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3 hours ago, perdu said:

it looks as if I ought to be moulding a complete upper deck out of acetate

You know it makes sense. As @hendie says, we'll all be rooting from behind .... 😨

 

Terry

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Hrmphh

 

I take particular pleasure knowing that because this was your idea one of youse will have to pay when it all goes titsup

 

Plan A

 

Make clear windows off the Airfix stuff...

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Preparation and prior planning prevent a p*s* poor performance

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This was prepared enough for Plan A

 

Resulting in...

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One of several test pieces, fortunately not subject to the Oirish Lurgy as suffered by our friend of HIS parish Tony

 

After several pulls and possibly enough useable windows I made a daft decision

 

THIS IS DOWN TO YOUSE LOT, RIGHT!

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I'm just going outside

 

I may be some time...

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That is going to help me a lot thanks Andy

 

The plasticene is sitting in its blob of latex now, hoping it will harden soon so I can begin making a couple of blobby blocks to carve into shape for the buck

 

Fingies, as ever, crossed please guys

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1 hour ago, perdu said:

Fingies, as ever, crossed please guys

Toes and all other things crossed. If anyone can do it Bill you can.

 

Is the idea to make a whole upper deck cockpit area in moulded clear plastic? A good master is the key I guess. If you pulled that off you could replicate ..................... just saying.

 

Terry

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I believe I mentioned 'being some time'

 

Now with this I have something to occupy those long wearisome evenings waiting for something decent to appear on TV

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I will be making a couple of these at least so I can break the cabin area down into two separate ends

 

I dont know exactly what function the little extra piece at the back is for but my educated guess?

 

Cooling fan for the MRG

 

If I'm wrong it  still needs to be separate from the front 'dome' cabin piece which it is planned to make as a one piece transparency that can rely upon careful masking

 

Thanks Alan

 

There is NO INTENT to separate the cabin from the fuselage until many scrupulously accurate mouldings are on hand to make them fit

 

;)

 

If I had an ounce of sense I would simply be handing over vast chunks of my pension to the specialist suppliers


but this is me, see...

 

Oh well, I'm off to see the wizzard... 🎶

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22 minutes ago, perdu said:

Now with this I have something to occupy those long wearisome evenings waiting for something decent to appear on TV.

I hope the build won't take that long!!

 

Concerned of Mars 👽

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1 hour ago, perdu said:

Thanks Alan

 

yous welcum.

 

1 hour ago, perdu said:

There is NO INTENT to separate the cabin from the fuselage until many scrupulously accurate mouldings are on hand to make them fit 

 

well it's almost the weekend

 

 

best o' luck Bill.   I'm sure you'll pull it off (no pun intended)

 

 

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Well today is, er, today

The sihrscs have been cleaned ready to go to war on resin

Dust and fine particle dualfilter mask at the ready

New LR44 battery in my alictronial caliper

A set of Carauna/Caruana drawings of the S-55/H-19/Westland Whirlwind to hand

 

And a casting mould ready to make more misshapen blobs if/when I need 'em

 

OK

 

I'm out a here, in there 

 

"I may be..."

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Ah

 

Can we, should we even, have a discussion on sausages?

 

I understand that sausages are normally Ced's preserve but having just broken fast with egg and Cumberland sausage which was extremely tasty I'd like to throw open to the floor the question

"Sausages of 65% meat or more, are they too solidly packed for a decent sossidge sandwich?"

 

My own contention is that they are and that 50% or slightly less is an optimum density for a sarnie

I like a munchable sausage better than an over packed one, blimey if I wanted that much work to chew it I would have bought a chop

 

Anyway, a word in praise of these thick ones, 

Sainsbury own brand Cumberland Sausage, excellent flavour that fries easily to perfection

 

As you can tell, I was interrupted

 

I'm going back in now...

 

😕😱

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I can't say I've ever paid much attention to the percentage of meat in a sausage, and my grandfather was a butcher! If it tastes good, eat it!

But 65% does sound a little high.....

 

Interruption over!

 

Ian

Now feeling hungry....

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10 hours ago, perdu said:

Ah

 

Can we, should we even, have a discussion on sausages?

 

I understand that sausages are normally Ced's preserve but having just broken fast with egg and Cumberland sausage which was extremely tasty I'd like to throw open to the floor the question

"Sausages of 65% meat or more, are they too solidly packed for a decent sossidge sandwich?"

 

My own contention is that they are and that 50% or slightly less is an optimum density for a sarnie

I like a munchable sausage better than an over packed one, blimey if I wanted that much work to chew it I would have bought a chop

 

Anyway, a word in praise of these thick ones, 

Sainsbury own brand Cumberland Sausage, excellent flavour that fries easily to perfection

 

As you can tell, I was interrupted

 

I'm going back in now...

 

😕😱

I trust in a coil served with onion gravy and mashed spuds?

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I hope you had some soss Ian

 

Anyway, my decision


Let's have another diversion

(As you will realise H-19 production has declined rapidly today)

 

I was rustling about in my cupboard searching the S-61N project which will be getting some much needed love again now


When hola! This appeared

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Bagged and unboxed with extra (looks like Frog) decals to play with

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No sign of any missing parts either

And with this inside with it, unusual for most orphan kits...

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Oops, missed  the makers name tag

 

Fujimi if you didnt recognise the familiar style

1 minute ago, Tomoshenko said:

I trust in a coil served with onion gravy and mashed spuds?

Hell no Tomo, on two slices sharing my taste buds with a free range egg

 

Proper brekky nosh

 

Not even remotely vegan either

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32 minutes ago, andyf117 said:

The decals are actually from an early Airfix issue (the second or third boxing) - I posted a 'wanted' request for them (or the Modeldecal ones) last year, but didn't find any...

If they are any use to you Andy I will be delighted to pop them in the post

PM me although I believe we have your address anyway

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OK Alan I have the guest house's address and will post to there

Shall I search my archival decal bank for anything else you might need?

Tell me if there is

 

Now then back on the H-19 front I have been playing at times with the block of resinous blob and being satisfied it can be used I went in to part two of the process I had in mind

 

Having this to hand and the subsequent block of resin I was brave enough to go a further stage

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With the resin block on the bonnet (temporary workbench in the garage) I carved away large lumps of unwanted plasticene

 to make a new latex mould of a smaller footprint (Easier carving, this resin is very hard) canopy buck

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This shows the reshaped plasticene buck and the first resin copy of the newer shape

 

Because using it to make a clear upper section of the fuselage was plan A I inserted a peg (half a peg actually) into the setting resin

 

Fifteen minutes I wont be getting back whilst I held the peg steady in the 'mix'

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This is nearer the proper shape and as such I simply filed it flatter and tried a 'pull'

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The size comparison shot here now  :)

 

Looks close

 

Get the acetate warm, then hot

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And voila, we have

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Time to practise cutting out now

 

I may be...

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After a modicum of trimmagery

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This is enticing, first pull from an unfinished block gives us the above


Fitted to test

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If it wasnt too wide at the top I might even be tempted to let in pieces of this above the cockpit

 

See what I mean?

 

I think this could be used on the kit to make accurate window panels

 

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Now I can work on narrowing the upperworks of the mould and having another knock

 

The mould is definitely on track, yeehaw

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Bill, you make that all look so very easy.  Amazing, simply amazing.

it would take me days and days to achieve something that wouldn't even approach the quality of the part you have just made

 

Amazing.

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