**** DONE: 1/48 HH-60H HS-4 - Home Country Modern Aircraft / Spitfire Marks GB

[Vic Balshaw]

Working hard and well old chap and why do you do it?....................Cause you're a dumb ass model nutter like most of us and you can't resist a challenge.

 

[Wayne Little]

Well said Vic!

Doin a great head spinning job Bill!!

 

[Airframes]

Nicely done Bill.

 

[T Bolt]

Fantastic detailing Bill.

 

[Crimea_River]

 

[woody]

Nice work Bill what great scratch work.

 

[ccheese]

Great work, Bill. Well Done.

Charles

 

[N4521U]

Well put Vic. I didn't think anyone would notice I was a dumb ass tho, but then we Have met. I guess I am proving it with this exercise in futility. For what I am gaining, this mod is hardly worth all the effort and aggggrivation.

Glue in a piece, file, glue in another piece, file again, glue in another bloody piece, repeet repeet threepeet...... and the move to the other side...... arrrrrrrgh.

 

[N4521U]

I been working on the landing lights as well. There were PE pieces, but I find them so hard to glue in, and file around I did my own styrene housings. Used tube, cut at an angle, then side put on for height. Cut the end at an angle and glued a flat piece on for the flat end for the lamp. Cut a sqaure hole at the back end and used a round file to elongate. The a round sided file to shape the sides of the hole. Bob's your uncle, as they say. Now for the other side of center. I think on these they are not retractable and one is more at an angle than the other, One points more forward. There is also a light for the crew pointing straight down under the hoist. Made a hole for that one as well.

Two posts in one day.......
I sailor on.... slowly.

 

[A4K]

Absolutely magic Bill, good on ya!

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Something tells me you got the modellers scratch bug Bill, doing a great job my friend.

 

[Wayne Little]

might be frustrating Bill but the end result is damn good sir!

 

[meatloaf109]

Beautiful work! What method are you using to get the proper amount of head spin?
And clock-wise or counter clock-wise?
I generally use some cheap canadian whiskey, but am always interested in new modeling techniques!

 

[Crimea_River]

might be frustrating Bill but the end result is damn good sir!

Agree with that.

 

[Airframes]

Good stuff Bill - can't beat a bit of simple scratch-building, makes more of the model, rather than throwing a box-full of aftermarket metal parts at it.

 

[N4521U]

Beautiful work! What method are you using to get the proper amount of head spin?
And clock-wise or counter clock-wise?
I generally use some cheap canadian whiskey, but am always interested in new modeling techniques!

My choice when I was home in the States was Meyers and Coke, but here I have found Bundaburg is very much the same. Then of course the mix is still about 50/50 for the best results....... LMFAO.

 

[Wayne Little]

 

[Vic Balshaw]

A filling of whisky with one rock works wonders as well.

 

[N4521U]

Oooooo, drank Jack Daniels while in the Navy..... don't do that any more.......

Now I Know I've lost it.... I couldn't find a Gatling gun, so I've gone a Made the bugger...... I gotta stop this, I may just use the kit seats, but then they will look a little dorkey along side all the other scratch stuff. I'm slowwwwwly loosing it.

 

[A4K]

Great work Bill! (and damn, I miss the Bundaberg...)