Sopwith Dolphin - scenic base

After a bit of a break, I've finally got round to making the scenic base for my Dolphin.

Display Case

At last, I've got round to ordering a display case, and here it is, made to order and delivered pretty promptly by Acrylic Display Cases. You could argue it's a bit roomy at the top, but I thought that if I made it any lower it would start to look squashed. Anyway, the green baize looks so smart that it's almost a pity to cover it up. But I can do the scenic base as a separate very thin sheet of MDF and then drop it in and see how it looks before making a final decision. Nearly finished, then. Have I said that before?

Maybe one day I'll make something else.

Sopwith Dolphin - finished

There!

I never really thought I'd say this, but the Dolphin is finished. A bit of mud on the undercarriage, the Mini World Lewis gun painted and installed, and the pitot tube glued on again (twice), and there you are. I'm now going to find a display case for it, then do the scenic base. Matt from the Wargames Table has kindly lent me some static grass and Vallejo acrylics, so I'm going to be studying his blog closely to see how he does it.

Sopwith Dolphin - rigging finished

Phew, that's the rigging done.

Sopwith Dolphin - rigging continues

Rigging continues very slowly. I'd forgotten how fiddly it is. Anyway, I've settled into a routine where I do a few lengths per session and then, every so often, when I can summon up the courage, bring up the soldering iron and wave it over the ones I've done to tauten them up, like a big scary magic wand.

Sopwith Dolphin - rigging started

Well, sorry about the long silence. About 6 months ago, I seem to remember saying something to the effect that it was all over bar the rigging. Then I actually started doing the rigging, and suddenly I seemed to hit a brick wall. It's quite simple in principle, the technique I use, and I've used it on two previous projects (my only two previous projects, actually). You just prepaint some stretched sprue (see earlier post), cut lengths of it and stick the lengths into place. And that, in previous projects, was that.

Sopwith Dolphin - nearly finished

I've made a bit more progress this evening and suddenly it's nearly finished.