Well, since I am well and truly diving into the dreaded world of Whatiffery with an operational Wendover including a full FN.20 turret, I think I can get away with this colour without too much trouble... ;)
Must say that I have several pictures of Lysanders sporting all kinds of interior green...
So... I promised ya'll a seat...
Some 1.5mm styrene rod, some bending, some CA, some glueing of fingers to things... and Ta-DAAH!
Used the old seat as a template for the back...
1.5mm halfround rod... Seat?
Seat!
A little sanding. A little bit of styrene for an armour backing to the...
Also I got a package yesterday!
One phonecall to Hannants was enough to get them to sent my order again. Original shipment disappeared in postal limbo... First time ever I bought resin and brass gun replacements. And I can see why some people do it all the time, because it's lovely stuff! And...
Another day, more tinkering...
I made a few cross-braces between the center of the frame using 2.4mm Evergreen tube and 1.2mm rod...
...and fixed them between the upright frames by drilling 1.2mm holes. Using the rod as a dowel made for a much sturdier connection, better than solely flat...
A couple of days of sawing, filing and sanding and I have two complete side frames. With all the tubes rounded I used my fretsaw to saw them out and then filed the outsides straight.
And now the mancave looks like Tony Montana used it as his office...
Next I made a jig so I could get the...
The mock-up also helped me to figure out the size of the new internal frame. First I did a rough-ish sketch with the old frame as a guide...
I scribed three parallel lines in a sheet of 2mm styreen at 29m and 21mm apart, and one vertical centerline in the middle, then took the measurements...
Yay! My FN.20 turret arrived, so I had a better idea about the scale and size for my new tail. Soooo time to start... with a mock-up.
First I made a good template for the fuselage cross-section, using the forward hlaf of the fuselage...
I marked the centerline and a couple of horizontal...
Onwards! Even if it is ever so slowly... The front of the fuselage is glued and ready for more torture.
I started out with Tamiya ET, added a little bit of quarter-round Evergreen strip to add some strength to some of the seams... and then decided "Screw this..." and flowed in CA-glue and hit...
Here goes nothing!
Decided to glue the parts using CA, and damn the consequences! If needs be I can use the transparancies from the Revell kit, or vacu-form new ones. Decided to do the cockpit open anyway, so if they are thinner, all the better.
So, glued with CA...
...aaaand promptly broken...
Well, another episode of very little building and a lot of research...
For those who were wondering; I did look into getting a Persues, but it seems there are none in 1/32 scale. And I was planning of going slightly down the whif-road (you know the one... the gates have a sign above it saying...
Hi folks.
I've been lurking on the forum for a while now, tapping the enormous amounts of reference material, and I think it's about time I give something back.
For a "Flying Abominations"-GB on another forum I proudly present;
The Westland P.12 Lysander Delanne (Wendover)!
The whowhatsit...
Great, thanks a lot! I did some calculating and it came to about 27.5mm long and 15mm high at 1/32, and I got some work done this morning...
I added some grab-handles to the boxes, and still need to build some transport-gutters. But it's a start.
I will probably post a build thread soon...