#19 The Flying Brick

[smokeriderdon]

The blandest cockpit floor on earth

Dude, did you pay attention to the one in my Vulcan???? LMAO

Looking good sir!

[pourquoi61]

Fantastic work and it's nice to see Airfix has updated it's decals back in the 60's.

[demarcation]

beautiful cockpit Scott, top job buddy!!

[Twokidsnosleep]

beautiful cockpit Scott, top job buddy!!

bud, thanks for the nice comment

Fantastic work and it's nice to see Airfix has updated it's decals back in the 60's.

Brutal hey. Just painful to leave it so bland
I felt the same way when I did the Sea King Helicopter...so added waaay too much non visible detail
For the instrument panel, I just copied the shape onto some thin styrene, drilled out the holes, painted it black and rimmed the edges with Molotow chrome. The some white glue into the holes and some generic decals for dials from the back.
Simple solution

[Twokidsnosleep]

Some more additions to her insides
This beast had a large ‘warm air tube’ running up her starboard side. I imagine it was to keep,the boys warm up at altitude...or make tea
So here is one portion going in


The navigators desk station just behind the cockpit. I added a fictitious panel above to cover a nasty ejector pin mark


As I add the details to Starboard side, I glue them down and fit the opposite side dry. I am hoping that the port side will then just drop into place
The hair ties just hold the sides together while the bulkhead glues to the starboard fuselage. I chucked a wing on for size confirmation


Yes, She is gonna be a big bird

[alextheblue]

She's a looker for a big lass!

Great work on the interior, adds some nice detail.

[Stokesy44]

Seeing your Stirling in front of the paint booth, me thinks my tin pot booth is no way going to house my Lanc!

Really don't have £300 for a Benchvent booth right now

The cockpit is looking nice mate, good to see a bit of the Scotty magic going on in there.

Gotta say though, that is one dog ugly looking aircraft. Whatever happened to - if it looks right, it flies right eh? The designers must have decided to build the nastiest looking plane they could think of in the hope that the flak and fighters wouldn't go near it for fear of catching a bad case of the fuglies!

[Twokidsnosleep]

Seeing your Stirling in front of the paint booth, me thinks my tin pot booth is no way going to house my Lanc!

Really don't have £300 for a Benchvent booth right now

The cockpit is looking nice mate, good to see a bit of the Scotty magic going on in there.

Gotta say though, that is one dog ugly looking aircraft. Whatever happened to - if it looks right, it flies right eh? The designers must have decided to build the nastiest looking plane they could think of in the hope that the flak and fighters wouldn't go near it for fear of catching a bad case of the fuglies!

The weather is nice and you must have some cardboard boxes from moving. So make up a little cardboard 'booth' big enough to fit the beast and spray outside
And she is NOT ugly, she is just attractively deficient, in every respect. So deficient, she is beautiful

[pourquoi61]

Well you are making the dog ugly into a Crufts Champion.

[Twokidsnosleep]

Well you are making the dog ugly into a Crufts Champion.

for the kind words

[Twokidsnosleep]

Navigator space, chair desk and map.



Behind that bulkhead will go the flight engineer seat and instrument panel on the starboard side and the radio operator station on the port side.
Then that will be it for the extra details I think

I am delaying making the gunners and sealing up the fuselage as a I know the work is cut out for me with putty and seams
Time ain’t the largest asset at the moment either
You guys are so far ahead of me

[Stokesy44]

That cockpit is starting to look a bit tasty mate.

[digger303]

That cockpit is starting to look a bit tasty mate.

You ain't wrong there

[Twokidsnosleep]

That cockpit is starting to look a bit tasty mate.

That cockpit is starting to look a bit tasty mate.

You ain't wrong there

Thanks guys, it is coming along just picking away at it after my nightly chores are done
About as inaccurate as one could get.
Hard to get a straight pic of exactly what you want, images get reversed or have no reference.
The moulding of the Airfix is different from the Italeri kit so shows things on opposite sides of the fuselage interior. I chose to do it this way whether correct or not just so I was adding detail to the starboard wall and could keep test fitting the untouched port side. Radio operator is port side so that effort goes out the window.

