come to think on... Be, then keep happy PC ☺ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookenbacher Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 This is your best work yet PC, too bad it wasn't ready in time for the O'Hare show. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted November 13, 2017 Author Share Posted November 13, 2017 50 minutes ago, Cookenbacher said: This is your best work yet PC, too bad it wasn't ready in time for the O'Hare show. Oh, I don't compete -- too scared of losing (or too harshly realistic an assessment of my abilities, perhaps). I don't like being judged. 13 hours ago, CedB said: ... but, hopefully, not the fattest you will be my friend. One chin is never enough IMHO: “Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!” ― Hunter S. Thompson The danger being, of course, that one may underestimate how far one has to go to the finish line, as Hunter did, and be forced to resort to radical measures to escape the prison of one's own body. However, as my wife and children are out of town for the week now, I did eat an entire pizza and a loaf of "stuffed cheesy bread" from the worst pizza place in town as a nod to your advice, Buffers. Anyway, tonight I said "to hell with it" and put the top wing on: I'm sorry to report that the hitherto perfect fit of the kit was a little off here as regards the struts and cabanes, and I was forced to resort to a Procrustean solution to get them to fit. This may have been a result of fitting the struts out of order, or of misaligning the resin wing. Perhaps the gods were imperfectly propitiated. Soon: upper wing and rudder decals, finish the wheels, and some minor rigging. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 2 hours ago, Procopius said: I did eat an entire pizza and a loaf of "stuffed cheesy bread" from the worst pizza place in town Dat's Ma Boy! A little of what you fancy does you good. I agree with Cookie PC - she is looking very smart. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 Looking rather 'elite' PC, I'm warming to what is an admittedly for me an 'un-sub' of an aeroplane Propitiation? Always been an uncertain subject hasn't it? If you dedicate your life to never drinking Leffe, for instance, some deities are content to accept that huge sacrifice as sufficient to allow a lifetime of happy drifting along... Some are not! If in your life there is a deity with awesome appetites for blood you will simply have to keep having children, simply so you have a handy Remaining First/Next Born in order to be able to spare a Biblical offering Take my advice dear friend Lay off the Leffe There are plenty of other superior European beers to imbibe as substitutes 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 Only as Procopius build would name-check Procrustes! That's why we love you. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookenbacher Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 I had to look him up, aeroplane goodness and educational too! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted November 13, 2017 Author Share Posted November 13, 2017 9 hours ago, Ex-FAAWAFU said: Only as Procopius build would name-check Procrustes! That's why we love you. 5 hours ago, Cookenbacher said: I had to look him up, aeroplane goodness and educational too! I'll take it! I first read about Procrustes in Bernanrd Evslin's splendid book of Greek myths for children when I was, oh, ten or eleven. Since it wasn't assigned schoolwork, merely left lying about in the classroom, it was pure, unmitigated pleasure and pretty funny, even if I didn't get all the jokes at the time. (Hephaestus's mother Hera coaches him to woo Aphrodite, after all of her other, more impressive suitors have made their pitches, and what's his? "I work late." Took me years to get that one.) I highly recommend it. Anyhoo, we have the wheels painted and on, and the windscreens. So here we are right now: A few more miscellaneous decals to add, the control wires to the elevators and rudder, and dullcoat, and the prop (black blades and a silver hub?) and I think we can be there. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 Very nice PC. That really does look realistic. Good job. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beard Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 That's looking rather splendid PC. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookenbacher Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 So I also have years to understand the Hephaestus joke, right? Challenge accepted! The RWD-8 looks stunning PC, so delicate from the angle of the second shot. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 The others had already tried? Oh Ill get my coat But not 'til I have said how good this looks It looks very good PC, very much so 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 Looks great. Not a type with which I was familiar, but you have really done it justice. I too love the Greek myths; they are full of life & humour - so much more fun than the earnest Romans (who nicked half of their mythology anyway!) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted November 13, 2017 Author Share Posted November 13, 2017 16 minutes ago, Ex-FAAWAFU said: Looks great. Not a type with which I was familiar, but you have really done it justice. I too love the Greek myths; they are full of life & humour - so much more fun than the earnest Romans (who nicked half of their mythology anyway!) Agreed! Virgil's not a patch on Homer. Anyway, this happened: But are we downhearted? NO! I got the wing back on, less some struts for now, and decided to remove the crude-looking injection-molded doohickies that the control lines for the elevators run to. Then I got out my trusty pin vice: For you see, I have some photoetch bitsies that can go there. I cut the tips off of some straight pins to mount them: And shazam: I feel rather pleased with myself right now. 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookenbacher Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 Oh, sweet victory. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 At least you are able to fix it and improve it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted November 13, 2017 Share Posted November 13, 2017 12 minutes ago, Corsairfoxfouruncle said: At least you are able to fix it and improve it. EDIT TO SUIT you are able to improve it. And we all knew that I really do like this little stranger, you are having fun now aren't you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted November 14, 2017 Author Share Posted November 14, 2017 17 minutes ago, perdu said: I really do like this little stranger, you are having fun now aren't you Mostly going blue from holding my breath. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted November 14, 2017 Author Share Posted November 14, 2017 Ah ha. Ah ha ha ha. Ah ha ha HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA All rigged. You will recall I mentioned a Procrustean solution earlier. Well, when I reattached the wing, I also corrected the angle it sat at (I hope!) and so one of the V-struts is now too short. Now, it's much easier to take away length than it is to add it, as Lorena Bobbit* and a generation or two of dodgy internet spammers can well tell you, but there are methods one can use short of just buying another kit. I've added some styrene bits on the top, and ambitiously hope to sand them to shape and desired length. Wish me luck. * Alternately, Theon Greyjoy, but I'm not really a Game of Thrones guy. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Procopius Posted November 14, 2017 Author Share Posted November 14, 2017 So the chunks of styrene kept falling off, like the fingers of a medieval leper, and so I raided a Freightdog/Pegasus BE2e (note to self, ask @Colin @ Freightdog Models if I can buy some extra strut material) kit for some "extruded strut" and trimmed a bit off: Quick test fit: Edward, you GENIUS! The parts of my brain that in prehistorical times would have been used to attract a mate by providing food and shelter, and which have inevitably failed me when attempting to obtain sexual congress via demonstration of manly prowess in the modelling arts, have at last come through for me. Quick blort of paint: Yesyesyes. Almost done. 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stew Dapple Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 I just caught up with about three days posts in one go. What a trip Lovely job Edward, she is truly a little beauty Cheers, Stew 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amblypygid Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 Splendid work, especially those control wires and attachments. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beard Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 That's the kind of modelling that would attract a mate, if you were single that is. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 Blort-tastic! Here I am worrying gently about rigging a 1/48 Walrus, and you put me in my place by making it look ridiculously easy in Braille Scale. So what’s next after this small-but-perfectly-formed Pole? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Is an awfully good question It looks rather damned fine Edwardo, let's us have some more please Please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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