Terry1954 Posted May 8, 2019 Share Posted May 8, 2019 36 minutes ago, Pete in Lincs said: You forgot to do an engine bay. And an engine. Just saying.... Thats actually quite a natural progression from where we are now...... 😁 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted May 8, 2019 Author Share Posted May 8, 2019 Not actually an oversight 😉. 😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted May 9, 2019 Author Share Posted May 9, 2019 Christmas comes but once a year Easter is a variable feast they say Look what I forgot I didnt even need the knife in the foreground... Yummy 3 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 Ahhh, I see now. Gold foil. Heat blanket for the engine bay 3 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomoshenko Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 Needs a coat of semi-matte varnish Bill to tone down the sheen a bit. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomoshenko Posted May 9, 2019 Share Posted May 9, 2019 On 4/26/2019 at 10:06 PM, Ex-FAAWAFU said: Are they some kind of Brummie Hinge & Bracket? Is that what Bill & Tommo get up to at weekends? Well we have to raise extra cash to fund our stash and tool purchases somehow. But don't get any ideas or all excited you lot, we will be wearing our Brum IPMS attire at Telford! On 5/4/2019 at 7:13 PM, perdu said: Brutal Steve? Mois? Mais non, zee leetle laydy says she likes the lightening of her burden But since I actcherlley agree to an extent I have been fettling And a whittling And a fingerburningly few recent sessions has given her the much lighter load to carry This looks as if it will do when given a slight wipe with damp PPP in her crevices eek There back in the little recurved section where I may have been overenthusiastic with the Number two SM blade Now I can make the interior and finish Martianing the cabin windows... On 5/8/2019 at 3:10 PM, perdu said: Far too many cats infesting these pages lately and I regret having been an inadvertent channel for some of said infestation No more of the said felines from me I'll be bound Now I could use some assistance To recap: Quicko build taken a turn for the worse and longer term with new upperworks to be made up OK I get that But this? Really There is no way on this planet in this time zone that this was necessary and certainly not advisable Help me get over this disease My thinking was quite simple like meself milud, make a floor for the upper platform, leave all the lower innards grey or greeny coloured and close it all quickly to pop the new roof on top I must be mad, no-one will ever see enough of the insides to make this worthwhile Doh... This is looking brilliant Bill (hope you like my alliteration). That canopy looks fantastic, and interior is coming on a treat too. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry1954 Posted May 10, 2019 Share Posted May 10, 2019 11 hours ago, Tomoshenko said: we will be wearing our Brum IPMS attire at Telford! The mind boggles ............. 😱 Terry 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
71chally Posted May 10, 2019 Share Posted May 10, 2019 Bill, I don't know what impresses me the most, your skills, or your dogged determination to work with the worst kits ever made! Super stuff, either way. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
general melchett Posted May 10, 2019 Share Posted May 10, 2019 Just caught up with this lot Bill...I don't know what the hell's going on but it ain't half an interesting approach to ritualistic, nay institutionalised, sado-masochism....a subject dear to my heart, literally, a riveting read. 3 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted May 10, 2019 Author Share Posted May 10, 2019 Rivets? Which blithering blitherer ordered blimmin' rivets? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
71chally Posted May 10, 2019 Share Posted May 10, 2019 It's hard to believe that some people actually enjoy adding them! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry1954 Posted May 10, 2019 Share Posted May 10, 2019 And there are those who like to count them too! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted May 10, 2019 Author Share Posted May 10, 2019 13 minutes ago, Terry1954 said: And there are those who like to count them too! Trust me lad, not round yere there bain't 😉👍👍👍👍👍👍 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Spadgent Posted May 11, 2019 Share Posted May 11, 2019 Of the scale Bill. Not off scale but off “the” scale. ....🤔 As in good. You know. 