Alan P Posted July 24, 2021 Share Posted July 24, 2021 Those stabs are probably the same size as an average model's main wings! Looking very impressive indeed. Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k5054nz Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 Every time you post an update on this I think back to my visits to my "local" (5-6hr drive away) Sunderland and how I have to crane my neck to look at certain components. I love this build so much. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomprobert Posted July 25, 2021 Author Share Posted July 25, 2021 16 hours ago, Alan P said: Those stabs are probably the same size as an average model's main wings! Looking very impressive indeed. Alan It is indeed a large model, Alan - here's my daughter (she's 5) 'modelling' it for you to see how big it is! All the best, Tom 19 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamS Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 Wow, that is big! Love these big builds. Your daughter a Westworld robot? 😁 Graham 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomprobert Posted July 25, 2021 Author Share Posted July 25, 2021 7 hours ago, GrahamS said: Wow, that is big! Love these big builds. Your daughter a Westworld robot? 😁 Graham Ha ha! We’re really careful when it comes to publishing pictures of our children on the internet. If they want to post images of themselves when they’re older that’s their decision, but we’ll never publish any identifiable images of them online. And I’ve actually been lying to you all along. My daughter is actually a midget and this is only 1/72nd scale! All the best, Tom 2 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 Good job it wasn't a windy day! It's an impressive size indeed. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cngaero Posted July 25, 2021 Share Posted July 25, 2021 That's one huge chunk of plastic. It's really coming along nicely now. I'd love to see how and where you display all your wonderful creations. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomprobert Posted July 25, 2021 Author Share Posted July 25, 2021 1 hour ago, cngaero said: I'd love to see how and where you display all your wonderful creations. They all live in the attic on shelving in the eves. Far from glamorous but reasonably dust free and out of the way. My smaller models all go in IKEA crates and are stacked on top of each other which makes getting to a model at the bottom of the stack a bit of a chore but they’re well protected and again safe from dust and knocks. Room is rapidly running out now unfortunately and this Sunderland, my 1/48th B-52 and 1/32 Shackleton will take the last available spaces. A rethink will then be needed as I’ve got a few more large ones lined up such as the HK Lancaster and HB B-24, and I’ve also got a vacform 1/32 Stirling and 1/32 Catalina lined up too. Fun times! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Headroom Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 Wow. If your daughter has hamsters, they could move in quite comfortably 😂 Trevor 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deano353 Posted July 26, 2021 Share Posted July 26, 2021 Very impressive model probably one of the largest I've seen! That would look great in a base with resin water in my opinion. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomprobert Posted July 27, 2021 Author Share Posted July 27, 2021 9 hours ago, Deano353 said: Very impressive model probably one of the largest I've seen! That would look great in a base with resin water in my opinion. Indeed it would - it’s just the display base would need to be 4ft x 4ft as a minimum and the wife might get a bit excited about that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deano353 Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 4X4 ft wow still though better to ask forgiveness than permission 🤣🤣🤣 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Army_Air_Force Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 7 hours ago, tomprobert said: .....the display base would need to be 4ft x 4ft In that case, I'd apply for permission from the Mrs for a garden pond, with a scale slipway/seaplane ramp. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heloman1 Posted July 27, 2021 Share Posted July 27, 2021 Wow Tom, it's huge but looking very good indeed. Please thank your daughter for offering to show it off so well! Colin 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomprobert Posted July 29, 2021 Author Share Posted July 29, 2021 Afternoon guys and gals, Another update for you - can you tell I'm a teacher on school holidays? I've been working on the last of the major airframe construction which has been the vertical stabiliser. Here's how it comes in its raw form: As usual, I had to scribe on the surface details and then I set about making some internal reinforcements. Being such a massive fin, I made some beefy spars from plastic card and used some old scrap sprue to reinforce and help the bonding of the leading edge. The spars were made to protrude from the base of the fin, as they would then be attached through the top of the fuselage and secured to the spar for the stabilisers using Araldite Epoxy glue for a really solid joint: The fin was then blended into the upper fuselage with car body filler, polished and then the missing and damaged panel detail reinstated. Unfortunately, the distinctive curved fairing at the lower rear of the fin was missing in the kit, so I fashioned the basic shape of the fillet from plastic card and blended everything in with filler - see the red arrow below. This will still need some more tweaking when I work on the turret as it's actually quite a complex shape at the back end: I've also added some Evergreen ribbing on the rudder in an attempt to match the elevators - this has since been sanded right back and is much more subtle: It's now looking more and more like a Sunderland: It's good to get the main construction done and I've been on a bit of a roll... the next logical step will be the engines so I'm off to do some head-scratching about how I can convert a 14-cylinder Hercules engine (from the Revell 1/32nd Beaufighter) into a 9-cylinder Pegasus. Should be fun! Until next time, Tom 17 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenko Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 