[Twokidsnosleep]

A lovely painting of the flight engineer at his post..notice the navigator at his map desk on the port side


Then a colourized pic of the flight engineer on the starboard side behind the bulkhead


and then a b/w pic looking aft from the cockpit


I get caught up reading and following links and stories about my subjects as I search for details. I guess that is the fun for me in modelling, especially with military subjects. The stories, horrors and humanity can be quite sobering.
Case in point: One flight engineer was the only survivor of a Sterling raid in Denmark after a direct flack hit and the plane exploded.... he was blown out of the aircraft still strapped into his chair. The locals found him, nursed him back to health and hid him from the Nazis.

[RossiM1]

That really is looking superb Scott fabulous attention to detail as always mate

[Twokidsnosleep]

That really is looking superb Scott fabulous attention to detail as always mate

my friend

[gaz45]

Great work on the cockpit mate

[digger303]

Looks great and love the pic's

[Stokesy44]

I get caught up reading and following links and stories about my subjects as I search for details. I guess that is the fun for me in modelling, especially with military subjects. The stories, horrors and humanity can be quite sobering.
Case in point: One flight engineer was the only survivor of a Sterling raid in Denmark after a direct flack hit and the plane exploded.... he was blown out of the aircraft still strapped into his chair. The locals found him, nursed him back to health and hid him from the Nazis.

Same with me mate. When I'm working on something historical (as opposed to sci-fi) its as though I have a piece of living history in my hands. It fascinates me beyond what is essentially just a bit of plastic and glue. When I lose that feeling, my mojo goes and I lose interest in the hobby. Thankfully its only a passing thing and my passions soon return.

Working on these Bomber Command aircraft is a case in point. There's a real poignancy about them. Yes they were instruments of war but somehow they also showed what is best about us. Sacrifice, bravery, a willingness to stand up to tyranny. That and being absurdly young too.

One of my favourite novelists is Robert Radcliffe and he's written a novel about the Dams raid. Its called 'Dambuster', part love story, part history, the depiction of the raid itself is highly accurate and incredibly evocative. I would recommend it to anyone with a passing interest in historical military fiction.

[demarcation]

I get caught up reading and following links and stories about my subjects as I search for details. I guess that is the fun for me in modelling, especially with military subjects. The stories, horrors and humanity can be quite sobering.

Same for me!!

[Twokidsnosleep]

I get caught up reading and following links and stories about my subjects as I search for details. I guess that is the fun for me in modelling, especially with military subjects. The stories, horrors and humanity can be quite sobering.

Same for me!!

Really is the fun part of new age modelling...using the internet to search kits, PE and such, but then also the stories photos history beyond that as well.
It is amazing what is on the net. I was reading a page about the diary of a bomber ball turret gunner that Anders posted in his build and it was just frightenly fascinating
If I don't have that connection to a build it just isn't as fun....as Fridgy described

[pourquoi61]

How many wonderful escapes and horror stories have still not been told?
Beautiful build.

[Twokidsnosleep]

How many wonderful escapes and horror stories have still not been told?
Beautiful build.

..or will never be told.
Those poor kids in the bombers saw stuff they never wanted to recount in their minds again and far too many never came home.
Hoping your luck holds out and that you make it through another mission until you are done or dead
scary

[Twokidsnosleep]

Roughs for the flight engineer’s station

[Garion77]

Nice work Scott ! A lot of scratch building for you ! I don't dare tackle that kind of work yet.

[Twokidsnosleep]

Nice work Scott ! A lot of scratch building for you ! I don't dare tackle that kind of work yet.

Francis
Keep me posted on that puppy dog of yours...have her in my heart

[Twokidsnosleep]

Ok what did I finish off this weekend
Flight engineer’s starboard side. I think this is it for interior detail...can’t see squat inside


Then I tested messing with the windows...crystal clear vs kit glass windows vs 560 Canopy glue..left to right in the pic.
You just stick some in the hole on a tooth pic and move around until it all joins and fills the space


Then I masked up the canopy ála BOB M in preparation for a BMF cover


She looks kinda cool with the birdcage cockpit glass


I will post a little hockey thing in the w/e goals thread.....

[Stokesy44]

Lovely detail work.

Starting to look like a Stirling with that canopy now.

[Fridgy]

Ok what did I finish off this weekend
Flight engineer’s starboard side. I think this is it for interior detail...can’t see squat inside


Then I tested messing with the windows...crystal clear vs kit glass windows vs 560 Canopy glue..left to right in the pic.
You just stick some in the hole on a tooth pic and move around until it all joins and fills the space


Then I masked up the canopy ála BOB M in preparation for a BMF cover


She looks kinda cool with the birdcage cockpit glass


I will post a little hockey thing in the w/e goals thread.....

