Tony's Airfix Tsetse 1/72

[Mickc1440]

Great improvements Tony

[Tim Marlow]

Interesting improvements there Tony. Bringing it up several notches straight away….

[papa 695]

Great work so far Tony

[yak face]

Little bit more done jazzing up the non existant cockpit details . Ive made some bits to go on the sidewalls and painted up the kit instrument panel , this just needing a dry brushing with white to highlight the instruments . These will give a bit more of an impression when seen through the surprisingly clear ( for its thickness ) canopy.

[Jim R]

Hi Tony
That cockpit has come out well. It will certainly be more than adequate once in place.

[yak face]

Got the additions fitted and a bit of brass wire for the various cables etc . Ive also been making the two radios for behind the seats . Next up seat belts , then fitting the seats and control column and finally the fuselage can go together .

[adt70hk]

Great work Tony. Very well done indeed on this old kit!

ATB.

Andrew

[stillp]

Interesting that this version has the cockpit door in the side rather than underneath. I wonder if that was because of the room needed for the Molins loader.

Pete

[Tim Marlow]

Interesting that this version has the cockpit door in the side rather than underneath. I wonder if that was because of the room needed for the Molins loader.
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Pete

That’s a hell of a gun to put in an aircraft….I wonder who was most scared of it, the enemy or the pilot….

[stillp]

Each round fired took 20mph off the aircraft's speed...
Pete

[yak face]

Interesting that this version has the cockpit door in the side rather than underneath. I wonder if that was because of the room needed for the Molins loader.
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Pete

No that was the standard position for the crew door on the FBs pete, on the standard fighter bomber version the 4 cannons were under the floor and obviously on this one the six pounder .

[yak face]

Seat belts - not wanting to spend lots on etch that is not really going to be seen I decided to make them from scratch. Its a method ive used before and gives reasonable results under a closed canopy. First get some wine bottle foil ( gold preferably) . Paint the gold side with the seat belt colour , in this case buff . On the reverse very lightly scribe three or four lines . Use these lines to puncture the foil with a sharp pin to simulate the brass eyelets ( four or five holes close together on the line for the shoulder belts and three or four for the lap ). Turn over and carefully cut the belt to width and rub the raised holes to show the gold of the foil underneath giving the impression of brass eyelets. Glue to the seats the add small pieces of the gold foil to the ends to represent the buckles . End result , a rough approximation of a sutton harness - at this scale through a closed canopy it’ll do . They look a little big but I think thats more to do with the seats being very narrow possibly too small .
The cockpit has now had the radios and a few cables fitted, the seats and control column have been glued in and its now ready to go in between the fuselage halves.

[adt70hk]

Seat belts - not wanting to spend lots on etch that is not really going to be seen I decided to make them from scratch. Its a method ive used before and gives reasonable results under a closed canopy. First get some wine bottle foil ( gold preferably) . Paint the gold side with the seat belt colour , in this case buff . On the reverse very lightly scribe three or four lines . Use these lines to puncture the foil with a sharp pin to simulate the brass eyelets ( four or five holes close together on the line for the shoulder belts and three or four for the lap ). Turn over and carefully cut the belt to width and rub the raised holes to show the gold of the foil underneath giving the impression of brass eyelets. Glue to the seats the add small pieces of the gold foil to the ends to represent the buckles . End result , a rough approximation of a sutton harness - at this scale through a closed canopy it’ll do . They look a little big but I think thats more to do with the seats being very narrow possibly too small . [ATTACH=CONFIG]n1181455[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]n1181456[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]n1181457[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]n1181458[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]n1181459[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]n1181460[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]n1181461[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]n1181462[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]n1181463[/ATTACH]
The cockpit has now had the radios and a few cables fitted, the seats and control column have been glued in and its now ready to go in between the fuselage halves.

That's brilliant Tony!!

[Neil Merryweather]

Genius

[Tim Marlow]

Very clever work Tony.. Certainly enhances the effect.