25 minutes ago, tomprobert said: Another update for you - can you tell I'm a teacher on school holidays? Just wait till you retire and think of ALL the time you have for modelling Dick Retired teacher. Anyway, brilliant as ever. I really cannot get over the size of it. Should be interesting displaying it at shows. Mind you the old venue for Southern Expo did have a pond out side...... Dick Enjoy the break👍👍👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomprobert Posted July 29, 2021 Author Share Posted July 29, 2021 1 hour ago, jenko said: Just wait till you retire and think of ALL the time you have for modelling Dick Retired teacher. Anyway, brilliant as ever. I really cannot get over the size of it. Should be interesting displaying it at shows. Mind you the old venue for Southern Expo did have a pond out side...... Dick Enjoy the break👍👍👍 Retirement... that's unfortunately a long way off yet but during the summer holidays it's as if I am! I remember that pond well - I haven't done a buoyancy test with this yet as it won't fit in the bath. I may have to get the kids' paddling pool out... All the best, Tom 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Headroom Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 1 minute ago, tomprobert said: I may have to get the kids' paddling pool out... Photos or it didn’t happen! 🤣 Trevor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomprobert Posted July 29, 2021 Author Share Posted July 29, 2021 4 hours ago, Max Headroom said: Photos or it didn’t happen! 🤣 Trevor I genuinely think it will float as it’s so light - whether the hull is watertight or not is another matter 😬 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radpoe Spitfire Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 6 hours ago, tomprobert said: Afternoon guys and gals, Another update for you - can you tell I'm a teacher on school holidays? I've been working on the last of the major airframe construction which has been the vertical stabiliser. Here's how it comes in its raw form: As usual, I had to scribe on the surface details and then I set about making some internal reinforcements. Being such a massive fin, I made some beefy spars from plastic card and used some old scrap sprue to reinforce and help the bonding of the leading edge. The spars were made to protrude from the base of the fin, as they would then be attached through the top of the fuselage and secured to the spar for the stabilisers using Araldite Epoxy glue for a really solid joint: The fin was then blended into the upper fuselage with car body filler, polished and then the missing and damaged panel detail reinstated. Unfortunately, the distinctive curved fairing at the lower rear of the fin was missing in the kit, so I fashioned the basic shape of the fillet from plastic card and blended everything in with filler - see the red arrow below. This will still need some more tweaking when I work on the turret as it's actually quite a complex shape at the back end: I've also added some Evergreen ribbing on the rudder in an attempt to match the elevators - this has since been sanded right back and is much more subtle: It's now looking more and more like a Sunderland: It's good to get the main construction done and I've been on a bit of a roll... the next logical step will be the engines so I'm off to do some head-scratching about how I can convert a 14-cylinder Hercules engine (from the Revell 1/32nd Beaufighter) into a 9-cylinder Pegasus. Should be fun! Until next time, Tom This is looking amazing Tom👍 ike manyI cannot wait to see the finished Model. In spite of 50years a modeller, I have never had a Sunderland in any scale🤫 Ironically this is one aircraft I should have a model of. My late uncle Stuart was REME during National Service, but attached to the RAF, working on Sunderlands at Pembroke. Eventually he became a Trustee when the RAFM's Sunderland was first kept at Pembroke. Being an electrical engineer, he built a system for the rear turret, which played the sound of machine guns when the triggers were pulled. I'd love to find out if this is still in place or was removed when taken into RAFM care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bentwaters81tfw Posted July 29, 2021 Share Posted July 29, 2021 I was given an Airfix one for Christmas one year. It did float, so yours should. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 Hopefully you won’t have to spend the rest of the summer hols adjusting ballast so that it floats on the right waterline… It is looking splendid! Regards, Adrian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomprobert Posted July 30, 2021 Author Share Posted July 30, 2021 15 hours ago, Radpoe Spitfire said: This is looking amazing Tom👍 like many I cannot wait to see the finished Model. In spite of 50 years a modeller, I have never had a Sunderland in any scale🤫 Ironically this is one aircraft I should have a model of. My late uncle Stuart was REME during National Service, but attached to the RAF, working on Sunderlands at Pembroke. Eventually he became a Trustee when the RAFM's Sunderland was first kept at Pembroke. Being an electrical engineer, he built a system for the rear turret, which played the sound of machine guns when the triggers were pulled. I'd love to find out if this is still in place or was removed when taken into RAFM care. I've never had another Sunderland other than this one too - to be fair a 1/72nd version would be far more manageable... And a great story about your uncle - I too wonder if the turret is still 'operational'..? 3 hours ago, AdrianMF said: Hopefully you won’t have to spend the rest of the summer hols adjusting ballast so that it floats on the right waterline… It is looking splendid! Regards, Adrian Ha ha - that's something I didn't consider when I was building the fuselage and I'm not willing to take it apart to rectify that now! Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pentel_5 Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 Extraordinary workmanship!!! Congratulations!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TEXANTOMCAT Posted July 30, 2021 Share Posted July 30, 2021 This is brilliant. I mean mental, obviously, but brilliant TT 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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