A pair of Airfix Hawks in 1/72. Finished.

[Terry1954]

5 hours ago, Fritag said:

Mrs F has only recently deputed me to do an audit of the finances, with a view to being more 'efficient' shall we say.  It may prejudice the moral high ground I anticipate taking following such an audit (how much Rapha and Castelli Cycling kit does a girl need?) if a Silhouette cutter appears in the accounts any time soon........ 

 

Yes, such things can be tricky to justify, it does look good though. Might need to work through my old notes on cost benefit analysis, value of money over time etc.............

 

The latest progress on the frame is looking promising.

 

5 hours ago, Courageous said:

Nice try Terry but my recent purchase of that Dental Vacformer has put a dent into my tool budget, besides I have one of these

for my camo stuff, works too.

Well I had to try didn't I.

 

I recall seeing one of those curly cutter things at Telford a couple of years ago and remember thinking (subsequently), how useful one would be, and now I have deja-vu ..............

 

Terry

 

[Terry1954]

3 minutes ago, rob Lyttle said:

113 pages..... 

114 now 😱

[rob Lyttle]

I think it's time to approach a few specialist publishers..... 

[Terry1954]

5 minutes ago, rob Lyttle said:

I think it's time to approach a few specialist publishers..... 

So you are thinking perhaps something like the complete unabridged works of a Fritag thread, perhaps it could be called "A Tale of Two Hawks"?

 

Or maybe break it down into a series of smaller works?

 

 

[Fritag]

53 minutes ago, rob Lyttle said:

113 pages..... 

There are 2 little critters sitting on my shoulders,  one saying "Wow, this should be a good read" and the other one is saying "No no, just walk away. Don't get involved, it's not worth it. They're all crazy...."

 

Good read? There is some good stuff in here somewhere Rob....but you’ll just have to ignore all my contributions whilst searching........

 

Right.

 

Careful cutting out of the 0.2mm frame mould:

 

 

Left me with this:

 

 

Which is a noticeably finer product than the previous best, 0.3mm effort.  Least ways I think so.  And if you can’t tell which is the latest one then I’ve failed........again....

 

 

And which would I think be useable with just a bit more finessing:

 

 

Had enough of that for now.....And I’m sure you have too.

 

@rob Lyttle I’m afraid that most of the 114 pages are like this - so walk away now - you have been warned.....

 

 

 

 

Edited July 29, 2019 by Fritag

[Terry1954]

4 minutes ago, Fritag said:

And which would I think be useable with just a bit more finessing:

 

Now that is a good evenings productivity. You can safely say your work here is done (almost ...... on this bit ........ for now anyway)

 

Superb job.

 

Terry

[xffw45343tg]

0.2mm? That's, what - 14.4mm scale? Close enough to the real thing, Shirley?

Looks amazing.

 

If you get a moment, can we have a pic of it next to the kit canopy/frame, (which has a scale thickness of about a foot)? Silk purse, meet sow's ear...

[keefr22]

20 minutes ago, Fritag said:

And if you can’t tell which is the latest one then I’ve failed........again....

 

Even my decrepit old eyes can see which it is... cracking job Steve!

 

Keith

[CedB]

I knew you’d get there Steve. 

I would say ‘perfect’ but, as that’s from a kit basher, it has limited credence.

That said, you should buy a Silhouette. My Portrait does what I need it to and they’re hardly an hours work for a Learned Friend  

[giemme]

9 hours ago, Fritag said:

Which is a noticeably finer product than the previous best, 0.3mm effort.

The 0.3mm looked good to me, the 0.2 is just about perfect. And we are judging on macro photos - I know how small this model is in real life, let alone the canopy and its framing ...  

But I know you strive for perfection and will not settle for less ...  

 

 

Ciao

[Ex-FAAWAFU]

I assume you’ll be taking a similar approach for the MDC? To a man of your skills, perhaps in 0.1...

 

Easy peasy.

[keefr22]

52 minutes ago, Ex-FAAWAFU said:

I assume you’ll be taking a similar approach for the MDC? To a man of your skills, perhaps in 0.1...

 

Easy peasy.

 

If he does I hope he'll think about doing a 'small' production run Crisp...!!

 

 @Fritag

 

Keith

[perdu]

I expect he will

 

After solving the paint is thicker than plastic dilemma for painting the inside of the new, perfect frame

 

Maybe black polycard in 0.2...

 

The frame is a marvel Steve

[Fritag]

2 hours ago, Ex-FAAWAFU said:

I assume you’ll be taking a similar approach for the MDC? To a man of your skills, perhaps in 0.1...

 

Easy peasy.

Crisp,  I'm mortified....You seem to have forgotten the culmination of my dabblings with etching......

 

 

Or worse - have decided that such dabblings were inadequate and I have to start again.........

 

Mind you.  The whole Fritag etching saga was a long long time ago........And were none of us getting any younger..... (even Giorgio is now n his 50th year)....

 

Mind - mInd you,  it was a long dabble with etching.....I  did these as well....

 

 

 

And these:

 

 

(although on reflection those ones look more buccaneer like than hawk like....)

 

 

 

[Ex-FAAWAFU]

I confess I had become temporarily unaware* of your stellar PE home brew work, but normal service has now been resumed.  [My post was a joke anyway!]

 

P.S. What had that poor Hawk done to deserve being grilled?  Or did the Fritag Productions’ Branding Team  realise that the word “grille” was subject to copyright?  

