perdu Posted September 18, 2022 Author Share Posted September 18, 2022 I bought these etched underwing bomb racks for the Hind, fiddly and a trifle skinny but quite nice. Bear in mind that I don't have 3D skills (yet) or a printer of plastics. They look quite realistic underneath the wings on the Hind, see? Oh a hint, might come in useful to you folks, don't drop a computer keyboard on top of a finished Hawker Hind. Things tend to fall off and ping off in search of a carpet monster and in my modelling space that is going to be a long search on laminate flooring. Rebuild time looms. 2 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAMP man Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 Oh Bill Gutting, deep breath Sending a get well soon to the Hind Box on Steickers 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cookenbacher Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 Bah! It does look recoverable. (the like is for the cool underwing racks) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritag Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 Hindy looks a little like a drunk wobblingly showing of her underwing finery Bill. As Cookie says, it looks recoverable by a man of your calibre. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry1954 Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 Too bad Bill, one of those terrible moments, but as those before me say, I reckon you can sort it. Terry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 1 hour ago, perdu said: Things tend to fall off and ping off in search of a carpet monster and in my modelling space that is going to be a long search on laminate flooring. Rats, rats, rats and again rats! I hope you can sort it, Bill. Ciao 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Galligraphics Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 2 hours ago, perdu said: fiddly and a trifle skinny but quite nice I think I worked with her... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corsaircorp Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 Ooooh S..... So sorry to see that, But for an AA patrolman, it is a matter of minutes, duct tape and.... The choice is your.... There surely has been a concert of words that we cannot reproduce here ?? has it ?? Sincerely. CC 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Spadgent Posted September 18, 2022 Share Posted September 18, 2022 Oh no. 😱. Fingers crossed she’s not too bad, hopefully as everyone has said you can sort it Bill. J 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 Ouch. Sorry to hear that Bill. I'm sure you will manage to perform some battle damage repair to bring her back to life 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Posted September 19, 2022 Share Posted September 19, 2022 At least it looks as though the wing struts and rigging survived. The landing gear should be a relatively minor repair. Ian 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted October 21, 2022 Author Share Posted October 21, 2022 Gosh it's been a while hasn't it? I almost forgot whilst waiting for the bus. I have left it long enough to be sanded, didnt expect that. There is a lot of ruthless file action needed. Top That appliance white makes a damned good discloser coat if you leave it about three months to har mature Bottom Where there is a pencilled hatched area I need to, well fill. Then sand it all again, this will be Humbrol green filler. And I almost forgot this one, Airfix additions too. Lots of 'don't get bogged down waiting for the bus' work to do. Looking forwards to getting this into the Hawker (by proxy) stable. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 Great to see these moving too, Bill Ciao 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry1954 Posted October 22, 2022 Share Posted October 22, 2022 Nice Hawkers! T. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted October 22, 2022 Author Share Posted October 22, 2022 Before I went off to wait for the 'bus I thought these Hunters were quite reasonable. I bet you can tell I am not quite so enamoured now can't you. As horrible a step underwing as that on the T7 and frankly... Not a lot better up top. Still this gives me cause to pause. And take in the blemishes from several aspects. For instance, before the final paint down I will be adding wingtip lamps and various other things like antennae and nav lights. Because the missing sprue is still a factor I intend making undercarriage doors etc. for this airframe, copying the Matchbox ones probably. It's likely I will be fitting two pairs of drop tanks, little and large and the little pair with fins are going to grace the T7 in Valley style. As I'm sorry this is a tiny picture but it seems that Airliners.net own copyright on almost every T7 photo in RAF Training Command Red, White and Light Aircraft Grey colours, for this one I think I owe thanks to Flickr.com. