Crashpilot´s bench

[Crashpilot]

It´s goin to become a Sea Hurri Ia, I found some options, like W9219, or P3114
P3114: https://modelingmadness.com/scott/allie ... /oldh1.htm

I´ll need to swap some of the kit´s parts, replace them with parts from other kits

[PaulBradley]

That will look very cool, Markus - I've a few of those old Modelaid cockpits as well. Useful little things for these really old kits.

[gnomemeansgnome]

The Avia looks really good, Markus. Looking forward to seeing the Sea Hurricane come together. Here’s my old Airfix Turbina with the Hasegawa decals and some repurposed from spares

[iggie]

I'd never heard of or seen paper cockpits before; every day is a school day round here!

[Clashcityrocker]

The paper cockpits are a neat idea.

Nigel

[Crashpilot]

The Avia looks really good, Markus. Looking forward to seeing the Sea Hurricane come together. Here’s my old Airfix Turbina with the Hasegawa decals and some repurposed from spares

Thank you gmg, for showing your specimen here! I find it fascinating to see, that I was not the only one that went for a "02", instead of a "01" - strange coincidence, innit? And it seems to me, that the corrections you did on the plastic, are very similar to my corrections

[Crashpilot]

I'd never heard of or seen paper cockpits before; every day is a school day round here!

And I thought: "all" british modellers know Modelaid, and their paper cockpits!
But now, I must admit, thats a naive imagination.
Modelaid was a rather short-lived magazine, and they didnt include paper pits in each and every issue of theirs.
Actually, I myself had just discovered that mag about 2 years ago, via ebey

[gnomemeansgnome]

The Avia looks really good, Markus. Looking forward to seeing the Sea Hurricane come together. Here’s my old Airfix Turbina with the Hasegawa decals and some repurposed from spares

Thanks, Markus. That is a coincidence isn’t it? I have another 262 from that restoration job lot that I’ve been thinking about turning into a drone. It is a bit of a dog kit so butchering it won’t assail my conscience.

[Crashpilot]

It´s an ugly dog of a kit, for sure! Good candidate for butchering up

Before i concentrate on my goin-to-be Sea Hurri, as part of the Splash GB, i got another Hurri, thats hanging out on my bench since months and months,
that I want to finish up first


It´s a hobby boss IIc, that will get the markings of an all-black night intruder.
I just did all the masking, now i hit it with some anthracite grey from the spray can (I hope the anthracite to become some decent looking "scale black",
in the end)

[Crashpilot]

I cant use a regular stand while spraying the model, I didnt bore a hole, so my funny looking creation comes into play here:

my devil horns!

uuuggh - obviously, I didnt shake the can vigorously enuff, look at that!


only a small amount of a paint ended up on the model

meanwhile, the paper pit for Splash´s Sea Hurri was glued up, using ordinary paper glue (it´s made of paper, so...)

[Crashpilot]

so while the paper glue dries, I had another try at my night intruder, with that strange colour, that just dont want to come out of the nozzle


a hot bath made the colour more fluent, slowly, the coverage gets better



the colour looks more like some dark grey, too light to be called anthracite - but I can live with that

[Crashpilot]

after a bit of fiddling, the sit of the paper pit seems ok, but I´ll scratch some plastic for the armour plate behind the seat:
the paper is too narrow back there


here it is, now for some paint


the seat was very thick, so I did some carving, to make it look more like a bucket seat
belts were made from 1mm wide masking tape

[Crashpilot]

seat has been added to the ´pit, now I make a spade stick from odds and ends




small parts like that are too small for my mobile´s camera...



this weekend, my workbench will go on tour - the club I´m in does another modelling weekend on Sat & Sun !

So I look forward to make some progress on Splash´s Sea Hurricane

[Crashpilot]

the prop will turn around a fixed axis - so now I can install it at the very end of the build

one last look at the pilots office, before I close up the "trunk"


fit is good, but I like my clamps

[Crashpilot]

Frog gives you 2 inserts for the area in front of the tail wheel


one with arrester hook, one without -
well, the hook is just a little lump....
but for a 60ies kit, I think its a bit of luxury


...like the grill they give you for the front side of the radiator....
(for the front side ONLY....:-( )


I made a roof for the wheel well from scrap plastic


wings are a 5-part assembly, the middle part is a sloppy fit, will need some filler


I want to do an early MkI, so off go the cannon bumps on top of the wings
I´ll keep engraving new panel lines to a minimum!


this build is fun, so far!