🤣 Brilliant new top bit there kid. Muchos impressos. Johnny 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted May 15, 2019 Author Share Posted May 15, 2019 Beginning to build the minimal structure that will hold the (yet to be scratched) main rotor gear box All glued together now I have lost/wasted so much time trying to track down where Win 10 put the uploaded photos* it has left me a bit dispirited But I have in mind a cross brace and two longitudinal braces for the triangulated structures above the cabin roof piece Off to measure up for a gearbox now, presumably similarly tilted forward to impose forward moment to the rotor disc when it is spinning as is the Wessex gearbox since the S55 was said to be the parent model for the S58 *photos finally tracked down in an unexpected folder , phew maybe we can get back to normal again... DAMMIT TO BUGGERY LOST A COMPLETE FOLDER IN POSTIMAGE BY CLUMSINESS WORKING ON IT 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 On 10/05/2019 at 15:54, perdu said: Which blithering blitherer ordered blimmin' rivets? The top of my list of suspects, well to be honest the only name on my list of suspects, is @Ex-FAAWAFU and his ideas about crispination. Sherlock Martian 👽 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted May 15, 2019 Author Share Posted May 15, 2019 Thank you Sherlock, that kinda confirms faint glimmering suspicions I may have been harbouring... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted May 15, 2019 Author Share Posted May 15, 2019 (edited) Quiet days promote pensive plotting potentially Perhaps And so to the H-19 again, the cockpit rear crossmember is in now and the rear stiffening structures are begun This should be OK, the crossmember is there on the real thing and there are paired braces that run back into the upper fuselage to take the load of the gearbox stay struts They look a little different to this but frankly the structure should vanish behind the gearbox sound proofing panels, so I amn't about to worry much These paired I-beams will give stiffness to the aft of cockpit structure 'nuff said Edited May 17, 2019 by perdu LOST PICTURE FILES, MY MISTOOK 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head in the clouds. Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 Nice to see some white plastic being cajoled into place, glad you found the missing pics too, good ones are hard to come by. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted May 15, 2019 Author Share Posted May 15, 2019 (edited) Look another update I'd best slow down before I get a heavy-duty burn out huh? Take a look at this Always hard to photograph white on light backgrounds anyway but the first attempt at the rotor gearbox I'll have to slow down, this is the end of my 'very suitable white plastic tube' supply which has stood in for many different home brew projects (Nimbus engine front tank/intake area, for example) Here it is the beginning of the project, why did I get this involved? How about a shot off a Google search of the real thing? Photographed from my monitor screen, you can see the front shaft entry point and the assorted bracketry and control links NO NO NO My brackets and links will NOT allow for swash plate alterations, this H-19/ Whirlwind will NOT FLY Deliberately Now in place but not even close to being glued many/some more gubbins to add and the frames and brackets too but this looks a decent start to me OK That is it for now, 21.15hrs I declare the Mess Bar open to residents ciao Edited May 17, 2019 by perdu PICTURE CHASING AGAIN 9 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 1 hour ago, perdu said: I declare the Mess Bar open to residents Mine's a gallon of Melchett Breweries Old Scrotum please. Martian 👽 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head in the clouds. Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 That looks like a complicated item to build Bill, how much of it will actually be seen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry1954 Posted May 16, 2019 Share Posted May 16, 2019 Great stuff here Bill. I love it when a complicated detailed build starts to form, especially when it belongs to someone else! Terry 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted May 16, 2019 Author Share Posted May 16, 2019 13 hours ago, Head in the clouds. said: That looks like a complicated item to build Bill, how much of it will actually be seen? The swash plate and possibly the top of the gearbox But as the cabin includes all that and the framework separated only by the sound proofing panels I think it best to give the upper works some real substance 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted May 16, 2019 Author Share Posted May 16, 2019 (edited) An early start for me today gets me comparing the location for the rotor gear drive box and the hole in the roof of the original 1958 moulding by Airfix I was 11! And I built it then too Let's look at that more closely With light Looks purty well bang on to me Time to construct more new stuff Edited May 17, 2019 by perdu DOH.. 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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