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- January 23rd, 2021, 4:51 pm
- Forum: Your New Projects
- Topic: Tony Nijhuis 1/6 Scale Lancaster
- Replies: 257
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Re: Tony Nijhuis 1/6 Scale Lancaster
I love the subtle treatment of the rivets to suggest a little "wear and tear". The fuselage in line with the inner engine airscrews was usually a bit more battered than elsewhere from ice being cast off the prop' discs at speed. (Same reason the Wellington has a double-thickness of doped-l...
- December 3rd, 2020, 4:12 pm
- Forum: Your New Projects
- Topic: Tony Nijhuis 1/6 Scale Lancaster
- Replies: 257
- Views: 78969
Re: Tony Nijhuis 1/6 Scale Lancaster
I love the touches such as the de-icing spray masts in front of the cockpit windows. Very nice indeed.
- November 27th, 2020, 7:04 pm
- Forum: Your New Projects
- Topic: Wellington build thread
- Replies: 119
- Views: 47538
Re: Wellington build thread
Does anyone recognise this model? I'd quite like to contact the builder..
- November 26th, 2020, 8:59 pm
- Forum: General Discussion Topics
- Topic: CAD designer needed please
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3302
Re: CAD designer needed please
No problem. Any luck sourcing that high res scan?
- November 26th, 2020, 12:35 am
- Forum: General Discussion Topics
- Topic: Most typical scales of currently flying LMA Wellingtons
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3238
Re: Most typical scales of currently flying LMA Wellingtons
Just by way of an FYI, I am actively working to provide a non-functioning* FN5 turret at 1:6.6 scale for the SLEC/Nijhuis Wellington. The 3d printing side is straight-forwards, the cupola is another matter, as it cost over £300 just making the moulds, and the vac-forming in polycarbonate was another...
- November 10th, 2020, 9:11 pm
- Forum: Your New Projects
- Topic: Convair YF2Y-1 Sea Dart
- Replies: 303
- Views: 84802
Re: Convair YF2Y-1 Sea Dart
Alex, do you know how the "petals" would be set on the real aircraft at slow "taxi" speed? I'm wondering if they needed a particular setting to prevent this steam in the thrust-pipes from occurring on the full-size machine. It's conceivable they need to(work) and be partially clo...
- September 7th, 2020, 3:26 pm
- Forum: Forum / PC support
- Topic: Pming - the outbox
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2541
Re: Pming - the outbox
Many thanks. It was Peter Smedley I was trying to contact...
- August 25th, 2020, 2:42 am
- Forum: General Discussion Topics
- Topic: CAD designer needed please
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3302
Re: CAD designer needed please
If the CAD is being used to draw components, there's no need to blow up the plans, as they can be imported into the initial CAD drawing at any physical dimension and then the scale set by defining two points a known distance apart. This might be the actual length of the full-size aircraft, and then ...
- August 24th, 2020, 9:38 pm
- Forum: Forum / PC support
- Topic: Pming - the outbox
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2541
Pming - the outbox
Hi I've written a PM and think it has been "sent" but it's still sitting in the outbox, and I can't see a way to send it. Is it the case that "sent pm's" always sit in the outbox until read by the recipient? Or do I need to do something else to send it and get it to move from the...
- June 23rd, 2020, 3:53 pm
- Forum: Your New Projects
- Topic: MIG 15
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4770
Re: MIG 15
Keith, Apologies for must have seemed a bit of a rude post on my part. I'd noticed the MIG's optically flat front windscreen, and it was this that prompted me to post the question. What I should have said was that "a Mig would be an ideal subject for a cockpit mounted camera" because of th...
- June 23rd, 2020, 3:53 pm
- Forum: Your New Projects
- Topic: MIG 15
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4770
Re: MIG 15
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- June 16th, 2020, 11:08 pm
- Forum: Your New Projects
- Topic: MIG 15
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4770
Re: MIG 15
Keith, will you mount a camera in the cockpit? If you do, you might want to look at the incredible working collimating gunsights Tim Noack has produced:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJm4ZS ... uMskwZp3Eg
I have his email which I can pm to you if you wanted to look into it.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJm4ZS ... uMskwZp3Eg
I have his email which I can pm to you if you wanted to look into it.
- June 13th, 2020, 4:37 pm
- Forum: Your New Projects
- Topic: Convair YF2Y-1 Sea Dart
- Replies: 303
- Views: 84802
Re: Convair YF2Y-1 Sea Dart
Ah, but it was an arresting image to conjur! 

- June 12th, 2020, 6:23 pm
- Forum: Your New Projects
- Topic: Convair YF2Y-1 Sea Dart
- Replies: 303
- Views: 84802
Re: Convair YF2Y-1 Sea Dart
Alex, How will this be manoeuvred from trailer or vehicle to the water normally? I imagine during testing it'll be a case of all concerned playing "rock-paper-scissors" until one poor sod takes their shoes and socks off to go paddling with the front end! :lol: With the skis, I imagine it's...
- June 7th, 2020, 12:07 am
- Forum: Your New Projects
- Topic: Vickers Wellesley 1/5.4th scale
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4234
Re: Vickers Wellesley 1/5.4th scale
Bumped for an update! I'd love to see how this is progressing!
- June 4th, 2020, 11:35 am
- Forum: Your New Projects
- Topic: FN5 turrets for Wellington
- Replies: 85
- Views: 25187
Re: FN5 turrets for Wellington
Cheers Alex. Once CV19 has fallen over, I'm in North Oxfordshire, and if ever you're passing I'd be very happy to shew them to you, and such progress on the geodetics as may have been made by then.. Just PM me to arrange. Tim I've really enjoyed watching these come together Timothy, They look awesom...
- June 4th, 2020, 11:30 am
- Forum: Your New Projects
- Topic: FN5 turrets for Wellington
- Replies: 85
- Views: 25187
Re: FN5 turrets for Wellington
Amazing ! The turrets on my 1/5 Wellington consist of a pair of biros, a cotton reel and a Tesco's cheesecake box. I now feel somewhat inadequate. :-) Please don't be! Committing these to flight will be a thoroughly risky proposition as far as their long-term survival! So there's a great deal of se...
- June 3rd, 2020, 6:31 pm
- Forum: Your New Projects
- Topic: FN5 turrets for Wellington
- Replies: 85
- Views: 25187
Re: FN5 turrets for Wellington
Well, as of yesterday, you'll be glad (and relieved?) to know that the turrets are complete, and this will be my last post as regards progress on them. I've put together a final film, a mixture of stills and footage from within the turrets (with newly completed cupolas fitted). So now the geodetic s...
- June 2nd, 2020, 2:06 pm
- Forum: Your New Projects
- Topic: Convair YF2Y-1 Sea Dart
- Replies: 303
- Views: 84802
Re: Convair YF2Y-1 Sea Dart
That's bloody gorgeous, there's no other word for it. I love how clean and considered the whole design is - it shows none of the bodges and work-arounds my stuff tends to accrete!
- June 1st, 2020, 6:48 pm
- Forum: Your New Projects
- Topic: Convair YF2Y-1 Sea Dart
- Replies: 303
- Views: 84802
Re: Convair YF2Y-1 Sea Dart
I imagine one issue you may have to deal with, is what happens when a control-surface is hit by a lot of spray, or worse, "solid" water at some speed. Is there any protection of the servo's, ie a deliberate "weak-link" in the linkages between servo and control surface that'll wit...