Downed Vickers Type 56 Victoria (former BSC 2017 entry)

[dampfpanzerwagon]

I've enjoyed reading about your approach to building this plane.

Tony

[Hammers]

Not quite.

https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1929/1929-1%20-%200227.PDF

What a treasure! I am endebted to you. I feel I have one up on you: in Hammerverse the Vickers Victoria XI was all aluminium.

Kidding. But from what I can read in the linked article, the later versions were indeed all metal (as I had read somewhere).

Anyway, this build is an exercise in banging up a aluminum hull, so that's what I am doing.

[Elk101]

Great technique on display here. I admire the leftfield approach.

[Hammers]

A bit of progress. The aft bit of the fuselage is ribbed and since I want some of the innards of the plane visible I cut lenghts of brass wire and glued them i groves in the inner paper hull. Messy. I wrapped thin brass wire at the end, collecting the lengths into a cone, which was then soldered and smoothed over with GS.

[Svennn]

Did you lube the dildo in order to facilitate removal from the body?

I have used this stuff for masking but never thought of anything as clever as this

[Malamute]

Coming along nicely.

[Hammers]

Aluminium shell applied to the hull. The ribbed appearance is a bit too over the top but it will have to do.

The top wing is a single piece cut from a type of hard foam styrene. One wing pair will be torn off and modelled later. Wish I had spackled and sanded the ribs for a smoother curving of the skin between them. Not too late, I suppose.

The alu-tape is very malleable and sticks to metal and plastic like nobody's business.

[Andym]

Oh wow! That's going to be awesome! 

[marianas_gamer]

Coming along nicely. I look forward to seeing it crumpled and strewn across the ground 
LB

[Mason]

That is coming along very nicely indeed.
 

[Rich H]

Genius idea

[Unlucky General]

I'm following the 'Build Something' competition with glee and I find your work really interesting. Great stuff.

[Hammers]

I am not content at all with the tail part so I thik I'll rip of the alu-ape and spackle it some.

[Andym]

What about just another layer of foil on top? Would that not help?

[Hammers]

What about just another layer of foil on top? Would that not help?

Possibly. Yes. If the putty sticks I could apply it to the existing layer and, once it's dry, I could apply another.

I am not making a very accurate model, like JohnnyTodds Yokosuka. It it is more like a impressionist piece. Or dadaist, if you like. But still, I want it too look about right. There are a bit of confusion between versions of the Victoria (and the Vernon, Valentia) different engines, angle of the wing, style of rudder. I don't bother much about that, though.