Fleet Air Arm Group Build

AAARRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Got finished burying that Depp kid, Speakin' of Kidd, he 'eld is likker betren th' Admirnal ever did!

Yeh, been gone donside ta the land o' dead peoples I likin', an back ta tell ye swags an I ...

Oh never mind. Fine Corsair, altho I new Pierre Le Grande and his cannon wasn't "so grand", 'e knew a sloppy sloop well nuff.

Hic!

The Admiral be callin' for a new set o' breeches, the XO be single an' horned, and the Bosun'; that be me- be tastin the rumstock for vermin.

Spekin o' which where be the Sergeant-at-Armtwisting?

Ahem! Well, I think know who took the key to the rum locker!

It be Friday lads! Here are some nice ladies with the weekly rum ration....................

Wherever you are, have a great weekend! CHEERS!

                  FLY NAVY! 

God bless Trashy Women!

in between reading my new book and celebrating the results, I accomplished some work on my Shar this afternoon...

Seam clean up on the wing/upper fuselge joint...

and work on the lower fuselage.... gonna need to add some shims to the speed brake to make it fit better...

CHEERS to the lot a ya swaggerin'.... err I mean swaying lads!!!! HIC!

Stik she's looking good buddy!!!!

I am working on  MPM 1'48 Fairey Fulmar night fighter so if ok that is what I will enter for this group build.

simpilot34

CHEERS to the lot a ya swaggerin'.... err I mean swaying lads!!!! HIC!

Stik she's looking good buddy!!!!

Thank you sir!

A bit more progress made today.

I scratch built the reinforcement plates for the stabilators from sheet styrene. The kit has none. I still need to do finish sanding but these are the basic shapes glued in to place.

I also drilled out the gun pod firing ports, and glued those and the forward exhaust nozzles in place.

more to follow soon...

I sanded the plates on the stabilators to a proper profile this morning...

I also glued the inboard pylons in place and tacked the outboard pylons in place for painting

Starting to look like a warplane now...

Stik, 

fantastic work on the Sea Harrier! I am very much looking forward to seeing more of this one!

Unfortunately to to work commitments, work on my Sea Vixen has been very slow indeed and there is still so much to do! I'll get cracking on that one when I have some more time. In the meantime, keep the flag flying chaps!

Khalee2

I am working on  MPM 1'48 Fairey Fulmar night fighter so if ok that is what I will enter for this group build.

Khalee!

pull up a chair and grab a tot'o rum! Great to have you aboard our humble, if somewhat crazy lunatic asylum..........er, I mean Group Build!

You'll fit right in! Looking forward to seeing your build! Now, make sure you read the rules and regs on page one and enjoy our time here!

CHEERS!

CAG.

Holy crap, the middle of page 2.  Double Holy Crap, I actually finished something!  Not for this build, but I thought I would offer evidence contrary to the rumor that I never finish anything for a group build.  It's the ICM Me-109E3 I started for the Battle of Britain build last year.  Sat on the table for 5 1/2 months daring me to finish her.  Now I've got a clean deck and a pot of US Interior Green to mix.  Gonna build me a bent wing round motored bird as I'm sick of inlines at the moment (although I've got two Tamiya P-51's in that scale which can't be mentioned to finish for the US IPMS Nats).  Scale will be the divine scale of course and the kit either a Hasegawa F4U-1D or the Hasegawa Corsair Mk.I.

Buddy she looks great mate!!! I see what you mean about the fit of the canopy as mentioned on the other thread! All in all a great job!!

What group build? I go away to educate a kid, and there's modeling?

Hmmm what to build? Is there a deadline?

EDIT: I just ordered a 1/72 Special Hobby Sea Hornet.

Take that, XO!

I finally figured what  to build next, a Roden 1/48 Sea Gladiator.  Should look nice in Extra Dark Sea Grey and Dark Slate grey.  The kit has markings for several FAA schemes and also for the Defense of Malta airplanes, but I'm not sure I can use the latter without extra dispensation because I think the Malta airplanes were transferred to the RAF then. 

Faith, Hope and Charity.

Oh, I like that!

But they were FAA aircraft, weren't they? And the pilots must have been.

I'm looking forward to this one.

Yeah, F,H and P would be fun.  I have heard that the names were a later myth and the airplanes themselves were without names.  Who knows.  Sometimes a good myth is better than a hit.  But for me to use those markings I'll need a special dispensation, not even an Admiral gets everything his way.  Wouldn't want to jeopardize the flow of booze or wenches!  Speakin' O that, what to hell, Quartermaster?  Did I sleep through the rum call?

I have painted the wheels and assembled the cowling.  This ain't going to be like whipping through the Tamiya Spitfire Mk. I I'm nearly done with.  But it's gonna look gooood!

Is everyone laying about the rum locker steeped in yer vomit?  On shore leave and locked up?

