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Bristol 138C Cirrostratus
« on: May 28, 2014, 09:25:40 AM »
 Brought into service with the Obscure Defence Detachment in 1935, the 'Cyril' as it was nicknamed, used
 the basic outline of its more public contemporary on a structure substantially more robust. More Diesel punk
 dementia, elaborated back story, and general whimsy to follow on the weekend. This is the venerable, and
 really quite nice Frog/Novo kit with a much modified resin cowl from a 1/48th C.R. 42, and the original engine
 with a bit of a tweak.



 Oh, and the trouser-spats haven't been skinned yet.

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Re: Bristol 138C Cirrostratus
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2014, 11:34:46 AM »
Nice build, love the named "Obscure Defence Detachment".

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Re: Bristol 138C Cirrostratus
« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2014, 11:27:40 AM »
This looks interesting. Nice choice on the CR.42 cowling  :)
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Re: Bristol 138C Cirrostratus
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2014, 09:08:08 AM »
Hmmm... some old gold here.
Terrific basis

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Re: Bristol 138C Cirrostratus
« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2014, 04:13:41 AM »
Those "trouser-spats" look promising! 8)
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Re: Bristol 138C Cirrostratus
« Reply #5 on: June 02, 2014, 04:03:24 AM »
 Thanks for the good words, colleagues! Here's the latest:


 The spats are plated, and everything is just tacked in place for the photos - I don't want more of a masking
 challenge than I need. ;) The 'stub exhausts will get longer, more, ah, diesel-ly pipes, after everything else
 is painted and assembled. Alas, the white primer I've been using stays tacky a lot longer than other flat primers
 I've used, otherwise I probably could have finished it this weekend. ( Even with all the yard work! )



 And finally, a close shot of the engine, of which I am inordinately proud. Its the kit engine, with short
 sections of evergreen plastic tube slid over the cylinders, ( which are plain bare stubs, intended more to evoke
 engine cylinders than emulate them...) aluminum tube heads, and pushroddy things made from some
 schurzen brackets out of a sturmgeschutz kit  I was recently given.



 That's it for now -hope to finish it over the next weekend. PRU blue overall, I think - debating black
 undersurfaces, and I'm certainly open to suggestions.

 And hopefully, one more project before the deadline. ( hmmm. Where have I heard that before... :icon_crap: ;D

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Re: Bristol 138C Cirrostratus
« Reply #6 on: June 02, 2014, 06:06:57 PM »
Damn!  That is looking great.
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Re: Bristol 138C Cirrostratus
« Reply #7 on: June 02, 2014, 08:16:21 PM »
She looks pretty damn' good in white, Craig! :)

Gotta admit she has come out looking better than I had expected. 8)
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Re: Bristol 138C Cirrostratus
« Reply #8 on: June 02, 2014, 10:18:30 PM »
 :-* Now that is looking great! Fits the 1930's like a charm
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Re: Bristol 138C Cirrostratus
« Reply #9 on: June 03, 2014, 01:00:05 AM »
That really looks good! The engine looks busy enough, too. PRU blue may look good, but the white looks great right now. Those spats are great! Better hold BdB back!

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Re: Bristol 138C Cirrostratus
« Reply #10 on: June 03, 2014, 02:05:14 AM »
Oh my heavens! I think I'm in looooove!
 :-* :-* :-*
My what incredibly beautiful spats you have there...
 :-* :-* :-*
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Re: Bristol 138C Cirrostratus
« Reply #11 on: June 03, 2014, 02:17:23 AM »
Those spats could double as bomb bays!
Looks great, very 1930's!

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Re: Bristol 138C Cirrostratus
« Reply #12 on: June 03, 2014, 06:37:19 AM »
Craig, that is moving along just dandy.

The trouser spats are almost bloomers !
What are you hiding up there  :)

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Re: Bristol 138C Cirrostratus
« Reply #13 on: June 03, 2014, 08:49:42 AM »
 Nuthin' up mah sleeve... ;D

 The form of the spats was dictated as much by inexperience as aesthetics - I'd never tried fabricating spats
 before, and the big, straight faced style was the simplest approach. Now that  I seem to have managed a
 passable representation ( and thank you all very kindly for the good words! ) I'll try something a little more
 elaborate with the next attempt. The rationale for the faired gear is the more robust landing gear required
 by the substantially greater all-up weight. Though externally almost identical to the 138A, the internal structure
 of the 138C added a pressure cabin, a second seat for the camera/radiometrics officer, and massive wing
 tanks to increase the range to just over 3000 miles.  The trousers actually do contain bomb bays, of a sort.
 Though its high altitude capability rendered it immune to conventional interception, the circumstances of its
 operation also required it to operate at night. Thanks to some remarkable technology transfers from the
 Special Clock Service ( 2058 - 1929 ) the use of 'invisible light' became available, in the form of the small
 ( four lbs ) 'Black Flash' bombs, which created an almost undetectable burst of UV radiation. The Cirrostratus
 also carried IR, and conventional cameras, the latter utilizing an exceptionally high-speed fine grained emulsion.

