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Thankyou Alan and Don. Don, your helicopter was my inspiration! Thanks for sharing. Also, your idea of Krystal Klear for the port holes on the chamber, ship's bulb nose and mini sub. Patrick
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More work on the helicopter. The rear section and pontoons and rotor blades are all Billing. The highly detailed Cockpit and engine are from an OH-13 Sioux (same scale) by Italeri. Quite happy with the look so far. Will only get better with more paint and decals. So not 100% accurate but darn close :0)
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I placed many already built parts together today for this photo, but at this point, nothing is glued down or attached, all dry fit. I painted some of the brass hardware which really hurt, because I really liked the look of the brass, but it did not work for "the Calypso look". I am sure my fellow Calypso builders felt the same when painting over their brass parts.. Still working on the helicopter. I have put off gluing the upper deck down trying to decide if I should add LED lighting. My wife has already determined that this size model will not end up or fit in our home, but end up in my other house, which is my art/painting studio. She said "what are you going to do? Go over to your studio at night to look at Calypso with the lights on?" We had a good laugh over that.
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Nice to hear from you yvesidal and mtdoramike. I have looked at and learned from both of your Calypso builds. The Calypso holds many memories for me growing up watching the Undersea World of Jaques Cousteau. Today I was able to do a few fun mini projects. Built the ladder for the ship's chimney, constructed the satellite dome, built the legs for the helicopter landing platform, and drilled openings in the foredeck for the anchor chain and towers. I decided to back up the underdeck for the towers to create a stronger attachment point.
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Adding plastic filler to the tops of helicopter pontoons to hide the seams and make them flat and flush. Also began the helicopter landing structure. Taking my time and enjoying the journey.
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I did some initial painting of the helicopter today. When dry, the fuselage will need sanding before the next coat of yellow paint is applied. Dry fitted the basic tail section. More to come. The second photo is to show scale. The forward curves of the landing gear will be clipped, and the pontoons will be added to the bottom.
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La Créole 1827 by archjofo - Scale 1/48 - French corvette
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Here is a photo showing similar high detail of the helicopter with the crane and windlass. This will look like Calypso's helicopter when I am finished.
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I am working on a few peripheral projects including the helicopter and the foredeck windlass. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I found a very detailed helicopter model in the same scale as Calypso with a lot of detail regarding the engine and cockpit. I felt the one piece molded clear plastic helicopter body/ engine (see photo) that came with the model kit fell short of matching the detail of all of the beautiful brass deck hardware. I will modify the rear end of this helicopter model to match Calypso's. I still have not attached the upper deck. Helicopter started. Needs painting with detail on the engine and instrument cluster. This is what comes with the kit. No interior cabin detail or engine detail.
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I had been putting off painting and installing the supporting columns for the upper deck until I was ready to attach the upper deck because the columns would appear to be fragile until the upper deck is installed. Gave the brass columns a light sanding and applied primer and then paint. Drilled holes in the decking and installed them. In the photo, the upper deck and wheelhouse and chimney are just sitting there (dry fit). I had to grind down the top off of a few of the brass columns to make them fit without raising the upper deck. Also adding black paint to the sides.
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I have been out of town for a while and was anxious to begin finishing the upper deck on Calypso. I will now put the supports in for the upper deck that come off of the lower cabins before attaching it.
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I added the previously built side rails today and began planking the upper deck. Used a black EXPO dry erase pen with a flat applicator, as I used on the main deck, to blacken the planks edges before gluing them down. This will take a few more days. Enjoying the journey.
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I am very happy with the high level of detail from the Billing Calypso regarding the numerous brass parts on the crane, wench, windless, portholes, and numerous other deck features. However, the helicopter falls short , lacking any detail which would be ok if there was no detail anywhere else. Thanks to fellow Calypso builder Don Nunnehi , I saw where he used the Bell oh-13 Sioux helicopter by Italeria. 1:48 scale as opposed to 1:45 scale of Calypso....close enough. This model has amazing detail in the cockpit and building the engine is a subproject within a subproject :0) There are many engine parts as you will see in this photo showing only some of the engine parts. I plan to use the cockpit and clear canopy and engine from this Italeria kit and then scratch build the rear body and tail section to match the Calypso Hughs 300 helicopter. Received the kit in the mail and started gathering engine parts. I will use the pontoons supplied by Billing to attach below the helicopter. Thanks again to Don for the idea. Here is a fun video of the engine build I came across:
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Today, I joined and glued the two upper deck sections. Planking over this entire structure will be next. Since this will be a static model, there is no need to have this deck removable, and I want the decking planks to run continuously without a joint where the two deck halves come together. I marked the reverse side of the upper decks for the future locations of various structures. ures
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Thanks for the nice words, Nirvana. I had time to work a bit more on putting together my wench assembly today. Feeling a bit like a watch maker at times with the variety of interesting brass parts. Once painted, I will add the four posts and the canopy. I added a small, curved wire to the electric motor and have it disappearing under the platform to simulate an electrical supply conduit. It has been fun working on the crane and wench, but I am now ready to get back to working on the ship.
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I gathered parts for the winch assembly today and began constructing. This should be fun. I also found an old "crab claw" clasp from some jewelry parts gifted to me. I believe this will make a nice hook for the mini sub crane. I had to remove part of the claw to make it work.
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