CedB Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 Crossed here Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted August 9, 2020 Author Share Posted August 9, 2020 Ta Ced Er Wot? No supermegagrippyadjustabuloclampy things to commend for grippy fabulous service Ced? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 10 hours ago, perdu said: What shall I buy to prevent me heaping more indignity on the one inch mic? This maybe? With the help of some blue tack where the gripping ends haven't got enough surface to grip to... HTH Great to know we still have a nice view of the interiors, BTW Ciao 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry1954 Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 8 hours ago, perdu said: Ta Ced Er Wot? No supermegagrippyadjustabuloclampy things to commend for grippy fabulous service Ced? Looks like you are getting a grip of things quite well enough Bill! Great work here. Terry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 9 hours ago, perdu said: Wot? No supermegagrippyadjustabuloclampy things to commend for grippy fabulous service Ced? 1 hour ago, giemme said: This maybe? Yep, that's the sort of thing I've got - 100mm ratcheting bar clamps with the Giemme AM tak: Lots on the 'net at various prices. Mine were from Toolstation and that brand has one handed ratchet AND quick release and reversible jaws for spreading or clamping. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry1954 Posted August 9, 2020 Share Posted August 9, 2020 21 minutes ago, CedB said: Lots on the 'net at various prices. Mine were from Toolstation and that brand has one handed ratchet AND quick release and reversible jaws for spreading or clamping. I so love a good clamp! Terry 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted August 10, 2020 Author Share Posted August 10, 2020 Clamping may be necessary, we have in prospect The Nose Job! Simone Plai has produced, by the uncanny miracle which is 3D print, new noses for these varieties of the AW101 and which were very quickly in my hands after discussing my needs with him on Facebook's Message facility. I am sure most of you won't find that as radical as I did but there it is. And here it is. This is only the first stage of the required alterations, this really is surgery. Adjustments to the radome posture were needed, here we are partway into the process. Easement of the mating edges (ooh matron) is required. Like so. These fingerprint like whorls are almost invisible to my poor sad old eyes, i bet you can all see them when the model is complete. Or will you, heh heh? I will be glueing this on tonight after having a look at the FLIR pod. And two unexplained small pieces of printed resin on the FLIR set. The rectangular 'looking' shape might be the rear radar responder device on AW1010s, but I am beggared, as yet as to what the small eyebrow shape is for. (Sticking up on the nearest to camera moulding peg) Happy days heh? 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marklo Posted August 10, 2020 Share Posted August 10, 2020 Lidl we’re doing those mini sash clamps a few weeks ago but I missed them. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted August 10, 2020 Author Share Posted August 10, 2020 5 minutes ago, Marklo said: Lidl we’re doing those mini sash clamps a few weeks ago but I missed them. Me too then dammit Thanks for the heads up, who knows my local one may still have stocks. I'll let you know, cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted August 12, 2020 Author Share Posted August 12, 2020 The new snout is now on. And I have run a few test circles for the FLIR camera window Simone sent a piece of that colour shifting plastic for the windows on the optical and I began by cutting circles with my DSPIAE cutter from paper. This looks about right, something else to play with. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 Clever job with those resin add-ons, Bill Is that color shifting plastic rigid of flexible, please? Ciao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted August 12, 2020 Author Share Posted August 12, 2020 It's a small piece of flexible plastic G, if I had decent WiFi I would show you but it refuses to link to postimg. 😲🤔😵 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted August 12, 2020 Author Share Posted August 12, 2020 Right let's try this This is the very stuff. 👍 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 Ah OK, great thanks! 👍 Ciao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbadbadge Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 The interior looks absolutely stunning, great work Chris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyOD Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 I suggested some "easement of the mating edges" to my wife the other night, but she wasn't having any of it. 1 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted August 12, 2020 Author Share Posted August 12, 2020 2 hours ago, TonyOD said: I suggested some "easement of the mating edges" to my wife the other night, but she wasn't having any of it. Hmm, best send her round here for orientation definitions. Soon get that sorted out for you... 🤔 (things I do for mates)... 👍 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyOD Posted August 12, 2020 Share Posted August 12, 2020 I don’t know whether to go “laugh” emoji or “thanks” emoji... so “confused” emoji it is... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted August 13, 2020 Author Share Posted August 13, 2020 Don't be confused, I say do NOT be confused. That's my job. The box top of the Revaleri HC3 shows it carrying the winch/hoist folded back against the fuselage. Lovely says I although the kit only offered the front of the two cast brackets because the rear bracket sits out of sight when the hoist is disabled and said second bracket is of a different design but unseen. Unseen describes the winch on the kit, after a very diligent search (not at all like me) I have to report it ain'tn't there. The Norwegian Merlins have a pair of hoist looking things over the large door, one is black and vaguely cylindrical, the other looks organic as if it grew out of the airframe under cultivation. Oh well more to do than expected Situation normal Would have been nice... 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 I sense a challenge in the offing do I? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted August 14, 2020 Author Share Posted August 14, 2020 Frustration You sense frustration... 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Spadgent Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 Oh Bill don’t be frustrated. Frustration is having such a busy week at work (home) working right next to the cave and having no time for plastic. THAT’S frustration. 🤪 I haven’t even looked in here. Having a lazy look tonight after a long week this here build of yours is a real tonic. 😍 The work is fantabulous and it’s filled me with the urge to plastic. Weekend tomorrow. 🤩Thanks Bill.🙌 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CedB Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 14 hours ago, perdu said: Frustration …with the winch? I think I've seen you do those before? Easy peasy for perdu! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted August 16, 2020 Author Share Posted August 16, 2020 (edited) I have been doing the very least and tiniest bits of model making recently, not sure why but... Anyway having already expended the 3D printing budget on the front of the AW101 I wasnt in a position to have the tail rotor gear modified and 3D zapped so I have had to work out how to produce the later style tail rotor setup This one, plotted perfectly by Ben for the other, larger Norwegian AW101 build in 1/48 It is quite a complex casting and if 3d printed it might be hard to make out all the details in 1/72 scale Bearing this in mind I tried out the old fashioned way of the modeller The rotor and a short length of Aeroclub miracle tube, a small stock of which I was lucky enough to be granted a fresh stock recently 👍 I made four little pieces from the tube to produce the eccentrically shaped centre hub cross shape 'Tain't perfect but then again neither am I Add the four lateral (drag?) links And half the job is finished Once the pitch change pieces are in place with the blade restraint links the whole thing will simply sink into the background The hoist brackets are under weigh but there is a fair way to go yet awhile We should be near there soon, we can see laters Edited August 16, 2020 by perdu Extra damatic effect, pursuit of ... something. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted August 17, 2020 Author Share Posted August 17, 2020 More done in little packets. The webs between the ring sections on the tail rotor structures now added and with some applied thickness to be applied, far too thin here but the built up cast materials look shouldnt take much to achieve now the structure is here And the front seats are ready for harness trimming and fitting The web of the cast centre doesnt show very well here, hmm how about? Yah that's better I hope to thicken the webs on the roundish casting to get closer to The blade assembly structure will be achieved with little nearly triangular pieces soon. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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