Raymondo53's messy workbench

[K5083]

All great projects, but that Attacker cleaned up especially nicely.

August

[JohnRatzenberger]

No, good work - you have interest and stories for each and the electric motors, batteries, etc, are a challenge to fit. You might consider not using a switch but rather just let the two wires stick out, say near/along the stand, then touch the wires together to get them to run a bit - saves trying to cram the switch in there also.

[Raymondo53]

the final two to get motors were the BoB flight Spit and an old Percival Provost.
The Provost has a wide fuselage so fitting the 20mm battery wasn't a problem.
The switch is just aft of the ventral exhaust.



The Spit is of course very compact. I had to use a 16 mm battery fitted just aft of the cockpit.
I'm particularly pleased with the switch ..
Here it is in the 'off' position

And here it is 'on'
I attached the switch to the forward air-scoop - slide it forward 3mm and the motor comes on.



I'm almost done with 1:72 scale stuff now, there's a 1:64 scale P-40 to finish off the tip-finds.
Then the Tom Cruise F-18 to complete ..

[Raymondo53]

Having finished the junkyard rebuilds I'm back on scale at 1:144 with an H.P.42. I'm thoroughly enjoying going completely over the top with internal detail.

no apologies - it's just fun.


I've always liked the H.P.42/45 elegance.



and yes . . . that is a person sitting on the lavatory/bucket.

It is an old kit, made of very thick hard grey plastic - the 'windows' are truly awful, I should have made replacements but it's just a stroll down old modelers lane with this one.

[Stuart]

That interior looks superb!

[Raymondo53]

There wasn't enough room to fit electric motors with the battery and switches - so I added a couple of interior lights to it.


I enjoyed making this, although it is not the best quality on the market. Some bits don't fit but I did smile at getting the engine exhausts right for Hannibal. This was the only one 'lost' of the eight made. Three of them blew away while parked and wrecked themselves, one was lost when its hangar burnt down. The other three suffered at the hands of RAF pilots who all had 'landing incidents'.
Sir Frederick Handley-Page made some very fine aeroplanes - this was one of them.

Seen here on some boulder-strewn landing strip in the Sudan . . . or my workspace carpet.

[gnomemeansgnome]

That HP42 looks terrific, Raymond.

[K5083]

Beautiful work on the HP.

August

[Raymondo53]

I've got a few things on the go at the moment, a Luftwaffe RF-4E from 1974, a Jaguar from 1991 and this triangle from the late 50's.


It's a nice little model to make - and then it comes to putting all the transfers on ...
It's got it's coat of varnish - My thinking is that I should put on all the 'big' decals first - then varnish them and come back to it later to apply all the little stencil markings.

I can't read them as they're too small but in the interests of accuracy I guess they should all go on.

[JohnRatzenberger]

I long ago adopted a 'scale distance' philosophy. It's 1/72 scale and I might be able to see (the silvering under) the tiny decals from a foot away on the model, but I certainly wouldn't see them from 72 feet away on the real thing. A lot easier to ignore at that point.

[Raymondo53]

There comes a point when it becomes a bit pointless adding warning stencils I can't read. For all I know they could be saying 'Don't pick your nose in front of the king' etc - I might add some though.

Now that I've taken a photo of the Jag I can see that I need to tidy the nose a bit.
It's the one which came back minus a sidewinder in 1991. The white rose was a freehand attempt.
(I needn't have bothered making the ALE-40's for the undersides, but they are tucked in there.)

While the varnish dries on the Javelin I've decided to sort out the MT Yard.

The idea is to have vehicles representing each decade of the RAF for some mini-dioramas I have planned.
I'm well placed for 1940's stuff (the three rows in the foreground)
Four of those 'Tillies' are Austins - which we didn't use - one's been made into a Hillman.
1910's and 20's stuff behind that.
I can see that I need some 80's/90's/modern stuff but lack inspiration.
I have a book inbound on RAF GSE which might help.

[Stuart]

Nice work on all of those aircraft, especially the Hercules.

[jssel]

Nice work. I really like the airfield base.

[Gregers]

All great work. That HP42 looks superb, though I was wondering how you could fit motors into it. Incidentally one of those met its end a few miles away from me here in Doncaster.

All the best

Greg

[Bissyboat]

Nice collection of warbirds. Nice job on the Jag and Javelin.