Fairey Tinydyne.

[Wardukw]

'Not Easy' you say... does the term 'Rocking Horse Poo' mean anything to you? 

😆 ...Rick mate I'm watching one on trademe right now lol

[buzzbomb]

Nice work Fred

[jcf]

I built the Rotodyne back in the early '70s and two of the hinge pins were broken off and the other two bent almost to the breaking point. I think it's just poor mould design that causes them to hang up on ejection if everything isn't set up just right.

[zenrat]

First one I built (from the last repop before this one) had intact hinge pins.

I finished cleaning up the props today and primed them and the rotor assembly.

[zenrat]

Well it was always going to happen.  I broke a rotor blade off today.
I drilled and pinned it and then reinforced all three with jumbo paperclip wire (1.2mm diameter).

Tinydyne WIP 18-04-25 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[NARSES2]

Impressive engineering 

[PR19_Kit]

I vital step with 'dyne rotors I'm afraid, they're just too thin. But then most model chopper rotors are too.

[zenrat]

They are OK if you build them OOB.  But then there is no detail.
Catch 22.

[PR19_Kit]

So true, the Revell 'dyne is much better from that point of view, just a silly scale. 

[63cpe]

Marvelous looking bird Fred! Keep going. I'd love to see it finished.

David aka 63CPE

[zenrat]

Me too Dave.

[zenrat]

So, fiddly bits.  In this case these consist of the undercarriage, its doors, its wheels, and the jet nozzles.
I had thought of swapping the jet nozzles (on the sides of the nacelles) for those from a pair of Harriers but couldn't find the resin sets I needed when I needed them (they will obviously now be available everywhere) so am sticking with the kit ones.  I do have three Harriers in the stash but am loath to leave them without nozzles.
Whatever, it's too late now as I would have needed to slightly modify the nacelles before I painted them.
Maybe on the next one (Maxidyne) I'll use them.  I might even make them rotate.
The undercarriage legs need more detail so I will be adding scissor links and retraction cylinders.  Not brake lines though.  That is a step too far on this kit.

So I snipped all the relevant pieces off their sprues and began cleaning them up.
The following pic shows the contempt Airfix exhibited towards this kit.  Now I can accept that there are ejector pin marks in awkward places - this is an ancient mould - but they wouldn't be this tall if you serviced the moulds.  There also doesn't have to be such "texture" on a part which is supposed to be smooth.  This is an undercarriage door BTW.
Tinydyne WIP 25-05-25 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[Old Wombat]

Time they retired those moulds & coughed up for new ones. 

[PR19_Kit]

And time they gave a damn or two about some customers too.

[Rick Lowe]

And time they gave a damn or two about some customers too.

Agreed - rather than reissuing the same old tat and using us as cash cows.

But then it's Marketing and Economics 101...