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New gearbox soundproofing (were they serious?) made up, painted and trimmed

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I have the Airwaves etch for  the engine cooling grilles, looks reasonable and I intend running a medium pointy riveteer tool over the now smoothed off bits before I reach for the Sea Blue ANA wotsit colour

 

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Now begins the trimmins

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The hole in the roof is in, the mesh cover is a work-in-not-much-progress but will be relatively easy meat

 

I can just make out the frameworks that will be placed around the strength needing parts, can you?

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The frames will be added inside or out where ever relevant

 

and here is a test fit with most of the trim-off done

 

Should be OK

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A minor amount of hole enlarging to do, tomorrow will do for that

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Stuff to do, with canopy

 

mark out the frames and uprights (and lean-backardses)

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As usual making things stupid hard for myself


As usual with stuporgoo

 

And blades

 

 

T'opposite side, samely similar

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The top/upper green stripe is to mark the cutline and the new slide channel to be added before the opening window element is dispatched to the bin

 

Then more trimmagery

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Just in case anyone is popping over to the Coventry Modeller's Show tomorrow come over to chat at the Robin Hangar where Brum IPMS are near a corner on the back wall

Merlin and Sea Stallion will be filling spaces

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It would appear that you never flew from Baginton then Steve

 

 

Vaulted frescoes indeed...

 

Actually, there's bound to be 

 

Stands to reason

 

Tell you when you're back in WiFi range on your safari

 

Or wide ranging camel rides in the Himalaya

 

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Wowza!.  I disappear for a few days and Bill goes on a posting frenzy.  

I really like how that top area is coming together Bill.  It looks deceptively simple but there's all sorts of angles, curves, features, and gubbinses converging to form that beauteous structure.

Love those calipers too.

 

Are you going to have separate sliding windows?   

 

You are clearly a graduate of the goats hairshirt and camel hair knickers school of modellers.  "quia non est faciemus ibi"  (we will know it is there)

 

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That canopy is looking rather good, but I'm still having trouble seeing the silver plastic getting this treatment. There are too many memories of silver plastic, none of it ever received anything more than glue!

 

Ian

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But Ian, when it's to be done

 

It's to do

 

I have been amazed at how well it and supergoo took to sanding, this silver plastic

 

Can't wait for primer to show how well it has gone

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Well it has come to a (im)passe

 

II was at the Midlands Air museum yesterday and availed myself of the opportunity to get personal with their Whirlwind

 

Some  niggling shape issues have been holding me back from pushing on with the new top cover so I took a few photos of the upperworks

 

This is an area I need to refine so the present top is now officially dead duck meat

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There is a taper which begins half way across the window behind the crew seats

Although I have a similar shape I need to make  the curved sides a fair bit less 'curvy', the defining line is straighter than mine would have allowed so...

 

Normal filing will be resumed as soon as possible

 

Pssssst sihrsc come to daddy

 

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and

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The delay wont be massive but it gives me  a chance to finish popping the nose and transparencies on the S-61N

 

Blue roof panels next for that

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Sticky up bits yes but even standing next to it you need to look for the actual panel rivets, I will confine most of the rivets to the rivet wheel methinks

 

(I am glad I got the shot with a sticky out bit at the end of the window track, dead useful)

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great photo's Bill.

 

Part of me is sorry that you have to scrap the current bubble top, however another part of me is rather happy that we get to see more Billstruction in action.  

It's not quite Schadenfreude, and it's not epicaricacy either. 

We need a new term for when you decide that you can improve even further on stuff that is already damn impressive

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Dissimilar plastics adhesives fail

 

5 Second Fix UV setting glue...

Superglue.. Roket Max Thick non runny cyano

PVA adhesive.. Formula 560 canopy Glue  (first ever fail with this material)

 

Next to try

 

GS hypo.. Now I have never had a success with this stuff but in the absence of alternatives it is getting another chance

My club branch chairman was extolling its virtues on Sunday

 

We shall see

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Bill, you can modify the surface properties of the non cooperating plastic by running a flame across it (very briefly!)

 

That's one of several methods they use to get paint to stick to semi-crystaline plastics 

 

Caveat: it may or may not help!

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