Whitley’s seats
Today I’m gonna show you, the Whitley’s seats… Totally three (the third one, radio-operator’s seat is already built, located on his Bulkhead). You can see it in my previous post.
PILOT’S SEAT WITH ARMOUR PLATE ADDITION. (Yellow copper)
Handmade Built , with the functional arm rest as well as I did for my Lancaster’s seat
dimensions : 2,3 cm x 0,7 cm
CO-PILOT’S – NAVIGATOR’S SEAT
Functional also… The seat can be rotaded 360 degrees
dimensions: 1,9 cm x 0,8 cm
Yes I’m married!!!
That’s all for today guys! Thank’s for looking 
TNX guys. I really appreciate your interest.
Yes Elliott. I did received your pics. I have already sent you a feedback.
Thank U.
QUESTION
What was the color of the instrument panel? Green with black the square panel front of the pilot’s controls or… overall black like Halifax and Lancaster?
According to my pics…I think that the first choice (green and black) fits better…
What’s your opinion guys, Elliott?
(source: A.W. Whitley Pilot’s notes)
Step-2
Hi guys..
This is my last post for this year.
Yes… I know I’m late. But I had to build a huge number of sections and join them together. This step was the most important of the whole build. Too many dry fits, too many resets in order to achieve the correct fitting according to Whitley’s technical plans.
At first I had to build the cockpit floor, Main fuselage’s floors and then all the bulkheads.
The most difficult part of this build, were the bomb-bays cells. The main structure built was next. The cockpit floor, the rear fuselage’s floor, the bulkheads, radio-operator’s little cabin, and all the major components from nose to tail!
As soon as this boring part was finished we stepped forward to its final dry fit, checking gaps etc. Everything is good enough and we proceeded directly to its primer. I used Primer for car’s plastic parts.
At this point I would like to say that I didnt pay attention on the LEFT rear fuselage side during attaching the frames of its structure. Its a blind part… Mostly I did a rough work in order to strengthen the left side as well as the right one.
The most boring part and dangerous part of such a build is now finished. We shall continue next with the interesting making of all the interior’s items such as seats, instrument panel, devices etc.
Thank U for your attention. I would be grateful to you, If you post any objections so far, concerning the technical accuracy of all these. I can fix them if its possible…
PS. Forgive my poor English!
My best wishes and a Happy new Year to U and your Families!
Hi Guys…
I’m Alex Kontiveis the Kit maker.
I’m very proud that my model got all these comments by experts like you all.
As far as I noticed…to much talk was done about the middle turret. I couldnt make a new one. I used Tamiya’s clear part. I met Antoni on Aeroscale forum and as he said the SN was corrected already. Don’t forget that the model is 1/48 scale. Its impossible for a simple modeller to get all the data, info or even Knowledge like many of you have already. I’m a Mechanical Engineer, and the Administrator on http://www.helmo.gr
Take a look at these pics below. The undercarriage sits far back than usual…
To Administrators (REQUEST)
May I post here my next coming project as a step by step build? The project concerns an 1/48 A.W. Whitley VII.
I wish for that, because I will avoid the mistakes done on my Lancaster, and probably many friends here will help me with their Knowledges and Info.
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