Olmec Head
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Yes but please remember that is blades only with no spinner. Just to say thank to Ant for very kindly helping me out. -
Sorry Mike my bad, but to be fair I was originally looking for advice on how to make a new part for the one I lost, but Ant very kindly offered a replacement.
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Thanks Graham, I was beginning to suspect that when I was looking at the blades in the plastic. Ho Hum. Should have sold it on eBay.
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Thanks I hadn't really thought it through! That said I have 2 spare sets of blades I could use (from 2 Spit 22 kits) - could that work please?
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Thanks both, I did look at the Barracuda set , but the Seafire 47 improvement set is blades only, I thought. My current bodge plan is to use another Airfix Spitfire 22 spinner and blades (plus an extra blade) cut the spinner in two and use both bits to make the contra prop. I did find a Britmodeller post where @steh2o asked about the Seafire / Spitfire Griffon contra prop in general and he worked out the spinner to be 34.5 inches in length. The Seafire kit was only £5 second hand and was meant to be a fun build, so I am not going mad on it, in fact its going so badly that its now going down the slope to final warning before being broken with a heavy hammer!
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Thanks Bob, I have a feeling that the sprue went with my Mig 29 Ghost of Kyiv when I threw out all the old sprues when I completed that model. How you will ask? I put both kits in one old Eduard box as the ICM box was useless and my second hand Seafire was in jiffy bag. I started to build both together and I assume the prop sprue went into the bin inadvertently. It doesn't help to move my kits from the garage to build them in the kitchen and back. I have now lost one of the under wing tanks although it was in a zip bag and taped to the box. I am having doubts about this kit built. I now wish I had reboxed it and put it on eBay. I did look at a US supplier who did a 3D print of a Seafire contraprop in 1/48, that would have been ideal, but a £9 item became £24 with VAT and shipping. An expensive addition to a £5 kit.
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Spitfire/ SeaFire Contra Rotating Prop Dimensions Having just lost my contra prop sprue from an old Airfix FR47, I am looking at how to try to make one from scratch in 1/48. Does anyone have the plans or dimensions of the griffon contra prop so I can look at how to make one up.
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Thanks for the quick response Ant, a month's rain in Wales could get interesting, hopefully your model stash won't float past the window. Richard
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I managed to get a cheap Airfix 1/48 Seafire kit at the Lincs IPMS show. That's the good thing. I started to build it over Christmas and I have realised that I lost the complete contra rotating prop sprue. Worst this also has the original single prop parts on it as well, so I have no prop at all . And Airfix no longer have spares and no one seems to does after market complete contra props, only improvement blades for the Airfix kit.. What I do have is other griffon single prop parts, so I was thinking about how I could use the spinner and 6 blades to do the contra prop. Does anyone have any advice please or measurements for the contra prop and the single prop type. Simplistically I am thinking of using a F22 spinner with three holes for the front and then shaped plastic or wood for the back part and three blades. I am not equipped with mini lathes, 3 d printing or even a Dremel thing, so any practical advice would be most appreciated. Other wise its a scrapped FR 47 with no prop for the Entropy GB or a Spitfire 22 with folding FR47 wings!
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Thanks very much for the pictures, they are ideal in showing the under nav lights. It is a surprise that Airfix did not put the detail, but they also seemed to miss the radio and struts behind the cockpit. Unfortunately, I have now done my model and I dare not tempt fate by trying to fix the light in post build.
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Thanks J-W, I found the referred post most useful.
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Sadly I think in a variation of imperial and metric as I was at primary school for the crossover.
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Modeldecal decals... functional despite age?
Olmec Head replied to Peter Lloyd's topic in Aircraft WWII
I have used some inherited from my father when I found them in his loft from the 80s and 90s. They still worked. The only issue I have found on other old decal/transfer sheets is to soak the decal and remove from the paper backing and then wash any old glue from the reverse side. I used Future to stick the transfers. -
Thank you all for the suggestions, I'll have to think about how to do it in an organised way or I could stick with relying on serendipitous luck as I currently do.
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Thanks Chuck, all good ideas to mull over.
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Thanks Troy, It is the answer to a question I have always wanted to ask about the wing strips and excellent pictures as well.
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Can posts be pinned for future reference please? I keep trying to remember interesting or useful posts and it would be ideal to pin them to a personal folder if possible.
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Thanks Troy that makes sense, for fabric wing would these be wood or metal just out of interest, possible proper colour as well?
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Thanks again @AndyL, your eyesight must be good to spot the light fittings. I trawled through photos without spotting anything. I do like the loose fitment as well! Now I'll have to drill a hole in the nearly finished model and bodge the lamp. What could go wrong. From your in-flight photo, I notice the wing 'strips' are differently coloured to the camouflage, I have also noticed this on early Hurricanes.
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Thanks Junchan, it makes sense that the light was fitted for the MkII, however the walkabout photos were from N1671 which was a MkI. That is why I thought it may be retrofitted later. But the below posts suggest it was an original fit.
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Thanks Troy.
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I was just looking at a walkaround of the RAF Museum Defiant and noticed it has an Amber nav light under fuselage just in front of the gunner escape hatch. As I am trying to finish my 1/48 Airfix Defiant as a BoB era aircraft, I am perplexed as the model has no such light. Did Airfix forget it or was it a later addition for the night fighter role? Any help would be welcomed as it is a biggish detail to get wrong either way.
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I looked at the Ducimus book on Box Art Den, what I have just realised is that the factory diagram is that the roundel is further foward compared to a BoB era Defiant.
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Thanks Andy, That photo is ideal, its interesting how the 'E' is slightly over the turret ring, I was going to put below the 'bulge'. Its great to see a picture of a contemporary aircraft of the squadron it gives me some better ideas on the finish and markings etc. Now only if it was the starboard side to confirm the code placements, but from the sizes on this photo, I think I can go with the sqn code letters to the rear and the individual code letter to the front as per the original photo posted by 303Sqn.
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Thanks Graham, I am going to start very technically measuring my xtradecal sqn code sheets against the roundel to find the best fit.
