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Makes sense - yes there is an outlet there that I missed 😬. This is California Clipper, Pearl Harbor Another unnamed Clipper, Seattle. Same wing unfortunately but the positions seem to be identical for once (sorry picture is in Pinterest so it wont embed): https://i.pinimg.com/474x/89/f4/75/89f475ac6e004f83e8799b9aa3fc3651.jpg FYI the outlets weren't on the prototype Honolulu Clipper before rebuild, but there's no reason to think they weren't on the final production models (this picture isn't embedding either - not my day!): https://static.thisdayinaviation.com/wp-content/uploads/tdia//2017/11/Screen-Shot-2017-11-04-at-07.26.48.jpg

The weird white lines are the curves of the open nacelle access doors. I think that makes it look something inboard of the port inner, but its not visible on any British Clippers. Maybe Roosevelt's had a modification, but I doubt it. What the BOAC clippers did have is some sort of probably brass cap, which is usually not visible in Pan Am clippers, probably painted black. Of course the position varies! The small inlet further back between the engines is on all Clippers, but only ever the port wing. Clearly the two wings had different plumbing.

Also note gun for use on any members of the working class who get within a hundred yards. (And flares.) 😉

Hi JWM, I've checked my photos and I can only see one intake per engine, always just outboard. Just in case this wasnt a typo 🙂

Vaguely related - the BBC have done an article on the importance of Fiji in the development of GPS for air travel. Good read, but bear with me... http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20190303-how-fiji-changed-the-way-we-travel The navigator's desk halfway down is from a Clipper. Most 30s airliners had slightly less room! I have no idea about oil cooler outlets - could the hot air have been retained for heating?

Ancient horrors, unmentionable blasphemies, mutterings of what should not be... But enough about Britmodeller. Wonderful build. I'm still wondering if the guy in the lit tent is wondering where his companion has got to - he has been gone for some time - or if he knows where he has got to...

Just do a google for 'Shoggoth plush'. But brace yourself - some things in this world are best left not seen.

One of these cushions perhaps? (Shoggoth Cushion by MagicWarrior at Society6.com)

Since I called Warspite correctly, I hearby name this the 'some sort of synonym for bravery' class and the next will be HMS Fearless. Or Courageous. Illustrious as a long shot.

Another technique is to dab oven cleaner along the join, it will attack the 'welded' plastic. But it will also make the regular plastic brittle, so you can end up with a jigsaw. Too late now. Nice model though.

Yes he loved having a go at driving, but the passengers dreaded it. Apparently he was a rubbish pilot, the plane crabbed all over the place and made everybody ill.

The wheels are moulded as part of the trolley. Pity we cant see more detail. Just found this build thread, very interesting but in French: http://fighters.forumactif.com/t68738-boeing-314-honolulu-clipper Sacre bleu, he's put the bulb aerial on the centreline - wrong! Oh well...

Here are all the photos I have with a half-decent view of the trolley: I'm sure I've seen a resin kit that included a trolley, and Shapeways have a trolley as part of their 1/1250 model, worth a look?

For general information of future readers - In some photos I've seen, there is a US flag on the top port wing, never on the starboard (that's got the registration of course). The reg is repeated on the port wing underside. The top flag is usually the width of the International Orange visibility stripe and can be 'rigid or 'wavy'. (The tricky thing with Clippers is the great variation of simple elements - wing boots for instance as they got introduced across the fleet, and markings changing in service.) The Lisbon crash (what a sad sight) seems to have a much larger flag, I guess for wartime wear (as you say there aren't many wartime pics). I've never seen a flag on the bottom of the starboard wing, but then again I've never seen the bottom of an obviously wartime Clipper! In the photo above I'm sure both flags are the same orientation, with the stars starboard front (if you rotate the photo you can see the quarters line up). The wing-thing has a darker corner in the same place so yes I think its another flag. And I have a theory about this flag. This clipper may have had peacetime wing flags (they weren't on the earlier planes as built, they appeared later and Capetown was a later B314A). Then the big wartime flags have been added to the floats, with the underwing flag left in the right place but now looking rather lost. Meanwhile the upper surface flag has been repainted in the larger wartime size, and moved inboard at the same time to match the stripe width (there may be a war on, but one has to have standards). Of course its possible the smaller top wing flag was simply left in place as well, in which case it must have looked rather pathetic next to its bigger brother. JW, I'm assuming your internet searches are finding the same pics I did, but I did get some photos off the Foynes Museum site before they put them behind a pay wall. If there's anything you want me to check just ask, or maybe I could bundle up what I have and send the lot?

Glad you haven't fallen into the trap of scribing panel lines - Clippers didnt have any! Flying boats and panel gaps don't mix. For the record the joins were all closely riveted or welded, leaving a slightly raised line. Looks like the tool is working nicely.

I should say I love Roden's kits despite, or maybe because of their idiosyncrasies. They aren't for beginners but then no WW1 kit is (except Airfix's lovely Roland CII Walfische). And the box art is so good!

Well let's hope I've just been unlucky, and abat has some of your decals. I got mine - from several kits - to work (just) by using very hot water and an extra hot solvent. I've got an Albatross W4 on the bench with full lozenge, so fingers crossed.

Bit strong. I built my Camels last year and I don't mean the decals shatter - I mean they won't come off the sheet, then won't stick, and then won't settle down with any solution I threw at them. Frankly they looked great on the sheet but were very difficult to work with.

Have you built Roden before? They are slightly... challenging. In particular, the decals look lovely and just don't work, and the cockpit looks lovely but saying it doesn't fit doesn't do it justice. Its clearly intended for a different aircraft or separate display, you have to hack it to bits to get it in. Some sort of jig is essential for the wings and struts. But the result is very good if you put the effort in.

Treat yourself - if that's the right word - to some of the works of the eldritch master. Mountains of Madness is good place to start, or The Call of Cthulhu. There are some good audio book versions on Youtube to help the modelling hours pass. And don't worry about the sanity thing, that's quite... normal.

I did exactly this on an Albatross seaplane - the fuselage join would have been very noticeable but creating a false floor from thin plasticard also allowed me to do all the pedals, wires etc much more easily, then dropped the lot in as a unit and hid the join at a panel line. OK, so the floor is now 0.25mm too shallow but you'd never know. Worked beautifully!

On a warships forum long ago, a member announced his wife had got two kittens and asked for naming suggestions. We suggested Nimitz and Doenitz as they had destroyed more ships than anybody else. He got the point. Good luck with the restoration!

Hi JWM, I remember you talking of buying this vacu-form in my Boeing 314 thread in the seaplanes and flying boats group build. i hope my trials and tribulations come in useful. Bravo for taking on the interior!

Engines got swapped depending on what was available and what needed servicing, so I wouldn't lose sleep over the number of cylinders. Looks good so far!

Here's a thought - the end of Tornado ops means that almost certainly the RAF will never have another bomber - everything from now on will be UAV or multi-role Fighter-Bomber types. Unless we decide to buy some Raiders?