Modelmaking Misadventures: The Ascenscion Island Chronicles.

[flatpack]

Like I said before “that’ll fly”.
Lovely bit of work, you should be proud of.

[Constable Bertrand]

Andy that looks awesome,  the panel lines and fasteners look great, it looks very plausible, nice work!

[Daeothar]

Yes; it's more of an AN-2 now; great job! 

Where did you get the acrylic disk for the propellor? I need a few myself, and materials are either too thin (sagging) or too thick (heavy); this looks like a good middle ground...

[Andy in Germany]

Thanks for all the kind comments. I'm a bit busy right now, dealing with a future job change and house move. However, some model making is taking place:



Ascension Aerodrome is home to half a dozen or so small companies using aeroplanes* for charter services and hire. Sigma Airlines works out of a small shed at the unfashionable end of the aerodrome and will happily transport anything you need to any number of destinations, discretion guaranteed, no questions asked.



G-SIAC is a fairly typical example of their fleet, held together by wire and happy thoughts. Biplanes are already considered a bit obsolete by 1937, but with their solid fixed undercarriage and slow takeoff speeds they’re very useful for flying out of small runways, fields and convenient roads in the middle of nowhere, and well away from pesky civil authorities.



Naturally this is all very helpful to our heroes and villains, and G-SIAC will no doubt be called upon to transport all kinds of ‘high value items’, and probably people, in and out of Ascension, leading to shenanigans as different groups try to assist or prevent this…



*Okay, probably airships as well. It’s on my ‘to do’ list, honest…

[Andy in Germany]

Yes; it's more of an AN-2 now; great job! 

Where did you get the acrylic disk for the propellor? I need a few myself, and materials are either too thin (sagging) or too thick (heavy); this looks like a good middle ground...

Thanks...

The discs are 50mm diameter, and 3mm thick. I got the discs from a supplier here in Germany, so I don't know if they still deliver to the UK. The link is here:

https://www.ebay.de/itm/334409662337

[Spinal Tap]

Airships? From card?

Yes please.

[Constable Bertrand]

Airships?! Ooh yes, another vote for Card stock zeppelins please. 

The more breakfast cereal boxes, sticky fingers and life decision questioning during the process the better!

How good does that little plane look. The prop turned out wonderful, it looks just perfect for your needs. 

[snitcythedog]

The plane is outstanding!!  Airships would be spectacular!  Good luck with the new job and house. 

[modelwarrior]

Another vote for an airship

[Andy in Germany]

I really shouldn't have mentioned that...

I've got a house move coming up, so it'll have to wait a bit, but I'll build one eventually, honest.

[snitcythedog]

I've got a house move coming up, so it'll have to wait a bit, but I'll build one eventually, honest.

Sooooo in three weeks we can expect that you will have a scale model of the Hindenburg built?? 

[Andy in Germany]

I'm not sure if I can find an apartment that big...

[Andy in Germany]

Life is a bit busy at the moment, so this week I worked on a “rainy day” project, namely finishing the interior of the power station belonging to the “Ascension Island Tramway, Electric Power and Vacuum Evacuating Toilet Company Limited”.



The model has been unpainted for some time, except for a rather half-hearted dark grey base coat. The idea behind this was that it would at least unify the colours, and I suppose you could argue that it was successful because once finished I couldn’t see anything at all.



This is now finally sorted and looks passably convincing to my eye, although I’m sure it would make an engineer wince.



The already myriad dangers of life on Ascension Island have been increased with a boiler on the cusp of exploding, a control panel naturally showing lots of dials in the danger zone, and of course the ultimate in undefined potential destruction: the Big Red Lever.

[flatpack]

No…..don’t throw the red lever !
Great work, as normal.

[snitcythedog]

Outstanding as always.