anvil6 Posted April 21, 2016 Author Share Posted April 21, 2016 I just looked at your Lynx, Pretty sharp looking. Your hawk is coming along nicely as well. oliver Thanks Oliver! -Ramon Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anvil6 Posted April 22, 2016 Author Share Posted April 22, 2016 This morning I rebuilt the cyclic sticks. The kit ones had too sharp of a bend. The ones I made are maybe not perfect either but a little bit better. At first, I tried to just bend the kit plastic but it just broke, so out come the paper clips. I drilled a hole into the kit cyclic base, whittled some plastic away from the corners so it doesnt appear so boxy, drilled a hole into the resin Cobra Company grips and now they are assembled. Next up, paint and a pinky switch and then i can move on to the rudder pedals and instrument panel... -Ramon Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hawkwrench Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 Paperclip huh? Nice trick. I'll have to use that one. They look cool. Tell us how you build the pinky switch. Tim Quote Link to post Share on other sites
salvador001 Posted April 22, 2016 Share Posted April 22, 2016 Those Cyclics are great. Ill copy your technique and tonight ill modify mines. BTW, do you have a good photo of the back wall of the cabin? Specially showing all the details. Thanks. Rod. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anvil6 Posted April 23, 2016 Author Share Posted April 23, 2016 Those Cyclics are great. Ill copy your technique and tonight ill modify mines. BTW, do you have a good photo of the back wall of the cabin? Specially showing all the details. Thanks. Rod. Thanks Rod! I will look through my photos and seed if I have any good ones of the back wall and get back to you. Going by memory though, the hell hole covers are recessed, and the APU pump handle is stored on the back wall, lower, between the outboard left and inboard left troop seats... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hawkwrench Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 Ramon, when did they modify the APU accumulator manual pump by moving it from the back wall to the left side above the cargo door? Tim Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anvil6 Posted April 23, 2016 Author Share Posted April 23, 2016 Ramon, when did they modify the APU accumulator manual pump by moving it from the back wall to the left side above the cargo door? Tim Don't know. I didn't even know they did that, but I wish they had it when I was in. I have had to unpack the gear and passengers on more than one occasion to pump that accumulator! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hawkwrench Posted April 23, 2016 Share Posted April 23, 2016 So did I. I only noticed it through looking at new pics. I remember we would initiate the new warrant officers by flipping on the heater switch on the upper console so when he turned the APU on, it dumped the accumulator. That's when I would say "you dump it, you pump it!" I thought it was pretty funny, they didn't. Oh well-funny is funny. Tim Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anvil6 Posted April 24, 2016 Author Share Posted April 24, 2016 So did I. I only noticed it through looking at new pics. I remember we would initiate the new warrant officers by flipping on the heater switch on the upper console so when he turned the APU on, it dumped the accumulator. That's when I would say "you dump it, you pump it!" I thought it was pretty funny, they didn't. Oh well-funny is funny. Tim Ahh yes, fun with new guys! I miss doing that kind of stuff too... I sent a couple of new guys inside the hangar to get me the keys to the gust lock... :-D -Ramon Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anvil6 Posted April 26, 2016 Author Share Posted April 26, 2016 I have a cunning plan... So I glued a small piece of scrap plastic onto the stick, under where the pinky switch would go. Then I wrapped some copper wire around it and twisted a pig tail on the top side, then smooshed it flat with pliers, then coated it with clear plastic glue (a specially diluted type of white glue). Let's see if this will pass after I paint it... UH-60A cyclic sticks next to another build in progress, a 1/48 scale AH.7 Lynx -Ramon Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anvil6 Posted April 26, 2016 Author Share Posted April 26, 2016 Paperclip huh? Nice trick. I'll have to use that one. They look cool. Tell us how you build the pinky switch. Tim Thanks Tim! If i had to do it again, I would use one of the smaller radius bends from the paper clip. as for the pinky switch, i am totally winging it! -Ramon Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hawkwrench Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 Looks kickin bro! Totally cool. Keys to the gust lock huh? I never thought of that one. We always sent the newbies to go the 1st Sgt and get the keys to the basement of the hangar and get us some flightline. What was cool about was that Top played along with it and sent them on a wild goose chase. Aaah the old days of working on helos and flying. Tim Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anvil6 Posted April 29, 2016 Author Share Posted April 29, 2016 Cyclic stick with pinky switch... Getting closer! -Ramon Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hawkwrench Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 Those are some cool looking cyclic sticks