CJP

Really liking your WIP Dan - interior looking very convincing! Chris

Thanks Alan - I'll post them up here when they arrive Chris.

Thanks guys - hopefully I can do @hendies stuff justice & showcase them for anyone else mulling over buying some of his sets. Chris

I have had a bit over a week away from the modelling desk so getting back into the build today - In the meantime I have ordered some of @hendies Wessex upgrades to incorporate into my Wessex - for anyone in Australia interested, the postage from USA to Oz was about $22USD which is about $33AUD, a lot less than I was expecting. I think I have the internal structure more or less done & sanded between the frames and gave it a touch up with XF14 grey green Acrylic. I managed to knock the port cockpit door frame off so had to do a quick running repair on that. I can't do much more to the transmission bay area until I get @hendies Wessex parts to see what modification is needed to the deck so I turned my attention to the cabin area & made up what looks like a cage/seat unit with a mesh front - I fabricated a rectangular box based on photos in various Wessex walkarounds using Evergreen strip & Eduard brass 4x4 mesh - also made what I assume is an electronics cabinet for the right hand front of the cabin - a coat of paint made it all become part of the background detail. I'm Still mulling over what seating to make for the cabin - either troop bench seat or maybe the ASW operator seats as mentioned earlier by @JohnEllis & @Perdu. Bye for now. CJP

We've been waiting years to get a new kit of the ASW Gannet & now I read tonight that Sword are going to release a 1/48 AEW3 Gannet in April. Chris

A good summary of the differences 71chally - the inner fixed wing break portions look more open, exposing more of the linkages compared to the ASW Gannets - nice photos of it in the BM walkarounds. Chris

Hi Anthony - @xvtonker's ladder looks great the way you finished it and matches your work on the Phantom beautifully. Chris

Filling & sanding the joins/panels seems endless at times but you are almost there - by the way what happened to Neil Young? - different Gannet crew? Chris

Very neat

Magnificent modelling

Thanks for these little build tips along the way Alistair - makes for a very useful reference build for the rest of us. Chris

I've made a little bit more progress on my Wessex & have ordered a couple of @hendies detail sets - I studied the photo below of Wessex N7-216 (WA216) when it was suspended up in the air at the National Maritime Museum in Sydney NSW - it was subsequently moved to the AWM in Canberra (I read online it is in pristine condition) This photo, which I found somewhere on the internet, provides a good view of the Wessex underside & the covered over Sonar well Based on this photo I removed the Sonar well from the kit part & fitted a rectangle of plastic card. I decided that when I get the transmission bay set from @hendie I will display the port side access/work panel in the open position but decided not to open the starboard side as it seems to get a bit fiddly where it has a sliding? panel to accommodate the winch assembly when opened. The panel was cut away from the fuselage side - I referred to the 4Plus book which has a couple of photos of the open work panel & added the framework & a piece of 20 thou plastic sheet to represent the surface I assume the mechanics stand on when doing maintenance. I was not sure how much of the inside of the starboard closed panel will be visible once the transmission assembly was installed & fuselage closed up, so I added some framework just in case making them closer together than my initial pencil lines. Having looked at @hendies HC2 build I suspect the transmission bay deck may have to be hacked around a bit so am waiting to see. Thanks for looking bye for now. CJP

Removing the masking tape is always nail-biting stuff but it seems to have turned out ok for you - you got the curve of the demarcation between EDSG/SKY going up the fin spot on - I don't think I have ever unmasked a model & got it right first time on my models, invariably had to do touch ups & tweaking of the lines - great work. Chris

I did a bit of a clean-up around the frame & then decided to spray a coat of paint to see how it all looks - I picked a Tamiya XF14 a light grey green colour which is something like the interior colour I want - will still experiment with tones & washes to get a well-used look but I am happy with XF14 to start things off. The photo with the cabin on its side is closest to the actual colour on the model. t I ended up cutting a recess for the fire extinguisher as the more I looked at it the more it bugged me. Thanks to @perdu & @Heloman1 I have been investigating incorporating some of @hendies Wessex goodies & have made initial contact with him - meanwhile I have been reading Hendies WIP of a Wessex HC2 - all 84 pages of it - https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234971153-wessex-hc2-a-dauphins-stablemate-520-days-later-its-finished-why-yes-it-is-indeed/ Thats it for now so we will see where I go next with this build. CJP

Lovely job

Great work on the Sea Furies CC - your model display case must be enormous! Chris

Beautiful brushwork on your Beaufighter Chris as usual! - have you decided what's next model on your build list? Chris

Awesome work on those vortex generators Tom they really lift the model - I can appreciate why you did it over a couple of evenings! Chris

Thanks Anthony - really appreciate your comments👍 Chris

Nice little model - water base is impressive

Wow that is impressive! - love your metallic finish.

Thanks, SteveMc those are great photos - I haven't been there for years, do you know if they transferred some of their aircraft to HARS at Albion Park?

Thanks, rodenlee - there are no particular builds I can think of, I just did a search here on BM and found a few builds modellers had done over the years - this is one RAN model that inspired me to start mine. https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235124407-148-ran-sea-venom-faw-21-target-tug/ I didn't find any real problems building it, the tail boom/tailplane alignment was a bit fiddly for me. Other than that, just the usual work putting a limited run kit together & adding what extra detail you want in your model. Chris

Great work Simon - rapidly getting to the point where you gather all of these bits together & assemble them - the EDSG & Sky can't be far off now.

I still don't have this seating business 100% sorted in my head but @perdu that is amazing detail you have done with the ASW operators positions.