Well, let me tell you there ain't no scum on the bottom of the Admiral's feet, not a bit, laddies.  Working away on the Sea Gladiator, and on account the rest of ye be too sodded to know the difference and a few FAA lads were involved, I will be doing this one as N5519, variously know as Charity, or Faith, but little likelyhood every either been inscribed upon.  Two days into the engine and cowl, lots of itty bittys installed and the mouth looking only slightly crooked.  And the instrument panel, which is a clear part with reversed decals installed on the back, all kit parts.  There will be no extras on this one and not really needed.

Admiral sir she's lookin' to be a beauty for sure!!!

A bit of news for last weekend, I managed to place Third in the OOB small scale jet/rocket powered category with my Me-262 i did for franks Reich defender GB!!!!! YIPPEEEE!! First ever award!! Pic posted on GB thread.

Thanks, Richie, and congrats on the award!

I hereby announce rum call and plan to clean out the locker meself!!.

Thank you very much your Admiraltiness!!!! Might I have a few tots with ye? I mean if ur cleanin out the rum locker it will get done much faster and efficiently if there are more than one mouth... er I mean hand to help.

I'll be the footman to this.

This came in the UPS today:

Dark Sea Grey over Sky, or NMF?

BTW can we agree to "take care o' dat ting?".

This site will help you never get a Sea Hornet done, Bill.  Information overload.

http://www.dhhornet50.net/index.php?f=data_home&a=0

Since they were wood you would be meaning aluminum dope?  But I would go for the grey/shy.  Sharp looking.

I have a Frog Hornet in 1/72 and a Classic Airframes kit in 1/48.  Yup, I like Hornets and Sea Hornets!

Well here is the newly established work area at the new residence. Fully operational now.

All set.  The secret workshop in Southern California!

Not very secret... all the neighbors who go walking by every day get a look at it...  and their dogs do too!

Thats great stik. I still have a corner of the kitchen table, get flak from the landlady and lose stuff when the cleaning lady comes every week.

John, yes dope. I agree, grey/sky is a better looking scheme and I don't have one of those in the collection.

I'm glad to see this GB breathe life again.Frank, do you have a build in mind? Darren, are you back at the bench?

Neighbors and dogs, you say Stik?  Well beware, them nefarious cats will not be far behind!!

More pictures.  Four colors on the outside so far, thing is starting to look like the Mummy, (No, I don't mean Guy's mother) with all the layers of masking tape.

All the holes are drilled for the rigging, except for the ones I don't know about yet.  The instructions don't show any, but I am putting wires under the stabilizers as they should be there. 

 I try to take pictures that show relevant parts of the building process, but some areas don't relate to that too well.  The instrument panel seems to be an area that people have been having trouble with, doing things like sanding it down or changing the ribs in the fuselage it fits against.  I had some trouble test fitting but found that the panel has to fit just right over the guns, if the lower edges are both placed just in front of the main square section of the guns it will fit with no trimming.  I will try to get a photo of how it fits from the front, as I have left the engine and firewall off until last.  The cockpit floor/seat assembly is another thing that takes some care.  I removed the forward right pin as it was going to foul on something, I forget what.  I super glued the three pins on the right side and then while both the panel and floor assembly were still a little movable (and the radio box) I put the fuselage sides together and clamped them with tape while the interior parts cured.  I let all that cure for a while, then I glued the fuselage haves together, starting with the top front.  Once the fuselage was glued, I went in from the front and glued the instrument panel to the right side.  I just left the radio panel and seat assembly free on the right side.

When it comes time to paint you will become frustrated with Roden's painting guide.  The top and side views are inconsistent.  No problem for the wings but there is nothing much useful for the fuselage.  Roden also put the separation line between the Light Sea Grey (or Sky) too low on the fuselage, it should be about 1/8 higher, generally at the bottom of the cockpit door.  You are on your own as to where you put the topside colors.  Copy mine, I more or less copied Tom Cleaver with better style [smiley=evil.gif]

Today I found that the rear interplane struts have the wrong angle on the lower end so they don't conform to the wing's airfoil shape.  I used them in and filled under the back edge, tomorrow I will carve them to shape.  I made cabane struts out of Contrail strut stock because the kit parts are not like what is on the airplane.  They should be the same cross section as the interplane struts but Roden supplied small round (and very fragile) struts.

I made an assembly jig with mixing sticks using the painting diagram as a guide for the angles, I'll post a drawing of the angles later.  It worked very well to get the correct gap and stagger for the wings and kept the wing panels aligned in planform.  I put the interplane struts in an let all that cure, then I disassembled the jig and made the cabane struts and installed them.  Everything looks well aligned.

Looking great John!!! Mummy? Nahhh, as long as it's bagged and not tagged it will be right in the end

Well If I can I will enter this for the build

Special Hobby 1/48 Fairey Barracuda