huvut76g7gbbui7 Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 Bill..note that the rounded channel under the sponsons doesn't go all the way along to the fuselage. It stops roughly level with the inner undercarriage bay wall. Quite obvious in the above picture. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinky coffeeboat Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 Do you mean the curved area above where the main wheel would be? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huvut76g7gbbui7 Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 Yes. Thanks for that input..beyond my skills! The Italeri kit has it running right to the edge and on both sides of the leg. A decent 1/72 Merlin HMA and HC is long overdue. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinky coffeeboat Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 A decent Merlin is long overdue...in 1:1 scale!!!! Jeff 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted March 8, 2019 Author Share Posted March 8, 2019 Tut tut, as if... After studying that great picture of the fairing I could see that this one, which looked fine in profile after filing had happened, was actually way too wide oops So more needed to be done And was This was once a bomb in a Canberra kit I believe, probably, judging by the colour of the plastic, the Airfix Big Nosey Side by side I based the side and plan views on the picture Jeff posted earlier And they look good enough to me, Jeff? I saw what you mean Richard, next fix to go in, OK? The nose RWR (?) sensor thingys in the kit bear little or less resemblance to the real thing on the HM2 and are also on the correction snag sheet Pub calls I think ciao 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huvut76g7gbbui7 Posted March 8, 2019 Share Posted March 8, 2019 I may have resin ones from a conversion set that I'm not using. I'll check and post them to you if I have. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huvut76g7gbbui7 Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 Bag of Merlin allsorts (a new range in confectionery ?) should be with you on Monday/Tuesday. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted March 9, 2019 Author Share Posted March 9, 2019 Thanks very much Richard I love the aniseed flavour ones covered in sprinkles As for the ones in the kit, how the heck are they supposed to fit on the nose? Fail, fail in any direction of sitting I appreciate what you have done, really do So many of my nautical builds have had Caledonian support added I'd have been lost without it 👍 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted March 9, 2019 Author Share Posted March 9, 2019 THERE FOLLOWS A PUBLIC HEALTH WARNING ON BEHALF OF THE BIRMINGHAM COLLEGE OF NEURO-SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND FISH MARKET Fear, greatly fear the Matchbox OH-58D Kiowa This misbegotten accretion of plastic particles has been designed by the chief sadist at Lesney Products A collection of handsome looking components hides a/several dastardly secret/s I assembled it in accordance with the destructions in the box and discovered there were few locating holes available for joining bits on Or tucking things in Or bodging bits up with However a helicopter did emerge in time for tomorrow's sprayaway day in the garage The undercart/sled has no locators of any sort, this will have to do The canopy bits didn't quite fit the fuselage either The tail fin just sits abutting a small flat panel where you would expect a peg fitting or a spigot to keep it in place The unusual assembly of pegs and bits of the roof have no actual location spots either and the devils in Lesney think the windows should be popped in the doors after glueing and painting is complete We will see The distorted plastic of the tail boom needed an amazing amount of filler Basically, I am not good enough to make this one look decent The underboom antenna? array has no locating pins or pegs either The horizontal stabs just sit hopefully on the sides of the tail too No slots to sit in and there is not a hole for the tail rotor spindle to go in, simply a butt fitment And the doors don't fit the holes for them If you want your children to grow up enjoying helicopter model building and have one in your stash Superglue it inside a large wooden box then burn it just saying.. Seriously, it is not a good example of a Lesney kit 0/10 1 6 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 53 minutes ago, perdu said: Basically, I am not good enough to make this one look decent I refer my learned friend to all his previous builds on this interwebical journey through life 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted March 9, 2019 Share Posted March 9, 2019 5 hours ago, perdu said: COLLEGE OF NEURO-SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND FISH MARKET @hendie may need to know the price of Oysters if he gets a taste for them. I have a 1/35th scale Kiowa if that one was too small for you? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted March 10, 2019 Author Share Posted March 10, 2019 11 hours ago, Pete in Lincs said: @hendie may need to know the price of Oysters if he gets a taste for them. I have a 1/35th scale Kiowa if that one was too small for you? There's a cure for that Build it, it's how I've gotten rid of mine Kind offer, but... 👅 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted March 10, 2019 Author Share Posted March 10, 2019 Humbrol's Clear on and now ready for the stickers Looks a lot better in the light Hint to Bill Always select appropriate lighting settings, flash doesn't always swamp the scene 11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomoshenko Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 I likes it lots Bill. