I have spoken with Ray and he had difficulty measuring the spinner as he had only a tape measure so 24″ is the nearest he could gauge.

John

He did the measure the Hendon machine. He gives other measurements as well in the article but I guess you can get them from him. (Max width of the engine nacelles 48 inches.)

Thanks for this reply. No I haven’t seen Ray’s article as I don’t take SAMI these days but the information is interesting as 24″/25″ was my first rough calculation. I know Ray so he might have measured the Hendon machine.

The Freightdog set doesn’t actually address the real issues but is largely cosmetic IMO it still has over large spinners and intakes to suit the very innaccurate Revell nacelles

Thank you KET but it’s the absolute dia of the spinner I need preferably in it’s simplest form.

Regards

John

I suspose that you have already read Ray Ball’s article in the Feb edition of SAMI? He gives the spinner size as 24 inches.

I see Freightdog Models already have a correction set on sale.

Hi WP
It’s the pointy spinner found on most early Merlin Halifax’s like the one in the RAF Museum.

It also seems to be very similar to that used on the Wellington II. Any leads will be helpful as I’m trying to avoid a long trip down to Hendon. I am expecting to find a ballpark figure of about 25″.
If you can help that would be great.

John