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Redshift

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  1. I vote against lights, purely on the basis of Steve taking forever and a dy to get anything done! The build is looking good, keep going and ignore the heckling from the back row.
  2. Starting to look pretty good. Whats the plan for details like lifeboats , winches and railings etc.? You going to get some photoetch or carry on carving?
  3. Thanks everyone for the kind words Personally, I find that with a plastic kit I take something nearly perfect, like a Tamiya kit, then proceed to muck it up with ham fisted glueing and painting that would loo bad in a primary school class, whereas taking a lump of wood and finding the aircraft within feels like I'm making more than the sum of the parts. This is why I visit this forum, to watch the experts make the plastic models properly, and to read Bandsaw Steve's latest excuses for not finishing his avro! 😛
  4. Hello you, and a belated welcome to 2019. Here is a quicky I did in the post Christmas blues, a Mozzie carved from wood and camouflaged with wood stain. Its a bit of a mishmash, its supposed to be the cannon armed fighter, but the cockpit and exhaust blisters are from the MkIV bomber and the Brownings are too high in the nose. Still, it kept me out of the wife's way for a couple of weeks so it's all good. Enjoy.
  5. Me likey. But where do the wings and wheels go?
  6. Hiya Steve My next project started then fizzled out pretty quickly. It was going to be Fangio's Mercedes Benz W196, but I lost interest, probably too similar to the Aston. I'm going to be spending some time away from cars, planes and boats and looking at doing some proper woodcarving, birds and celtic knots and the like. I'll be back at some point with something more suitable. Keep going with the Avro, its starting to look pretty damn good.
  7. Thanks all Steve, what mark of xfjygesjigt is it? I may be considering building an early one with the retrograde percussion flange.
  8. Here is my 1/20(ish) scratchbuilt carving of a 1956 Aston Martin DBR1. Carved from Lime finished with Danish Oil, with a few plastic and metal bits and pieces for the wheels. Took about a month, with a week of that waiting for the oil to dry. Thanks for looking
  9. Well, the past two weeks have mostly been spent waiting for danish oil to dry. Nearly there now, just need to carve and colour the dashboard, get some clear plastic to stay windshield shaped long enough for the glue to set, and I need to remember where I left the steering wheel.
  10. I chickened out of using screws for cylinders as I thought helical cooling fins would look odd. I was clearly wrong as this will look spot on once painted. Good job.
  11. That may have been the book I remember, or it may have been "the green helmet" by jon cleary. Memory aint what it used to be...
  12. Got a bit further today, starting to look not too shabby.
  13. Aw shucks, thanks guys. I'm just making it up as I go along, there is no real plan to all this.
  14. Err... "hub", "spokes"? I think you're working on the wrong bit. You want the whirry spinny thing in the nose, not the trundly bits under the fuselage.
  15. A tyre-ing mornings work: No putting it off any more, I need to think about seats and things
  16. Can't believe its taken me this long to find this build. This is staggering stuff, proper micro-engineering.
  17. Thanks Frank. I can't claim credit for the wheel making technique, I found a you tube video that showed how easy it was. I think 1/20 is about the biggest scale you can get away with fishing line, bigger than this and the lack of hub details and spoke nipples would show.
  18. No, I can't bring myself to do that. Invisible mending will have to come to the rescue. There, I fixed it!
  19. Disaster has stuck! Or rather cack handed clumsiness has finally appeared. While enlarging the rear wheel arches I took too much out of the upper part so when viewed from above there is a noticeable notch in the outline. Bumholes. guess i'll have to graft in a block of wood, or take off the whole rear wing. This iswhere slathering everything in epoxy filler sounds like a good idea.
  20. Right, ignoring the antipodean heckling from the cheap seats, here is the result of todays hacking
  21. Yes, the corgi cars are very realistic these days.
  22. May I recommend searching on the RM Sothebys auction site , they sold a dbr1 for 22 mil last year and have some very high res walkaround pictures on the site, I found them very useful
  23. Take a nail, two ball ends from guitar strings, some 22mm plumbing pipe plus fittings, the inner from a bic biro and some 4lb fishing wire. First, make a jig Then weave some magic and spray silver Stick that in yer bandsaw and smoke it!
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