Old Collingwood

6 minutes ago, 73driver said:

Spectacular workmanship OC!   I must dive into this build, especially with a lot of time on my hands given the worldly situation.   If I may inquire sir, where did you find the "Black Angel" figurehead?  I know the 1/73 Revell Pirate Ship comes with the Swan but I would much rather do the Black Pearl build.   Second choice would be Queen Anne's Revenge and even there, I would need to come up with the skeleton figurehead.   I know I'll be referencing the material in this thread.   Again, kudo's on your craftsmanship and your finished build!!  ~ Jack

Thank You kindly for the nice words Jack,

I contacted Revell and they sent me out a new figurehead of the lady,   but if you get this kit  of the Pearl  from Revell  it has the  Lady figurehead in it  - https://www.revell.de/en/products/modelmaking/ships/sailings-ships/black-pearl.html

OC.

A bit more "Hands on"  today  -  I painted the Sergeant,  then after a bit of weathering,   I fixed him down ontop of the wing  and also offered up my dad  where he will go - he just needs gluing in place to the rear section,     (The sergeant  is glued down though).

OC.

Evening all  - more figure making  my "Mossie - ite"   friends,   this time one of the sergeants  - he will be put up on the wing giving instructions to my dad who is on a ladder to the rear of the wing.

Needs painting/weathering.

OC.

Looking very tidy Mike.

OC.

This has so inspired me with my Waterloo  dio  I hope to start  around christmas time, superb building skills.

OC.

Evening all,   a bit more progress today  - I am managing one figure per day,   project today  was an other  ERK,   this chap is carrying a Jerry can, I had to do a little bit of fettling  as the kit way was just to glue the can onto the bottom of the hand - but I thought that looked silly, so I cut the middle bar out of the handle  but just left a bit of it showing, then I pushed the hand lower in between the handle and glued it there,  this way it looks like he is actually carrying it.

OC.

41 minutes ago, lmagna said:

I think you may be thinking of the American dive bomber the SBD Dauntlas.

I ment  this Lou  -   The Junkers Ju-87  or Stuka (from Sturzkampfflugzeug, “dive bomber”)   I put in the initials my self.

OC.

Wasn't it  mainly refered to as  S.D.B   Stuka Dive Bomber.

OC.

Evening all,   here we have  "Number Two"   completed along with his Ervin  Jacket.

OC.

Have you thought about trying Chrome Rattle can sprays, I have heard some good results from them?

OC.

Thank you EG  for further clearing that up,   it wont be an issue as there is enough going on  to keep the Dio busy, so one table will not be missed.

OC.

Thanks Lou, the table will be left out.

OC.

5 minutes ago, lmagna said:

They probably didn't even have a hanger! A few days here and a few days there and retreat again. Remember France didn't last long after the "Phony War". 

I see, so the bench is probably not  for Mossie use  or use on a normal base  with full facilities?

OC.

Just now, lmagna said:

I could certainly be wrong OC, but the picture looks like an almost primitive forward operational field, possibly in N. Africa or someplace. Almost certainly not in the UK. Under those circumstances working outside on the flight line would probably be much more common. The tent in the background is probably "home" and is the most advanced structure in a hundred miles!

Thanks Lou,   with the bench being uncertain   it could always be left out of the Dio,   it does seem puzzling to me why this stage would not have been done in preperation for flight  (probably many many boxes of them)  in the hanger.

OC.

A group pic of all thats built so far.

OC.

I have found this pic on the net  showing one of the ammo tables  - lookes like ammo belts were made  uisng the device on the bench before putting into magazines/box.

Perhaps the device connects a row of loose bullets  onto a feed system?

Not relavent to Mossie but could have been for a Mossie Fighter/bomber  or  Spit on the field at the time  (hence why its put  in the back of the jeeps trailor - been picked up or dropping off near a Spit)

OC.

Good start Denis.

OC.

Evening all,  I finished the extinguishers  (talk about fiddly)  plastic  so fragile  it breaks as much as breath on it.

OC.

11 hours ago, Egilman said:

They had two different crank devices for dealing with machine gun ammo, one made up the belts, (which is what that one looks like) and one to load the belts in the magazines that were not removable from the aircraft...

 

 

 

They would have several of those at the airfield my friend, but it wouldn't be in a trailer on the back of a jeep....

 

EG

Thank you for explaining that, I was confused about the bench, so I thought best to just pop it in the trailor - like its just being taken back to the hanger.

OC.

22 minutes ago, Kevin said:

lovely work, its going to be a very fitting tribute

Thank you kindly Kevin, I appreciate that.

OC.

3 minutes ago, mtaylor said:

It's the fiddly bits that make us pull our hair out or what remains of our hair.    

 

Wouldn't that loading table have been in the armory or at least a hanger?   I would think that on flight line, there would be lots of dust and/or rain.  

I'm not sure Mark,   I have seen photos where they are re-arming  out on the field, I assumed it was something to do with that.

OC.

I foregot to mention,  I  have also been battling with a fiddly little thing in the shape of an extinguisher  frame  to support Two bottles, these need to be built up using the two sides first and held in place by a cross pole,  would it stay in place and glue  - not a chance, it kept falling away, anyway after about Ten Million tries  I eventualy got it to stick  enough to attach the top handle and bottom section.

I then left it well alone to set.

OC.

16 hours ago, cog said:

Don't indulge on the diet products (like diet sodas), neither your body nor your nervous system do respond to well to a lot of artificial sweetners. It actually is quite a list.

 

How is the last part of cleaning moving along?

Yep and Aspartame  is actually  not very good for you.

OC.

6 minutes ago, popeye the sailor said:

you've made some great progress OC.......jeep and equipment look super      figures are coming along really nice as well!    

Thank you kindly Denis,   with the work bench  - I assume that is what the vice/ammo feed device was for?

OC.

Evening all,   a small amount of poregress  -  I have built the  ammu  bench, its designed  I assume to put the ammunition onto belts  ready to be fed into the wings in Spits  and under the belly in Mossie fighter/bombers,   so I have decided to pack it in the trailor  as it been kept there while the crew have been dropped off.

OC.