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted October 27, 2022 Author Share Posted October 27, 2022 Paint shop for these two again. After a shed load of remediation to the nose holes. vis ditto Probably turn out unfixable... (Been one of those months) Also need to remember the wingtip light cut outs on the Valley bird... Doh! 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 Lotsa plastic dust - but they are definitely headed in the right direction! Regards, Adrian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted October 27, 2022 Author Share Posted October 27, 2022 1 hour ago, AdrianMF said: Lotsa plastic dust - but they are definitely headed in the right direction! Regards, Adrian So much if that dust was from sanding Appliance White Adrian, hard to believe it gets THAT hard so that sanding is clearly effective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted October 27, 2022 Share Posted October 27, 2022 2 hours ago, AdrianMF said: they are definitely headed in the right direction! Agreed, keep going Bill! Ciao 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Spadgent Posted October 28, 2022 Share Posted October 28, 2022 Great to see these up and about dear boy. 🙌 splendid set of fixes going down me mon. 👍 Johnny 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted November 28, 2022 Author Share Posted November 28, 2022 A mmmmmonth how on earth does the mojo disappear so quickly? I recall mentioning the wing tip lights for the Valley Hunter, after scraping a little tad of mojo I did get something done to them. This was what we had. Nothing in the way of definition at all. I need to remember to sit down and wear some readers before I tackle little jobs' Note emphasis on little but these days the emphasis is changing to 'jobs' instead. I tried two different attacks on the lamp job, Valley bird got the cut-out cut out whilst the cam job got a touched in spot of colour in one place on the tip. Oops missed the spot with the paint stick, as @CedB knows I spot touch with a thinnystick when small bits of paint want doing, managed to keep it on the wing but what a missed shot. Sadly same on t'other wing Other than batasblindness I just dont know what to say Anyway you can see I completely coloured the recesses on the Valley Bird, too bright for me I say... but unsure whether to do anything about them. After the Vallejo paint dried I touched a droplet of Limino Clear hard UV resin into the space left and applied the little UV torch to harden it. Only took a couple of applied droplets to make a completely smooth lamp cap. That I like After trying that and being a trifle unhappy with the 'look' of the solid colour I attempted to get a 'small light unit inside a bigger cover' look Nowhere near as in yer face as the other way is it? This posed as if flying shows that from my point of view I managed the 'little lamp inside' look quite nicely. Next will be another try to depict the nose mounted, centralised (It bloody would be!) probably a camera port. That is going to call on my little Expo drill bit, set on 7.5 v for speed control. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted November 28, 2022 Share Posted November 28, 2022 Interesting lighting work, Bill Gotta love that clear resin, uh? Ciao 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted November 29, 2022 Author Share Posted November 29, 2022 15 hours ago, giemme said: Interesting lighting work, Bill Gotta love that clear resin, uh? Ciao A good idea to try this I think, when the Valley Hunter is looked at with the naked eye the green redness of the lamps is not so ugly and in-yer-face as when photographed, I may leave it as it is. See, we shall. An aside, (I do do these a lot don't I?) when I was attempting to make a horse drawn bus there was a search on for available horses. I saw this one sculpted over in Ukraine by A Gagarin, sold by Master Box as French Cuirassier. I decided the horse was a little too refined to spend its life dragging buses up New Street and put the set to one side, lost the cuirassier's head and forgot about it. Bill's elusive mojo returned for a few days and this began. A head was repurposed from an Airfix Napoleonic figure, bandage applied and this morning a touch of silver added to the cuirass. I think I shall call the vignette "France is that bloody way, don't let the gate hit you in the bottom!" as the lady sends waves of unlady-like vibes to her country's unwanted visitors. Quite reverse-modern really huh? This is my keep me awake piece whilst I mojo-hunt around the house, it can't be far away. I think busting the Hind did some structural damage to it, I still have the basics of a second generation Harrier to get into the hangar/HAS. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted November 29, 2022 Author Share Posted November 29, 2022 I swear I did not write bottom... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giemme Posted November 29, 2022 Share Posted November 29, 2022 31 minutes ago, perdu said: Quite reverse-modern really huh? Oooooooh cool! Ciao 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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