hendie Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 excellent work on those seats Bill. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamden Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 Those seats look great Bill, just wish I had your patience and skills with the small scale details! Looking forwards to more of the same. Roger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 Superb seats Bill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 I have to agree with what others have said, those seats really rock Bill. Impressed of Mars 👽 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 15 hours ago, andyf117 said: Love the fact that your pilots were acquired as 'underwing stores' - now I've a mental picture of redundant aircrew slung under the wings... Britmodeller strikes again; the hive mind can even identify the provenance of a club a spares box of deformed aircrew! Love it. Redundant aircrew. Or “Navigators”, as I believe the RAF call them. 7 hours ago, Martian Hale said: I have to agree with what others have said, those seats really rock Bill. Don’t rocking seats rather defeat the object? I now have a mental picture of young Bill looking steely-eyed at low level in a Chinook... singing Val Doonican songs in his rocking chair 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted August 7, 2019 Author Share Posted August 7, 2019 46 minutes ago, Ex-FAAWAFU said: I now have a mental picture of young Bill looking steely-eyed at low level in a Chinook... singing Val Doonican songs in his rocking chair Ah those were the days… 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 Bit slow on the uptake Bill (sorry) but if any of these are any good for moulds let me know and I'll post 'em over: I also have half a dozen Airfix 'chubbies' if you want them? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyf117 Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 (edited) Content withdrawn - I will NOT be threatened by a moderator, simply because I queried the actions of another...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 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vicarage Vee Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 2 minutes ago, CedB said: Bit slow on the uptake Bill (sorry) but if any of these are any good for moulds let me know and I'll post 'em over: I also have half a dozen Airfix 'chubbies' if you want them? Ced, are you imagining a Special Forces Op where they are all disguised as a 1980s ska band? 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andwil Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 20 hours ago, Vicarage Vee said: First guess, Hasegawa Sea Harrier? Got it in one. Had a look at my Hase Sea Harrier in the stash (got the Falklands double boxing) and confirm that’s where the little guy originated. AW 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted August 7, 2019 Author Share Posted August 7, 2019 So now we know where he came from. Fear not gentles, he now resides in the big box of bombs with his contemporaries. Thanks for the band offer Ced, but I am not booking a musical event soon! (I will bear them in mind though but not flying round my ceiling means I do not need to crew the Wokka) Wanders away quietly singing Mary Hopkin hits "Goodbye..." 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andyf117 Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 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...
Martian Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 1 hour ago, andyf117 said: If I Knew Then What I Know Now... Then I'd know nothing at all. (Shag Conner and the Carrot Crunchers) Martian 👽 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted August 8, 2019 Author Share Posted August 8, 2019 Seats Nightmare continued The underseat braces, my dear lord how many of them are there? The port row complete and the starboard side will be done today Then we can have the stepladder... 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry1954 Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 They look almost comfortable. Great work Bill. Terry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritag Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 1 hour ago, perdu said: Nightmare continued Results are excellent Bill; and it's keeping you occupied and out from under Mrs Bill's feet. Win Win 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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CedB Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 Good grief Bill, you're really going to town on these seats aren't you? Marvellous stuff. Making me raise my standards, as usual. I think I'm up to 'mostly acceptable but often can't be bothered' now, must try harder 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted August 8, 2019 Author Share Posted August 8, 2019 Oh dear, d'you think "Too much" Ced? Was putting lights in the ceiling panel too much too? The Wokka has had a special spot in my soul which I think explains why I am doing that extra kilometer, to myself. Not perhaps to others I know my work is untidy, I can't detail like Steve, Hendie and Crisp and your self, etc but this one needs to satisfy me It will never please a competition judge so they won't ever see it And playing with oddball materials is fun, what a great idea using napkin tissue was for the quilting Now then, whadda ya think, should I miss out the five thousand little brown seat belts for said seating? 😕 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shalako Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 On 8/7/2019 at 10:54 AM, CedB said: Who's the gang?🤣 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted August 8, 2019 Author Share Posted August 8, 2019 Kool? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 5 hours ago, perdu said: Now then, whadda ya think, should I miss out the five thousand little brown seat belts for said seating? Bill... c'mon now, surely you know the answer to that one! we're with you all the way 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 11 hours ago, perdu said: Oh dear, d'you think "Too much" Ced? Not at all, not at all… 11 hours ago, perdu said: I know my work is untidy, I can't detail like Steve, Hendie and Crisp and your self Not at all, not at all! I feel honoured to be mentioned in the same comment as the others - too kind Bill, too kind 11 hours ago, perdu said: The Wokka has had a special spot in my soul And so it's worth 'the love'. Carry on matey. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex-FAAWAFU Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 12 hours ago, perdu said: It will never please a competition judge so they won't ever see it ...says the man whose sublime teeny-weeny Wasp won a trophy at Telford. We are not worthy. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted August 12, 2019 Author Share Posted August 12, 2019 LOL @ Crisp This one will not be winning trophies, I can state this categorically because it is not going in to a class for assessment. Those were my days on the bright uplands but I just cannot quite bring myself to the point of letting minor detail abberrances annoy an 'expert' so he (she/it) can feel superior Anyway, ON with the motley, harlequin! I have been slowly, oh so very slowly putting the seat belts together for the cabin seating Each individual seat pan gets its own strap and clasp and the strap fits between each pan and the crossrail so they got poked don between the seats and glued in (I'm no longer dextrous enough to add a pip pin for each strap, sorry) Each strap has been made from the thinnest piece of decent quality paper I could find, in this case a receipt from the Dart Valley Railway which was washed in water colour several times so it was thoroughly saturated with colour so it would not have huge white centres that would show on the model after the individual piece was cut out A couple of ends were left unfastened to show straps that the loadie hasn't restrapped when he left the aircraft (most pictures show these stowed away tidy like) With the seat belts in place I needed then to add diagonal straps as originally fitted these seem to fit down on the same pick up points as the lap straps, on the lower cross rail And now it is time to check the fit and get on with the starboard side and then mark in the clasps and fittings with a 0.1 uniPiN fineliner Anybody seen a stray mojo floating around without a care? 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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