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I think the rotor blades are going to need drilling and pinning so in anticipation of continuation I have had a look inside the cabin with a view to making it realistic with the doors open. This is what I can make out on the Walk-Arounds, very heavy dark grey, shiny quilting all over. Freixinet (possibly) Prosecco bottle foil has suitably sized quilted surface and has beeen pressed into action Add some more Looks quite suitable to me. Painted with Vallejo Sea Gey with a coat of Humbrol Clear it should do the trick and as a gloss it will bung some light around insde. The floor will be a darker version of Light Sea Grey with additional blue for colour enhancement. As seen here

As always miracles occur.

Well whilst I plot to get the aerials sorted I've been having a butcher's at the Army Lynx pieces I've been donated. The rotor head is not as good as it should be, some of the bits broken some badly stuck together and the rotor head has an arm broken off to one blade, which has needed rectifying. Let's see if something can be done. I put a tiny blob of Humbrol tube glue robbed from a starter set on each end of the break and added a tad of Tamiya Extra Fine to give it a grip and when I lined up both portions I placed them on the upright and taped the pieces for stiffness to it. The rest of the pieces in the kit seem ok so I've been treating the interior to a replica of the very thick sound deadening quilting by pasting the walls with thick plastering of cockpit glue deliberately rippled with a stirrer stick The rear wall is missing but I found one in grey from god knows where in my cupboard that will have to do. 🤔 Once that was done and the rotor glue had dried I took it off the cupboard and set it up to set straight on a scratch jig Which failed as the blades were in the wrong place anyway MORE LATER IF I GET THE THING SORTED

Steve its probable that John is referring to the two seats shown here on one of my old builds It sounds as if these are they.

Thanks Roger, I have been grateful for all your support guys. Just a couple of bits and bobs before this is packed away ready for club on Sunday.

I needed to get a grasp on these nose windows somehow, along with other transparency issues as ever. I filled the apertures with Limino resin uveeyed in place then built up the bulgey bits on a 'spare' Scout Nose left over from experiments last year to make a moulding buck. First attempt by hand was too lame, so lame I am ashamed OK? So I changed tack and cut the nose section off the buck, filled it with Milliput and got down and industrious in the crypt garage And then, after making many copies, use the buck as a trimming device Cut out and trim And stick onto the nose When dry trim to finish If you are a fortunate chap you may have several spares for when you make your next Scout/Wasp... Then add last pieces And put away when completed

In a word. Yes and the hoist. They're uber impressive

(rubby hands together Mr Burns stylee here) Excellent work Dan, smashed it.

Oh well just lookitdat then. I do hope Airfix do us one of these in 1/72ths scale Ali but until they do I am enjoying yours immensely. I look at all the things this kit gives you and then compare them with that old Frog kit I slaved away on, not different planets, different universes at play here and you are making it look tremendous. W o w !

Geez John what a ride mate, but there you are done and dusted (figuratively, so to speak) and riding the bus home. What a crappy ride you have had so far tho', nasty. Hope you went somewhere nice in town for your anniversary, congrats mate. Now where was I ? Ah yes that masking, godblimey I thought I was getting the worst of it but I declare you win, that was awful. And the house, goshagolly looks like the basis of a homeyhorror tale in that shot though it is quite like the house Mrs P grew up in and where we first lived in 1966, we loved it, G's parents home. Dogs look like a fun handful, Sprocket is getting biggy big.

A lovely interior coming along here Chris, very nice indeed. Watching of course.

Well that ties in nicely with my woes with the nose/footwell windows in teenyweeny scale Tony, so nicely it made me forget my manners old chum, sorry. Its wonderful to join in with your processes so well, you teach very well sir. Welcome back amongst us, even if you really had to discuss fuel for your kitchen stove, not sure where you have to pop the turkey for roasting if that was to become an issue for you all though. I like the idea of slotting the kick panel windows into a fixed location, I suppose then you might be able to add the fixing screws afterwards, the damned things are making me wake up with another yet approach to try next... My best approach so far is the little device front screen. Moulded curved piece for the panel with additional bulge courtesy of Limino UV clear resin, hopefully this is going to work, from the outside it looks curvy windowed. Sorry to be intruding but this is my bogey piece in my little build, I'm panicking a tad...

