« previous next »
Pages: 1 [2] 3 4

Author Topic: Amiot 143 in-progress  (Read 1739 times)

0 Members and 2 Guests are viewing this topic.

Offline The Rat

  • Proud Designated Pervert
  • Needs A Life Outside What-If
  • *****
  • Posts: 8925
  • Rivets? We don't count no stinkin' rivets!
    • http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=3947338590
Re: Amiot 143 in-progress
« Reply #15 on: January 05, 2020, 02:03:06 pm »
Okay, some more work at my usual pace; sloooooow...

Navigator's table added, it's the one of the main landing gear doors from the old Frog Supermarine Attacker. Bit of clear sprue above for the light, it will be painted black eventually;



Donor kit for the control columns



The main landing gear doors used if modeled 'wheels up'



Bit of drilling and cutting...



Looking pretty rough, but they'll do once it's closed up. The plastic already broke up a bit and caused some foul language, not easy cutting stuff this small without incurring sideways stresses.



After (perhaps) some more smoothing out, the rougher of the two will be the copilot's column; curiously, he was sitting below the cockpit, on the lower level, so his wheel is upside-down.  :blink:
Logged
"My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought, cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives." Hedley Lamarr, Blazing Saddles

Pineapple is a great pizza topping. Fight me.

Offline Tophe

  • Needs A Life Outside What-If
  • *****
  • Posts: 17354
    • my what-if models
Re: Amiot 143 in-progress
« Reply #16 on: January 05, 2020, 07:39:13 pm »
Yes, take your time and go on :thumbsup:
Logged
[the word "realistic" hurts my heart...]

Offline royabulgaf

  • Makes own decals
  • ***
  • Posts: 371
Re: Amiot 143 in-progress
« Reply #17 on: January 06, 2020, 08:12:29 pm »
Quote from: PR19_Kit on December 01, 2019, 10:45:22 pm
The 143 comes from the same school of aerodynamics as the HP Heyford.

That's the school that says 'It's a bomber, so it's got to look BIG! Make it taller!'  ;D

The Short Stirling came from similar roots...………..  ;)
Come on, Kit.  That thing makes the Heyford look like the Mosquito.
Logged
The Leng Plateau is lovely this time of year

Offline The Rat

  • Proud Designated Pervert
  • Needs A Life Outside What-If
  • *****
  • Posts: 8925
  • Rivets? We don't count no stinkin' rivets!
    • http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=3947338590
Re: Amiot 143 in-progress
« Reply #18 on: February 24, 2020, 11:03:31 am »
Bit more work on the interior, this is probably as far as I will go. Floors are bare metal, scuffied and blotchy with a Sharpie marker. None of the seats match, but it's French, each occupant probably had their own sense of style and comfort. Some seat belts are tape, others are foil, but even though there are plenty of windows they're not very clear, so not a lot of detail will be visible. I got the ladder from the old Airfix B-25, figured there had to be some way of getting between upper and lower decks. Didn't bother with cutting out a hatch since it won't be seen anyway, Or maybe it was closed.



« Last Edit: February 25, 2020, 07:27:44 am by The Rat »
Logged
"My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought, cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives." Hedley Lamarr, Blazing Saddles

Pineapple is a great pizza topping. Fight me.

Online Old Wombat

  • Needs A Life Outside What-If
  • *****
  • Posts: 8626
  • Armour: The Gods of War love it!
Re: Amiot 143 in-progress
« Reply #19 on: February 24, 2020, 05:18:03 pm »
Sorry, not getting images.

Google seem to be making it harder to link images &, from a brief glance through their new policies, this may be an intentional act to avoid (further) copyright issues.
Logged
Has a life outside of What-If & wishes it would stop interfering!

"The purpose of all War is Peace" - St. Augustine

veritas ad mortus veritas est

Offline The Rat

  • Proud Designated Pervert
  • Needs A Life Outside What-If
  • *****
  • Posts: 8925
  • Rivets? We don't count no stinkin' rivets!
    • http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=3947338590
Re: Amiot 143 in-progress
« Reply #20 on: February 24, 2020, 07:59:55 pm »
Quote from: Old Wombat on February 24, 2020, 05:18:03 pm
Sorry, not getting images.

Google seem to be making it harder to link images &, from a brief glance through their new policies, this may be an intentional act to avoid (further) copyright issues.

Strange, I'm getting them here on my desktop, but earlier I couldn't get them on my phone.
Logged
"My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought, cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives." Hedley Lamarr, Blazing Saddles

Pineapple is a great pizza topping. Fight me.

