Hi All.

Due time I clogged this forum a little again.

This is where I started yesterday:



I decided to start with the components I was most scared of, so sand filterbox first.

Lots of photoetch in the flightpath set as probably everybody knows. Soldered the box and beefed it up with styrene. Scratched some pieces as the white metal ones would have been more work:







Next up is the bubble window and all the trimmings on the hull. One window has to be closed. FP give you an etched insert but as I have the Royal Navy boxing I have a kit supplied one (and an injected sixblade tail rotor for that matter).



Will try to keep posting...

Greetings

Leo

Lots of hours and heartstopping moments later I got the bubble window ready to install.
As the FP one wasn't really a half sphere on a flat pane (more like a football growing out of a distorted pannel) I merged a carefully drilled out clear styrene square with the perfectly round top half of the FP window:



I glued the two parts together with CA and dipped the thing in future. Not as perfect as I'd liked and a bit of a cheat but oh well...

Next I glued in all the windows and inserts and cleaned up the hulf halves. After that some polishing:



Then off to a fun session of soldering all the avionix and ECM boxes. That's my gear for the occasion:



Phewww, done:



Now I'm gonna rack my mind how to fit those:



Greetings

Hmmm... Sea King + Flight Path... ==>Rebilda!

Thanks for sharing your experience with this kit!

The grey gooey substance left of your blow torch, is that solder paste? What kind of manufacturer?

Regards,

Sebastian

Looking good sir!

Hello,

Please, can you show us how do you do to soldering the PE...?

Thanks You Very Much...!!!!

Observe:



fold:

(the edges have to touch with a really narrow seam)

apply paste (amasan lötpaste, Middle-F, my man!)


clean up slop with cotton bud:


heat up with burner 'till solder gets silver:


Done.

Whatever you do do NOT forget to wash parts after soldering because of acid residue!

More tomorrow.

Have fun...

Wow! That´s awesome! I must try this with the solder paste I use in work...

Is this solder paste for dental use?

Regards,

Sebastian

... no update so far???

Sorry, guys. Been a long time.

I'm opening my own practice these days so this build MIGHT take a while...

So I figured out how to attach the sponsons. The tricky thing was to maintain the correct angles in three attitudes all the while having an adjustable but solid bond ( the classic modelling problem...).
I used a technique I picked up from a Belgian master modeller over at Z5 ( thanks Remy!) :


The sponsons where screwed/pinned to the fuselage halves from the insides with just enough give for final adjustments.


Sounds easy (but wasn't), worked well (but slowly):




Now on to more fun.

Lookin' good there Leo, I like the idea of the screws to attach the stubwings, it should certainly be solid enough. I've got the kit and convesrion in my stash but can't bring myself to start it!!!!

Colin