perdu Posted January 9, 2022 Author Share Posted January 9, 2022 EDSG & Sky she's to be Crisp, never fear. ☺️ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted January 9, 2022 Share Posted January 9, 2022 It could have been worse I suppose 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 On 08/01/2022 at 17:48, perdu said: I enjoy this bit more G Who doesn't? Nice progress with the Dragonfly! Ciao 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted January 10, 2022 Author Share Posted January 10, 2022 Dragonfly in cockpit fitting out bay yesterday Getting some oddball etch from the kit, nice yaw pedals tho'. And as you can tell Whirly is in the paint shop after the riggers fitted the tail boom foot. All the rest of this post is to show a little (very little) progress with the rotor head detail. Although Colin said the rotor head detail should not have the circular plate I cannot find RAF HAR10s without it, even the returned to flight HAR10 has the system so I had to bow to photographic judgement and make up a suitable imitation. And from below A circle of polycard, a ring cut from Aeroclub tube and three radial spokes of Slaters plastic strip, glue and add copious cyano then when dry file the radiussed clearance groove which allows the swash plate to clear the stationary spiders on the rotor head gear. This is where I am heading Yes Crisp, full droop stop spring fitting is intended I am off to give myself another hendilesson in Fusion, I intend nailing that beast to the wall. Hmm thinks...better add green to the Whirly too. Busy day, much to do. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 That rotor head looks stunning already! Ciao 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted January 10, 2022 Author Share Posted January 10, 2022 19 minutes ago, giemme said: That rotor head looks stunning already! Ciao Thanks Giorgio, lots more to do before my droops get stopped. That circular plate needs thinning at its edge and I still have to mock up the cyclic and collective levers at the mucky end, then make a mesh cover so you can't see anything. Not an easy contraption. 😲 😄😄 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 I have to agree with Giorgio on the rotor head. As much as the rest of the build is stunning, that rotor head is a work of art 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted January 10, 2022 Author Share Posted January 10, 2022 12 minutes ago, hendie said: I have to agree with Giorgio on the rotor head. As much as the rest of the build is stunning, that rotor head is a work of art Following the master, as before Alan. Thanks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted January 10, 2022 Author Share Posted January 10, 2022 So, there's green There's mistakes And there's results. Much rectification to do, green to be added where the masking made it too faded or ripped away layers as at the windscreen but basically no more than getting lines right again, this time in colour. The eyebrow windows have a savage amount of bleed though but a dab with acetate should cure that. The pilot and his oppo can have their doorways opened out too and I can get on with making the sliders for them. Cabin door is sitting downstairs awaiting a dab of Blutack to mask the upper corner to suit then it can go on as can the newly made front undercarriage and the adapted rear legs. Time to get on with the rotor gear too Then make the 225 sqn nose badge, two sabres imposed on a fouled anchor and begin decalling a Whirly. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Bar the rectifications, the overall looks really good! Ciao 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted January 10, 2022 Author Share Posted January 10, 2022 21 minutes ago, giemme said: Bar the rectifications, the overall looks really good! Ciao I am very pleased with the 'looking through a mesh darkly' effect on the nose, seems near enough just what I was looking for. Some of my masking was askew there so that is in for correction too. Quite pleased with the overall look of the beastie. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Proper Helicopter colours! Nice. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBaron Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 Helicolour! Looking particular impressive under paint Bill - really looking forward to seeing that jewel of a rotor head coloured in. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted January 10, 2022 Share Posted January 10, 2022 I shall join the queue of admirers in my admiration of (as Pete so rightly stated) a proper helicopter in proper colors 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted January 11, 2022 Author Share Posted January 11, 2022 Glad you like her boys, on with the motley. More rotor gear done today in tiny increments. Blade incidence horns added carved from a triangular plastic extrusion I picked up at the LMS on a whim, when sliced at an angle by my Swann-Morton chisel blade it took a decent curve and looks just right for the horn's curved? angle? Oh heck its shape. Atop the hb pencil in the foreground is the spider getting its legs and being kept safe in the process. When that dried it was time to marry the parts. And trim the rods. Next I needed to find a donor for the stationary spider, I know, that old bomb-looking thing will do. Could be a bomb, could be an auxiliary tank, but now it is part of my rotor head gear. That will suffice. You think? I do NOT intend adding the control pushrods, in this scale I think they will detract although I may manage to find a mesh to fill the spaces between the pushrod places. Next will be build the rear undercarriage leg assembly, not quite what Airfix gave us though. And droop stops... There's stuff to do. 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 On 1/10/2022 at 8:31 PM, perdu said: I am very pleased with the 'looking through a mesh darkly' effect on the nose, seems So you should be Bill, it looks fantastic. As for that rotor head though, you've really excelled yourself on that! Have a pint on me! Ian 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony in NZ Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Nice one! How are you not getting dust and crap inside your big windscreen? Looks amazing! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 2 hours ago, Brandy said: Have a pint on me! Have 2 pints on Ian! Fan-bloomin-tastic work on that rotor head. In 1/48 that would be sharp work, but in 1/72... Wow. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBaron Posted January 11, 2022 Share Posted January 11, 2022 Better and better. Three pints! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted January 11, 2022 Author Share Posted January 11, 2022 Off out for three pints Mayhap even more 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted January 11, 2022 Author Share Posted January 11, 2022 several mmm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted January 11, 2022 Author Share Posted January 11, 2022 Many... 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 The cheque's in the post! Ian 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted January 12, 2022 Share Posted January 12, 2022 19 hours ago, perdu said: You think? From a purely aesthetic point of view (since I know nothing about rotor heads) it looks excellent! Ciao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted January 12, 2022 Author Share Posted January 12, 2022 I put a little Xtracrylics on the rotors, looks better even though we are still awaiting droop stops But found that just 'cos you could be happy, you shouldn't. I might be prepared to blame this on the window cleaner* but in fact I am just b-ddiddy clumsy. I have had one or two minor 'not bad' moments today though, do you remember me photocopying some mesh grids from my elderly Mecanorma catalogue? I got the first of many decals on the Whirly, two pieces of one of my 'grid mesh' decals were put to the test. Here on the back of the doghouse where the oil cooler intake sits Supposed to look like holes in the metal of the casing, gets my appro. And also under the nose sits a triangular mesh opening, a bit like this. The fin is back on with the assistance of twenty year old 5 minute epoxy, I expect it will fall off if the 'poxy is as bad as I expect. Ho hum I still have to knock out three droop stops for this and carry on with the Dragginfly's bits... *The window cleaner uses a pole and pipe and I prefer having the window shut before he nudges it shut with his pole. I heard him come through the gate and rose to reach the window handle and my overlapping stomach filled shirt rolled the model out of the 'front of bench danger zone', straight to the floor. 😬 3 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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