A good picture thanks, yes I think it will be cranked to lower the axle to the deck

Taking stock... These two bits of white plastic took me an hour, if we allow searching essential pictures and designing the bits to make. They will become the ground handling gear that sits on the skids and swivel the wheels down to the ground when the aircraft needs shifting about a bit I dont know how the wheels drop down, maybe @Fozzycould pitch in with his memories about Scout handling days ago, but it looks as if the ground crew had to use a spanner on the big bolt at the front. Who knows? Isnt close up photography vile huh? The model looks fine to my, fairly fading eyesight but show a photo, WOWSER. Disaster The little bulgey front transparency is displaced and not transparent and has awful white outlining, yuck. DO THEM AGAIN BILL..... But at least we can see the skid mounted counterweights which denoted airframes that might carry a missile rig at times, I haven't seen a missile mounted machine photographed without the addition of extra weight on the nose, like these. Also in view, the roof patch fitted when the Ferranti sight isn't and awful windscreen framing, do that again too Bill. When I was looking inside from the starboard side something looked awry Gorblimey the drivers seat has come off its hinges/brackets/attachments Fix that as well Bill, doh... We can have a last look at the chaos, now it begins to look far more than a theory No peace for the wicked, best get on.

A reprieve is in. I have now sourced several (copyrighted)pictures of XW613 in service without the badges on her doors, one including large letters on the nose and smaller ones on the tail. That may become the target, but would need boring black and white flicker paints on the tail rotor... What to do huh?

Hi Nige, since I've decided to make this one I'm trying to decode this picture I am working the image into a decal but frankly you can't really make out the real image on the decal though it would be great to make it real.

Blimey Alan, after making mind boggling transdeck stuff now we have seats that look as if a tiny bloke could use them. Wonderful. Quite understand why you are not dashing ahead with transdecks, cockpit floors and thinner centre consoles, the 1/48 and 1/72 Wessex seems to be entirely out of favour from Italeri. Boo

Before we get into pussycat Lynx there's still mucho detailing for the Scout coming in. I mentioned the placards for maintainers on the tail, here's the Oil Standards decals by each tail rotor gearbox Direct copying from the AP101C for this and the paint Standard marking is for the starboard side only, visible here in three locations on a severely 'vision limited' shot on the fin, the tail boom and just above the footstep. The transfers read DTD5555 with a S underneath... I wonder if it is Scout specific? Anyway I hope to improve on these pictures later, and I have to design or steal unit badge for the port door too, soon. Then I can take a butcher's at the army Lynx...

Is the right answer, just got the nod for Army Lynx then. Cheers

A great approach to your WIP, thanks for doing it this way for us. 👍 An informative method, really enjoying it ta

I've been examining the Lynx kits I've got, they were given to me by a mate, who is not really into helicopters, part started but he's mucked up all of them's rotor systems. No mean feat on the rather wonderful Lynx set up, that. I have decided to mass produce three rotor heads for them. They comprise two RN and one Army machine so it'll be a clean RN one as well as Broadsword's damaged girl and then I can make a decision on which camouflage one to choose. Choose from one Airfix HAS2, similar Fujimi and the Airfix Army one to start me guys. You choose!

T21 thanks but not a problem now, I do regret losing the shop though. The old days are slipping away aren't they.

Accepted with thanks Terry cheers mate. But until the day I still have things to do for the Scout. Mrs P does not understand why I don't take care if I have to drill my table for useable hole devices She doesn't see these, or understand why I have to do it. But after my red lens and the white tail lens vanishing I cant see any alternative choices but to D-I-Y/M And now we have oil pressure in the gearbox and oil in the transmission reservoir sight glass Just a few tidying ups now, vent and pitot at the front and antennae and the SACRU to stick under the tummy Might seriously be tempted by the ground handling wheels though Obviously the bulged side doors need attending to, too. One on and the other to be posed open for general looking around inside.

This is a big thing isn't it. With the Scout approaching a denouement I think I'll bring her forward. Still considering whether to blast her nose off and hack into the cockpit or build her clean she looks like a stylish little lassie. I do have Ex-FAAWAFU's collection of HMS Broadsword's bomb damaged Lynx pictures for further consideration... So much room inside... Thinking time.

I was in a pub in Norwich surrounded by friends, we were discussing modelling and putting the world to rights waiting for delivery of hot pies with mash when I was aware that the conversation I was listening to was not one I had been in. It's possible that Steve, Ced, Giorgio, Terry or John noticed but stout friends and all-round good guys that they are they said not a word when I returned to the chat. Funny old life innit? Now as promised work continues but a drawback has aris. When the Scout hit the pan, so to speak, her Little Lenses both took the impact and Modellingtools.co.uk having vanished sadly, from the ether I wonder if anyone knows of a present day retailer for Little Lenses? Both lenses have it seems vaporised, leaving no trace but for the chrome silver discs that boasted of their once in a lifetime presence. In the interim the front sections of the canopy are relaxing under the benign influence of one of my Berna Clamps. Prayers are as ever welcome.