Fritag Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 1 hour ago, perdu said: Slowly, gets the prize, I am remaking the canopy buck this morning. OK so. I’m gonna withold the (inevitable) praise for a canopy well moulded until I’m sure it’s the final one 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBaron Posted November 4, 2021 Share Posted November 4, 2021 3 hours ago, perdu said: Little bit of gentle trimming and say "Hi Unca Bob" A future civilization <Attenborough voice> will imagine from such evidence that there was once a religious movement who worshipped these holy relics. The Uncabobs.... Some seriously graceful shaping and structuring in evidence in those last couple of posts Bill. 👏 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted November 4, 2021 Author Share Posted November 4, 2021 A mild splothering of greenalike, this will do for me. Trimming to suit on the model is obviously going to be needed when it is time. Simply sitting here just, well, because. Yeah that'll do. Where is that canopy buck? 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted November 5, 2021 Author Share Posted November 5, 2021 Well this is embarrassing. That carefully crafted entity, as usual, way too huge. Luckily I have many Swann-Morton number two craft knife blades Using Bubble, the test piece canopy, shows the error of my ways At least the reduced in size item looks ok to build round. I can't actually do this until the new canopy has been vac-ced and trimmed then the gearbox deck can be closed up, cockpit painted and detailed Still I now feel a tiny raised tripping point is safely passed, phew Another potential raised slab, you may recall my embarrassing misunderstanding of the oddly shaped fuel system protecting assembly under the belly of @hendie's Whirlwind. No worries if you don't but I do Taking my lead from Alan's sculpture I made and fitted a new casing to replace the oblong box Airfix gave us, which Nabe's excellent photo-walkaround make very clear, just a couple of small pipes to add, fore and aft under there Today I will be heading to the LMS to pick up some fine walled 6 and 7 mm tube for the jetpipe and the piece of visible donk down in the hole... 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 Coming along nicely Bill. Nabe's website is a mine of useful information isn't it? He takes a lot of shots from angles that a lot of photographers don't usually consider - all very useful in determining what those miscellaneous greeblies really look like 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted November 5, 2021 Author Share Posted November 5, 2021 I thought I would make the jet pipe hole before I stick the nose on and went shopping for 6mm tubing for the pipe An early, not likely to be the last, attempt at the subtle curve on the end And to add interest down in the hole I put in ancillary tubing for the gear on the end of the Gnome Raw beginnings 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted November 5, 2021 Author Share Posted November 5, 2021 I know the front of the nose isnt right yet, it will be. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Spadgent Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 That there is some lovely crafting Bill. The rotor gear thingymajawhatsit is a thingymajawhatsit of beauty. Lovely stuff. 👏👏👏 Johnny. ps. I’m a little bit jealous of your LMS visit. I haven’t been to mine in years. It’s in Brum. 😩 Johnny. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertie McBoatface Posted November 5, 2021 Share Posted November 5, 2021 19 minutes ago, The Spadgent said: That there is some lovely crafting Bill. The rotor gear thingymajawhatsit is a thingymajawhatsit of beauty. Lovely stuff. 👏👏👏 Johnny. ps. I’m a little bit jealous of your LMS visit. I haven’t been to mine in years. It’s in Brum. 😩 Johnny. Is Birmingham under siege? 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Spadgent Posted November 6, 2021 Share Posted November 6, 2021 9 hours ago, Bertie Psmith said: Is Birmingham under siege? No it’s not. I usually work in Birmingham but due to the pandemic we have been working from home. Still in place until next year for us. Maybe longer. So it’s a bit of a jaunt to get to the shop. 😩 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted November 6, 2021 Author Share Posted November 6, 2021 10 hours ago, Bertie Psmith said: Is Birmingham under siege? Actually it is under siege from its own elected city council who have declared a 'major hate' for the motor car.* If Johnty's LMS is in Brum proper I would guess he might attend the fabulous little shop in Hockley, Parabellum which gets harder to park near by the minute. Other potential shops to enjoy would be welcome if they could be listed. *The Almost Legendary Motor Car Hate I can drive into and through Birmingham's Inner Zone in my 1966 MG Midget, exempt by age from sanctions. I can not drive into or through said zone in my 1990 MGF, too mucky by far even with catatonic diverters on it. I can drive into and through ditto in our 2007 Ford Focus exempt from sanctions because compliant. I don't worry, when I need to go into Brum I will, as proper, use the buzz. And for modelling extras there is Scale Modelworld at Telford next very weekend, yeehaw! 1300 next the Birmingham IPMS stand is a date if anyone fancies getting in the almost legendary huddle of BMers On Tour. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted November 6, 2021 Author Share Posted November 6, 2021 It is no good. No not only the methods used to make the Dragginfly but also putting making it off. #1 methods: find bits and throw glue at them, some might stick and some might even be in the proper place, roughly. #2 the kit: mould shapes but forget any method of registry or other alignment, any. #3 transparent bits: brown acetootleTg, the kit exhorts me to attack the innards of the clear bits with abrasives, polishes and elbow grease which might make them clear enough to see inside... Hmmmm.............. I rejected option #4 which would have entailed removing windows individually and replacing them from curved clear bit if I could. Option rejected and cutting begins You know what Rod said, "First cut is the awryist". Actually the first one wasnt bad but the second horizontalist one was a lot grim, as if in some Fairy tales to frighten grown-ups Luckily there was a deliberate intention to leave excess at the first cuts, trimming of the clear (ho ho) bits is on the agenda. The strange assemblage continued for a while longer. Yes that is a broken tail rotor on that sprue, ho hum said Pooh. The deliberate asymmetric side wall cuts show nicely here, they are out of kilter to allow me a chance of hiding some of the actual moulding decisions MPM, bless 'em made. I won't keep ragging them, damn it I quite like quirky after all and the Dragonfly has been imprinted in my psyche for nearly sixty five years. I love 'em. Now for more stuff on the Whirly canopy, polishing and the like. 