**** DONE: 1/48 Blackburn Roc – Sqn Ldr Clark RAF. BofB Group Build.

[Wayne Little]

Interesting choice Vic....ugly mother but interesting none the less....

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Vic....ugly mother but interesting none the less....

Agree...............

 

[Jayl]

Nice unusual subject.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Started on the Roc late yesterday, just general cleaning up bits and decided that the best place to start would be on the engine. First thing I noticed was the oil cooling pipes that fit in front of the radial engine, they were just solid little lumps of plastic.

The solid lumps of plastic. These I have drilled out to make them look more like the horns they are.

The whole engine parts, some given an initial coat of paint, I will do a bit of assembly and possibly weathering tomorrow. The modified oil cooling pipes are on the bottom left, though the drilled out centre is hard to see.

 

[Wayne Little]

Gotta start somewhere.....good stuff Vic!

 

[rochie]

lot of little bits for that engine Vic, good start though !

 

[Airframes]

Nice work mate. All you need to do now, is drill-out the cylinders, make some pistons and push rods, then find the correct grade, 'in scale', oil, and .............

 

[Wildcat]

Good to see her under way Vic.

 

[T Bolt]

Nice to see it started Vic. The oil cooling pipes look much better

 

[vikingBerserker]

Very cool!

 

[Crimea_River]

Nicely done Vic. The engine looks like a model itself.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Thanks guys, sad to say though the engine is still in bits, rather dirty looking bits at that. Other duties prevented a build today bu8t there is always tomorrow.

Nice work mate. All you need to do now, is drill-out the cylinders, make some pistons and push rods, then find the correct grade, 'in scale', oil, and .............

No problems Terry, I've got the oil (to scale).............pinched it from the sewing machine and was thinking of putting in some plug leads and such, but there all at the back and would be hidden, so why bother.

 

[Airframes]

Exactly ! The only reason to put all that gubbins in there is purely for the satisfaction of doing so - bl**dy pointless !

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Managed to get the Roc engine together today, it was a bit fiddly but I kind'a like the look of the finished object.

 

[Wayne Little]

That's pretty cool Vic...looking good mate.

 

[rochie]

very nice Vic

 

[Crimea_River]

Beauty.

 

[Airframes]

Nice work mate, and it certainly looks the part.

 

[T Bolt]

Very nice Vic!

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Thanks guys, no further progress, Spits getting in the way.