TonyW Posted July 9, 2020 Author Share Posted July 9, 2020 8 minutes ago, modelling minion said: Ooh yes please, we must have a close up of that fantastic moustache painted up! 9 minutes ago, modelling minion said: Ooh yes please, we must have a close up of that fantastic moustache painted up! It looks so easy with that great big zoom shot, the real world is somewhat different. I'll do me best Guv. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modelling minion Posted July 9, 2020 Share Posted July 9, 2020 24 minutes ago, TonyW said: I'll do me best Guv. We know you will. 👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyW Posted July 16, 2020 Author Share Posted July 16, 2020 A bit of a catch up required here, modelling has been a bit hit and miss here recently with building getting squeezed in where and when I can. The plane is all one bit now as a few choices have been made regarding how far I'm going to take the build. ] Interior detail is out. Looking into the cockpit of the Frankensunderland sees next to nothing visible inside. Once the interior is painted black, the eye ignores it and focuses on the framing instead. That does mean the framing has to be decent, but that's a fair trade. I'll be opening up the fuselage gun positions but the holes will get figures filling them, so my need to detail inside is very much reduced. The props need replacing. The Airfix ones have grossly oversized spinners that the early planes didn't have. I'll be digging around the parts boxes for suitable replacements. The fuselage needs a few portholes adding both to the sides and the spine. I'm in two minds as to how to display the plane, so I'm going to cover both options to remove the need to decide! A land base or a seascape would both suit the plane. The land side of things got started by ruling off a sheet of greystock card and giving it a good dirtyup. I'm after the look of a dockyard service and repair type thing. Crates, oil drums, chains and lines, tarp's and various other suitable extras dotted about should give the right feel. I'll also be building a sea base like the one below, but bigger. Here's a few pictures taken as it went together. [/url There's a bit of a gap in the build sequence now as the plane got paint applied while the camera was elsewhere. It's currently in cammo and some of the decals are on. There's a ton of paintwork yet to come but I like seeing the plane appearing out of the parts as soon as possible. An odd way of building, but it's worked for me so far. I've also bought a few Dart Castings to use in the dockyard. Really nice poses, very casual and restrained. The poses are just about spot on for Brit workers, man with hands in pockets, man leaning on broom, that type of thing. A few of these added to the plane should give a nice sense of scale and purpose to the whole thing. The ones in overalls look suitably military. The others can be civvy types. I'll add pins to the feet so I can use them on other bases. More as it happens. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modelling minion Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Very nice work on the Sunderland Tony, she's gone together very quickly and fitted well from what I can see. Those figures look really good, some nice natural poses there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dansk Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Looks like this one’s gonna be another great success Tony. I love the figures, they’re really gonna work well with the base. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Dean Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 Just a general question about the beaching gear. Was there a facility to take it with them (carried somewhere in the fuselage) or were they totally reliant on the base they were going to having a ready supply? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyW Posted July 16, 2020 Author Share Posted July 16, 2020 Going by the size of the things, I would say they were base items. I doubt they would fit through the access doors of the plane. I could be wrong though, it's happened before. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterB Posted July 16, 2020 Share Posted July 16, 2020 (edited) AFAIK the side mounts were fitted with floatation aids (boxes) so when they were put in the water a boat came alongside, disconnected them, and towed them back to shore, the procedure being reversed on landing. There were no hatches big enough to take them onboard and the performance would not benefit from the extra weight I guess. The tail "trolley" was probably recovered by the tractor when they floated off the ramp. May be wrong. Looking forward to seeing how you deal with the side gun hatches Tony - I think I would have done them before closing up the fuselage (or is it still unglued?). but we all have our own way of doing things - eg you paint and decal well before I would in most cases, though I did that with the Lincoln and Shackleton due to the sheer size of the ruddy things - would not fit in my spray booth otherwise. Pete Edited July 16, 2020 by PeterB 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyW Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 Just now, TonyW said: I've two plans in place for the gun positions Pete, both involve a bit of visual deception. Plan one involves the dockyard scenario version and calls for the plane undergoing a bit of casual work going on around the gun positions using some of the figures I've just bought. The train crew bod leaning out, arms folded will be put into a gun position to fill the void, looking down from above. Possibly two bods if needed. Another figure or two on the deck, looking up, will help this look right I hope. The second position will either be closed up or possibly a tarp covering it with the occupied open position having the tarp rolled away from it. A bit of experimentation called for here. The second option, with the plane above a water base, is to have a couple of Airfix pilots with their head and shoulders poking through the cutouts, again filling the void. There's a few nice photo's showing this sort of thing in my references. Yet more experimentation called for here as well. If neither option looks right, the gun positions will be done closed up. I would rather avoid that as the positions are a very prominent part of the Mk1. Tony. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyW Posted July 29, 2020 Author Share Posted July 29, 2020 I've been a bit distracted from the GB for a week or so, my modelling shed is undergoing yet another re-vamp. I got given a load of office filing cabinets that were too good to pass on. The shed has been ripped apart and things are only just returning to normal in there. Normal service will be resumed in a day or so. In the meanwhile, have a couple of box top pictures instead... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modelling minion Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 Always good to look at such fantastic box art, this was one of my favourite Airfix box arts, brilliantly painted and with so much action going on, who wouldn't want to buy that kit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul821 Posted August 1, 2020 Share Posted August 1, 2020 On 6/28/2020 at 9:18 PM, TonyW said: The more I find out, the less I know. Name that song. Having just found this thread, and marvelled at the build - I found no one seems to have answered this question: Presuming the full quote is "For the more I learn it's the less I seem to know" it's from Rosie by the great Richard Thompson and first heard on a Fairport Convention LP. for anyone who wnats to experience Mr Thompson live head to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMzMcRsGBw4h6wIR8WYLW_g next Saturday as Fairport’s Cropredy Convention is virtual this year and Richard will be "appearing" https://www.fairportconvention.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brigbeale Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 (edited) I’ve also just found this thread. ’I’m following it with great interest as I’ve just received my eBay ‘special’ Sunderland which is also the discoloured white plastic with remnants of the original decals on. 1 blade on each prop broken, rudder off due to fin tip broken (probably in post by Hermes), elevator broken off, 1 float off and the other missing. Bombs missing but racks present. No beaching gear. Single nose gun broken off, but turret slides and turns. rear turret guns broken off and rear gunner seems to have suffered from severe turbulence as he’s loose in the rear turret. And finally a headless co-pilot!!🤷🏻♂️. I might get round to it after iv’e finished my Wellington restoration. Edited August 3, 2020 by Brigbeale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyW Posted August 14, 2020 Author Share Posted August 14, 2020 Sorry guys, this one's not going to be done in time. Honest... I ran out of gas. I... I had a flat tire. I didn't have enough money for cab fare. My tux didn't come back from the cleaners. An old friend came in from out of town. Someone stole my car. There was an earthquake. A terrible flood.... Locusts.... It wasn't my fault. I swear to god! That lot of excuses didn't help Jake and they won't help me either. My excuses aren't quite as inventive. A full on building shed revamp didn't help. Nor did the last few days heatwave, near 100 degrees in the shed wasn't exactly comfortable for building. Basically, the outside world got in the way a bit. A partial list of jobs outstanding on the Sunderland include: Gun positions and portholes on the fuselage. It needs a bit of cockpit detailing as the interior through the canopy is a bit more apparent than I first thought. Props need sourcing as the early Sunderlands didn't have the huge spinners Airfix provide. The paintjob needs correcting all over the place and a base for the model to sit on is still undecided. I'm still plenty keen on finishing the build but rushing now would quite likely spoil things. Here's how things looked yesterday... Ho Hum, I got a few others over the finish line during the GB and I really enjoyed taking part. Thank you to the organisers, your efforts to keep things rolling have been very much appreciated here. On the plus side, the shed revamp is working out just fine. The cabinets on the left took a bit of fitting as they weigh a ton and the new workbench feels far more comfortable than the old one. The cabinets were free, from an office clearance a mate just did! I added olive green paint to give them a bit of age. Tony 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinxman Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 Nice looking cave - plenty of fun to be had there! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
modelling minion Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 Really sorry that your Sunderland won't get finished in time Tony but you really have nothing to worry about mate as you have been a stalwart of this GB and built some fantastic models. Your modelling shed looks awesome, I could be happy in there for hours, if not days! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dansk Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 What craig said Tony. All your amazing work has been really appreciated and a joy to watch them all come to fruition in the GB, we’ll keep an eye out for the sunderland finish when you have good time. 👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyOD Posted January 20, 2021 Share Posted January 20, 2021 On 6/29/2020 at 8:23 PM, PeterB said: All I know about lanolin is that AFAIK the wool textile industry in my home town of Bradford produced a lot of it as a side product of washing and cleaning the wool before weaving it. More Bradford reminiscences.... I started by career in t'wool trade as an exports salesman for W & J Whitehead in Laisterdyke. Lanolin was indeed a byproduct, it was extracted from the fleeces during scouring (washing) and sold on for various uses including as a main ingredient for hand cream. As part of my apprenticeship I spent a couple of months with the sorters, old-timers who sorted the raw wool when it arrived. After a few weeks of doing this I had wonderfully soft hands and nice shiny nails! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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