mozart Posted December 12, 2019 Author Share Posted December 12, 2019 Actually Brian, I spelt his name wrong and he gave me a right rocket, it's actually Blandishly-Ppypeman, related to the famous Ppypeman family from Wiltshire of course. How silly of me!! Here's the clearest image I can find of a Mk1 IP, this from a wargaming website so it's computer generated but compares very well with the Finnish Gladiator IP: Just need to work out now exactly which gauge is which.....and no articial horizon it seems! Paul in Napier, Landrotten Highlander, Victor K2 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted December 12, 2019 Author Share Posted December 12, 2019 OK, this is what I've come up with so far, anybody care to help me out with any others? I should know what the vertical column on the left side is because we had it in the Tiger Moths but I can't bring it to mind! It's terrible getting old. Victor K2, Dpgsbody55 and Kagemusha 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monthebiff Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 Liking this a lot Max, very nice progress. Was hoping for RFI pics today though!! Regards. Andy PS. Looks like a real quality kit, Hoping Santa brings me one this year. mozart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Landrotten Highlander Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 (edited) Dial on the left of the 'vertical thing' is Airspeed 'vertical thing' elevator trim' Dial above the compass bearing is VSI (Vertical Speed Indicator) Dial on left of Engine boost is Cylinder Head temperature / Engine temperature Knob on the right of the hand is Carburettor heater red knob on the right of the carburettor heater will be the cut-off switch Levers on left of cockpit@ BL is blade pitch control, while G is (I assume) throttle that is all I can make out on this picture Edited December 12, 2019 by Landrotten Highlander correction of faulty term Lothar 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted December 12, 2019 Author Share Posted December 12, 2019 23 minutes ago, Landrotten Highlander said: Dial on the left of the 'vertical thing' is Airspeed 'vertical thing' elevator trim' Dial above the compass bearing is VSI (Vertical Speed Indicator) Dial on left of Engine boost is Cylinder Head temperature / Engine temperature Knob on the right of the hand is Carburettor heater red knob on the right of the carburettor heater will be the cut-off switch Levers on left of cockpit@ BL is blade pitch control, while G is (I assume) throttle that is all I can make out on this picture Thank you very much, absolutely brilliant! I'll add all of those to my picture then try to match something approximating to each dial from my various scraps of Airscale sheets for the supplied ones are not terribly impressive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted December 12, 2019 Author Share Posted December 12, 2019 (edited) That's better, worth the effort (and sacrifice): Edited December 12, 2019 by mozart MikeMaben, Kagemusha, Landrotten Highlander and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted December 12, 2019 Author Share Posted December 12, 2019 With thanks to LRH: Lothar, Victor K2, Out2gtcha and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 Lovely progress, Max! Kev mozart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted December 12, 2019 Author Share Posted December 12, 2019 Thanks Kev. I've been working on the upper wing, rudder and tail planes this evening - general cleaning up and sticking together. As I've mentioned previously all of these "horizontal" surfaces mouldings are commendably thin and fit together supremely well, no flash, no cleaning up, no ejector pin marks etc. Superb! LSP_Kevin and Kagemusha 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fanes Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 Taking a seat in the front row, waiting to see more pictures. Great work so far, Max! mozart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted December 13, 2019 Author Share Posted December 13, 2019 Thanks Joachim, as you can probably tell I’m really enjoying this kit, which in essence is a pretty simple and straightforward build. I’ve got a busy “social” day today so not a lot of modelling time sadly but I’ll put up some pictures of the wings etc in an attempt to show how good they look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted December 13, 2019 Author Share Posted December 13, 2019 (edited) Wings 'n Things! My not-too-successful attempt to show how thin the trailing edge is! My favourite liquid glue is Slater's Mek Pak applied with a brush, so the upper wing I did in three stages: middle section glued first and then, due to the wing's thinness and flexibility I was then easily able to open out the port and starboard sections to slide the brush in. Easy peasy!! The large tab on the elevator gives a very positive location (they are handed) but then of course preclude you from having them slightly dropped, so I'm going to cut the tabs off so that I can achieve this. Edited December 13, 2019 by mozart Trak-Tor, Kagemusha, Kendzior and 15 others 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trak-Tor Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 Great progress! Maybe just sanding the tabs on the elevators on top, to slope them down a bit would be enough, wouldn't it? Juraj mozart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandbagger Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 (edited) 18 hours ago, mozart said: With thanks to LRH: The BL lever is noted as Blade Pitch ? The Mk.1 and Mk.2 Gladiators had fixed pitch propellers (Mk.1 had two blade wood, Mk.2 had a 'Fairey' three blade metal). As this appears to be a Mk.2 cockpit, I wonder if the BL lever is in fact the 'Boost Lever' for the semi-automatic boost control carburettor, which was fitted in the Mk.2 Gladiator with the more powerful Mercury VIIIAS engine, Mike Edited December 13, 2019 by sandbagger mozart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alain Gadbois Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 Great progress Max! I had the impression, looking at the spues, that ICM had managed to make a easy to assemble kit, especially for a biplane. I'm glad, from your comment, that this is the case. The Gladiator is an interesting plane and watching your build is very enjoyable! Alain mozart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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