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Progress of Andy's build can be followed here.
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Cheers,

Adrian

Sgt.Squarehead · Posted: Sun 06 Jan 2008 22:39 pm Post subject:

I shall be building a, no doubt utterly fictional, wartime Dark-Earth, Dark-Green, Trainer-Yellow Dragon Rapide, to match my Tigermoth.

I may have a special purpose in mind for these two! Think

For what it's worth & all the best

hewman100 · Posted: Mon 07 Jan 2008 10:19 am Post subject:

Nothing fictional about one in that scheme Sgt. Finding a photo of one with a legible serial however........
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Sgt.Squarehead · Posted: Mon 07 Jan 2008 17:47 pm Post subject:

Nope, no serials on this one, clandestine stuff.....Most hush, hush!

Although.....Would black undersides be too outre on a wartime Rapide do you think? Think

I've decided to build it as Airfix intended (despite the obstructions provided by Heller's distinctly Gallic approach to quality control), no messing about with the interior.

On the subject of which.....Wouldn't the interior have been repainted to the standard RAF pale green, in the cockpit area at the very least?

I was thinking of going with a light gray interior in the cabin, with black seat padding and armrests and an interior green cockpit.....I need a decent pilot, one that's not dressed like he's flying a Spitfire.

TIA & All the best

Sgt.Squarehead · Posted: Thu 17 Jan 2008 23:46 pm Post subject:

All your submarines are belong to us!
Well after being taped up, warmed and plunge cooled repeatedly and just about everything else.....It still looks like it wants to eat u-boats!

However it is better than it was and with a bit of patience I can now get all of the edges to meet at once.

I think that some of the warpage might be down to the gazillion ejector pins at work inside the fuselage.....I've just sanded off most of another interior coat in attempt to banish the more visible ones. I'm quite worried by a couple of small ones in the areas of the side window glazing on each side.

I will try to get some (in focus) pictures of these as I'd appreciate your advice on what best to do. Think

I have made some progress on the cabin, trimming down the seat legs a little and trying to art-deco them up a bit:

I've just noticed that the base coat is a bit thin on the floor and that something horrible has attached itself to one of the seats.

Back to it it is then.....All the best

airfixteen · Posted: Fri 18 Jan 2008 17:49 pm Post subject:

What!!!!

Sarge doing a wingy thing

Looking good Sarge
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Luke

Sgt.Squarehead · Posted: Fri 18 Jan 2008 20:32 pm Post subject:

Not just one mate, two!

It would have been three but the canopy on my Anson has a small canyon up one side and I'm just not inclined or equipped to fix it. I may add it to the small list of aftermarket aircraft bits that I'm compiling but I'm not in any great hurry. Hopefully if I ever run the game somebody will be able to bring an Anson

Next up for this one the cockpit and some wheelie things.

All the best

airfixteen · Posted: Fri 18 Jan 2008 20:40 pm Post subject:

Good on ya Andy!

Bet it makes a change from the track sort
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Luke

revell_gmbh · Yellow Star Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 115

Sgt.Squarehead · Posted: Fri 18 Jan 2008 23:56 pm Post subject:

revell_gmbh · Yellow Star Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 115

There was nearly always a distinction between the the cabin and cockpit colours at the line of the bulkhead. I don't know if useful to highlight that there was often a curtain betwen the passenger cabin and cockpit. A coomon colour for the floor even on civil variants was interior, some of the civils, obviously had a carpet a which there were wide variety of hues could be found.

The cockpit colours were mainly: interior green or aluminium and even black on occasions.

The cabin was routinely two tone light grey/white. The seat leather could also be dark green, but that was less prevelant than the red and the blue.

Its your build, so yes, build it how you want of course. But I thought it would nice to point what a cannon build should be like.

Sgt.Squarehead · Posted: Sun 20 Jan 2008 10:58 am Post subject:

Dark green sounds better.....Tell ya' what let's meet in the middle and go for interior green and dark green leather!

I had toyed with making the curtain out of lead foil but I'm not sure there is any real point.

Cheers & all the best

Sgt.Squarehead · Posted: Tue 22 Jan 2008 03:53 am Post subject:

I've decided to take a leaf out of Ron's book and get the cabin side windows in early.....That way I can paint their inner surfaces and blend them in a bit better. I've used liquid-poly to fix mine and all seems to have gone well so far.

I'm still not sure about 're-upholstering' the cabin or adding the curtain seperating it from the cockpit.

The cockpit itself is worrying me slightly.....I've not had much luck in finding a prospective 'Biggles' for this kite yet and for the sake of keeping things rolling I've had to resort to using the spare 'Series 1' pilot from the Tigermoth. He's quite a small chap, as you may know, but even with his bum firmly on the seat and both feet on the pedals his flying helmeted head is perilously close to the top of the cockpit!

More pics soon.....

For what its worth & all the best
EDIT: Aaaaarrrrggghh.....They got me too!

While perusing the sprues I noticed one of the struts (part 31) is in two bits!

Fortunately both bits are still on the sprue so I should be able to fix it easily enough, but whether I'll be able to get it straight is a somewhat questionable.....It's rather annoying really because it could be a much bigger problem later on than it appears to be right now!

Ratch · Posted: Tue 22 Jan 2008 09:29 am Post subject:

Sgt.Squarehead · Posted: Tue 22 Jan 2008 10:00 am Post subject:

I've done a fix on the part for now and it looks OK, but I suspect that may be the way to go in the longer run.....All I wanted was a quiet build!

All the best

Heinkel51 · Posted: Wed 23 Jan 2008 12:16 pm Post subject:

Making good progress there Andy looking forward to see some more shots.

Sgt.Squarehead · Posted: Mon 28 Jan 2008 16:38 pm Post subject:

Fuselage Assembled
Well I've stuck it together and it looks fairly Rapide like to me

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Progress may grind to a halt fairly soon, as it seems the lunatic designers actually want me to rig the thing while I build it!

I don't suppose Aeroclub make bits for tanks do they? Think

For what it's worth & all the best

revell_gmbh · Yellow Star Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 115

Sgt.Squarehead · Posted: Tue 29 Jan 2008 20:06 pm Post subject:

There is what appears to be rigging instructions in the main build sequences and the kit is pre-drilled for the rigging!

All the best

revell_gmbh · Yellow Star Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 115