wonwinglo

*** Martin,very interesting,a long time ago I applied for a job in the experimental department at Rovex,the wages were so low that I never pursued it any further !

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Bunkerbarge

Barry,

The cartoon is great, I still marvell at your wealth of talent! Do you have enough pictures to merit asking John for a "Painting/Drawing" category in the gallery?

Most of what I have seen of your water colours are usefull reference as much as attractive pictures.

wonwinglo

***Richard,many years ago before we used to send e-mails,I used to intersperse letters with watercolour drawings,the diary uses exactly the same format to keep the text alive,the drawings run into hundreds not all transport subjects but landscapes,flowers etc as well,the little renderings also keep me in practise and give enjoyment to others as well.
My theory is that both music and painting are gifts to use,I just wish that I could play the guitar !
The aircraft drawings are accurate as I use the real aircraft to sketch from,or if I cannot get the real thing then a model has to suffice.

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Seaspray

Barry.
Some of these low paid jobs can turn out to be very interesting, alas the wage is part of the consideration.

Martin

wonwinglo

*** I agree Martin,it would have entailed re-locating at expensive Margate,they would not entertain any recompense,a pity but it was not to be.

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Nigel.D

Barry if you dont have the time i can help build your lancaster internals just let me know the scale etc

wonwinglo

*** Thanks for the offer Nigel,but they are all built sitting ready for installation,instrument panel,seats,control column,navigators table etc etc even a tiny map folded ! what happened was I got stuck on the very large canopy,a school wanted to do it as a design technology project but let me down,then believe it or not one cropped up on E-bay of all places,it said something like if you have a shed full of balsa then you can build a Lanc,I wrote to the chap and told him that I had the model just wanted a canopy,anyway I got it,it was made for some TV company Lancasters that were used in the 'Avengers' remember it ? Stead etc,a very lucky find,this is such a large model that I have to work on her outside when the weather is good,but it was built in smaller sections in my small shed,everything plugs and bolts together,she will get finished,but thankyou again for your kind consideration.
ps-The undercarriage was made up for me by a model engineer friend,I made one assembly in wood and he had them cast in metal,bushed them up and fitted the wheels which came from the States.

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Nigel.D

No probs mate just ask if needed

wonwinglo

Well these shots were taken a few years ago of my twice plan sized Vultee Vanguard rubber driven model,yes rubber powered ! sixteen skeins of brown rubber secured into a bobbin at the rear and up front is a propeller that was carved by my dear father back in 1946,it is pictures like these that make everything worthwhile,every little part fashioned from pieces of balsa and ply,then lightweight tissue doped into place.
Virtually everyone has built a frail rubber driven type of model,trimming them to fly properly is a real black art requiring mini wafer thicknesses of ordinary writing paper and a watchful eye for what the model is about to do ! notice the long grass in the pictures just in case of a nervous wing drop at the wrong time,such models as this I cut my teeth on,while everyone else was on Marmite I was still tasting rubber lubricant for the motors ! but one thing it did was to teach me the fundamentals of flight,after all there was no radio control in these lightweights.
The basic plan was the old Earl Stahl drawing from one of the early American magazines,you sit down and trace out the bits,pick he lightest wood that you have and pin prick through into the grain,then join up th dots and cut out a self made kit of parts,perhaps three days of work preparing those treasured small components.
You have to be prepared that sometimes not every model will fly properly,some work out just too heavy despite the care and attention to heavy piano wire pieces,its a challenge.
These days I prefer to add lightweight radio and fit these tiny efficent electric motors weighing a few grams,after all it saves running around which requires too much huff and puff ! but it goes to show just what can be achieved in a very low tech way and something that costs very little to build in the first case.
You can still buy some excellent little kits today for these small scale jobs but they nearly all fall in one respect,that is they are just too heavy to perform properly, and need lightening by careful sanding or removal of wooden discs punched out with a specially made sharp tool.
Sometimes things go terribly wrong,other times you just get those results that you wanted,it is all part of the challenge,and above all what scale modelling is all about,just keep at it and you will get results eventually !

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Bunkerbarge

Barry,

This reminds me of a time about 35-40 years ago when my father made a rubber powered model for my brother and myself. We took it to a field and had a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon flying it but couldn't work out why the plane did a beautiful circle round the circumference of the field and came back to us every time. We even got the hang of how many turns on the motor was required to get the plane to almost land at our feet and the challenge became to get it to return as close as possible to us on the ground.

It wasn't until we broke it down to put it back in the car that we realised we had counted the wing frames incorrectly and offset the wing, held on by elastic, by a half a frame width. This taught us an invaluable lesson that we used after that to determine the radius of the arc the plane would fly to best suit the field we were in at the time.

It is remembering little gems like that that make me sad that I havent got any kids to pass them on to.

If anyone has any spare kids they can lend me for Sunday mornings I'm your man!!

Maybe that is why I enjoy the forum so much!