heloman1 Posted August 18 Share Posted August 18 Great find with the FROG Wessex Bill, I still rate it as a good kit despite it's age. All it need is added detail... Re the seats forward of the cabin door, the first seat is for the crewman and sticks out slightly from the door frame, the second seat is a half maybe three quarter seat and not normally used. Then remember across from that was an avionics box, which served as three seats. Colin 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted August 18 Share Posted August 18 🎶There's a light, over at the Frankenwessex place. There's a light....🎶 Helpful? of Mars 👽 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted August 18 Author Share Posted August 18 Thanks Colin, pleased to have found the original plastic, early version, which even has a different cataloguing system number on it. But being very early will not stop me building it soon, I fancy a HAS 1 to go in the set and this will be the best one to use for that. I do have the avionics seat/box in the model including the three sets of PAX straps, no worries. Today I have been building the canopy. Well Westlands/MOD call it the canopy but what do they know huh? I thought it was the transmission cover servicing platform/walkway... The story so far I plunge/pull moulded the curvy shaped panel off a doomed Italerfail Wessex kit. Then when cool, mind your fingers kids, hot plastic burns, added internal ribs prior to adding the footboard panel Then added a 'floor' of five thou polycard Or at least it will be added after I put the side framing around the 'canopy' edges Thinks ºººº (must buy another sheet of 0.005" plasticard if I can find some locally) Of course, opening the canopy(sic) means the transmission becomes part of the mission. Working it out... 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted August 18 Share Posted August 18 6 hours ago, heloman1 said: Great find with the FROG Wessex Bill, I still rate it as a good kit despite it's age. I love that kit. I got two for £1.99 at a Cosford show a few years back. One down, one to go! Nice transmission cover. I expect there will be transmission greeblies next on the agenda? Regards, Adrian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted August 18 Share Posted August 18 Nice work, Bill. Those trans-decks (as we called 'em) bring back memories 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Posted August 18 Share Posted August 18 45 minutes ago, hendie said: Those trans-decks (as we called 'em) bring back memories So is it, was it, or will it be, a deck? Confused. Ian 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted August 18 Author Share Posted August 18 Fishplates ahoy 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted August 18 Author Share Posted August 18 1 hour ago, AdrianMF said: I love that kit. I got two for £1.99 at a Cosford show a few years back. One down, one to go! Nice transmission cover. I expect there will be transmission greeblies next on the agenda? Regards, Adrian There are plans. Kind of 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted August 18 Share Posted August 18 At 56 seconds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMUnbNPCoSw Constructive of Mars 👽 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted August 18 Author Share Posted August 18 I dont know why bit I'm feeling oppressed by ... Help 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martian Posted August 18 Share Posted August 18 1 hour ago, perdu said: I dont know why bit I'm feeling oppressed by ... Help Well. if God is telling you to get on with it, my advice would be to do as you are told. The wise Alien 👽 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted August 18 Author Share Posted August 18 28 minutes ago, Martian said: Well. if God is telling you to get on with it, my advice would be to do as you are told. The wise Alien 👽 It's not God it's only an alien oppressor I hope 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heloman1 Posted August 19 Share Posted August 19 16 hours ago, perdu said: Fishplates ahoy Wow Bill, very neat work, we called them platforms but one mans deck is another mans platform! Looking forward the the MRHGB. Colin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted August 19 Author Share Posted August 19 13 minutes ago, heloman1 said: Wow Bill, very neat work, we called them platforms but one mans deck is another mans platform! Looking forward the the MRHGB. Colin I'm not sure I am Colin... But 'tis to be done, who do we know who could do me another measuring job with a tape measure? Looking at photos of the restoration of the HAS3 at Weston I'd say MRHGB with rotors is man-high. Time to get out my guessing stick. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heloman1 Posted August 19 Share Posted August 19 1 hour ago, perdu said: I'm not sure I am Colin... But 'tis to be done, who do we know who could do me another measuring job with a tape measure? Looking at photos of the restoration of the HAS3 at Weston I'd say MRHGB with rotors is man-high. Time to get out my guessing stick. Hi Bill, a lot of detail to go in there. Maybe Mike 'Bootneck' could help he has access to the Helo museum. Can't you take a stab at it using the photos in the 4+ book? Colin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted August 19 Author Share Posted August 19 The assembly with rotor head is near enough the height of a man Colin, shouldn't be too hard to make a fake 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted August 19 Share Posted August 19 3 hours ago, perdu said: The assembly with rotor head is near enough the height of a man Colin, shouldn't be too hard to make a fake iirc, when standing on the transdeck savoring the delights of the interminable head-lube ritual, the top of the rotor head was approx. chest height (I'm 6'2" or thereabouts) 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted August 19 Author Share Posted August 19 1 hour ago, hendie said: iirc, when standing on the transdeck savoring the delights of the interminable head-lube ritual, the top of the rotor head was approx. chest height (I'm 6'2" or thereabouts) Works for me thanks Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Spadgent Posted August 19 Share Posted August 19 Dipping back in after a few days out. Looks like everything is running according to plan on the one true bench. 🙌 All hail! Johnny. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted August 20 Author Share Posted August 20 Funny I wish you could convince my camera to behave itself though John, I mean, this taken with care and a tripod What you are observing intensely are two unexpected holes in the fuselage, along with holes I did expect Sorry Ian, blur is what it is, must do better... Anyway the holes Look voila A gorgeous 3D fuel filler which arrived on the step yesterday along with a ship load of other beauties, enough fillers for four Wessexes and wonders, wonderful things as Mr Carter told old Caernarvon in Egypt. In the 3D Makerspace section I recount finding these on the doorstep yesterday, more @hendie Co parts for Wessexes which I have been invited to test fit prior to him making them available in a short while As well as filler caps, I mean wow look at the detail, even got the catch drip lip on the bottoms, he has sent me some of the castings that the axles pivot round. So this morning has been fun trying out these on the Matchaleri model Front end flummery Yes I know I havent wet'n'dried the PPP yet but look at the swivel housings (?) with the stiffening webs below. Amazing Other side OK Im off to do the crossword, see ya later 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted August 20 Author Share Posted August 20 Hendie also has internals a'coming Here the battery tray on the front bulkhead, the two fuel control relays with their own tiny skinny cables for the lord's sake and the assorted other little electrics. And for good measure there's to be an engine bay which the discerning Wessexist can fill with Gnomes I keep trying to work out ways to use the entire set as is, panels to leave off Panels to keep I mean, look If that doesn't inspire... 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandy Posted August 20 Share Posted August 20 6 hours ago, perdu said: If that doesn't inspire... Oh, but it most certainly does! Ian 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perdu Posted August 22 Author Share Posted August 22 I simply don't understand me. Making a decent Wessex is difficult enough, god knows why I opened the transdeck. Seems I need to work with this. I need to turn this into This And put it in here Anyone can see that this composition made of one large white German looking bomb tail and the nose cone of possibly, (all guesswork if I didn't actually buy the donor kits) a Jaguar kind of surveillance thingy device is too big. But that's what the Uberfile is for, no? 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hendie Posted August 22 Share Posted August 22 You're halfway there already Bill. The key (for me) when I did mine all those years ago, was finding something approximating the shape of the gearbox. Once I had that, I just kept adding greeblies and it took on its own life form. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete in Lincs Posted August 23 Share Posted August 23 And as @hendie mentioned them earlier, we'll expect to see all 27 (or was it 29?) Grease nipples. (Snort!) ( for @CedB). 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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