My Little Harry Tate completed build blog

[Guest]

Hi Richard I've just found this outstanding build, fantastic work on all the extra detailing :thumb2:
Pete.

[rtfoe]

Hi Gavin, Andrew and Peter, thanks for looking in.

This dio and build has been around for threes years and been to Shizuoka last year. I'm glad to be able to show it here.

Cheers,
Richard

[rtfoe]

The Lewis gun was also very crude so instead of making one I decided for a twin mounted assembly.

Actually my scratch was just as crude...the only difference was the addition of the handles, pistol grips, sights and barrel configuration.

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Plastic strip and wire were the material used.

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The final asseblies were painted flat black and dry brushed with steel...

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I picked out detail like the shell chute and handles with brass.

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Next will come the Lewis gun mount on the turret.

Cheers,
Richard

[Fernando N]

Very nice looking Richard, the things you can do with old 1/72 kits is amazing.:thumb2::hugging-face:
Hope to see the next installment soon.

Fernando

[Guest]

Well done Richard, you've been adding crisp detail sir.

[yak face]

Great stuff richard , the guns look super , cheers tony

[rtfoe]

Thanks Fernando, Guy and Tony. Been busy with my dio and a 1/16 Paratrooper modification. Old 1/72 kits can be quite challenging and fun but sooner or later I may go the larger scales as the eyes are getting weak.

Cheers,
Richard

[rtfoe]

Hi, seriously I didn't have any clear reference on how this worked. Only after I finished the build then only I saw Indiana Jones and the Crusades that I remember a scene when Sean connery was shooting from a biplane cockpit that I saw how it worked. Those straight vertical coming from the serated curved structure should be thinner as they were cables that run down to the cylinder wheels on each side of the cradle.

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They're made with plastic strip, copper wire and foil.

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Cheers,
Richard

[Jim R]

Hi Richard
This is among my favourite builds of yours. Not only that you made a silk purse from this sow's ear but the detailing. The Lewis guns for a start and I know there is more to come.
Jim

[rtfoe]

Thanks Jimbo, always great to have you along this old journey of a build.

Cheers,
Richard

[flyjoe180]

Richard, I'm just catching up and seen this magnificent transformation of that ancient kit into a real beauty. Watching with interest, cheers

[rtfoe]

Hi Joe, thanks...theres so many post I'm involved in that I just saw this...about time I add more photos.

Cheers,
Richard

[rtfoe]

Seeing that the pistons were fine I worked on the exhaust outlets and the exhaust itself...

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The kit part was too cylindrical so I folded plastic strip on to it and cut the ends.

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Which resulted in an angled opening. Then I added weld beeding along the whole pipe with thin stretched sprue.

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I fitted the Vickers gun onto the side cradle.

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I then added two pipe outlets using electrical wire tubing...the thinnest I could find.

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Cheers,
Richard

[Wouter]

Hi Richard, I can only say this: WOW!

Cheers

[Steve Jones]

Wonderful work again Richard. You have a lot of builds going on at the moment. I am surprised there wasn't a palm tree or a steering wheel in the cockpit. :smiling3:
Did you contemplate changing the springs for self made ones?

Steve