2022 June Ping

[lastvautour]

May was a good month with 11 new topics and 145 post. View for May were 189,644 for the forum and a total of 4,200,375 for the gallery.

Membership models numbered 5 and are listed as follows:

Gordon
1/72 Seahawk

Lou
1/144 Hip
1/72 Falcon
1/48 Expeditor
1/32 Gipsy Moth

   

   



Please visit SMM to see how these models were made. http://smm.solidmodelmemories.net/SMF/index.php

Lou

[lastvautour]

On the bench for June:
1/32 DHC-3 Otter - wood selected and fuselage laminated and shaping started.
1/48 Vickers Vedette - drawings scaled and printed
1/72 Canadair Argus - port wing top sanded for second coat of primer. I may just aim at a 31 Mar 2024 completion date
1/72 AVRO Anson - fuselage laminated and shaping started
1/144 Sikorsky H-5 Dragon fly - undercarriage attached and initial primer coat applied
1/144 Piasecki H-21 Flying Banana - undercarriage attached and initial primer coat applied
1/144 Sikorsky H-19 Choctaw - primer applied to fuselage and undercarriage under construction
1/144 Sikorsky H-34 Chickasaw - primer applied to fuselage and undercarriage under construction
1/144 Boeing Vertol Labrador - primer applied to fuselage and undercarriage under construction
1/144 Boeing Vertol Voyageur - primer applied to fuselage and undercarriage under construction

Overall, I am getting a few hours of modelling every day along with my naps. I have several other drawing and printed that have been scale and await my interest to perk up.

Lou

[Boomerang]

Hello All.

AW Siskin. Last week or so has been used to clean up the fuselage a bit. Oil cooler done with .4mm ply. Fuel filler out of scrap balsa and bamboo 
Skewer.

BAT FK26 - Decals printed. Need to make some struts. Pondering assembly sequence to minimise double handling.

Will update board later.

Stay safe.

Cheers

Gordon

[lastvautour]

Thank you for posting your progress Gordon.

Lou

[lastvautour]

PC major crash. Don't know result of damage. I do know I lost most of my Exel files.

Lou

[Gearup]

PC major crash. Don't know result of damage. I do know I lost most of my Exel files.

Lou

Uh oh.  Hope you recover your files.
Fraser

[Gearup]

I have been working on a tutorial on an Orta Saint Hubert G-1, a Belgian design from the 1930's.

Trying to document the build in a meaningful way is a challenge. It is so easy to jump around the steps and fail to record some seemingly small detail. But it does make me think things through in a bit of order....or not.

Fraser

[lastvautour]

Been there Fraser. Seems easy when you look at it from the outside.

Lou