Fairey Rotodyne 2.0 - Finished pics page 14

TomZ · August 10, 2019, 09:48:31 AM

Beautiful!

TomZ

TheChronicOne · August 10, 2019, 10:42:32 AM

While it's fresh on your mind, does this part look familiar to you?

I think it dropped out of the Rotodyne kit I just purchased. The plastic matches but I didn't see this little part in the parts diagram. (not that it's not there, I could have missed it.... )

PR19_Kit · August 10, 2019, 11:35:29 AM

Quote from: TheChronicOne on August 10, 2019, 10:42:32 AM

While it's fresh on your mind, does this part look familiar to you?

Doesn't ring 'dyne bells with me at all. Perhaps it fell out of the FROG Lancaster instead?

TheChronicOne · August 10, 2019, 12:04:00 PM

Different colors! That FROG kit is a strange sort of dark blue-green plastic. It's actually quite lovely.

scooter · August 10, 2019, 12:33:13 PM

Its an IKEA part then...

PR19_Kit · August 10, 2019, 02:06:36 PM

Quote from: TheChronicOne on August 10, 2019, 12:04:00 PM

Different colors! That FROG kit is a strange sort of dark blue-green plastic. It's actually quite lovely.

Yes, the late FROG kits were all that colour, and quite hard plastic too.

TheChronicOne · August 10, 2019, 02:16:49 PM

Oh!! Like.... the type when you cut a piece with some nips and almost lose an eye!

IKEA parts, Scoot... you know, that could very well be the case. I'm with Kit, other than the color matching the piece doesn't look like anything that goes with the kit. SO... here's a theory....... the former owner, having found a spare piece that was the same color, threw it in the kit and then through sheer dumb luck it happened to be the very part that fell out once I rec'd it. One hell of a stretch but could explain things and that little part could very well not belong to ANYTHING I have.

zenrat · August 10, 2019, 06:08:41 PM

Thanks for all the nice words folks.

Kit - no back story adjustment took place, I always intended her to have her bum in the air...

Honest...

Brad C - It's not one of the parts I used and it's not one of the parts I just sorted into the parts boxes. You could well be right about it being the result of a quick tidy up.

TheChronicOne · August 10, 2019, 06:42:34 PM

Thanks, bud. I'll re-double my efforts.

The Rat · August 10, 2019, 08:03:55 PM

She's a stunner!

zenrat · August 11, 2019, 03:42:12 AM

Thanks Ratty.

NARSES2 · August 11, 2019, 06:06:57 AM

That's super mate

I was wondering about the front undercarriage

Rheged · August 11, 2019, 06:36:11 AM

That is indeed one very impressive machine, with a well crafted backstory too!!

Glenn Gilbertson · August 11, 2019, 01:22:35 PM

Mad but brilliant!

zenrat · August 12, 2019, 01:58:27 AM

Thanks folks.

Quote from: NARSES2 on August 11, 2019, 06:06:57 AM
That's super mate

I was wondering about the front undercarriage

Front isn't the problem as it's stock Airfix. It's the back legs that I should really have cut down. As it was I used smaller (Harrier) wheels. If i'd had used the original Matchbox Warthog wheels then it would be even more tail high.