huvut76g7gbbui7 Posted October 9, 2017 Share Posted October 9, 2017 44 minutes ago, Pete in Lincs said: old memories get a bit fuzzy... So true! Like abat above I used Google as I for of the life of me couldn't remember what a Huck bolt looked like. Don't think I need to worry too much about them in 1/72. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longshanks Posted October 10, 2017 Share Posted October 10, 2017 Neat work..... Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody37 Posted October 10, 2017 Share Posted October 10, 2017 Just stumbled across this, based on my previous popcorn expenditure on Hendie builds, I'd better stock up. Lovely progress on that interior so far Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted October 16, 2017 Author Share Posted October 16, 2017 Thanks for the compliments guys. After the week of traveling hell it was nice to get back to the basement. It's a bit of a mixed bag this update - it started off reasonably well and I was really happy with how the fire extinguisher turned out. Isn't it amazing how something so simple can make you feel good. I also remembered to add the missing ribs from the cabin bulkhead. Here in all it's macro-fied fugliness is the cabin bulkhead. Nasty I call it. From all the research I have done, these panels were never painted with anything approaching neatness and the black anti-slip coating always looked like it was applied with the hangar floor brush. However, when you try to replicate an untidy finish, it always looks like the proverbial pile of.. doesn't it? I'll console myself with the fact that it's better than the kit offering. Some weathering wouldn't go amiss though. Definitely a lot happier with the extinguisher - I had to search to find a bit of green transfer to use as the label and ended up stealing a bit from a sometime future Whirlwind build. The clamp is made from flattened lead wire, and I finished the extinguisher head off with some model master jet exhaust. I thought brass paint looked too well, brassy. A few bits of paint here and there. Valves and unions were highlighted in flat aluminum and steel with a little dab of red and yellow here and there to try and pose as labeling on the tubing. I also added two small gems as exit lights with several dollops of clear red to try and darken them down a bit. The port side was then given a gloss coat followed by some Flory washes. It's looking a bit gruesome in this photo - particularly around the windows. Try as I might, I just couldn't stop the old age tremble when trying to paint the "rubber" surround. Thankfully, most of the mess is on masking tape, but I might still try and tidy it up a bit more. Oh, just in case you were wondering - the washes have not been cleaned up yet. Honestly.... Then back to the bulkhead again. The small T handled thingy was added, along with another sort of nose shaped protuberance just below the extinguisher. Then... Something I had completely forgotten about and did not include in my last Wessi build, was the fire axe. I came across it in a photo the other day - a fire axe and a small object from Messrs. Smith & Severin ...aka I completely missed them in my last build. So, in process additional bits.... Then the only way I could think to try and make a glove was to use a bit of milliput. There are some folks on this site who are amazing sculptors, and I know for certain that I will never be one of those. However, with a bit of fettling, filing, sanding, painting and weathering, I might be able to make one of these attempts look something like a glove, especially when I hide it behind some webbing straps. Time will tell. (what a clipe that time can be) and while the milliput was mixed I used the leftovers to try and start on the ducting - looks like it needs a bit more work. Not really a great deal of progress, but at least heading in the right direction. I shall now head off and clean up some of those washes. 23 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bungalow_Bill Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 Looks good! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 Brilliant ? Future Whirlwind build huh? Excellent! 🎆 📯📣🎯🎺. 🍺🍺⛅🚁 🆒🆗. ✔✅✔ Not as I'm fed up with Walter, cos I ain't, but the 'other one' is a great favourite of mine Back on the subject of our present affections, those little red lights Brilliant, I love 'em ☺ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 Amazing work Hendie and that extinguisher is a little work of art 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritag Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 Every hendie build consists of sub assemblies that are individual little works of art - and then the whole is even better than the sum of the parts.........if you see what I mean? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massimo Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 My only experience in the Wessex is....to get tho the flightdeck at the FAA Museum at Yeovilton..., but the interior you're adding to this model is truly realistic and the weathering is spot on. Can't wait for the next update! Ciao Massimo 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longshanks Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 It's always the little details that take the time but can be satisfying and certainly lift a build Kev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigdave22014 Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 Ooh - fire extinguishers. Does Nigel know? are you doing cooking next Hendie? 