NAVY870 Posted October 31, 2016 Author Share Posted October 31, 2016 19 hours ago, Miggers said: How many of those lurking in that hanger are take outside and start upable Steve?. Good work on that 'pit indeedy. As is nowt. The Venom needs a set of HEIU's before she'll start, the HV caps in the old ones have dried out and died. Meteor needs some TLC and it will go as will the Wirraway and Bell 47. The Firebox needs the cams looking at and all the flexible lines in the cooling system changed but given its rarity and historical significance I would be reluctant to give her a kick in the guts, even though the chance to ground run a Firebox again is very tempting. The Sea Fury may be a goer but its a sleeve valve and I know better than that! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NAVY870 Posted October 31, 2016 Author Share Posted October 31, 2016 20 hours ago, Martian Hale said: and a promised bonkers build to do post Telford. Oh look, somebody else mentioned they are going to Telford and muggins here misses out again. If anybody wants me I'll be sulking in my office Or maybe this one Or p'raps my Nowra residence 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted October 31, 2016 Share Posted October 31, 2016 I thought it was the Poms that were supposed to do the whinging! Why not try and get over next year? Gill and I can help with accommodation booking and put you up pre and post show for a bit. There are some cracking aviation museums within an easy drive of us including the Fleet Air Arm museum which would be right up your street. (Genuine invite) In the meantime, stop moaning and get on with the build. Martian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NAVY870 Posted November 29, 2016 Author Share Posted November 29, 2016 So after a month of not posting any progress I'll have to come clean and admit to doing slightly south of sod all. To make matters worse I'm going to have to put this and a few other projects on hold for some time (don't nobody tell Frank!) But Dear readers I have a hopefully acceptable excuse that will excuse me from public humiliation and floggings. The opportunity to aquire two somewhat shop soiled airframes has arisen and will allow WZ.897 to become a complete possibly functioning aeroplane once again. However I'm on a time limit to get the things moved and that will be taking up a lot of my time. Photo's will of course be posted. Some very good news re WZ.895 may be forthcoming in the near future as well. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyverns4 Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 Well, that sounds like a vaguely acceptable reason to stop the humiliation, but I thought everybody likes a good flogging I also agree with Martian; separate builds with comparison pictures! (Lots!) Christian, exiled further south 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 I suppose we can let you off for just a little while as long as you post pictures of the real aircraft you are getting. Not too long though or we shall have to get Danni on to you. Scary enough? Martian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentwaters81tfw Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 Any excuse to play with his toys rather than do some REAL work. I suppose we might let you take a sabbatical considering they are Venom bits you are nicking. We will be expecting a fully detailed report, and you will need to catch up in your own time. Unpaid, of course. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NAVY870 Posted January 5, 2017 Author Share Posted January 5, 2017 Amazing what you find under trees One reasonably complete set of Sea Venom inner wings, these will be following me home soonish and will be going onto 897 after a spot of cleaning and painting. Remember the instrument panel that appeared earlier in the thread? It looked like this when I first got it All done and ready to go back where it belongs (and yes it all works) 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentwaters81tfw Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Pump up the tyres, and some T-Cut - good as new. You are lucky with the dry climate. Anything like that over here would be corroded to hell. Looks like they will be a BIG step forward for 897. That panel looks the dogs too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 A wonderful restoration job on that IP Steve! Martian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejboyd5 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 Don't miss the video on the H.P. Victor that comes after the one on the Scimitar and Sea Venom. Wonderful films of an era that we will never see again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
71chally Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 Very nice panel restoration. I hadn't realised the Sea Venom used the Plastec illumintaed overlay like the Sea Vixen panel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NAVY870 Posted January 8, 2017 Author Share Posted January 8, 2017 Rolled the wings over preparing for transport only to discover they had been removed with an angle grinder. Because the way the wing is built it would require a respar to repair. Nice bit of preservation work there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentwaters81tfw Posted January 8, 2017 Share Posted January 8, 2017 Bit of Bondo and a length of bamboo, and the job's good'un. Next question, do you have another spar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 Bugger and I mean that in the most peed off way Spar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navy Bird Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 Crap - lousy news on the inner wings. Can you laminate a couple million sheets of 10 thou styrene to make a new spar? As others have stated, that IP is the dog's whatsnots. If only mine looked like that in 1:72 scale... Cheers, Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Headroom Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 Ouch! As this won't be a flyer, can a non standard 'botch-up' be done with strengthening plates, so that externally it looks pukka? Trevor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBaron Posted January 9, 2017 Share Posted January 9, 2017 Beautiful IP Steve. Sorry news on those wings however. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NAVY870 Posted April 30, 2017 Author Share Posted April 30, 2017 Little bit of a twilight zone moment today. This model is of WZ.897 (Obviously) from a kit that featured another RAN Sea Venom WZ.902. Today whilst sorting parts I've been putting aside all the bits I think 897 will need when I finally get a set of wings built for her. 3 of the parts I grabbed were 2 lower wing attachment covers and a cover for the canopy gun, gave them a quick once over and that was that. Later for some unknown reason I had a look to see what aircraft they had come from. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentwaters81tfw Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 So presumably that pile of bits you dug out of the Bush is what's left of 902? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NAVY870 Posted April 30, 2017 Author Share Posted April 30, 2017 15 minutes ago, bentwaters81tfw said: So presumably that pile of bits you dug out of the Bush is what's left of 902? The two I got out of the bush cant be named until ownership is sorted. The bits from 902 were obtained by the Museum founders from the Simmsmetal scrap yard in 1967 before it and its kin were scrapped Interestingly we have bits from WZ.906 that featured in the original Frog kit and the Revell release of the Matchbox kit. So when all this lot is finished the complete aircraft will be the one featured in the Classic Airframe's kit with the wings and rear end of the aircraft featured in Southern Skies latest decal sheet with sundry components from aircraft featured in the Frog Novo CMR and Revell kits. Not sure if there's some cosmic significance there or somebody taking the mick! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBaron Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 This has to be the only build I've followed that started as a kit and turned into the real aircraft after a few pages! Tony PS. That's not a complaint either.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentwaters81tfw Posted April 30, 2017 Share Posted April 30, 2017 I think it's more of a scratchbuild on both counts. Steve's gonna be busy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Russell Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 I hope @NAVY870 gets back into this as it looks interesting. Lots of people like the old kit and would like to know how to do it properly. Like this one........... http://www.aussiemodeller.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14960 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentwaters81tfw Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 Well he's got 7 weeks off the day job, so we'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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