**** DONE: 1/48 EC Tiger ARH - Home Country Modern Aircraft/Spitfire Marks GB

[Vic Balshaw]

Thanks Bill.

Them ring are just a bit of wire wrapped round a sewing pin and the ends twisted as you would a lock-nut on and aircraft. The twisted bit gets stuffed inside the body.

 

[Wayne Little]

Excellent work good sir!

 

[N4521U]

I might just have to put a bakers dozen of them on mine!

 

[Crimea_River]

Good work Vic.

 

[Airframes]

Great stuff Vic, going to be another stunner methinks.

 

[rochie]

very neat Vic

 

[brucejscott]

Vic, you are indeed the man!

 

[Vic Balshaw]

My thanks gentlemen for the kind words.

Spent time actually sticking plastic to plastic today, made up the tail unit and the forward wing load platforms but none will be attached as yet. In answer to an earlier question Karl, I'm leaving them off to make spraying the camo simpler, the less protrusions the better me thinks.

Other work today was adding a couple of lifting rings to the olio support housing, the kit was just a simple mould indentation, I think this is about Mod 10.

While checking the lifting rings out, I noticed at the other end of the machine that the kit tailwheel was incorrectly placed and that the kit detail could do with a bit of a lift. I'm taking it that the stbd side opening just to the rear of the tailwheel mechanism is for quick inspection. Anyway, this has turned out to me Mod 11.

 

[A4K]

Loving your detail work Vic..!

 

[Wayne Little]

Agreed!

 

[Airframes]

Nice stuff Vic. I wish my bl**dy hands would allow me to make small rings like that. I could once, but now - no bl**dy chance!

 

[Rogi]

I love the level of detial you put into your builds Shes looking great and shes not even finished yet !

 

[brucejscott]

Nice attention to detail Vic.

 

[Gnomey]

Coming along nicely Vic!

 

[N4521U]

You see mate. This is what makes one go back at look at the "details".

What have I missed?
What am I capable of adding?

Great stuff as always.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Thank you so much gents, I really do appreciate your comments, makes one want to strive for more.......

Terry, I have to confess that the rings are made from a small spring, just nipping off one ring at a time from the spring and praying it don't fly away while doing it.

I lost a couple this way and a couple more when bringing the two end together.

 

[Airframes]

I couldn't even do that nowadays mate - the 'dead' fingers get in the way of everything, and holding pliers/scissors/snips is bad enough, let alone actually using them. You should see me trying to use a knife and fork - bl**dy hilarious!

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Decided to do the rail looking thing coming down from the tail and along the stab side, me thinks it is some kind of aerial.

I have long been deliberating on how to do this and finally settled on something like this:

First I had to shape the steel wire correctly, I used steel as it is nice and strong and not prone to bending where you don't want it to. I then made a load of small grommet type thinks on the wire from a piece of electrical wire sleeve. The support posts are brass tubing with copper colour wire threaded through to make a loop.

The brass posts with the wire loops were positioned between the grommets so that I had one grommet either side of the wire. The brass tube was then pulled up the wire so that it was snug against the steel wire. When all the loops had been positioned between the grommets, I then glued the wire at the base of the brass tube in order to hold them snug against the steel wire. Once the glue was properly set the surplus wire could be snipped off.

It then just remained to drill out the post holes on the chopper and insert them, securing each with a dab of glue. Again once set I then positioned a grommet either side of the wee wire loop, clamping them in position with a pair of tweezers while the glue that was applied set. I then got a slightly thicker glue and dabbed a drop on the top of each post.

 

[Wayne Little]

Magnificent Vic, great thinking and execution!

 

[N4521U]

holey crap! That's brilliant.