 

15 all.  New balls, please.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*My Observer used to say that he was taught during training that he was never “lost”; merely “temporarily unsure of his position”.  On a similar basis, I never “forget”...

Edited July 30, 2019 by Ex-FAAWAFU

[Fritag]

3 minutes ago, Ex-FAAWAFU said:

I confess I had become temporarily unaware* of your stellar PE home brew work, but normal service has now been resumed.

And I seem to be temporarily unaware of of where I've put the bl**dy things - which is a rather more troubling interference of service......... 

 

In the last 24 hours it has come to my attention, via Bill, that I can't remember what colour I painted the cockpit, and now through you Crisp, that I can't remember where I put the etch....

 

The world is falling apart....

7 minutes ago, Ex-FAAWAFU said:

[My post was a joke anyway!]

Taken in such spirit Crisp. [Mine was too]

[Fritag]

19 minutes ago, Ex-FAAWAFU said:

Or did the Fritag Productions’ Branding Team  realise that the word “grille” was subject to copyright?

That was a pre-production photo for the American market 

[perdu]

2 hours ago, Fritag said:

 

(although on reflection those ones look more buccaneer like than hawk like....)

 

2 hours ago, Fritag said:

The world is falling apart....

Fear not Steve old bean, you are correct about the VGs (Buccs Fizzers) so the world is less fragile where you are than where I am at the mo'

 

I have lost the roof/ceiling for the ZA714 Chinook and it is absolutely impossible for it to be anywhere other than within half a metre of where I sit typing this in panic because I have lost it 

 

Crisp may I commend the Fritag Productions etchery for your perusal. Back a piece in this massive missive.

 

(I have been re-reading the thread and am at p35 so far with no etch yet happening but page after page of finest memories from such illuminati as Steve, yourself in particularly fine form may I add and the Lady of Wisbech and the General of Lincolnshire amongst welcome additions from our friends in the warm South, Giorgio and Giorgio

 

And others too numerous...)

[Brandy]

I'm still waiting to see how he glues that etch to the canopy without marking said clear bit.

 

I have beer.

 

No rush.

 

 

Ian

[Fritag]

56 minutes ago, perdu said:

I have lost the roof/ceiling for the ZA714 Chinook and it is absolutely impossible for it to be anywhere other than within half a metre of where I sit typing this in panic because I have lost it 

I trust it has reappeared by the time I sit typing this in avoidance of real life work activities (I had a clinical negligence case conference this morning with a jolly pleasant Professor of Colorectal Surgeon and learned more than I ever thought I needed to know about 'slow transit constipation' and 'defecatory dysfunction' - still it was at least at my 'Learned Friend' hourly rate as Ced has said.....(if we win - otherwise it's for nowt)).

 

My Dad did his national service on 7 squadron (Valiant radar fitter) so I'm pleased your doing a 7 squadron Chinook - assuming you ever find its ceiling.....

 

56 minutes ago, perdu said:

Crisp may I commend the Fritag Productions etchery for your perusal. Back a piece in this massive missive.

And don't forget the riveting section on the HGW positive rivets; to be found on the back of the airframe (you can just see some of them peeking into view on the photo showing the grill grille in situ on my post just above)........Although given that Crisp is the HGW riveting maestro (will we ever see the seaking again....sigh) he probably doesn't need or want reminding of them ever again.....

 

56 minutes ago, perdu said:

(I have been re-reading the thread and am at p35 so far with no etch yet happening but page after page of finest memories from such illuminati as Steve, yourself in particularly fine form may I add and the Lady of Wisbech and the General of Lincolnshire amongst welcome additions from our friends in the warm South, Giorgio and Giorgio

Had anything happened at all by page 35 Bill?  I haven't said somewhere in there what colour I painted the cockpit have I?  You will tell me if you come across it won't you? Of course we were all young then.........

 

38 minutes ago, limeypilot said:

I'm still waiting to see how he glues that etch to the canopy without marking said clear bit.

 

Me too.

 

I used Klear to hold (one hesitates to say glue) my home brew wire MDC against the canopy on the JP5 and I'll start by trying the same here.  As matters stand there is no Plan B.

 

Feel free to perfect a solution for me as you drink your Beer(s) Ian 

 

Edited July 30, 2019 by Fritag

[perdu]

  I'm not reading this again for you young fellermelad, it is all for my own pleasure but yes WHEN I come across the info I will pass it back to dad

 

Looking (searching avidly) the interweb for Hawk canopy details I see MSG cockpit and canopy with black-like arch and some framing*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 *Grey with black arch frame on RAF Hawks

[CedB]

Awww, you guys. Memory fading a bit eh? Or perhaps SWMBO has been 'tidying up'? Mrs B is banned from the man cave for that very reason - I'll lose my own things, thank you  

 

It's posts like this lot that remind me of the three things I like most about BM:

- experiences of life's progress with similarly aged Gentlemen

- our ability to retain our humour in times of adversity and

- er, I've forgotten what the third thing was.

 

(Still) nice PE Steve. Clever.

[Biggles87]

My Mrs B is not allowed in the “ man cave “ either except by invitation, which is usually to find something I’ve dropped. She has younger eyes than me.

 

John

[fatalbert]

I have to say that by the time you have finished,i wouldnt be surprised if you didn't have these two hawks start up and fly around your workshop.Absolutely stunning work.

[Tomoshenko]

Just catching up after a brief alien abduction absence. I know it's been alluded to previously Steve, but why not try a 2d etch version? You've got the kit and expertise, so no harm giving it a go - everything to gain, nothing to lose. I mean what could possibly go wrong....