Had a really busy, and tiring, week so not a lot of time nor motivation for modelling, but I'm starting on the detail work to get the Gauntlet finished. My focus yesterday was on the pitot head. Silver Wings provide a PE one in two parts which isn't very convincing nor easy to install, so I decided to make my own, carving it from an old resin casting block (does anybody else save these or just me? ). Anyway, investigation time of course first. This picture shows the pitot head quite well, but also something else:
The bead sight is sited in a cut-away on the upper cowling, something else to whittle away!
This is a detail from the crashed Gauntlet, image "inverted the right way up" and showing a slightly different design to the top one. I presume the associated pipework (which on the Tiger Moth runs down the front of the strut) runs inside the hollow struts so that makes life easy(er). I've carved the head like the lower one so that it fits snugly against the strut but I've yet to add the two "prongs"...photo when it's finished which probably won't be for a few days...more busy-ness..
