1/72 Hasegawa MV-22B Osprey

[Nigel Heath]

Now you are putting me to shame. I will have another think about it.

[Pete in Lincs]

That interior, Is it part of

the set for Prometheus 2?

I think the prop people went overboard.

This bridge, Apparently it spans the river Froth?

Is it sponsored by Fairy Liquid?

At least it'll be clean when dismantled.

No use here, We got Camels across the desert.

[perdu]

Hey Nigel

It is YOUR model remember, do what you like

It will be blooming good when it's detailed according to plan A

Trust Pete to pick up on my misprint

I meant the River Thorf of course, bridge still available to the right potential owner naturally

[Pete in Lincs]

Will you take Airfix flying hours for it?

[Mark Turk]

I don't really do OOB builds do I? Trying to fabricate an interior for this beast would make the build three or four times more complex and about that much longer in build time. I don't really think I need to go there. I will still see what the Eduard PE offers up though and demands in terms of interior construction.

Bye for now,

Nigel

Ever since Admin banned the cheerleaders and cooking displays, the only thing left to salivate over is the excellent scratch building. Speaking for the lurkers and kibbitzers, I'd love to see you take a stab at the interior.

Mark

Edited November 12, 2014 by Mark Turk

[Nigel Heath]

Right ho chaps, now my B&V 194 thingumybob is finished I am getting back to grips with this build. The first thing I did was have a comprehensive desktop tidy up, my old cutting mat had developed these odd undulations for no particular reason that I could fathom. So I had treated myself to a new, bigger cutting mat purchased at Telford:

Backtracking slightly, the Eduard PE set arrived about a week ago:

It looks like a very comprehensive set:

and includes some pre-painted parts:

Getting back to the present day, I think one of the first things I want to do is open up the side door and see how much of the aft cabin will actually be visible through it. At Telford I purchased a few specialised tools with this task in mind, the first of which was this PE saw set:

This is the door that needs to be cut out:

I don't think the Eduard instructions have it quite right, from the BM walkaround I confirmed this was the case:



I have not done anything like this before so I thought it was best to practice on an old fuselage section first using Dymo tape as guides:

The PE saw soon got through the plastic at the centre of the cut:

The next new weapon in my arsenal was this PE fret saw:

I then spent the next hour cutting out and assembling the blooming thing:

That done about two or three strokes with my new saw and the job was done (I did of course have to reverse the blade to complete the cut):

Here is the finished cut:

I think that looks quite good, I will do the job propper tomorrow.

Bye for now,

Nigel

[hendie]

nice to see this back on track Nigel

[Harry Lime]

Let me just get this straight. An hour? Making a saw?

Clearly the lack of daylight in these northern climes is getting to you Nigel!

Mark.

[Col.]

Let me just get this straight. An hour? Making a saw?

Clearly the lack of daylight in these northern climes is getting to you Nigel!

Mark.

Think we need to get Nigel out of the house more lads

Seriously though, this is shaping up to be another master build, knew you couldn't leave that interior alone

[Nigel Heath]

Let me just get this straight. An hour? Making a saw?

I kid you not, it was like a mini kit in itself. The photoetch was made out of thick and tough stainless steel and it needed cutting out, cleaning up and bending in places, it took ages.

I am not making any promises about the interior, I might just do the bit inside the side door.

[Duncan B]

I saw a heap of these things flying around San Diego a couple of years ago, weird things! Go on get that interior sorted out, you've got the tools now (that should keep him safely out of harms way for a while ).

Anyway about this Bridge you have for sale, didn't we sell this last year (just about the time you went AWOL for a month)?

DB

[Col.]

I saw a heap of these things flying around San Diego a couple of years ago, weird things! Go on get that interior sorted out, you've got the tools now (that should keep him safely out of harms way for a while ).

Anyway about this Bridge you have for sale, didn't we sell this last year (just about the time you went AWOL for a month)?

DB

You do of course realise this will turn into another Banana build with the knock-on effect of thwarting any chances you have in subsequent competitions?

[Pete in Lincs]

A blue cutting mat?

Heresy!

I remember when they were all green mumble mumble

[fallmonk]

Looks amazing so far Nigel, will really need to keep a eye on this !

[kev67]

That blue mat is to tidy

[Tomoshenko]

Good start. Looking forward to this, and I like all those cutting gizmos.

As for the extra detailing, it would be very challenging indeed...I think Kev67 is right though, your mat is too tidy - it needs to be strewn with bits of etch, wire and other part-assembled scratch built thingybobs. At least give us a fire extinguisher...

[Harry Lime]

Think we need to get Nigel out of the house more lads

Yes, I think we do. Not that we really need an excuse for a curry and beer!

Mark.

[milktrip]

I wish I bought that saw set too but didn't see it. I did use my RB buck saw that I purchased from Telford (after seeing your purchase) when removing the doors on my AB204. Great tool and I can vouch that it is like a mini kit all on its own.

[Nigel Heath]

A blue cutting mat?

Well Jorgen's is blue and I am hoping a bit of that Swedish magic will rub off on my efforts

Cutting mat too tidy? Well I do apologise for that. Of course it did not last, this is what it looked like when I sat down to start work tonight:

I think I need to have a tidy up.

[Tomoshenko]

That's more like it

[Mark Turk]

After the banana build, this should be a snap.

http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/53182-what-if-us-coast-guard-hv22-osprey/page-2

http://cdn-www.airliners.net/aviation-photos/photos/4/7/3/1603374.jpg

Mark

[georgeusa]

Now that is what a proper working mat should look like. Except it has no paint stains on it yet; can you spill a bit on there tonight?

[Nigel Heath]

I did look at that build of the Italeri Osprey before as part of my researchings, nice work but he never seemed to have finished it and does not appear to have posted anything for over a year. You are a hard taskmaster Mark and I am still thinking about it.

Except it has no paint stains on it yet; can you spill a bit on there tonight?

To please you I will of course do my best. My best spills are usually done with superglue.

[perdu]

Seeing your etchytoolkit reminds me where just a wee chunk of my Telford money went

I bought one of his etchy rivettaters to practise rerivetting with

I'm not very good with it yet, the 'spots' seem too long and thin to replicate rivets but the guy advised me that I would get the hang of it with practise

I 'saw' the saws and was tempted, still only eleven and a half months to the next SMW

Memo to bill, take extra cash next time, the saws look better than the rivetters

Edited November 24, 2014 by perdu

[Nigel Heath]

This is the set up I used to make the first cut out for the side door:

The plastic seemed to be much thicker than on my test go on the Spitfire fuselage and it took a while.

To complete the cut I did not need to use my new micro fret saw, there was this thin, tapered saw to do the job:

I really purchased the thin fret saw to deal with the radiused corners of the door. We will have to see how that goes.

After the first cut was done I decided to check the thickness of the PE saw blades, it turned out to be 0.25mm. Of course the actual cuts will be slightly wider than this:

This is how the first two cuts looked:

Five more cuts to go. I have a committee meeting tomorrow and will be away on business until Thursday so this is as far as I will get for a while.

Anyway, thanks for watching, bye for now,

Nigel