Airfix's 1/72 Fairey Rotodyne (Full Build)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- Yeah I know, a very niche subject, looking like something out of Thunderbirds. But it's an itch that I've wanted to scratch for a very long time, so, before my eyes and patience go, I went for it. The Rotodyne has a fascinating history. There was a great programme about it on the History Channel some time ago. One option I looked at was the Westland version with roundels and fin flashes and a central fin or even the brightly coloured 'what if' BEA version. It's a shame about the Rotodyne. Like other forward thinking British designs, it never came to fruition.
Just released 01/01/22 on TH-cam, Joluqa Malta has a video on this very subject. Well worth watching.
For the record, and thanks to the David Gibbings book, the blue paint is Pantone 2746.
I actually tried to buy Rotodyne back in 1962 when it was cancelled. I offered all my saved pocket money for it - 14/6d!!! Fairey wrote back that it would cost much more than that in fuel. I was 9.
The apprentices at White Waltham built and sent me the Revell kit, and I made local and national press. The local press even arranged a helicopter flight for me out of Biggin Hill. My 15 minutes of fame. Still have the cuttings.gb
Theres nothing I enjoy more than seeing old, badly done kits given a new lease on life. Nicely done!
Well done! Beautiful model. I never built it then but I did build Hampdens, B-25s, 1/144 Comet, Concorde etc..
I built one of these ages, and I mean ages, ago. It was a fascinating vehicle, that, to me, evokes craft seen in the 'Dan Dare' strip in the Eagle comic. A real shame that it never, if you will excuse me, took off. Having seen footage of the prototype in action, they would have been lovely to see as everyday aircraft. Yet another sad example of the 'It's brilliant... But I don't think so' attitude of British aviation, in the 1950's and 60's.
Love these autogiro.
They need to bring these back to life.
Greetings from California.
Excellent work. The masking was an enormous effort. I doff my hat to you sir.
I build kits, you're a modeler there's a ridiculously huge difference. I'm living vicariously through your builds. Thank you for sharing all of this with us. I also understand that there's time involved for editing and uploading all of this content just sayin. Another beautiful model!
OMG I DID THAT KIT.
It was for a Model Badge in my Boy Scouts days. OMG.
I also did a picture of it for my Artist Badge.
Good old days.
I took great care on the cockpit too. I painted the dials on myself and the handle of the joysticks. And the helmets to white. I still remember that.
Thanks.
I will be 69 in February. 😃
I love this original old Airfix Kits it‘ a time Travel trip for me Greetings Edward
Thats such a great build! So distinctive I love to see people build and improve on the the old kits that we can all relate to without spending hundreds of pounds on resin and etched parts. Please dig deep into your stash and resurrect a few more classics ! Thank you for posting!
Couldn't agree more!
Great stuff on this old kit. Great looking model of a great looking flying machine. Putting it on the stand was a goid idea.
Thanks; one of my better ideas
Thank you for your time and patience, and for bringing this kit to life. Wonderful work. These 60 plus year old kits are my childhood.
A brilliant example of how to make a purse from a pigs ear! Keep up the good work.
I built one of these back in the 1960's and you have done a great build! I was 13 or so when I built mine and you have done the kit proud!
Beautiful work, well done. No way I could attempt such a project so I just enjoy your skills and finished masterpiece!
Dammit, that's belting! Also giving me childhood flashbacks! Marvellous!!
G'Day, I picked a kit up at Car Boot sale many years ago for $5.00, I painted it in RAAF scheme, added rocket pods to the wings and a mini gun in the doorway, used it for years in War Gaming!
I imagine that's one of the nicest builds of that model ever done. Just beautiful.
Greg, for a 60 year odd kit, it's beautiful.....you've done it justice!, to me your one of the top modeller's on youtube.
So nice of you to say.
Masking was a work of art. Fantastic job.
Absolutely delightful model 👍
Spectacular build, a joy to watch from start to finish.
Hah, great stuff. I remember building this when I was young. Covered in glue and gloss paint 😘
Nice job with those passenger cutouts mounted inside the fuselage. 👍🏻👍🏻
Next time I want a silk purse made from a sow's ear I know where to come. This was one of the earliest kits I ever made in the '70's and I never expected one could look so good! great job!
Wow, that's a beautiful model!
I made one in the 1970s when I was a boy, I have another one bought from ebay in my cellar. Your video will be a useful guide to building it! Thank you!
Excellent set of skills you have there. Very evident this ain't your first rodeo. I really enjoy watching someone who knows what he's about. Much appreciated, Greg! Cork from the hills of Virginia.
Thank you
That Sir, was stunningly good, in the face of some adversity. Thank you for sharing it with us.
My pleasure!!
Stunning video & many thanks for allowing us to watch a master model maker at work !!!
Cheers Ken
A build well done, amazing what a modeller can do with those old vintage kits.