👋 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted November 7, 2021 Share Posted November 7, 2021 I’ve just realised that my presence in the BM Massif meet up at SMW is contingent on me finding a petrol station that sells petrol this week… Lovely work on the Whirlwind! Looking forward to the Dragonfly but really here for hints on the Whirlwind, cos I really want to do the type 3 baggie Antarctic version. Regards, Adrian 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted November 7, 2021 Author Share Posted November 7, 2021 Hope you dont think I am setting up that gerflangered tripod at this time on a Sunday morning Hand helds only this a.m A fortunate find of crosshatched metal backed plastic from a medication pack has given me the ideal product to make the sound proofed box (ha ha) behind the driver and his buddy. A little careful cutting and trimming kept scale creep at bay The grossly truncated MGB can now be located, struts added and sidewalls placed round it. Not sure yet whether to add the gearbox cooling fan which will live under the rear cover and will be absolutely invisible when in... 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted November 7, 2021 Author Share Posted November 7, 2021 8 hours ago, perdu said: The grossly truncated MGB can now be located, struts added and sidewalls placed round it. Almost Somebody ought to tidy those seatbelts, bet no-one will. And with the walls to add To be trimmed ciao 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heloman1 Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 Progress is good Bill... Colin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Posted November 8, 2021 Share Posted November 8, 2021 16% achieved! Still looking good though Bill! Ian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted November 9, 2021 Author Share Posted November 9, 2021 Us does what we can Ian, thankee very kindly! In which vein I needed to replace the gearbox oil cooler compartment cover after savagely hacking it about to tackle the canopy. Last Whirly I did I left the Airfix plastic in place and wangled the canopy fall-back section inside, but I wasn't happy with it. Not too chuffed with this method either but its worth a try, a suitably shaped Milliblob used as a former for a quick and dirty 'pull moulding' I made a couple and still have the blob if neither of these pans out Yes that is the aforesaid blob and the spare pulled piece. It looks a bit crude at the moment but I see promise in it, we'll see later maybe. Ah... Just seen this up on the shelf I'd better get a shift on if it's to be ready for Telford. Next year. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted November 10, 2021 Author Share Posted November 10, 2021 This Did I not like this... With a few layers of 'shiny' on the clear bits and around the rest of the masking it ought to do. Wasn't fun and is maybe an hour anna huff I am never getting back any time soon. Anyway, off to crib Alan's 28 sqn Whirly thread for a quick copy of his loadie rail in the cabin, hoping Postimage has gotten over its huff in there yesterday. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted November 10, 2021 Author Share Posted November 10, 2021 Loadie rail cribbed and in, but its dark in there so I am not about to make Ian's 16% turn into 17%. Maybe a picture later. Time it was and what a time it was - a time , of innocence...a time for confidences. Maybe, anyway I decided something had to happen to make these disparate parts a model helicopter so time to stick-'em, confidently together. Mind you confidence can be misplaced... When I Milliblobbed the nose the other day I expected some more reshaping to ensue It has Work to do on the nose and boy do I get nasty vibes from the tail end. Off with its tail then And insert a length of sacrificial American fighter drop tank, gone to a better place now into the tube and to be glued in place with a dollop of Milliput which I can also use to fair in the ends and sides. The nose has had some side swiping with the uberfile, but obviously needs some more work . It will not be a quick five minute job methinks. Side profile looks about right though Mine is not going to get the Vokes type filter that Alan fitted beautifully, in Borneo Boys one of the technicians called it 84 pounds of wasted weight which means I might have to make a mesh type front panel as was used at the time, hmm not an easy option either. Time it is, to ponder... 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted November 10, 2021 Share Posted November 10, 2021 Brilliant work Bill. Like you say, a bit of work needed on the nose but you have that sorted in no time. It's coming along as per(du) SOP. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted November 11, 2021 Author Share Posted November 11, 2021 OK as Alan said getting more symmetry on the nose was not awfully difficult and I think we will be fine where we are but... Alan used the large sand filter on his Whirly but I didnt fancy it and knew from reading The Borneo Boys that the early Whirlwinds serving in Borneo did not have them. From photos I could just make out that the frontal area changed significantly from the 60s to the configuration familiar to us latterly, so I put out an appeal for help, my mate Mike rushed in to help This is the nose I need/want/must make the cab up as This view makes it seem the helicopters were painted in the replacement undersides scheme of Light Aircraft Grey instead of the normal High Speed Silver, comes as a shock to me because I expected silver underneath if they were not black as on later RAF helicopters. So I now have to make mesh panels which don't look daft... With the reshaped nose up to scratch I decided to try pull moulding a piece of acetate over it with a view to making a see through nose panel. I plastered the moulding with red marker pen which I might then be able to clean off when I finish marking the cutting zones. Placed a little dab of blue to give me a datum before I get the cutting under weigh. Busy day now, laters folks. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 Lipstick??? And a wonky nose? I'd sue. Where's our lawyer? Oh yes, he's off playing..... But in all seriousness, coming along in leaps and bounds and better in every (in focus) view! Ian 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted November 11, 2021 Author Share Posted November 11, 2021 You don't like lipstick? Got it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted November 11, 2021 Share Posted November 11, 2021 now that's what I call challenging. Compared to that nose I think the sand filter was a walk in the park. looking forward to seeing the masterpiece emerge. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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