Thanks for bearing with me, it's been a while since I have been able to do any modelling but I've managed to get some seats made in the last few days.
The pilot's seat is folded metal but the observer sat on a wicker seat of the type we all know and love.
For the pilot's seat I just cut out some aluminium sheet and added some score lines to make folding easier. This was done with a scalpel, 6 strokes for a cut line and just one for a fold line. By bending the sheet back and forth along the cut lines the required part was easily removed. The seat was then folded and CA'd together before coating with primer. I made a few before I was happy, this photo shows the process but neither of these got used. I will show you the finished item later.
BE2c seats by
Richard Williams, on Flickr
The wicker seat involved a bit of trickery, the seats footprint was drawn onto 0.5mm styrene sheet and holes were drilled to receive the uprights. A length of 0.5mm brass rod was inserted into a 1mm copper tube to prevent it kinking while I bent it into shape round a pen top. The brass rod was then bent again to create the uprights. Two more lengths of rod were added to complete the main frame. The copper tube was later treated to a coat of Mr Dissolved putty.
BE2c seats by
Richard Williams, on Flickr
Aluminium wire mesh was then folded around the frame, CA'd into place and carefully snipped into shape with scissors. I left a lot of excess styrene base for ease of handling.
BE2c seats by
Richard Williams, on Flickr
Seat cushions were made from milliput and the piping was added with 0.3mm lead wire. I found it best to glue one side of the 'piping' down before bending the next part of the shape. The wicker weave was done with Prym elastic, probably not the most exciting job but it didn't take as long as I thought..
BE2c seats by
Richard Williams, on Flickr
A lick of paint when I got home from work and the seats are done.
Scratched 1/32 BE2c seats by
Richard Williams, on Flickr
Quite a lengthy post for so little progress but I was so excited to be back at the bench at long last. Unfortunately I won't get any time at all next week but hopefully there won't be such a long wait for the next update.
Thanks for reading, have a lovely weekend everybody.
Richie