discussion Oh dear it's a 1/72 Bristol Beveldere

[Waspie]

Hi, slightly more productive this time. I've got the stabilisers and undercarriage done. Also added little vents or scoops too.

British designs can either look ugly or futuristic like the tail here.

Drilled out some detail on the fairings and scribing a panel line later.

These are the scoops with ends drilled...funny that they face the opposite way.

Undercarriage fitted...did both simultaneously to get it balanced. Next are close ups...
Not shown are the turbines set at angles towards the prop shafts. I doubt it will be seen through the mesh but did it just in case.
What I have left to do now is the cockpit interior, canopy slide door, cargo slide door, tidying up the air scoops, adding the dingy racks and antennas.

Cheers,
Wabble

Scoops tend to face fwd on aircraft to bring in external cool air. Vents face aft quickly dissipate whatever gases or fluids they are for.
What’s in a name - doesn’t detract from a superb build - awesome!!

 

[Jim R]

Impressive attention to detail as always. This old kit it really starting to look good. A fair way to go yet though.

 

[Mickc1440]

You really are knocking this into shape, great work

 

[scottie3158]

Wabble,
Top work mate.

 

[stillp]

Looking good!
Pete

 

[rtfoe]

Scoops tend to face fwd on aircraft to bring in external cool air. Vents face aft quickly dissipate whatever gases or fluids they are for.
What’s in a name - doesn’t detract from a superb build - awesome!!

Thanks Doug, now I can say the last three I'm doing are air scoops. :smiling2:

Impressive attention to detail as always. This old kit it really starting to look good. A fair way to go yet though.

Yes Jim and I thought it was going to be a weekend build.:tears-of-joy:

You really are knocking this into shape, great work

Bashing more like it Mick, some moldings need to be reshaped...the belly bulge for instants I thought it was a mold detaching flaw and sanded it down.

Wabble,
Top work mate.

Thanks Scottie, unfortunately there's no bling for this.

Looking good!
Pete

Hope so Pete after this heavy make over and hope the foundation doesn't crack.:tears-of-joy:

Cheers,
Wabble

 

[Waspie]

Richard. Digressing slightly, I made a couple of scoops for a car I once owned as a cylinder was over heating. The scoops, forward facing, then directed the cooling outer air over the cylinder and my overheating No3 piston problem disappeared. So I guess my aircraft maintenance training worked for me.

 

[rtfoe]

Richard. Digressing slightly, I made a couple of scoops for a car I once owned as a cylinder was over heating. The scoops, forward facing, then directed the cooling outer air over the cylinder and my overheating No3 piston problem disappeared. So I guess my aircraft maintenance training worked for me.

At least Doug you did that with a purpose. Over here some idiots put them on their bonnets for show and add loud exhausts and still the car struggles to accelerate.

Cheers,
Wabble

 

[Waspie]

At least Doug you did that with a purpose. Over here some idiots put them on their bonnets for show and add loud exhausts and still the car struggles to accelerate.

Cheers,
Wabble

Ahh, you have them too.
I usually describe them as the £500 car with a £2k sound system blasting out - noise!!!

 

[Richard48]

Will look amazing when finished Wabble.Making a silk purse from.a sows ear.
Excellent.
Richard

 

[rtfoe]

Ahh, you have them too.
I usually describe them as the £500 car with a £2k sound system blasting out - noise!!!

Ya Doug and they have selectors to choose the noise they want. Japanese car sounding like a throaty V8 engine...how fake can it be? :tears-of-joy:

Will look amazing when finished Wabble.Making a silk purse from.a sows ear.
Excellent.
Richard

Thanks Richard, I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Cheers,
Wabble

 

[Allen Dewire]

Sorry I'm so late to the banana whoop-whoop build party Wabble. I have been looking in and enjoying your scratchy work. I too have had an ancient electric razor grate in the spares box for over 50 years...I never did have a kit I was building, that it could be used on though. maybe someday!!!
I really like the interior and all the little extras you've been adding. This will be a great showpiece when it's finished!!!...Figs for it too???

Prost
Allen

 

[Jim R]

...... finished!!!...Figs for it too???