Offline Tophe

  • Needs A Life Outside What-If
  • *****
  • Posts: 17354
    • my what-if models
Re: Amiot 143 in-progress
« Reply #21 on: February 24, 2020, 09:37:58 pm »
Quote from: Old Wombat on February 24, 2020, 05:18:03 pm
Sorry, not getting images.
The same for me, with 2 different navigators: Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge... :-\ :unsure:
EDIT: quoting your post to see what may happen, it seems your new links are very very long (7 ou 8 lines of letters/numbers, each, compared to 2 or 3 lines when it was working good previously), maybe this is too much for the what-if tool to take it into account.
« Last Edit: February 24, 2020, 09:51:26 pm by Tophe »
Logged
[the word "realistic" hurts my heart...]

Offline zenrat

  • Needs A Life Outside What-If
  • *****
  • Posts: 18359
  • Currently on double secret probation.
Re: Amiot 143 in-progress
« Reply #22 on: February 25, 2020, 01:46:03 am »
No joy here either.
 :banghead:
Logged
Fred

Another ill conceived, lazily thought out, crudely executed and badly painted piece of half arsed what-if modelling muppetry from zenrat industries.

My name is Commander William Riker.  Take me to your women.

Offline The Rat

  • Proud Designated Pervert
  • Needs A Life Outside What-If
  • *****
  • Posts: 8925
  • Rivets? We don't count no stinkin' rivets!
    • http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=3947338590
Re: Amiot 143 in-progress
« Reply #23 on: February 25, 2020, 07:29:26 am »
Corrected. I uploaded the pictures to facebook and copied the URLs here, so that means they should be visible for a while until facebook weirdly screws the links and I have to repost the new ones. Don't know why they do that.  :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:
Logged
"My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought, cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives." Hedley Lamarr, Blazing Saddles

Pineapple is a great pizza topping. Fight me.

Offline Tophe

  • Needs A Life Outside What-If
  • *****
  • Posts: 17354
    • my what-if models
Re: Amiot 143 in-progress
« Reply #24 on: February 25, 2020, 07:59:46 am »
Congratulations now! :thumbsup:
Logged
[the word "realistic" hurts my heart...]

Offline PR19_Kit

  • Closeted Take That fan
  • What-IF SIG
  • Needs A Life Outside What-If
  • *****
  • Posts: 33778
  • Whiffing since the 70s
Re: Amiot 143 in-progress
« Reply #25 on: February 25, 2020, 10:00:28 am »
Awesome work!  :thumbsup:

Puts me in mind of the recent thread about cockpits on the UNDERside of the aircraft!  :o
Logged
Any aircraft can be improved by fitting longer wings, and/or a longer fuselage

...and I'm not a closeted 'Take That' fan, I'm a REAL fan! :)

Regards
Kit

Offline AndrewF

  • Kitbasher
  • ***
  • Posts: 185
Re: Amiot 143 in-progress
« Reply #26 on: February 27, 2020, 02:49:53 am »
Logged

Offline NARSES2

  • Nick was always on his mind - just ask the Pet Shop Boys
  • Global Moderator
  • Needs A Life Outside What-If
  • *****
  • Posts: 41278
Re: Amiot 143 in-progress
« Reply #27 on: February 27, 2020, 03:01:34 am »
Those seats in your build look far more comfortable than those provided for the actual crew members (bar the pilot) in the real thing  ;)
Logged
Decals my @r$e!

Offline The Rat

  • Proud Designated Pervert
  • Needs A Life Outside What-If
  • *****
  • Posts: 8925
  • Rivets? We don't count no stinkin' rivets!
    • http://www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=3947338590
Re: Amiot 143 in-progress
« Reply #28 on: March 18, 2020, 07:07:47 pm »
Why do I do this to myself? The fit is not great. Terrible in fact. I think it would have been much better if Heller had made the fuselage as a group of sub-assemblies instead of just port and starboard. But the main bits are now together, and more painting, sanding, swearing, is about to commence.

Logged
"My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought, cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives." Hedley Lamarr, Blazing Saddles

Pineapple is a great pizza topping. Fight me.

Offline zenrat

  • Needs A Life Outside What-If
  • *****
  • Posts: 18359
  • Currently on double secret probation.
Re: Amiot 143 in-progress
« Reply #29 on: March 19, 2020, 02:31:39 am »
It's good to see it coming together.

Bigger than I expected.

 :thumbsup:
Logged
Fred

Another ill conceived, lazily thought out, crudely executed and badly painted piece of half arsed what-if modelling muppetry from zenrat industries.

My name is Commander William Riker.  Take me to your women.
Pages: 1 [2] 3 4
« previous next »