Time to bite the bullet....

[Hobbes]

Wet sanding cuts down the dust volume to zero. Sawing off the pour blocks can be done wet as well.

[chrisonord]

I found  using my trumpeter  scribing  tool to cut blocks off the resin parts cuts dust  right down too, it takes a bit longer,  but its cleaner.

[Pellson]

The very, very limited amount of resin jobs I've been doing has also been done wet. Just as a precaution. Maybe it's just daft. In particular as I already have cancer, but still.. 

[NARSES2]

The very, very limited amount of resin jobs I've been doing has also been done wet. Just as a precaution. Maybe it's just daft. In particular as I already have cancer, but still.. 

Not daft, but sensible. 

[PR19_Kit]

I promise I'll get this thread back to building the Bev before much longer............... 

[Old Wombat]

Why? Thread drift is so entertaining!

[Nick]

Why? Thread drift is so entertaining!

It's certainly faster than a Beverley could fly! 

[The Rat]

I'll deffo be following this one. I saw one at an airshow when I were a wee sprite (North Weald?) and it just seemed so BIG! Of course, If I ever get my grubby mitts on a kit it will have a planing hull put on it. 

[Rheged]

Family Rheged all went up to the Beverley cockpit when the aircraft was at the Museum of Army Transport at Beverley. That was 20something years ago.  We were all vastly impressed by the huge cavern of a hold!!

[PR19_Kit]

Of course, If I ever get my grubby mitts on a kit it will have a planing hull put on it. 

IIRC Blackburn had plans to do just that at one stage.

And yes, it was BIG in that hold, a 10 ft square section as I recall. It was even more impressive flying in one WITHOUT the rear doors fitted! Just a great big lump of nothingness behind you............... 

[Freightdog862]

That is a great scheme Kit, can't wait to see some paint on it. Even in 1/144 the Beverley is quite big. The Combat Kits 1/72 kit is on sale now (there are pics on ebay), but at £170 it is not for the faint hearted...
   
Colin

[kerick]

Some of these transport aircraft and airliners are so big they would make a nice house. Maybe a C-130 E or H fuselage would be available with all the Js out there now. Keep the wings on for a nice covered patio. It's been done before but I think the hardest part would be hauling one out to where I live. Not sure how a Beverly would compare to a C-130. I'm sure all the C-141s are gone.

[The Rat]

Another whiffer I could see would be a car ferry from Southend to France, like the Carvairs and Bristol Freighters.

[PR19_Kit]

Another whiffer I could see would be a car ferry from Southend to France, like the Carvairs and Bristol Freighters.

That was one of Blackburn's intentions, and the hold of a Bev had brackets half way up the sides to carry a 'mezzanine floor' for another layer of cars. I don't know if they ever built one like that though.

One of the other guys on here posted this Eagle comic cutaway of a Bev configured in that role.;

[Mossie]

They ground tested it and it worked, there's a paragraph or two in Spitfire to Eurofighter.  They used a car lift to hoist the cars to the mezzanine which were suspended by adjustable dollies that slid on rails.  Employees cars were used and they weren't all too keen to voulnteer!

I have a few concerns about the system.  In drawings, the tolerances are tight and this may not have allowed for increase in car sizes.  Also, the Beverley had a tendency to ground loop (although usually on unprepared surfaces) due to it's high CofG and stacking cars wouldn't have helped.