Lancfan's RAF Cuckoo rescue Float- finished at last.

Clashcityrocker · Post by **Clashcityrocker** » December 9th, 2015, 6:15 am

Great model, and very practical idea too. Never seen or heard of these before. A welcome sight for any downed airman

Nigel

Dazzled · Post by **Dazzled** » December 9th, 2015, 9:28 am

Fantastic model David, very original too. Im glad you got around to finishing it

Post by **JohnRatzenberger** » December 9th, 2015, 3:10 pm

Excellent, worthy of place of pride on the shelf !
And the stand is a good complement.

lancfan · Post by **lancfan** » December 11th, 2015, 7:26 pm

Cheers Nigel, Daryl, John.

David.

lancfan · Post by **lancfan** » December 11th, 2015, 7:33 pm

Almost done now, the only things left to do are to make and fit the radio aerial, weather the model and then the build will be finished.

David

lancfan · Post by **lancfan** » December 12th, 2015, 5:33 pm

It was necessary to make a jig for the multi cabled aerial and with the jig complete I began by fitting the first cable (grey cotton) into the jig and then lued the five insulator rings in position onto the first cable, to represent these I used discs of clear plastic card cut from sheet using a hole punch, this was then left to dry. I next fitted the two cables either side of the insulators and again left this to dry when I fitted the final cable.

As I waited for the aerial to dry I weathered the model, firstly with a light grey wash to fade the colours and then followed this up with thinned brown applied with a rigger to represent rust stains. When the aerial was dry the ends were then tied together, fixed with glue and the aerial was fitted to the model. Finally I painted the edges of the insulators black to complete the aerial and finish the model.

David

Clashcityrocker · Post by **Clashcityrocker** » December 13th, 2015, 3:28 am

That is very nice, and still very colourful. Excellent work.

Nigel

iggie · Post by **iggie** » December 13th, 2015, 9:27 am

Great work David, an excellent finish all round

MarkyM607 · Post by **MarkyM607** » December 13th, 2015, 3:00 pm

Nice work, good to see it done. Just for my limited info, did they let these things float freely or were they anchored or what?.

lancfan · Post by **lancfan** » December 13th, 2015, 3:33 pm

Thanks Nigel, iggie, Mark. They were each anchored at a fixed position Mark.

David.

ShaunW · Post by **ShaunW** » December 13th, 2015, 7:04 pm

Excellent work David and that multi-part aerial is a very natty bit of construction!

Arcwelder · Post by **Arcwelder** » December 13th, 2015, 8:10 pm

That's smashing, David. Very striking.

December 14th, 2015, 2:47 am

I spoke too soon - your aerials are over the top !!!

MarkyM607 · Post by **MarkyM607** » December 14th, 2015, 8:19 pm

lancfan wrote:Thanks Nigel, iggie, Mark. They were each anchored at a fixed position Mark.
http://www.scubadolphins.org.uk/images/ ... e%20Up.pdf;

David.

That was interesting information, thanks. I know it seems obvious but I wanted to clear up the matter of fixed or floating freely. Should have known!.

Post by **splash** » December 15th, 2015, 3:14 pm

A brilliant bit of scratch building, well done and thanks for sharing.

Regards Splash

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