Gimme Shelter Posted December 6, 2018 Share Posted December 6, 2018 an exciting build to follow - I'm in all the way through to when it is ready to be admired as a completed model. If the interior get the better of you, Roger at Whirlybird sells a very nice photoetch seating and floor set (not sure if the cabin roof is included) Good luck with the build 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted December 20, 2018 Author Share Posted December 20, 2018 Hrrrrumph! Does that show sufficient meah for a man who has lost his nose? I do not understand it, I filled that nose section ready to make better nose windows from and took it down to the lab for operations to commence Put it down carefully, turned around and it was gone So I have been casting around for a sacrificial nose and have it ready now to mould new nose windows so I am reviving it ready for action tomorrow (Took a while to find a suitable donor kit but I knew I had one ...somewhere) Anyway we will be back on track tomorrow, in the meantime I have been looking a bit grey... 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted May 1, 2019 Author Share Posted May 1, 2019 Was this really last year? Really? Wow As I have been neglecting the old Queen and whilst proof of concepting has been going on in the Sikorsky works I have given the old gal a bit of the time she deserves Principally, it must be admitted, because I found the missing nose unit and have been working inside the fuselage before I get the seating sorted New floor and cabin rear bulkhead Which is never going to be watertight, nor even asked to be There is interior fettling to do and walls and galley sections to make up but now I have the base set up for making seating Colin sent me an assortment of potential seating, I need to organise myself and get as close as possible to the internals of a BEA S61-N Research is ongoing I need nine settees and twelve single seats Fun abounds 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 This truly is the week of the resurrections! Ian 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 3 hours ago, perdu said: I need nine settees and twelve single seats speak to my wife - she's got five six so far and just keeps buying more! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomoshenko Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 Welcome back Bill. I'd forgotten all about this. Erm I'll have a drive around Brum, bound to be plenty of fly-tipped settees and seats about. Upholstery might be a bit iffy though. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted May 1, 2019 Author Share Posted May 1, 2019 OK Tom, no yellow velour though please I'm glad this little sleeper has been below the horizon a bit, gave me time to get the other jobs done Now its time to get the job done here too 🍻🍻🍻 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomoshenko Posted May 1, 2019 Share Posted May 1, 2019 No probs Bill. Got a nice little avocado green number lined up. PS at the time of posting this is my 2000th post. Not that it means we are engaged or anything... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted May 1, 2019 Author Share Posted May 1, 2019 Aw Tomo, I thought we kinda had it Oh well back to the laydeez Erm whilst digging around in my Sea King files I came across this Whatever was I thinking? It is said by wise men that nothing dies In vain... Idle thoughts for busy moments 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted May 2, 2019 Author Share Posted May 2, 2019 To think that Crisp thought I was being cruel... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry1954 Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 9 minutes ago, perdu said: To think that Crisp thought I was being cruel... What's the betting he will know of this cab from his flying days... ? That picture would make an interesting subject in itself. Terry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted May 2, 2019 Author Share Posted May 2, 2019 There is a picture in my S61N collection of an S61N in flight with a similar undercarriage Blue it is... I wonder 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry1954 Posted May 2, 2019 Share Posted May 2, 2019 Surely the "undercarriage" in the picture above, is a temporary ground handling job? Doesn't look like that would neatly fit inside the sponsons! Terry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted May 2, 2019 Author Share Posted May 2, 2019 I quite agree, on checking some pictures it appears they are a double wheel bogie on a frame Interesting stuff methinks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted May 4, 2019 Author Share Posted May 4, 2019 I am getting interested in some of the later colour schemes for the N time for rethinks mayhap Anyway, slowly slowly makee seatee I'm uncertain whether to run with the galley?/bog? up front or whip it out? Out it means I have to find more seats though, a decided incentive to leave it in Some faggling about in the nose gives me a slightly more representative Sea king window layout The instrument panel is slightly Modeldecals-ish so I have made it fit Blurry picture, sorry it's my camera work not your eyes ciao 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted May 5, 2019 Share Posted May 5, 2019 That's a lot of seats! Great going, Bill Ciao 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted May 5, 2019 Share Posted May 5, 2019 18 hours ago, perdu said: must have been a helluva party judging by the wreckage 1 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted May 5, 2019 Author Share Posted May 5, 2019 I'm still finding ladies high heels under the carpets in the kitchen Which was weird You know why.. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Posted May 5, 2019 Share Posted May 5, 2019 I have a feeling @corsaircorp may have been involved here. Any sign of parrots or curry? Ian 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted May 5, 2019 Author Share Posted May 5, 2019 There was a take-away container I thought Tomo might have left it by accident, but now you mention it... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted May 5, 2019 Author Share Posted May 5, 2019 "ang on lads, I've got a great idea" I have been worrying this like a dog with a big gnarly bone How to make the windows on the S61-N? Individual ones cut out? Since I am fundamentally lazy I (hang on who said mental there?) am not a candidate for trying to stick individual windows in to a fuselage already closed up... I was studying the pictures of 61s in my cache and noticed that the windows are pretty well flush to the fuselage, certainly flush enough for 1/72th scale and a little idea occurred to me Why not open the surface enough to let a strip of acetate in to sit flush with the surface? With nothing to lose except my sanity I began carving a notch deep enough for the window glazing to sit flat along the side of the helo Cut it away for the length of each run Microchisels are your friends in this kind of enterprise The cutaway needs square corners or there will be over filling to do And the space opened up gets a strip of acetate to suit This needs fitting without getting fogged up so I have been playing with my UV lamp and the UV curing glue I bought from The 'bay I made the length of the strip long enough to allow the front edge become part of the door opening to allow for any visibility issues And found that the new glue and lamp combo I bought very recently has a pair of flat batteries, this purple light should be strong enough to show on a picture And should be a hell of a lot stronger than that, insufficient UV to cure the glue on this test strip so I stripped the batteries and the UV LED out of the lamp and used the pair of CR2025s I have had hanging about to drive the lamp Instant sunshine, yippee Apologies for the blurs, still not a good photographer but you can see the strip sitting in its recess so concept kinda proved But needing refinement When the windows are ready for the paint job I can just add masks of suitable sizes Probably Tonight I might just have a Netflix binge, where did I leave the fridge? 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corsaircorp Posted May 5, 2019 Share Posted May 5, 2019 Hooooops !! Caught again !! That was not a parrot but a puffin !! You only found high heels Bill ?? So please do NOT look or touch the kitchen sink It look like Guacamole but may be it's not, I mean not exactly !! Well nevermind... Does anybody know where the black goat is gone... Last time I saw her was in Martian's bedroom... Save the empty bottles, do not throw it away, they are valued by the brewery !! Glad to see the African queen back on tracks Bill !! Sincerely. CC 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corsaircorp Posted May 5, 2019 Share Posted May 5, 2019 Wow !! Bill That's what can be called a cunning plan !! Real good one !! Congratulations !! I'll save this idea for any further use !! A quadruple Trappe for you in November !! Sincerely. CC 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted May 5, 2019 Author Share Posted May 5, 2019 A black one? I only saw the white one which insisted on standing on the curtain rail, bleating Noisy blimmin thing 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corsaircorp Posted May 5, 2019 Share Posted May 5, 2019 Yep !! The white one is still a bit shaked after the Speed Puffin experiment !! Now the black one was about to book a trip for the Cardigan coast... Weird idea for a goat !! Maybe she is gone after all 🤔 About the seating they usually were red no ?? Don't you worry we've cleaned up the seats.... Which one of the belly dancer have played Cinderella ??? Well, I seat at the bar with beer and mussels !! CC 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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