 More anon.

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Re: Bristol 138C Cirrostratus
« Reply #14 on: June 03, 2014, 08:44:40 PM »
Very BdB-ish  (the best compliment I can come up with)

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Re: Bristol 138C Cirrostratus
« Reply #15 on: June 09, 2014, 11:22:40 AM »
Quick teaser - nearly there.



and the other project? Coming together faster than I'd hoped. Spotter Na (Neuer Art. ) from MaK.


(New thread soon. )

Until later - Thanks for looking.


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Re: Bristol 138C Cirrostratus
« Reply #16 on: June 16, 2014, 09:45:42 AM »
Finished in time for a twilight take-off...


More and better pictures on the weekend.

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Re: Bristol 138C Cirrostratus
« Reply #17 on: June 16, 2014, 08:48:38 PM »
It doesn't really look British, to me anyway. :-\

More Italian-Russian hybrid, I think. ???

Strange but interesting. :)
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Re: Bristol 138C Cirrostratus
« Reply #18 on: June 17, 2014, 12:00:14 AM »
That's wonderful, Doc! You sure captured the essence of that wonderful 1930's streamlining!

Absolutely spat-tastic!

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Re: Bristol 138C Cirrostratus
« Reply #19 on: June 18, 2014, 06:04:27 AM »
Very cool!  :)
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Re: Bristol 138C Cirrostratus
« Reply #20 on: June 23, 2014, 03:55:41 AM »
 Flown from 1935 to 1938 by Flight Lieutenant Susan Lightning, this example of the 'Cyril' located no less
 than eleven clandestine summoning sites, and four inter-dimensional incursions before its retirement in
 November of the latter year.

 ( This will be the first in an occasional series building the planes, ships and ordnance of the O.D.D, tasked
    with meeting threats to Human sanity both Super-scientific and Occult from the 1920's through the end of
    the Secret World War [1947 - 1958 ] ) It is formed after certain documents become available to His
    majesty's government in 1925, leading to a cooperative naval operation with the Americans off the
    Massachusetts coast in 1927.

 
  I have to say, though using thin decal strips for framing is a bit tricky, I think is one of the best canopies
 I've ever done.
 
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Re: Bristol 138C Cirrostratus
« Reply #21 on: June 23, 2014, 04:23:35 AM »
That is the loveliest thing I've seen in a while, Doc!

The canopy framing is magnificent and the metal pipes, etc. set off that RAF scheme nicely too boot!

Oh and those spats...be still my heart!

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Re: Bristol 138C Cirrostratus
« Reply #22 on: June 23, 2014, 05:30:55 AM »
The exhaust pipes look great! I bet they kept the pilot warm at altitude! I like the overall blue-gray as well.

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Re: Bristol 138C Cirrostratus
« Reply #23 on: June 23, 2014, 09:04:46 AM »
Boy, that really came together! I wasn't so sure about it earlier, but those metal details and the exhaust stains really work. Well done!

Cheers,

Logan

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Re: Bristol 138C Cirrostratus
« Reply #24 on: June 23, 2014, 09:07:54 AM »
Brilliant!  :)
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Re: Bristol 138C Cirrostratus
« Reply #25 on: June 23, 2014, 10:46:50 AM »
Well that came out ok.

Not sure I would want to be tired getting out of the cockpit after a long sortie, it could lead to some burns in interesting places.

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Re: Bristol 138C Cirrostratus
« Reply #26 on: June 24, 2014, 02:21:41 AM »
Outstanding! :) :)
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Re: Bristol 138C Cirrostratus
« Reply #27 on: June 25, 2014, 08:02:22 AM »
   The pipes are a bit awkward, aye - but it has a under-fuselage entrance hatch. ( Or it will as soon as I go
   back and scribe it next to the camera windows. ;) ). The straps are cut from some left over PE frets-some
   old MPM stuff that's not quite foil...

  The exhausts allowed me to get some use out of a set of tools I've had for twenty years - some pipe bending
   springs. Although I can still use some practice with them, ( Tight bends near the end of a tube are reeealy
   difficult ) I can see doing a bit more Dieselpunk in the future.

  Thanks for kind words, colleagues!

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Re: Bristol 138C Cirrostratus
« Reply #28 on: June 26, 2014, 05:24:15 AM »
Brilliant!  I'm looking forward to seeing more in this series.. :)

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Re: Bristol 138C Cirrostratus
« Reply #29 on: June 27, 2014, 02:20:24 AM »
Looks awesome and it sounds like you have cool storyline as well.

Spats are awesome and the whole thing screams of that classic era  :)
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