This is a great channel- highly competent modeller, enjoyable subject matter, simple and effective format. This is my joint favourite modelling channel, the other being Uncle Nightshift. 👍
Nightshift, now that's a honour!
Beautiful work! Love your channel, what you did with this old girl is nothing short of amazing, congratulations on such a fine fine build 👏
Just superb. Shows what can be done with those old kits. Kind of reminds me of the promotional models they would have sent the airline companies at the time, especially on its stand. Love it!.
Greg, watching this brought a big smile to my face. What a beauty! You are joy to watch building the wide range of kits you show us with your videos. This one is superb! Airfix rules!
the designers of this chopper must've been like "but what if we put the propellers on TOP of the submarine?"
Thanks for making this how-to video, I'm inspired to pull out my Airfix kit and start working on it sooner than later this year.
I made this kit about 50 years ago, it didn't seem that bad then, but things have moved on a lot since then. You've done a cracking job as always, thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Hi Greg it's great seeing you resurrect some of them older kits, it makes me feel young again watching you work with them. A methodical approach has paid off for you again, your model looks better than the real thing.
Happy New year to you from NZ.😉 I'm looking forward to seeing your next builds.
Thanks, have a great 2022
I saw this flying at Farnborough and we all thought it was the future of city to city travel. I also built this kit but you have brought this fascinating plane back to life. Shame those tip jets were so noisy as otherwise it might have been a big success.
I saw it there as well. I later saw the parts in a scrap lorry on Scots Hill, Rickmansworth, Herts. Fairey did improvements and research with the jet tip nozzles but after Westland took it on, the Government killed the further idea of development that BEA wanted.
Many thanks for this building !!! I love !!! I have this kit in my considerable collection of unbuild kits .....! I love the 60's !!!
Lovely build and very enjoyable to watch.
I have the same Vintage kit in my stash. I bought it for about $10 several years ago. This has inspired me to build this kit in 2022!
Beautifull aircraft of the British golden age of aviation. A beautiful made model. Bravo!
The good old Airfix flying machine stand.... takes me back. You, Sir, are a patient and understanding modeller taking on this ye olde model. She looks gorgeous.
Informative build and superb result.
If I could do a tiny fraction what you achieve then I'd consider myself a modeller. Thank you for dedication you put into these.
Thanks Simon
I built this iconic plane yesterday and finished it today😊
I built this kit as a fairly skilled modeler, I was quite satisfied with the results until I just now viewed this video. Your method of addressing the dismal fit of front clear bits ended with an excellent appearance, and the side passenger windows finish was really creative, great work.
The painted trim is perfect, a creative and very well turned out model, thanks for the video and narrative, I fully enjoyed it.
Patrick
In the words of the late Roy Castle ‘dedication is what you need’, unbelievable that you stuck with that and produced an excellent finished model. Bravo 👏
Congratulations , the sanding of the raised panel lines and the riveting really brings the model to a higher standard
I bought one of these for years after visiting the museum in Early but could never face the re scribing snd re riveting. Looks great as you did it so maybe this year. Thanks.
Your a better man then me , I fought that kit for ever , never worked a such a mis match kit in my life , if I wasnt so young then , I may have taken up drinking and smokeing at 9 years old , well done on your build sir !
Great build, going to be video building this kit myself soon. Thanks for the tips.....Mike
That actually turned out looking good, great work.
You knocked this kit out of the park. Truly something to be proud of. I love these kind of videos.
This takes me back, I first built this kit from Airfix around 1950-1960.
Love it, beautiful kiddo!
Greetings from a Swede in Glasgow....
Built one in the early 70's. Brings back memories.
Beautiful! Had my doubts at first but you pulled it off nicely. Great job! I have never seen that kit before but i remember those old kits with the heavy surface detail and let's just say "rough fits" but i loved them any way. Those were the days when you could find kits and supplies just about anywhere. Thank's!
Really interesting to see you build old kit like this ! Must go check out what I got left in the loft ! The aerodyne build you made looks great.
Like many of my generation (I’m now64) as a child I was brought up with a love of building plastic (mainly Airfix) model kits.I returned to the hobby some 30 years later whilst recuperating after a motorcycle accident.I
I am really enjoying your content, Greg. I like the subjects you choose to model (the more esoteric or just out there, the better), they're cleanly built, and look really good by the time you finish them.
What a fantastic job!!!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
👏 Amazing how you done the windows so good and the beautiful paint job. Really takes this old kit to a different level!!!
A Like and a HEART for this impressive works !!!
Amazing work as always. Thank you for sharing and being such an inspiration to us.
Fantstic work !!!! Very impressive !
OMG, Greg..........
I could not have wished for a better start of the new year !!
Thank you !!!!
Great model and love the honesty involved in the build process.
Thats an amazing model of an amazing plane, well done
Impressive how you beat this one into submission! Stunning build!
Great job, thoroughly enjoyed watching you work.
