perdu Posted October 12, 2021 Author Share Posted October 12, 2021 Hmm that is a thought. I know it's a thought because I've had it myself before. Trying again with pictures, I have been getting cabin fever in there Some tidying is due before I close it, but that ain't happening until I have put in some seating. And sorted out the interior paintwork finally, must buy new brushes Cockpit working begins... nightol 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 I use my phone for all my pics. The Samsung camera is fantastic. Isn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted October 12, 2021 Author Share Posted October 12, 2021 True, mine is brilliant but do like the Olympus on its tripod. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyot Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 The Whirlwind 10 is coming along mate,...... I have one planned myself from the Italeri kit but wasn`t envisioning so much work,..... mybe I`ll just be winging mine rather going the whole hog like you are,....... cannot wait to see what you do with this one, Cheers Tony 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted October 13, 2021 Author Share Posted October 13, 2021 Don't forget the Italeri kit is a different kettle of bananas Tony, if you have the H-19B you have found the holy grail and basically will get a different set of tasks to mine. And a more accurate place from which to begin. I kept being gazumped on eBay before I gave in to the inevitable and used the Airfixerupper. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyot Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 14 hours ago, perdu said: Don't forget the Italeri kit is a different kettle of bananas Tony, if you have the H-19B you have found the holy grail and basically will get a different set of tasks to mine. And a more accurate place from which to begin. I kept being gazumped on eBay before I gave in to the inevitable and used the Airfixerupper. I know mate,...... I wish that Italeri would re release their Whirlwind kits,...... I have a couple in the loft which I put aside with some conversion sets,...... I do want quite a few more though,..... we can but hope. Good luck with yours mate,..... I`m currently reading the excellent `Borneo Boys' and really want to build one of those HAR.10`s! Cheers Tony 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted October 14, 2021 Author Share Posted October 14, 2021 Borneo Boys is one of those "Ooh I didnt know THAT!" books. As a kid I grew up knowing about Sukharno and the Confrontation but it was never more than an over the horizon business, hardly even heard of in the general news of the day a kid might see and contend with. The book told me so much more than I'd realised, and fancy reading that RAF officers were off in the ulu with little oversight. Classy, they must have thought they'd joined the Regiment un-noticed. Anyway the book has me thinking in terms of modelling some of the Confrontation Air Force and this is it, number two. Belvedere done already see. Anyway, I digressed sorry, here is where I am. I have to get on with closing up the fuselage, so seats to be built. This is the start of the starboard seats that even a contortionist will not get inside. Silver frame with a paper seat strip, blue but in real life away from flash photography, darker. The cockpit centre console is begun but not yet finished. But the rear wall is close enough now Port wall fittings for possibly tomorrow but having had a biopsy today sitting still modelling is an issue too far for a day or so. When all is done I can close up and begin sticking other exciting stuff on... 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bootneck Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 Oooh! did you do it yourself Bill, with one of those blades? Mike 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted October 14, 2021 Author Share Posted October 14, 2021 Not THIS time Mike, I prefer letting 'the lad who knows about these things' do it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Spadgent Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 Watching all these disparate elements slowly track toward each other is a real joy Bill. It’s amazing how all the parts are there even now. Even paint. Paint and milliput and glue and sanding all blurring into one. Eventually we all know the focus will become sharp and you’ll have another perfect example of the craft. Bloody love it. Johnny 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted October 24, 2021 Author Share Posted October 24, 2021 Progress has been non-existant this week, an unheralded and decidedly unwelcome visit from a new acquaintance polymyalgia put me in A&E. Twice but that is a totally nother story... Anyway back at last at the ranch, I spent a while pondering reality and avoiding model making. Inspiration. Beware inspiration, it really might be your friend but is it always? Back in the ward thinking about the problems I get through pulling this oddball shape out of PETg whilst using a small heat source from a tea light to warm and condition the said PETg I struck upon an idea. More controlled heat is what the task requires. This? Hot it up above the blower on a low setting, high would burn down the studio, then pull the compliant PETg with aplomb? Cue noises off and burnt hand hair, flopped PETg and burnt fingertips. And this... Utter failure from ruined hands and materials, a trip into vacuum hell is on the cards. The garage calls, beckons beguilingly with its Henry Vacformer and a comfortable Midget wing to lean on. Tomorrow now though, enuff's enuff of this kind of thing. Tonight I shall make driver and buddy-boy's seats. 4 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted October 25, 2021 Author Share Posted October 25, 2021 This build seems fated to have me in new, slightly uncomfortable places so as UV setting resin looms large in other BM expositions and I didn't fancy mixing up any dilliput to rectify a mistook I made I thought I would give using UV resin as a filler a try.. I bought a small bottle of Limino Hard setting resin, originally to allow experiments with poorly fitting window gaps, (seems quite useful there) and a tiny UV torch to use to set the juice , plastered some around a big dollopsworth of missing Milliput and lit up the sky, UVwise. Set already, wow! Leaving that for gaps in progress I then moved into the cockpit. Allow me to present yet another failure of a process. The Airwaves Whirlwind set, mostly 'tis true aimed towards building an HAS22 of Her Maj's Royal Navy has some legacy parts that will suit a HC10, namely internal cockpit parts for any Whirly including the floor and IP. And the seats with finely detailed suspension cords added to the frame works. Lovely jubbly except you really need to be a soldering person. I'm obviously not one of those. You get a back panel to solder to the