brother. Great job! Tim Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anvil6 Posted April 30, 2016 Author Share Posted April 30, 2016 Those are some cool looking cyclic sticks brother. Great job! Tim Thanks dude! :-) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anvil6 Posted April 30, 2016 Author Share Posted April 30, 2016 (edited) So today I finished up my cyclic sticks. I even added the little zip ties that held the wiring harness for the pinky switch to the actual stick itself. I couldn't remember if they were black or white, but just to make things more interesting I elected to make my zip ties a bit more visible... Next up,I paint the first aid kits and move on to the yaw pedals and behind the instrument panel. -Ramon Edited April 30, 2016 by anvil6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
salvador001 Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Oh man, that is looking fantastic, i love how the cyclics turned out. How did you made the plastic ties? They look so real. Keep on with that great work, we all want to see this bird finished soon. Rod. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hawkwrench Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 Wow dude, that's sweet. Yes, how did you do the zip ties? Tim Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anvil6 Posted April 30, 2016 Author Share Posted April 30, 2016 Thanks guys! It's the power of suggestion that helped me pull this one off, along with some contaminated paint. :-) for the zip ties I used some appropriately sized copper wire (I just eyeballed it again. I don't know what size wire,I just used what looked right from a bunch of scrap electrical wires laying around on my work bench) and wrapped it around the stick, twisted the loose ends like a pig tail on safety wire, and then cut the end kind of short. Then I painted it with a tiny brush and some Floquil reefer white, that is now more of a reefer cream since I once did a bad job of cleaning my brush. I meant to take pictures of this step but it all came together faster than I realized... -Ramon Quote Link to post Share on other sites
11bee Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 Love the zip ties, really adds something extra to an already impressive build! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hawkwrench Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 Just to back up Ramon on the seat back differences, I found a pic in my WWP walk around book of a UH-60. It's dated 1994. Sorry for the clarity of the pic, but it's an old book, but great for references. Don't know if it's still available or not. Tim Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anvil6 Posted May 11, 2016 Author Share Posted May 11, 2016 Just to back up Ramon on the seat back differences, I found a pic in my WWP walk around book of a UH-60. It's dated 1994. Sorry for the clarity of the pic, but it's an old book, but great for references. Don't know if it's still available or not. Tim Crew dog's got my back! :D thanks dude! by the way, what book is that? i would like to look around for it online or in a swap meet... -Ramon Quote Link to post Share on other sites
hawkwrench Posted May 11, 2016 Share Posted May 11, 2016 It's wings and wheels (WWP) publications UH-60 Blackhawk. It's a great book full of hawk pics inside and out. Here's the front cover: . Tim Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anvil6 Posted May 11, 2016 Author Share Posted May 11, 2016 It's wings and wheels (WWP) publications UH-60 Blackhawk. It's a great book full of hawk pics inside and out. Here's the front cover: . Tim awesome, thanks! :) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
anvil6 Posted May 25, 2016 Author Share Posted May 25, 2016 (edited) so i took a bit of a break to make progress on another build that turned into a tribute build but that one is on slow burn so back to the Hawk... first off i started building the cover that goes over the battery behind the copilot seat. using my calibrated Mk.1 iBall, i cut some sheet plastic to make the cover at .5" wide by .25" high by .25" deep. once the glue fully cures and the plastic is hard and dry again, i will file down the edges to get a nice round bevel. Next, I took a page from the book of Hawkwrench 3:56 and decided to add some detail to the firewall between the avionics compartment in the nose and the cockpit. Not exactly accurate, but I wanted something just barely visible to be suggested through the chin bubble. I scraped the paint away from the plastic so i could get a good bond, then laid down stock plastic strip for relief. Being too lazy to get up out of my chair and dig through my spares box, I looked around at what came with the kit and saw that parts B41 could, with a little minor surgery, pass for the blue anodized valve thingies (I think they connect the pitot tubes and airspeed indicators somehow) on the wall in front of the instrument panels. Result: Also visible are the first aid kits I made from Milliput, installed on the seats. The white circles were Vallejo white shot though a draftsman template with my airbrush. The red crosses are hand painted with a small brush and a steady hand (Thanks Mr. Tanquerey!) All thats missing from the seats is the Copilot's fire extinguisher. i might start working on that next... -Ramon Edited May 25, 2016 by anvil6 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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