brettkp

Awesome work Brian!! I've been checking back every now and then to see how this was going. Great to see it finished! I've got a P-40 that I've had stalled on the bench for about 3 years...seeing yours finished is providing inspiration for me to get back on to it! Cheers, Brett

I think they overdid the preshade! Brett

Thanks guys. I've just done some research and it appears that this is a new chopper. It's actually an Agusta-Bell AB412 and is about 2 years old. They must've retired the old one along with the old scheme. Explains why the wire cutters and floats were missing. Brett

Hi all, I was driving to see the folks and saw this one going in to the local hospital. I've seen it landing/taking off heaps of times, but now with a new camera, a fantasic lens, and a minor detour, I was able to get several good shots of it as it was taking off (in my opinion anyway)! I might even try for Airliners.net with these ones. Hovering just after lift off: On its way back to Adelaide Airport (a few moments later): I quite like this new scheme (the old scheme). I also noticed they've removed the wire cutters and floats...not sure why they'd do that. Brett

Fantastic shots! Are these cropped at all? And were you shooting at 400mm or less? Cheers, Brett

My only experience is a negative one. I spent about 4 minutes air brushing it (which went well), then up to an hour cleaning the airbrush. It seemed to stick incredibly well to the paint cup (and I can only assume the nozzle too). I've since tried the Floquil Reefer White that has been mentioned around these traps and found it to be sensational. For any future priming tasks, I'll be going down the Floquil path. Good luck with whatever option you choose. Brett

This looks like it could be very interesting! One thing though, I think the fan at the rear would end up blowing the prop in the wrong direction. You'd need to suck air through the prop to get it spinning in the correct direction (which would be no easy task!). Good luck...I can't wait to see progress on this one Brett

pure gold!!! :) :) there's a whole series on there! Brett

;) Brett

Thanks everyone for the nice comments. :) I also have to thank my brother for helping me with the photos, I think they came up really well. I still need to source a video camera to take a short movie of it in action. I'll post a link when that happens. In the meantime, here's another pic I took without any fancy flash setups (like used for the others)... Su-34: The base measures 400mm wide by 500mm deep. I had to buy a new table to have somewhere to put it! <_< I have plans for a slightly smaller (maybe 400mm x 400mm) setup with a rotating mirror that I can display my latest cr

More pics... If you have any requests for detail photos of any areas, let me know and I'll see what I can do. Thanks for looking, Brett

She's done! I got the thread yesterday and put the HF antennas on this morning. The Aeroclub Stretch Thread is sensational! I can't believe how easy it is to use. Final photos can be found here. Thanks for everyone's comments throughout this build, I really appreciate it! Brett :D

G'day everyone, Here's my lasted project completed after about 6 months of work (on and off). It's the Hasegawa P-3C Update III kit with Aussie Decals A72-010 decals to turn it into an RAAF 10 Squadron Orion. I've included the following bits: Cockpit lighting Top and Bottom red strobes Bottom White strobe Nav lights Motors The only real scratch building was to do put all the lights and motors in along with the connector and locating pins. In progress shots can be found here. Photos... (I think that shot is cool!) See next post for more images The base was made by a mat

Sounds like it could be interesting! B) Orions really lend themselves to being motorised and illuminated. I still have one spare motor which will probably be destined for a P-51D when I end up making one. I've just taken delivery of all the bits of acrylic for the cover, plus the special glue required. Unfortunately the two sides are slightly too long so I'll have to spend some time filing them back. Then it'll be off to find some jigs to keep it square while I glue all the bits together. On the photo front, with any luck I'll be getting a new camera this weekend so I'll be sure to take p

I used MPLab (free) from Microchip for the firmware development (writing the program, simulating it and compiling it). Then I used IC-Prog (free) to program the chip. The PIC ('chip') programmer was a kit from Jaycar. It just plugs in via your serial port to your PC. There's plenty of programmers out there, along with other bits of software (most free) to do the same job. The hardest parts would be getting familiar with the assembly language for the firmware, and putting the circuits together. I'll have a look later for a link directly to the programmer. Given it's a kit, you'd have to put