bent up edged seat pan, if you can solder. I cannot solder little jobs to save my life... So I bought in to Plan D (from out...) I am basically a plastic modeller so... Make the things from plastic of course. Backrests made from Evergreen rod, did I ever tell you I love Evergreen 0.020 rod? NO? What's the matter with me? To the flimsy (very,very, very flimsy) frames two sheets of 0.005 plasticard were glued in place and a couple of 0.080 pieces were carved to suit the seat pans and cushions. Stuck together a small smudge of UV resin was bonded into the hinge area and zapped, that should give me strength for the next bit, paint the frames gloss black and then paint the seat cushions in a kind of oatmeal colour, yes we have photygraphs. No sheepskin over hard plastic for these guys. Also vaguely oatmealy the seat back cushions sit cammed up against the oatmeal build bench so you can hardly even notice them. The IP from Airwaves sits ready for dial and gauge detailing soon, the shroud is very nicely done on the etch sheet. They will get used on the job. Inside the cabin, funny how that green does not show to my eyeballs, seats have been arranged for PAX with a row of seats across the front wall and two rows along the sides. I can remember the HAR10 we were almost allowed to play over having the same arrangement and there are some pictures in Borneo Boys which support this. This crown-copyright picture from the book shows the front set of seats I digress. The rear cushions have been added, some touching up will occur but I don't promise to add the one eight of an inch thick green piping around the seat cushion edges. The resin filler has had initial attention as a test, I rather like it. Expect to see it done again. I have added blocks of thick polycard to the back of the ip where gauges sit, I think individual gauge bodies are way beyond me these days but some visual interest might generate when you see the ip standing proud above the cowling, we'll see. Nuff for now? Hope so that's yer lot for today... 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamden Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 Nice work there Bill, wish I had your skills and patience Stay safe Roger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheBaron Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 1 hour ago, perdu said: Expect to see it done again. With results this good Bill we do indeed! Those seats are absolutely superb. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 1 hour ago, perdu said: No sheepskin over hard plastic for these guys. F'nar! 1 hour ago, perdu said: Hope so that's yer lot for today... It's enough for me. Nicely done, that man. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Spadgent Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Nice seats Bill. You know that extra work will be worth it in the end. Concerning the PE seats. I know you know and I know you know I know but…. I always use some kind of super glue (rocket blue for me) to stick these things together. I have never soldered. I can but not in a pretty way, just for wires. Just wondering why solder and not less tricky sticky stuff. I know there will be a good answer and I’ll feel silly but I had to ask. Johnny holiday. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritag Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Nice seats Bill. I feel better about my own etch handling inadequacy when you segue into building them from plastic. But then feel worse about my plastic construction skills when I see how good the results are. It’s hard being on BM sometimes 2 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted October 26, 2021 Author Share Posted October 26, 2021 Trying to make a sensible response when my muscles have all gone out on strike with recurring polymyathingya Johnny I usually try to glue them together too but it never sits straight or square and glue doesn't hack it for me, vis. the centre console is awry at the mo' and due to be rejigged asap. To which end yesterday morning I gave in to siren calls to buy an etch folding tool, via eBay. Last night just before dinner it was delivered by an Amazonian driver, out-blooming-standing service. And I hadn't even realised I was dealing with a Prime seller, wow. Just need the strength to open the damnded thing now and see how it operates. Steve I love how you like to boost me out of my inadequacy feelings with your little lies, keep it up sirrah, keep it up. I think my e=seats will improve when they get another dusting of that oatmeal colour, which i am very happy with. Vallejo Aged White with German camo Black Brown, spot on and allows coating variation to show where the driver's situpon sat, contented with the colour match. If finger touch returns soon I may attempt the fine piping with a finely sharpened 2B, this dark green with undertones of grey looks suitable for 2B-ing to me. This image shows what I believe to be my little yellow friend in Hendon, tucked in behind the co-driver's cyclic is the elusive rotor brake Most of the i.p. is compatible with the panel on the Airwaves etch sheet so I am definitely using it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 impeccable sir. You skills with the taming of the chained polymers is second to none. Were you a snake charmer in a previous life? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted October 26, 2021 Author Share Posted October 26, 2021 I do hope you have been charming snakes my friend 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted October 26, 2021 Author Share Posted October 26, 2021 Slight modifications to the i.p. give me this, I like it and will be using it. After fitting what I suspect are panel lights up into the upper shroud. Longish black tube looking doohickeys up top along the shroud. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 VERY nice! Top marks for all, including doohickeys! Ian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Head in the clouds. Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Just had a little catch up, hills to climb rather than mountains and coming along nicely.👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted October 26, 2021 Author Share Posted October 26, 2021 Thanks guys, any idea why I decided to add this to the build? I mean, what IS that lump for? The entire front, well in the indestructions they invite wholesale removal of all the front end to replace it with a clear-ish front end.. Invitations offered for advice herein... What's bin did and what's been hid? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry1954 Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 6 hours ago, perdu said: That's rather, very incredibly extremely good. I agree you should use it! As for the Dragonfly bits, I'm as puzzled as you! Terry 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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