Yeh, a whole troop of monkeys using the rotors as a roundabout :smiling2:

 

[rtfoe]

Sorry I'm so late to the banana whoop-whoop build party Wabble. I have been looking in and enjoying your scratchy work. I too have had an ancient electric razor grate in the spares box for over 50 years...I never did have a kit I was building, that it could be used on though. maybe someday!!!
I really like the interior and all the little extras you've been adding. This will be a great showpiece when it's finished!!!...Figs for it too???

Prost
Allen

No worries Allen, still long ways to go. Thanks, in time you'll find a use for it. I'll be going a bit crazy for the cockpit with added instrument panel, cyclic and joystick and foot pedals. Don't have any post WW2 figures.

Yeh, a whole troop of monkeys using the rotors as a roundabout :smiling2:

I'll have to have my eyes checked and head examined if I'm bringing in the monkeys Jim. :smiling6:
At the moment working on the IP.

Cheers,
Wabble

 

[Waspie]

cyclic and joystick and foot pedals. Don't have any post WW2 figures.



Cheers,
Wabble

Her ya go Richard. A few helicopter control terms for ya!!

Cyclic - control between the pilots legs. (errr - not the joystick ). Allows the pilot to move the machine left/right/forwards/backwards and any combination in-between!!

Collective lever. Lever to the left of the pilots seat. Moves the controls to make the machine go up/down.

Rudder pedals. Same as any aircraft, yaws the aircraft, (left - right), to allow it to point in a specific direction.

To fly the machine, pilots use all three controls to achieve manoeuvres. (Useless fact. NASA used to, (no idea if it is still the case), insist that all astronauts were helicopter pilots, that is due to the additional control input in flight.) Other than the rudder pedals, the cyclic and collective also have additional switches and buttons to operate radio's, weapons and such just in case the pilot gets bored!

 

[stillp]

Collective lever. Lever to the left of the pilots seat. Moves the controls to make the machine go up/down.

I always thought that was the handbrake!
Pete

 

[Waspie]

I always thought that was the handbrake!
Pete

That was on the right!! :thumb2:

But seriously, the Wasp had a hand brake, just like a car, but as I say, it was on the right side of the right hand pilots seat.

 

[stillp]

The only heli I've ever been in was a Wessex. Friend of mine at a MU was qualified to take off and land for post-repair testing, but not qualified to actually fly, so he gave me a ride - 30 feet up and back down!
It was an hour or two before my teeth stopped rattling.
Pete

 

[Waspie]

The only heli I've ever been in was a Wessex. Friend of mine at a MU was qualified to take off and land for post-repair testing, but not qualified to actually fly, so he gave me a ride - 30 feet up and back down!
It was an hour or two before my teeth stopped rattling.
Pete

If out of major refit chances are the rotors wouldn’t have been tracked.
Just like wheel alignment but bumpier!!!!
Loved flying in the Wessex, superb helicopter.

 

[rtfoe]

Her ya go Richard. A few helicopter control terms for ya!!

Cyclic - control between the pilots legs. (errr - not the joystick ). Allows the pilot to move the machine left/right/forwards/backwards and any combination in-between!!

Collective lever. Lever to the left of the pilots seat. Moves the controls to make the machine go up/down.

Rudder pedals. Same as any aircraft, yaws the aircraft, (left - right), to allow it to point in a specific direction.

To fly the machine, pilots use all three controls to achieve manoeuvres. (Useless fact. NASA used to, (no idea if it is still the case), insist that all astronauts were helicopter pilots, that is due to the additional control input in flight.) Other than the rudder pedals, the cyclic and collective also have additional switches and buttons to operate radio's, weapons and such just in case the pilot gets bored!

Thanks for the correct names for those items Doug. I only know how to build and bad at describing parts of flying things...it's worse when it comes to the floaty things. I don't even have plans to work with and just eye balling photo references. Now at least I can describe the cockpit parts properly as I post.

I always thought that was the handbrake!
Pete

Ha ha me too then later on seeing some movies notice the handle can be twisted and elevated up and down while flying and didn't see it abruptly stop. :tears-of-joy:

Cheers,
Wabble