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  1. Hi Chris & thanks - the foil was off Ferrero Rocher chocolates & has a fine texture to it - I just stuck the wrapper to the sticky side of some aluminum tape to give it a bit of strength & cut it into belt width strips - the tail fold is a big question mark at the momentšŸ¤”- I'll get back to it next week sometime. Chris
  2. Today I thought I would finish off the troop seat by adding the seat belts and the chocolate wrapper/aluminium foil idea worked ok - I added squares of plastic strip along with some etched buckle ends - finished off with a coat of paint - they will now disappear inside the main cabin! I forgot to add that somewhere along the way I added some 5thou sheet to represent the sheet plywood flooring in the main cabin. I spent a few hours studying the photos of a folded Wessex tail trying to work out the shape of the hinges -next step was working out how to make the hinge for the folding tail - I was going to fabricate it from three pieces but in the end decided to make it from one piece of thick brass strip - the shape was then marked out & sawn & filed into a rough approximation of the top main fuselage hinge - slots were cut where the hinges go - the photos below show the progress so far - still needs plenty of work - it will be quite strong if it works out. Chris
  3. Epic build Simon she looks great - a big pat on the back for you & Aligauld for showing us all how. Chris
  4. Thanks Martian, your SH34 & Tracker are amongst my favourite builds here on BM - lovely, neat work & all scratch built! Chris
  5. Hi Alan - I hadn't got that far in planning the hinges but you have started me thinking & initial thoughts are it would have to be cobbled up out of brass to give it the strength to cope with unintended fumbling - I have some Albion Alloys 1.8mm od square brass tube that may be the starting point with hinge brackets soldered up from bits of scrap brass - as far as the drive gears for the tail rotor I was thinking about those packets of mixed watch gears you can buy online. Chris
  6. I managed to get back to the Wessex after a week off - the first thing I thought I would try was the window surrounds & used 5thou plastic sheet as per heloman1's method on the Green Parrot build - also glued the bottom fuselage panel to the port fuselage half with some plastic square tube packing the area between the floor & fuselage bottom. I drilled out the windows and filed them to match the window opening adding some stretched sprue to look like the rubber seal around the window glass. When fitting the window glass to the starboard side I scrapped the area where the window glass seats with a modelling chisel to try & make it sit further out. I then started adding various bits & pieces around the fuselage sides like hendies fuel fillers & cabin doorstop & scratchbuilt defueling outlet drain & cut outs for the cockpit steps. Next, I decided on scratch building the folded tail unit using the kit part as I thought the hollow kit parts would give me a better rendition after the various sections were cut away where the mess covers the openings. I carefully cut off the tail unit & cut out those various openings in the tail - still have to cut out the top rear of the starboard tail half as per the port one - if it doesn't work out, I still have the Rotorcraft folded tail to fall back on. I shaped a section of plastic card to close off the rear of the main fuselage - I will then detail this area with strip, rod etc & then do the same on the matching tail part. I have ordered @hendies latest resin detail set for the Wesssex cockpit & cut away the kit consoles in preparation for them. I am also experimenting with seat belts and stuck some chocolate wrapper to some adhesive aluminium tape which I then cut into a thin strip to see how it looks. The wrapper has a fine texture to it which may be ok under a coat of paint- the texture could possibly be further subdued by burnishing with a toothpick - will see how it goes. . That's it until next time Chris
  7. Thanks Bruce - they are very nice & he is working on seats & consoles for the cockpit now so I'm planning on incorporating those too. Chris
  8. Very nice Gladiator, the rigging looks perfect. Chris
  9. Looking good CC - that RAN scheme really suits the Sea Fury Chris
  10. Your damaged Lynx is looking seriously good - is a bomb-damaged deck diorama in the works? - nice to see the superb little Wasp again. Chris
  11. Great work Alan, I will be queuing up to get the cockpit set when available. Chris
  12. What everyone else has said! - fabulous! Chris
  13. Hi Simon - your Gannet is looking fabulous standing on the landing gear - just one minor thing should the top of the flaps be EDSG? I'm still waiting for this kit to become available in Australia, I was decided on building a wings folded version but looking at yours & AliGauld's wings spread builds I'm undecided again! Chris
  14. Sure was Chris as I could see the bench seat ending up a twisted mess if it went wrong - as it turned out it was straightforward as long as I took care aligning the punch & kept the end sharp. Chris
  15. Great work -love the paint job. Chris
  16. Ok thanks Alan - I don't know anyone who smokes anymore but I saw some similar foil somewhere recently, but it had no paper backing - maybe wrappers on a kind of chocolate? - your belts look very neat in the Whirlwind - I found a French maker a year or so ago called L'Arsenal who made a nice seat belt etch of buckles - not sure if still available Chris
  17. Hi - I found two things I had completely overlooked - firstly I did not model the prominent strapping at the top of the seat back where they attach to the top rail - I had a think about how to remedy this & came up with the idea of making a square punch from Albion Alloys square brass tubes. The end of the tube was sharpened with a file & emery paper - the seat was then placed on the end grain of a block of wood & with the punch lined up I gave it a few taps with a light hammer. I was a bit apprehensive, but the seat came through it without too much damage. The photo below shows the finished seat & the home-made punch in front. I will have to make seat belts from tape & plastic strip to complete the job. The other thing I forgot was to install the two stays from the MRGB into the rear of the transmission bay - I decided to make these from plastic rod as the brass tube was too inflexible & it was fiddly to get them in place. The next job I think will be looking at how to install the cabin windows & then the outside window surrounds - I plan to do these with thin plastic sheet like @heloman1 did on his Green Parrot WIP Chris
  18. Thanks Bill - I randomly grabbed a bottle of XF18 Tamiya blue so thats good to hear it looks used - sometimes you can fluke it. Chris Cheers Chris thank you Chris
  19. Thanks Alan - I must say I cribbed a lot from your Wessex build Chris
  20. Very kind of you CC - thank you - a long way to go yet! Chris
  21. Hi all Today I set out to see if I could scratch build a set of troop seats for the port side of the fuselage - the sizes were all guesstimated from photos & dimensions of the cabin interior. I decided to try using Albion Alloys 0.8mm tube and the matching set of their Connecto range. The tubes were cut to length & the cross shaped connecto were pushed into the tubes & all carefully pinned to a piece of 3ply to hold it all in place for soldering. This was quite a fiddly process but it all seemed to work ok. The frame was then carefully covered with strips of an adhesive aluminium tape - the top rail is not directly connected to the bottom seat frame so the tape was fed from the front of the seat frame up over the top rail where it was stuck to it and was then fed down & under the seat - the front & rear sides of the tape were pressed together & stuck quite firmly. I did not want to push my luck soldering the diagonal braces on the seat legs so added them from sprue glued with CA Gave the seat covering a quick undercoat with some blue grey acrylic to see how it was looking - I did have some seat belts that might suit these troop seats but can't remember where I put them (yet). I popped the seats in the port fuselage half to see how they fit & they sort of look ok - view of them will be pretty limited once the halves are closed up though. that's it for now Chris
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