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On 09/03/2019 at 10:14, Scimitar said:

Bag of Merlin allsorts (a new range in confectionery  ?) should be with you on Monday/Tuesday.

The allsorts landed this morning thank you Richard

 

No  blue sprinkles ones but I bain't a complaining, new nose sensors on but there will need to be some adjustment, they point the flat sensor faces too far aft to my eye


This is visible on this picture of the airframe with a few new greeblies aboard

 

Little teardrop fairings (and the bigger rearwards ones) and some tie down rings added

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I think the flat faces of the sensors ought to face a little more forward and be on a slightly different shaped mount too

 

Easy stuff now though thank you


You also sent me the FLIR eyeyball moulding which I need to look like this so I have begun remaking the wheel/ball

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 I found a suitable diameter of tube and began making the main body of the bracket like this

The ball had two odd earpiece mouldings on each side, probably meant to look like the pivot up there

Here is the newer version ready to carve the upper ring section to a smaller diameter

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And

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Oh well I will be back, maybe tomorrow but it is Tuesday Night Steak Club

 

'voir

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16 minutes ago, perdu said:

they point the flat sensor faces too far aft to my eye

Have you got them on the wrong way round? Try the left one ,shown,on the right?

I think the longer part of the fairing is at the back.

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Hi Richard, no I have them fitted with the 'eyebrow' curl-like fairing following the nose cone contour faithfully just as in the photos

 

I reckon it is just one of those other notional thing Italeri were just a tad off when they mastered the moulds

 

No worries now though I have decided what happens next, my sihrsc gets some gentle practice in the noble art of adjustery.

 

Thanks for sending those resin flare/chaff packs too, the defensive suite will soon be finished

 

 

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Well this is what I am seeking on this Merlin

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The curved fairing follows the contour around the nose 'cone' but at the back on this and on the ones without the later sensor package it just curves gently to fair it in in front of the forward observation window

The sensor is oriented so it sits at 45º to the centreline (front and back )

 

I'm NOT making Gawaine's bird neither so forget any idea of me seeking archaic fonts for the name lettering, geddit!

 

Anyway here is what is happening

When I get oddball situations to interpret I like to draw them out in twoD like so

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As you see, some of the reshaping is done just need to round off a little more of the fillet then I can make new sensor mount plates

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Remember this?

 

A fivepenny piece for scale so I bet you can tell where this is going

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So

 

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tiny huh

 

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I  was mad doing that one wasnt I?

 

:(

Just the front doors to finish now, at least there will be one model for the club table this weekend, not likely to get Merlin there

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That looks superb Bill. The Merlin will be worth the wait. But this:

 

4 hours ago, perdu said:

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Reminds me of this

 

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Future project for the club bench perhaps...

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So here's a thought ........................... you might actually be able to get the OH-58 inside the back of the Merlin, with rotor head removed of course!

 

Great progress Bill, I love all the exterior gubbins bits and bods you are fabricating for the Merlin ................... they will bring it to life.

 

Terry

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Oh Bill !

Is that an helicopter mating ??? 🤔

I'll be very curious to see the result, save a baby for me please !

The Kimerliowa is rarely seen in european skies !!

Sure that Crisp will have a baby too !! :cheers:

Great job, Your attention to detail is really impressive

Sincerely.

CC

 

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25 minutes ago, corsaircorp said:

Oh Bill !

Is that an helicopter mating ??? 🤔

I'll be very curious to see the result, save a baby for me please !

The Kimerliowa is rarely seen in european skies !!

Sure that Crisp will have a baby too !! :cheers:

Great job, Your attention to detail is really impressive

Sincerely.

CC

 

Bucket of cold water for Bill's helicopters!

 

Martian 👽

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2 minutes ago, Pete in Lincs said:

It's just filth!

Should never have been posted before the nine o'clock watershed! :nono: There may be impressionable and innocent young aliens watching this.

 

Outraged of Mars 👽

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Mucky

 

I agree but that is what you get when filthy minds abound

 

The poor little jet Ranger-alike was hunting around for somewhere dry to land during storm Jeremy or whatever stupid name this latest little blow got lumbered with when he espied a Merlin in a pool with no MRG to get in the way

 

Obviously this was the first class LP of choice

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A question for Jeff or anyone who knows

 

Is this cover on top of the little pylon open at the back as it appears or is it a closed oddly-shaped box on there?

 

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I have the basics made up but am stalling on the cover piece

 

if you can help thanks

 

 

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In this first photo it looks like its not fitted.

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In this one it is

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Enlarging your one makes me conclude that it is an open ended box covering the wires and cables to prevent size 10 boots causing grief.

No doubt Merlin expert will be along shortly to prove otherwise.

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One hopes so Richard but the first one you show is the early version, the later one is the one with the cover

 

I've made the later type frame but I need to finish the top before I paint and fit it

 

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The early days of the later type frame mount

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The pencil mark shows where I estimate the upper cover will go

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Abovely

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Looking at this I will be making the cover bigger all round, this looks wimpy in the overhead view, more design work Bill

 

Round up from the other side

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The beat goes on...

 

 

 

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I didn't know there was a later type. I thought it was just the angle of the first photo.

Perhaps I'm being a bit thick this morning,(I'll blame storm Gareth for a disturbed night).

Here's your Tiger :

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Is she an HMA 1 there?

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I think so, the extra nose sensor is missing and from what Jeff says it is the earlier type of Wescam bracket onboard

 

I still need/would like a decent view of the deck grabby doohdah underneath then I can paint her up

 

Fifty shades worth

 

😊

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Ah, I saw the coffee cup symbol shone into the sky, batman style!!!

 

Ok - the cables for the turret at the rear of the environmental cover are sealed by a fairlead, so there isn't a gaping hole at the rear.

The black tube is the fuel jettison pipe, rubberish and a tube.

 

Deck lock piccy - hold on....

 

Jeff

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Just for you...

 

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Taken from forward right and looking aft, left (left wheel is just out of shot on the right of picture)

 

Is that ok or do you need more?

 

Jeff

 

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