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JosephLalor Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 (edited) On 9/23/2017 at 8:45 AM, Pete in Lincs said: We were banned from using pencils on bare metal airframes. The graphite caused dissimilar metal corrosion! The story related back to an incident where a roundel had been marked out, and eventually the circle fell out of the fuselage. True or not, it made you think! I was sceptical about this myself as graphite is sp2 hybridised Carbon and not a metal, but then I remembered that the hybridisation leads to a lot of free electrons not used in forming the Carbon atoms into layers. The result I gather is that graphite is electrically conducting. Under those circumstances I might be inclined to believe that story. Edited October 17, 2017 by JosephLalor 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 More excellent interior work there hendie - agree with t'others about the fire putter outer - and I think you've well and truly thrown down the gauntlet in the making of scratch built gloves! Top stuff! Keith 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 (edited) Smell The Glove is here! [Spinal Tap - like you needed telling] You are starting to rival the Heath-meister in the beauty of your fire extinguishers. Having seen that, I am glad that my crude effort is almost completely hidden in the depths of the cockpit of a Sea King build which is paused. By the time it re-emerges into the light, yours will be but a distant memory. Edited October 18, 2017 by Ex-FAAWAFU 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBaron Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 Extinguisher, glove and axe. Another lovely burst of progress hendie. Them innards is really starting to come alive now! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted October 19, 2017 Author Share Posted October 19, 2017 Well, small bursts seem to be the order of the day. I managed just a short spell in the dungeon today as Gotham is on the box tonight and I have to make dinner as well - so I need to make sure it's ready in time for my weekly viewfest. Gotta love that Penguin fellow. Continuing with internals, I started adding some addition boxes and hydraulics on the starboard side, this time in a darker grey (it was a later mod and the paint didn't match ) It looks very blue in this photo - trust me it looks better in the flesh. While on the port side, a quick burst of matt finish toned down the proceedings and looked much better - then the leccies and fairies have started adding their gubbinses - untidy lot that they are. I'm not quite sure where those wires are going to end up yet so I left enough length on them to be able to tuck them away somewhere later. I also removed the masking tape from the rearmost window to see if I had any paint bleed - w00t ! None that I can see. It also makes the "rubber" surround look a lot neater. Now I must remember to mask it back up again so it doesn't get all messed up. Oh - the masking tape on the ducting is supposed to look like the duct insulation. and when painted up... looks passable for me. I used a variety of blacks to break it up a bit and to differentiate between materials - well that's my excuse. Then the glove ! Here's wot I ended up with. I actually tried painting aged concrete as the main color, then some tan color I had lying around, trying to represent the leather on the glove(s). It doesn't really show up in this scale. After the precision paint job, I added a Flory wash all over and finished off with some masking tape sliced thin and painted green to masquerade as webbing. The third strip is hardly visible, but I'm leaving as is 'cos I don't see me getting any better. (and I must see to those cuticles...) Then in a flurry of activity I fixed the choppy thingy in place along with the glove. The axe was given two brackets to rest on - made from flattened lead wire. I think I need to add a piece of webbing otherwise it could fallout when the Wessi is doing it's aerobatic loops and rolls. Suitably grubby The glove is probably a little bit over scale, but I'm happy enough with the final result. (But I'm not going back to add them to my first Wessi build!) and just as a reminder - here's what the kit would have you put in place - though probably without the dust. I think I made the right decision. 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted October 19, 2017 Share Posted October 19, 2017 Very nice! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted October 19, 2017 Share Posted October 19, 2017 Wunnerful Hendie, asbolutely fabulous 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harley John Posted October 20, 2017 Share Posted October 20, 2017 You've really thrown down the gauntlet to all the glove makers out there. Stunning work, absolutely brilliant. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coneheadff Posted October 20, 2017 Share Posted October 20, 2017 Wow...wow...I'm speechless Stunning!!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
longshanks Posted October 20, 2017 Share Posted October 20, 2017 Cracking artistic micro engineering.... Love it! Kev 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBaron Posted October 20, 2017 Share Posted October 20, 2017 The buildup and colouration of those details has become splendidly diverse hendie. You should feel rightly pleased with how that's tooling along now! Tony 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritag Posted October 20, 2017 Share Posted October 20, 2017 (well you know what I mean and it saves time typing.......) 9 hours ago, hendie said: when the Wessi is doing it's aerobatic loops and rolls. Shortly before breaking the sound barrier and dropping off a satellite in low earth orbit...... 2 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamden Posted October 20, 2017 Share Posted October 20, 2017 Very very nice engineering and workmanship! Stunning attention to detail as always! Roger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Posted October 20, 2017 Share Posted October 20, 2017 Absolutely outstanding details Hendie, as we have come to expect! Since you had a Coke can in the last one, are we to have a leftover sausage roll in this? Ian 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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