So which gets you vote?
Hard to see a huge difference between them on my phone screen
The lower row window to me looks the most glossy and glass like

And um... it may just be me... so forgive my confusion here.... but what are you doing with the office glass?
Wouldnt you usually mask the windows not the framing??

Its been a long day...... be kind if im missing something glaringly obvious

[Garion77]

Nice work Scott ! A lot of scratch building for you ! I don't dare tackle that kind of work yet.

Francis
Keep me posted on that puppy dog of yours...have her in my heart

Thank you ! we';ll do ! I'm going to know the different options available for me tomorrow...and mostly how much they cost !

[DBMiller]

Super interior - but all those rivets on the exterior! Those things drive me crazy!

[BobM]

It’s all looking great. But that canopy, what a lot of work.

And um... it may just be me... so forgive my confusion here.... but what are you doing with the office glass?
Wouldnt you usually mask the windows not the framing??

Its been a long day...... be kind if im missing something glaringly obvious

I believe his plan is to cover it with Bare Metal Foil and use the tape as a cutting guide, the remove the tape. And thanks for the credit Scott, but the real credit goes to Paul Budzik:
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Ha, just skimmed it again and noticed he only uses the tape when he sands away the frame detail..

[Modelfreek]

Nicely done sir! Interior scratch is looking great. And is that a re rivet job on the whole exterior?!

[Twokidsnosleep]

Thanks everybody
Those are the kit rivets and surface detail from the '60's mould. I am going to try to keep as much of those details as possible when doing the seams

Yes the tape is a guide for canopy. The lines in the canopy are kind of weak so the tape will help define them and act as a guide when I use the BMF just like Bob showed.

The interior glass all kind of looks the same weather white glue or clear plastic. I think I will do the glue/Crystal clear stuff as the kit windows will pop out too easily especially after the fuselage is assembled.

for looking everybody

[pourquoi61]

She is looking just lovely.
Great work.

[Twokidsnosleep]

She is looking just lovely.
Great work.

thanks

[Twokidsnosleep]

Have not been to the bench at all last two nights ...no energy for it
Hoping a four day weekend will get my building juices flowing again

[Stokesy44]

Have not been to the bench at all last two nights ...no energy for it
Hoping a four day weekend will get my building juices flowing again

I have faith in you Skipper!

[Twokidsnosleep]

Have not been to the bench at all last two nights ...no energy for it
Hoping a four day weekend will get my building juices flowing again

I have faith in you Skipper!

David
The remnants of flu is what I blame, still clearing out the lungs it seems.
Have skipped my boy's hockey nights as the cold of the rink makes me cough like a gagging moron
Still, I will get back to building the Sterling soon

[digger303]

Have not been to the bench at all last two nights ...no energy for it
Hoping a four day weekend will get my building juices flowing again

have you forgotten the miracle of RUM.

[Willem]

Loving the interior and the masking tape trick. Really taking shape.

Hope you finally kick the flu into touch and get some bench time.

[Twokidsnosleep]

Have not been to the bench at all last two nights ...no energy for it
Hoping a four day weekend will get my building juices flowing again

have you forgotten the miracle of RUM.

You know what, I have...I will get on that right away

Loving the interior and the masking tape trick. Really taking shape.

Hope you finally kick the flu into touch and get some bench time.

Cheers Will

[Tomcat64]

Some superb detailing on the interior there leader!

That's coming together really well

[DoubleDigit12]

I see you are "leading by example", nice work

[Stokesy44]

I see you are "leading by example", nice work

Don't massage his ego, he's having trouble getting his head through the door already!

[DoubleDigit12]

I see you are "leading by example", nice work

Don't massage his ego, he's having trouble getting his head through the door already!

Watch out, I heard he was promoted to Moderator we dont want thrown out mid flight

[Stokesy44]

I see you are "leading by example", nice work

Don't massage his ego, he's having trouble getting his head through the door already!

Watch out, I heard he was promoted to Moderator we dont want thrown out mid flight

We'll be alright, he's all bark and no bite. He's a lovely wubly Canadian and a jolly nice fella to boot.

[Twokidsnosleep]

Inie meanie minie mo....

[Les0012]

Starting to look the biz, just have to love the Stirling

Les