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted March 10, 2019 Author Share Posted March 10, 2019 Does this mean you are back 'um then Tomo? Or are you travelling above the clouds in sybaritic luxury sipping champers from the hostie's shoe in your private jet? Anyway, see you soon and thanks for liking the brown thing And as we were its grey time again The Merlin has lots of greeebllish stuff all over its bits, so I have been making the little fairings that make it so not-very-aerodynamic-dad all over The larger ones over the undercart sponsons on both sides are on And And I have added another little pyramid kinda thingy which seems to bear one of those little IR sensors on the end of it I think I could spend the rest of my life adding more and more little invisible bits under there I'm going to stop at the deck grabbing claw device thingy If I can get a decent shot of one stowed but with the cables/hoses? out of the way of my sight line that will do me Also need to get the later Flirry thing mount sorted but I think I might be all right there with the fabulous pictrues we've already had The little fairings have been a pain in the proverbials but they are coming along slowly The pink blobs on the right have been drop formed into a teardrop shaped hole on the desk The big pink blobs need trimming then filing the backs of and ending up like the one highlighted by the needle file on the sketch book Which I have subsequently lost when a faint zephyr wafted it into the air Oh deep joy, time for a nother hands and knees search over the laminated floor yippee... 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 Who's doing the washing up in there? That's not Fairy liquid! 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huvut76g7gbbui7 Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 4 hours ago, perdu said: The pink blobs I saw them in n earlier post and thought you had dropped your meds 😁 They are a sod to make aren't they. I've been trying to make 8 tiny but obvious ones for my Algerian Merlin. Have now made 153 changes to the basic Italeri kit and still very little light at the end of the tunnel. If Mr Airfix is reading this,scale down your big one please. Any other manufacturer please feel free to do an HMA2. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted March 10, 2019 Author Share Posted March 10, 2019 1 minute ago, Scimitar said: I saw them in n earlier post and thought you had dropped your meds 😁 They are a sod to make aren't they. I've been trying to make 8 tiny but obvious ones for my Algerian Merlin. Have now made 153 changes to the basic Italeri kit and still very little light at the end of the tunnel. If Mr Airfix is reading this,scale down your big one please. Any other manufacturer please feel free to do an HMA2. This is the prizewinning post so far Mr Airfix or anybody but Italeri please get on with producing two Merlins Or one with benefits of a changed tail end But the right shape With windows that sit flush like the real thing And with some of the real greeblies for under and round it 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted March 10, 2019 Author Share Posted March 10, 2019 Today was experiment with your theories Bill day I thought that the oddball reflections of modern optics might be reproduceable using metallised sweet wrappers And my new DIASPIAE thingy What does the team think? Hmm? before I pop the upper optical turret on the pole I need to remove the shine of stickering with TS-80 (other numbers are avai... well you know) its the Tamiya Matt varnish which will let me be shut of this nightmare So first the deadening must begin Horrible thick stickers on now, hated every one of them And though you get a second option for the aircraft serial number you dont get the miniature version on the fuselage engineering placard that is on the main choice Daft Not that you can actually read the wrinkled and horrible said placard when its in place over thick grillework ggrrrrr Night all 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyf117 Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 (edited) Content withdrawn - I will NOT be threatened by a moderator, simply because I queried the actions of another... Edited June 27, 2020 by andyf117 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted March 10, 2019 Author Share Posted March 10, 2019 If a company that could mould kit parts well did it, Bob's yer uncle! Still 0/10 for constructability Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huvut76g7gbbui7 Posted March 10, 2019 Share Posted March 10, 2019 40 minutes ago, perdu said: Still 0/10 for constructability Look on the bright side Bill. Plenty of square section runner for the spares box Have you seen this ? https://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=1 Scroll to bottom for nice photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyf117 Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 (edited) Content withdrawn - I will NOT be threatened by a moderator, simply because I queried the actions of another... Edited June 27, 2020 by andyf117 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted March 11, 2019 Author Share Posted March 11, 2019 Ho and indeed ho Mould well includes accurately tha knows 😀 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrislowe Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 5 hours ago, perdu said: What does the team think? I like it. It's not easy to get that right, especially in this scale! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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