AdrianMF Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 Nice scratch building! I'm never sure about casting resin parts unless I'm sure I'm going to do more than one. But I guess you have the insurance of being able to make another one easily if the first one goes pear-shaped. The Matchbox kit seems a much better start for the interior than the Frog kit because you get the basic walls and celinig. Regards, Adrian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomoshenko Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 I's likes it Bill, all that scratch building and casting. Really breathing life into the old kit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted November 28, 2016 Author Share Posted November 28, 2016 Cheers chaps, I like to make a casting because I'm likely to make a Horlix of at least one before I get it right Then like now if I dont (yet) its only cost me a few bob so far And I can still fall back on another if I needs to Does anyone have a picture of the full canvas screen that sits round the dunking sonar well please I have found one of part of the screen in place but I just cannot see another such useful pic anywhere, not even in the BM walkarounds I'd rather get it right than just guess which might find an expert having a chuckle at my naivety later at a show I know vanity, it'll see me off yet I'll be bound... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted November 30, 2016 Author Share Posted November 30, 2016 Aha! Found it in the AP I was sent It seems to cover the places where possible spray back might harm the electronics units on the sonar rig First mock up made and I'll put up a pic later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted November 30, 2016 Author Share Posted November 30, 2016 (edited) OK a picture of the first mockup, which survived inspection with some later amendements You'll see The removable floor unit in which I'm putting together the sonar rig and the radar display unit with the screen round some of the basic rig uprights Mick the pictures have been already found to be brilliant thanks yellowey grey waterproofed oilskinny stuff painted black later (not yet obviously... ) Do you remember that little buff blob I added to the mould for the hump? After a little carvery we get this, the sonar fairing for underneath the dunking hole and carved inside too ready to have the guide rings inserted on their framework Said guide rings being stuporgooed together with the willing assistance of the lovely Miss Mucky Plasticene Wot? You cannot see the things? My lord, they're right there in your face, on the plasticene I know, just a tad reluctant to shine But hey if you look the shine is all you can see, it will however be all right on the night Also in frame Port fuselage with ribs, stringers and strengtheners webs and with a 'showing' layer of Mr Hobby Bluey Grey to bring the look altogether And oh yes the screen reduced to size now as I have made my calcu rough guesses to the size I need And also the ladder framework that sits alongside the sonar dunking unit that holds much of the electrickerals for the unit and the main shelving frames for the Plotting screen back by the windows And the home brewed resin hump cut to size and fitted (loosely at the moment) to suit the rest of the HAS 3's hump I have also been doing some Wasperie but there's nowt pictured so I won't be updating Wopseymopsey, mostly entering into mental riffmetic and making a jig We'll forget that for now night all b Edited November 30, 2016 by perdu 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 coming along nicely and I have to say.... your Plasticine is a lot cleaner than my blue-tac 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted December 1, 2016 Author Share Posted December 1, 2016 Really? It was white once you know... Cheers b Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noeyedears Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 like the interior spruce -up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted December 3, 2016 Author Share Posted December 3, 2016 On my one day this one day that basis I've been messing about with both of my nauticaviational builds today I'm sure there's a relevant quote out there about that Wessex got some interior fettling with stuff already built And a new build sonar winch from a lovely winch knicked orf a old army lorry bumper (I think) and lots of Evergreen I tried to make some of the other prominent interior gubbinses, i.e. the pair of black (OK white now but black later) cylinders I suspect may have been designed to accumulate hydraulic pressure or even frigid coldness for electronics cooling in the days of heat sensitive amplification Never mind forget it, they're way too ginormous I'll make some more later and the fridge looking pump that sits near them in the photos I have Looking now at the electronics areas, here's the radar unit being guessed at and the place for the sonar display set up The winching unit will be getting a cap and shroud, maybe I shouldn't have bovvered with the underneath stuff, most of it will probably vanish later base unit in for the sonar display now Also been playing with the radome from my donor Sea King to get it closer to the right shape for the Wessex HAS3 Getting there I think Anyway, its time for zed said Beddebee 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abat Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 Lovely work, Perdu. It's a privilege and a pleasure to see your scratch-building. Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted December 6, 2016 Author Share Posted December 6, 2016 (edited) Cheers Andrew I am still getting the sonar kit equipped, kinda slow like at the museum purrups but this is a couple of pics from my old SAR2 model for MickE to pop in and see Right that is enough ancient history Although pictures arent yet in I have started reshaping the milliput I mixed for the radome yesterday and I made the winch pulley wheel with its eight webspokes inside Which is a lie, I have only put in six of the eight spokes because twoo of them will be invisible behind the rig framework and six were difficult enough I'm old, life's short 'nuff updating, I gotta model to make edited because I forgot to mention during the HAR2s build, that last picture shows the hollow map box positioned above the driver's bonce that I plunge moulded out of black plasticard So thin it must be scale thickness Edited December 6, 2016 by perdu missed a bit... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickE Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 The interior is looking good. Great scratch building. Mick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted December 12, 2016 Author Share Posted December 12, 2016 Cheers Mick I wonder why though sometimes Built the sonar and radar plotting area up and have begun the screens Still the seats to make anyway here's the pulley cowling is on its frame awaiting the pulley and the upper position panels here in the fuselage on a test fitting The forward electronics racks have their kit aboard now and now the upper comms kit is shipped too Airfix Sea King Sonar dunker is being modified to something a bit more like the type 195M sonar in the 4+ book So with this awaiting crew seats I popped the two halves togetherish and you can't see a blooming thing inside it I was going to add cables and hoses but I am not going to now, you wont see any of them Its time to go ahead with building instead of detailing the innards I did produce a centre cockpit console with throttles and such (cannibalised from Airfix's Tornado cockpit side panels) then I realised that THIS Wessex only has one engine, thus only one throttle lever Dohh More invisible detailing to come... As will pictures 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 you just frightened me with how small it is hard to believe you packed so much detail into it. when I eventually do my HC2 kitbash (1/72), I hope I can get as much detail into it (though I think it will be strictly OOTB in that scale) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted December 13, 2016 Author Share Posted December 13, 2016 Why do I think there is a risk of you kitbashing an Ital... no I can't even write it.... ? I will be sitting back and absorbing the pleasure of watching a Wessex Guru making one in my favourite scale when you do If you let us watch ps the old Frog has the most accurate outline but does not have the twin engine nose Milliput looms... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noeyedears Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 love the sonar equipment! great bit of work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted December 15, 2016 Author Share Posted December 15, 2016 I have been adding the last bits of internallery but didnt take any photos "SORRY he shouts" I've added some of the wiring to the black boxes and along the cab's sides Blued the windows and removed Matchbox's door opening troughs so I can make the side more like it and removed the extraneous pipings from the fuselage sides And have been trawling the Modeldecal sheet no 99 to fix which 'frame this will be If you noticed the header it's to be XP150 from HMS Antrim in 1988-90 The real deal tonight was deciding to put seats in even though they'll be invisible So the sonar crew seats are part finished, not sure they'll get harnesses though I will post some pictures tomorrow And then close it up and start on the driving controls ( I was also doing Waspy bits without the aid of the camera, not a problem in here of course) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted December 16, 2016 Author Share Posted December 16, 2016 a couple of pics from last night cold light ofdawn opinion? yeucchh hump on just to see... crapulous composition sorry two chairs coming along for the back seat boys three of the eleven bits for the tailwheel arm this is an old one but I think I'll make a newer better one later folks... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders154 Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 As always a riveting build from you Bill Rodders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted December 18, 2016 Author Share Posted December 18, 2016 Cheers Rodders, as you know its often little and...occasional with me on builds Life has other duties to attend to, why this evening I have been watching the horrific effects on a small community when a mob descends on it bound to run riot Yes I quite liked the Hobbit, very reminiscent of a book I once read But some (not much) work has been done and in the process I have redefined the term lunacy You saw me fill the insides with the insides I built for it, it gets dafter, and there was little likelihood of seeing inside at all past the sonar rig Then you saw me paint the windoows with Tamiya Transparent Blue, nice paint but very darkening of the inside Then you saw I decide to make seats for a crew to attend the sonar and radar plotting tables Ho hum off I went and made them and painted them, although we wont see them then atthe height of my madness I decided to put the five point harness on the seats too MAD I TELL YE, MAD anyhoo, here 'tis Obviously not a very hard go at making it, but still daft huh, that Formula 560 round the feet is already clear now and invisible Before I close up the halves I am painting some plastic rod green with the attendant dayglo blobs along it Not sure if they are heating or hydraulic pipes but they are very distinctive in most Wessex interior shots I've seen Pictures of the close up coming to a screen near you soon night all 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted December 18, 2016 Author Share Posted December 18, 2016 I know the tensioners are missing off the seat backs and the rest of the straps I'm NOT that barmy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 (edited) Oh hell maybe I am that barm... I added the dayglo dotted pipes (Humbrol Acrylic dayglo 209) behind the sonar/radar plotters place and in front of the winch rig side walls And then this happened A Wessex appeared I stuck the thing together at last, as an old reopened kit it isnt keen to be reglued but Percy Verence got the job done THEN I realised I hadn't put the main gearbox for the rotor head in Doh, break it all apart again and pop in the rotor head box I wonder if I'll learn owt from that? I has me doubts I have been fettling up the radar dome from the different shaped one in an old Airfix Sea King The more I fettled it the more I wished I'd just accepted 'nearish enough' still I think I'm close enough for a few resin blanks to play with further So I made a plasticene mould That should do There's some more fettlin in it but not an awful task left now And because I'm known for not leaving things alone I decided to cut away the tail's handling grips Is this better? I can always fill them in again, but why Matchbox didn't put 'em in beats me Well that's it for now, Wopsie gets a day of her own next ciao Edited December 19, 2016 by perdu 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 Looks like that Percy Verence bloke hung around for a while with you today and really lent a hand when you needed it. Excellent work. 23 hours ago, perdu said: MAD I TELL YE, MAD I think that's an anagram for "damn fine modeler" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickE Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 (edited) You are a glutton for punishment. Those interiors would look great in 1/48 let alone 1/72. Well done! Mick Edited December 19, 2016 by MickE spelling 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noeyedears Posted December 19, 2016 Share Posted December 19, 2016 how the hell did you get all that in a 1/72 body nice! 😍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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