keefr22 Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 2 hours ago, Ex-FAAWAFU said: And from the nose: That is just superb! Keith 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 That interior is looking excellent Crisp. You've really made a nice tidy job of getting all that PE in there and making it look realistic. I'm positive that amount of would have driven me to distraction. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 12 hours ago, Ex-FAAWAFU said: No pressure, then, guys! None at all Crisp, you may proceed. Seriously though, this is turning into a very fine tribute to your father. Martian 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBaron Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 12 hours ago, Pete in Lincs said: Are these of any use to you, Crisp? http://retrowar.tumblr.com/post/167841672050/supermarine-walrus Am I alone in wanting to see Crisp go for a dangling Shagbat motif after seeing that? Nice image Pete. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted November 25, 2017 Author Share Posted November 25, 2017 Not happening on this build, that’s for sure - not with one wing folded! Besides, Dad’s Walrus career was strictly land-based. More likely than dangling is a future - poss pre-War? - Walrus on a scratch-built catapult. But who knows...? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted November 25, 2017 Author Share Posted November 25, 2017 Not much done today, cos I am busy with a concert this evening. Since this is a tribute to my Dad at RNAS Arbroath, I decided his chart table looked a bit bare, so I have added a map for him: It was actually an image of part of a genuine 1944 aeronautical chart of the Eastern Highlands, with the part on show being Arbroath. It took a bit of finding, but for people looking for images of wartime maps, I recommend these guys: http://digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca/islandora/object/macrepo%3A75556 I am now going to see how convincing I can make a 1/48 Bigsworth Board look (at least, the brass bits): Could be doable, I think... More tomorrow Crisp 10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 9 minutes ago, Ex-FAAWAFU said: so I have added a map for him: I've often wondered about this - would people have got in trouble leaving their maps in aircraft during wartime? I realise that this one being a navigational chart it's doubtful it would be classified, but when people leave representations of target maps in Lancasters and the like, I do think that would have been frowned upon at the very least! So I just wonder if it would have been trained as good practice not to leave any map in the aircraft? Keith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 18 minutes ago, Ex-FAAWAFU said: Could be doable, I think... In your hands Crisp, eminently so...!! Keith 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted November 25, 2017 Author Share Posted November 25, 2017 (edited) 1 hour ago, keefr22 said: I've often wondered about this - would people have got in trouble leaving their maps in aircraft during wartime? I realise that this one being a navigational chart it's doubtful it would be classified, but when people leave representations of target maps in Lancasters and the like, I do think that would have been frowned upon at the very least! So I just wonder if it would have been trained as good practice not to leave any map in the aircraft? Keith Almost certainly, yes; even setting aside security (not a huge issue with a 1:250,000 of Eastern Scotland with no tactical overlay, you’d think), on a training squadron with no doubt several trips in a given airframe on a given day, I suspect your Instructor would give you a hard time for leaving your gear strewn around the back. But I have to be allowed some artistic license! [Edit: on the other hand, it’s pretty standard practice - certainly in modern times - to have a local area map, marked up with all local danger areas, spot heights etc., live in each aircraft. You often see it tucked down the side of a windscreen, for instance. Yes, for the pilot not the Looker, but I refer the Honourabie Gentleman to my previous reply concerning artistic license!] Edited November 25, 2017 by Ex-FAAWAFU 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard E Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 8 hours ago, Ex-FAAWAFU said: More likely than dangling is a future - poss pre-War? - Walrus on a scratch-built catapult. But who knows...? We can only live in hope, and expectation. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 1 hour ago, Ex-FAAWAFU said: You often see it tucked down the side of a windscreen, for instance. Yep, fully agree. In peacetime.... Artistic licence excuse accepted. K 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJP Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 Fabulous work on the interior - all of that work with the etches turned out very nicely CJP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted November 25, 2017 Author Share Posted November 25, 2017 (edited) 1 hour ago, keefr22 said: Yep, fully agree. In peacetime.... I think if the Germans had captured my Dad’s 2nd Line Walrus in 1944, the intelligence gain would have been precisely nil. And definitely not a Quarter Mill map of the approaches to Dundee! Incidentally, I rather doubt that 751 would routinely have left their aircraft with one wing spread and one folded. I hope that’s not going to disturb you too much, Keith ;-) Edited November 25, 2017 by Ex-FAAWAFU 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 9 minutes ago, Ex-FAAWAFU said: I hope that’s not going to disturb you too much, It'll probably give me nightmares....!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard E Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 15 minutes ago, Ex-FAAWAFU said: Incidentally, I rather doubt that 751 would routinely have left their aircraft with one wing spread and one folded. I hope that’s not going to disturb you too much, Keith ;-) 5 minutes ago, keefr22 said: It'll probably give me nightmares....!! To give @keefr22 an uninterrupted night's sleep, could you display it with a couple of ground crew types about to spread/fold (delete as appropriate) the other wing ? 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted November 26, 2017 Author Share Posted November 26, 2017 Tell you what; you find some good quality 1/48 RN ground crew... ...and I’ll definitely use them. In a different build. 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted November 26, 2017 Author Share Posted November 26, 2017 (edited) Hmm. Some unused (and never will be, because I have some better ones from a different source) FlightPath Sea King windscreen wipers, adapted by removing the wiper blades... I think this could work. Off to see whether I can find a suitable compass-y "dial" in my stock of Airscale transfers, just to tip it a little further over that little edge of insanity... More soon Crisp Edit: I knew Peter wouldn't let me down! Edited November 26, 2017 by Ex-FAAWAFU 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 Excellent! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corsaircorp Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 18 hours ago, Ex-FAAWAFU said: Not much done today, cos I am busy with a concert this evening. Since this is a tribute to my Dad at RNAS Arbroath, I decided his chart table looked a bit bare, so I have added a map for him: It was actually an image of part of a genuine 1944 aeronautical chart of the Eastern Highlands, with the part on show being Arbroath. It took a bit of finding, but for people looking for images of wartime maps, I recommend these guys: http://digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca/islandora/object/macrepo%3A75556 I am now going to see how convincing I can make a 1/48 Bigsworth Board look (at least, the brass bits): Could be doable, I think... More tomorrow Crisp Aî Caramba !! Why did I see that !! start the thing tonight !! Raaaaah sincerely. CC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bryanm Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 This could be just the thing for a dull, cold Sunday afternoon (except that it absorbs modelling time)...... http://www.seawings.co.uk/images/manuals/Walrus Manual/Supermarine Walrus Mk.I & II Manual-(Redu-v5).pdf Many thanks to splendid Seawings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted November 26, 2017 Author Share Posted November 26, 2017 Ooh! Thanks, Bryan - I'd missed that! Bigsworth fitted: I'm pleased with that! Laters Crisp 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 56 minutes ago, Ex-FAAWAFU said: I'm pleased with that! Every right to be Crisp, it looks like it was designed for the job! Great out of the box thinking! Keith 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harley John Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 19 hours ago, Ex-FAAWAFU said: And definitely not a Quarter Mill map of the approaches to Dundee! Or better known as the escape routes from Dundee as any good Aberdonian will tell you, the only good thing to come out of Dundee is the road out of there! Lovely work with the table and a nice wee tribute to your Dad, artistic licence or not. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 The Bigsworth board is a work of art in it's own right. I am very much getting the impression that this is a labour of love for you. As to tipping over the edge of insanity, I seem to remember a certain former FAA pilot of this parish saying that I was mad at Telford, looks like you are not that far behind, indeed, what will Crisp be wearing for SMW 2018 we all ask? Martian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimea River Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 Just spent the last hour catching up on this build. What a wonderful job you are doing so far! Makes me want to get rid of my stash and start fresh with these new Airfix offerings. I will continue to follow along with interest. Andy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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