Pegasus468 Posted November 16, 2022 Share Posted November 16, 2022 Hi Max, This is truly inspiring work. Fantastic. Duncan mozart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbrennan Posted November 17, 2022 Share Posted November 17, 2022 On 11/16/2022 at 9:22 AM, mozart said: Could have been deja vu Mike! Fortunately mine wasn’t quite as bad as that one! Yes in all seriousness, when this happens you have a horrible feeling in the pit of ones stomach, I think its called sick as a chip ! Been there know what its like. Really glad you managed to recover it Mozart . Rgrds Jon mozart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted November 24, 2022 Author Share Posted November 24, 2022 Had a really busy, and tiring, week so not a lot of time nor motivation for modelling, but I'm starting on the detail work to get the Gauntlet finished. My focus yesterday was on the pitot head. Silver Wings provide a PE one in two parts which isn't very convincing nor easy to install, so I decided to make my own, carving it from an old resin casting block (does anybody else save these or just me?? ). Anyway, investigation time of course first. This picture shows the pitot head quite well, but also something else: The bead sight is sited in a cut-away on the upper cowling, something else to whittle away! This is a detail from the crashed Gauntlet, image "inverted the right way up" and showing a slightly different design to the top one. I presume the associated pipework (which on the Tiger Moth runs down the front of the strut) runs inside the hollow struts so that makes life easy(er). I've carved the head like the lower one so that it fits snugly against the strut but I've yet to add the two "prongs".....photo when it's finished which probably won't be for a few days...more busy-ness.. R Palimaka, LSP_Kevin, Gazzas and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archimedes Posted November 25, 2022 Share Posted November 25, 2022 Hi Max Your work on the rigging I can only aspire to. You have done an amazing job on it. As for the pitot; that looks tricky work. Are you sure that carving a resin casting block is the right way to go? My method for my Tiger Moth will be to use some brass pipe and to solder it (Sandbagger method using soldering paste). But it is great to see your attention to detail and your extremely neat technique on this. It is the details that really make any build so the best of luck with those! I know you will ace it! Kind regards, Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted November 25, 2022 Author Share Posted November 25, 2022 Thank you Paul, there’s many ways of skinning a cat so carving resin is my preferred way! The proof will be in the pudding! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted December 2, 2022 Author Share Posted December 2, 2022 Busy bench getting two iconic 1930s fighters finished: Landrotten Highlander, Alex, wunwinglow and 10 others 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R Palimaka Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 I've just spent a lovely time going through this whole thread! Don't know how I missed it. I've dumped a lot of "likes" into your profile! What a spectacular build. I've loved how all the research was translated into results on the model itself, and how the problems and discoveries were approached and solved. This is a superb model of an aircraft from an era of beautiful aircraft. Richard MikeC and mozart 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted December 2, 2022 Author Share Posted December 2, 2022 Thanks Richard, so glad you enjoyed it! R Palimaka 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Barry Posted December 2, 2022 Share Posted December 2, 2022 Pretty pair! mozart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted December 3, 2022 Author Share Posted December 3, 2022 The build's very, very nearly finished (hopefully tomorrow, just the aerials) but you can never have too many Gauntlet photos! Anthony in NZ, scvrobeson, Greif8 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Molitor Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 A stunning build going on here Max. Love the updates. mozart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted December 3, 2022 Author Share Posted December 3, 2022 Thanks Troy, should be the final WiP update tomorrow if the aerials (which are tricky!) go to plan.....could be 5 minutes work, could be 5 hours! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mozart Posted December 4, 2022 Author Share Posted December 4, 2022 (edited) And awwaaaayyyyyy! She’s finished I think, not perfect by any means but good enough. One new addition noticeable in this pic is a navigation light on the top wing, I suddenly became aware of Gauntlets having one here when looking at photos, as you do! And of course the bead sight. Better pics downstream in a few days in RFI. Edited December 4, 2022 by mozart denders, Anthony in NZ, scvrobeson and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeC Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 (edited) Great to see this finished, and very well done. Edited December 4, 2022 by MikeC mozart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted December 4, 2022 Share Posted December 4, 2022 Fantastic result, Max! Kev mozart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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