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45 minutes ago, Pete in Lincs said:

The ventilation pipes went up to a 'punkalouvre' device which memory says was similar to that fitted to Ford Cortina's.

Round and you twisted the centre to turn it on or off. They were bolted to the underside of the instrument panel.

It used to be that about where your pipes end there was an ashtray! Imagine half a large orange in unpainted aluminium.

I suppose they were all removed at some point but I don't know when.

On the OCU, one of our pilots regularly left his smokes and Zippo in the cockpit.

Yep got it PiL, clearly seen on the bottom right of the panel. I’m considering either slicing off the moulded pipe and attach it or making something up and continuing the to the panel. Looking at the kit it looks like they are actually there.

 

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I used bits from this kit in one of my Sci Fi builds earlier this year. I should still have the IP in a box of bits.

You're doing better than I did when I built mine though. And that must have been circa 1985!

In my defence, modelling has come on in leaps and bounds since then!

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Steady and slow. I don’t model all the time as I have a Garden allotment to take care of as well, including minor garden maintenance at this time of year, oh and changing the oil on my Sons car and disassembling my wife’s car to diagnose a rumbling belt tensioner!. Anyway enough moaning. The rear of the instrument panel is now done and drying. I don’t think it’s particularly accurate but I’ll call it representative. Instrument backings were made out of different scales of Sidewinders and the wiring was 0.2mm lead wire. All painted black and then lightened with a grey pastel. A bit of white added after the instrument to indicate the initial wiring before being loomed. Again white and yellow spots for the cable ID (I knew the EWIS training would come in handy). I’ll concentrate on the instrument faces once it’s all dry and I’ve had a Tea. Then I’ll offer it up for mounting to the main panel and get the angle right. The cowling has been sprayed and a little wear added then matted off.

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Again if you see something I’ve done wrong, pipe up.

 

Steve.

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So I’ve done the dials and then glazed them over with clear varnish followed by Klear. The cowling has been attached. I’ve offered up the cockpit flooring and immediately you may see I’ll have to adjust the wrap around side of the armoured seat, as it’s wider than what the glasing will allow. I’m going to leave off the instrument panel as I work on the crew and seats, then clamp them in with the panel.

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Plodding along the last few days. I concentrated on the overhead cockpit panel. All painted up with the centre panel distinctly more Matt than the surround. I made the yellow/black warning handle from 0.2mm lead wire and shaped it. The worn rivet heads were represented using a micro drill. A bit of white painted over with zinc chromate to simulate hand wear. The handles at the front are set in another cutting from a 1/72 sidewinder and spare etch brass.

 

Working on the allotment tomorrow, so for now.

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Speedy, The overhead console looks good. If I remember rightly, the black/yellow handle was a crash switch which knocked off the main switches when operated.

Of the other stuff up there...

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The striped levers ((blue/black on RAF Puma) are fuel (I think) Yellow are the throttles and the red one is the rotor brake. Off in this case. Pull back to set to On.

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Thanks PiL. I used this as my reference, but will leave as is for now as I’d have to take them off to stripe them. I assume the referenced one got painted black outside of service use?
 

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This picture is of a French aircraft. The RAF ones were blue black.

All I was ever allowed to play with was the rotor brake handle!

 

In you ref picture, the framework that that has scuffed down to yellow primer,

was to prevent Aircrew Bonedomes from knocking the switches about as they climbed in and out.

One of the switches up there is the Battery Master switch!

 

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Well this seems a while since I’ve posted. I’ve focused on the bent mast and no end of heating in hot water to try and straighten it was successful. So I cut it off and drilled it out, adding a new mast from plastic tube and I cut off and glued on the original top mount for the head. The blades have been glued on. Pilots have been ordered so will wait for them to arrive so I can finish the cockpit.

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On 12/17/2020 at 7:40 AM, sammy da fish said:

Sorry what is the time frame of the model.