Nailed that mate, looks superb. Fantastic attention paid to the originality, loved the passenger cut out, all added to the overall ambience of the build.
Cheers Mark, you and your family have a great 2022.
Ah the old kits.
What can I say.
We were easily pleased back then.
My first was the obligatory 1/72 Airfix Spitfire.
My favourite were the English Electric Lightening ( still my favourite looking jet.
And the Douglas Skyraider ( I stuck every available bomb or rocket on that sucker )
After a service life suspended by cotton from the ceiling of my bedroom they all succumbed to a fiery Viking funeral of lighter fluid, black powder and bangers usually around the dieing season of November.
Thanks for doing a video of the Christmas break. Interesting subject with a great outcome. Cheers Stu NZ
This is a funky little aircraft - never seen one before.
Excelente trabajo de armado y pintado.
A new year and a new build from Greg, hell yeah!
First saw this at a schoolfriend's house in '65.. Never got around to making it.
You are a Master Masker Greg, such patience! Had to wind down the modelling in my early '40s, by to Presbyopia 😞 Yes, for us Oldies, these channels like yours, is a Priceless journey back to Childhood! Magic.
Anytime 👍
Wow, what a fabulous build and finish. Sanding the rivet detail off was definitely a good idea. Will remember that if I ever build this kit.
Outstanding work! You have far more patience than I could ever muster.
Wow! Very nice result.
Great finished product. Wonderful paint work. I applaud your patience.
I don't have your skills Im afraid. Fabulous job you did bringing this to life.
What a great build of an old kit well done a very
Professional job and a brilliant end result
Hi from JtP"
Nice to see the old Rorodyne is still remembered I always thought it had quite big of potential.. I brought the it when it can out at Woolworths for 4/6 , i think it was a series 3 model. I i did make it with the old tube clue and pots of Humbrol enamels an a small assortment of old brass Swan Norton craft knife with very shard swan Morton blades, one of my mothers nail file and any sand paper i could find. Wood and the grand old wooden kitchen table and some wooden cloths pegs used as clamps were our only equipment..
At the time i was living in North Watford just a couple of small fields away for De Havilands engine plant at Leavesden we'd sneak over the Norths Orbital Road (Very Naughty that) and hide in the bushes looking at the aircraft mainly light aircraft like tiger moths and several other moths together with a few light Cessna type things and some doves and Herons and Dagon Rapides. Always one of my favorite aircraft On open day we'd be treated to some Venoms and Vampires, one might even be parked on the ground for little boys to sit in. Always hoped a Mosquito or Hornet would turn up but they never did..
The other Aircraft factory only a few mile away was Handle Page and there main factory in Harpingdon so we where always having aircraft being test flying around the Dh Comet 1 then the Comet 4 looking like a flying cross in the sky. The Handle Page Heralds and of course the beautiful crescent winged Victor prototype. Then one day there was the very loud thump - thump -thump sound and the high pitched wine of a turbo prop Dashing outside there she was the Rotodyne at about 1000 to 1500 feet and boy was it noisy the thrump ot the rotors and the bang from the tip jet made the windows rattle it was that noisy. i think it flew around our area for about a week but most days it usually flying higher Higher or not it was still very noisy that you always knew when it was around
Then it was gone.
Remember we do this for fun John the Pom
I keep telling myself this is fun. Do have my doubts sometimes. Maybe I need to build more Tamiya kits.
Howdy again from Texas! Beautiful build. I too have pulled out an old dog from my stash. Wish me luck!
The Frog one was worth its weight in gold back in the late nineties.
That was pretty cool. Came out good.
fantastic build on a kit as old as me lil,thank you for all the tips and hints
Nicely done. Absolutely stunning and far beyond my abilities. Keep up the good work
Excellent work, and a fitting tribute to a fascinating aircraft!
Beautiful job Greg. It just goes to show that, with the right skills even an old kit can look great. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Jeff
Amazing work... once again!! Your attention to detail and execution is second to none. Thanks for sharing your talents with us . Take care.
Cheers Edward 👍
This was one of the most interesting build videos I watched in a very long time. Stunning endresult!
Thank you! 😊
Lovely job, Greg! I can remember seeing this kit as a child. To see you doing it proud over 20 minutes, but what for you must have been weeks, is a joy. Like others have said, you have to do many, many more old kits!
It took me around two weeks on and off, then about three days editing hours of video. But it's worth it for all the great comments like yours 👍
I love building the old kits.
Beautifully done, Greg👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 I love odd planes and Helicopters, I just finished a Kamov 29 (Hobbyboss 1/72). I love the passengers trick, that really works.👋🏻
Mate you are a Hero even with the thought to build that kit not only building it !!!!!! Wonderful result well done. I'm always attracted to "weird" plane designs and also to exotic air force markings.
Very nice build, great video!
Fascinating way to get those panel lines etc. Great tip! 🤩
Excellent build!
Beautiful job.