Beyond The Sprues
Modelling => Completed GBs => Group and Themed Builds => The Snoops, Sensors, Spooks, & Spies GB => Topic started by: Dr. YoKai on May 28, 2014, 09:25:40 AM
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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.
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5490/14100573078_8db302e8aa_c.jpg)
Oh, and the trouser-spats haven't been skinned yet.
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Nice build, love the named "Obscure Defence Detachment".
Alvis 3.1
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This looks interesting. Nice choice on the CR.42 cowling :)
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Hmmm... some old gold here.
Terrific basis
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Those "trouser-spats" look promising! 8)
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Thanks for the good words, colleagues! Here's the latest:
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5158/14322290364_444457cbae_c.jpg)
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! )
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2924/14321167302_bdee9a2d7d_c.jpg)
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.
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2921/14343154533_4e8470939a_c.jpg)
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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Damn! That is looking great.
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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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:-* Now that is looking great! Fits the 1930's like a charm
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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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Oh my heavens! I think I'm in looooove!
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My what incredibly beautiful spats you have there...
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Brian da Basher
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Those spats could double as bomb bays!
Looks great, very 1930's!
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Craig, that is moving along just dandy.
The trouser spats are almost bloomers !
What are you hiding up there :)
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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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Very BdB-ish (the best compliment I can come up with)
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Quick teaser - nearly there.
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2919/14192705908_6df83d7deb_b.jpg)
and the other project? Coming together faster than I'd hoped. Spotter Na (Neuer Art. ) from MaK.
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5519/14192885717_30080d14f8_c.jpg)
(New thread soon. )
Until later - Thanks for looking.
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Finished in time for a twilight take-off...
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2927/14245738858_db5db7c470_c.jpg)
More and better pictures on the weekend.
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It doesn't really look British, to me anyway. :-\
More Italian-Russian hybrid, I think. ???
Strange but interesting. :)
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That's wonderful, Doc! You sure captured the essence of that wonderful 1930's streamlining!
Absolutely spat-tastic!
Brian da Basher
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Very cool! :)
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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.
(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5510/14481814474_c30159d79a_c.jpg)
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.
(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2898/14503163453_875c9d89b3_c.jpg)
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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!
Brian da Basher
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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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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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Brilliant! :)
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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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Outstanding! :) :)
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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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Brilliant! I'm looking forward to seeing more in this series.. :)
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Looks awesome and it sounds like you have cool storyline as well.
Spats are awesome and the whole thing screams of that classic era :)