 Sammy

This will definitely be finished in 2021:lalala:

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This difficult to explain Speedy. M R Head looking down from above as we will do mainly, the MR Blades are not 90% to each other. They flop forward on their drag dampers. One drag damper per blade. So most of the times the blades are parked to make it easier to fit better in to the hanger. So with ease These pesky drag dampers and looking down on the aircraft most of the time the two forward blades are parked what is called 10 to 2. But once the drag dampers come in to effect which only about 10-15 seconds after shut down then these two blades actually start moving forward under the slow movement of Hydraulic action. This movement is about 9-12’ so they go further forward. This action also applies to the rear two blades which try to come forward until they hit the stops on the head. This is not that easy to explain. Further to this when the pilot shuts down the a/c he tries to gauge where to stop the blades so that he gets this 10-2 position of the blades. Reason for as explained above it’s easier to get in to the hangar and if and when you have to fit blade socks which are secured to the tie down points below cockpit and one each on the sponsons. 
sorry I know you a little past assembling the MR blades/ head.  
sammy

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14 minutes ago, sammy da fish said:

This difficult to explain Speedy. M R Head looking down from above as we will do mainly, the MR Blades are not 90% to each other. They flop forward on their drag dampers. One drag damper per blade. So most of the times the blades are parked to make it easier to fit better in to the hanger. So with ease These pesky drag dampers and looking down on the aircraft most of the time the two forward blades are parked what is called 10 to 2. But once the drag dampers come in to effect which only about 10-15 seconds after shut down then these two blades actually start moving forward under the slow movement of Hydraulic action. This movement is about 9-12’ so they go further forward. This action also applies to the rear two blades which try to come forward until they hit the stops on the head. This is not that easy to explain. Further to this when the pilot shuts down the a/c he tries to gauge where to stop the blades so that he gets this 10-2 position of the blades. Reason for as explained above it’s easier to get in to the hangar and if and when you have to fit blade socks which are secured to the tie down points below cockpit and one each on the sponsons. 
sorry I know you a little past assembling the MR blades/ head.  
sammy

That’s quite alright and thanks very much. This is going to be a flyer, so research showed yesterday the clear housing on the extreme top and the 4 clear pots (same as Gazelle) and the associated plumbing. I was experimenting with blurry blades yesterday evening and I think I’ve found a viable solution (oooh the anticipation). This is ongoing so bear with while I continue, although the build is naturally going to slow down at this time of the year. To be continued........

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2 hours ago, sammy da fish said:

Are you fitting the load pole?

Yes. It’s all painted up and in the built pile with the wheels. I’ve got the ceiling around the doors to do yet though.

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Just remember it has restraint cable from the forward bulkhead to the pole. And two small bungees from the pole to a p clip on one of the arms of the footstep. This is to stop it banging into the edges of the load pole bay corners.

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Hello folks and here we go again for 2021. I didn’t do anything mentionable over the festive season as I tend to focus on the occasional. Anyway back on it and this report is on the warped rotor head and Aircrew, which arrived from China. They are US crew but some judicious filling and sanding they’ll pass. I filled in the trousers and arms to hide the rolled up sleeves and high leg showing boots. I sanded off the visor and created a more appropriate one from 10thou plasticard, I’ve yet to do the visor arms though. The rotorhead was not tall enough, so I cut off the fluid chamber and gave it height with some cut down tube. The 4 angled fluid pots have had the filling funnels added. The basic hyd hoses have also been added but you could go mad here and I’m not. Just the 4 actuators to add . All the sink marks have been filled and smoothed. Now the MRBs’. This is going to be a flyer. So my faithful hard plastic bird suet feed from B&M has donated it’s four sides. I used the kit parts for length and general shape and by eye widened it after studying photo’s of flying cabs blurry blades. They were cut out with an electrical gadget but they were a bit weavy so I’ll do another set. 
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As usual thanks for looking and following.

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The difference a week makes, as they say. I’ve been doing 10mins here and there each night. The seats have now been glued in place then the pilots tacked in place so I could set the arms and head with superglue its there or there abouts. The pilots have been primed with Halfords primer and then what seemed ages of mixing paint to the right shade, the pilots flying suit and camouflage jacket were painted. The pilots helmets had a paper mache roll to replicate the visor cover. I’m going to add a disc on the harness lock at their waists and then fit then into the seats. The arms will then fall to the controls as they were set. I’m going to add an open map to the LHS pilot to fill his hands.

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And I used this for colour reference 

https://7squadronassociation.com/photographs

http://www.flightgear.dk/rafhelmets.htm

 

Thanks for looking.
 

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