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Title: Type 965 double bedstead radar array.
Post by: 17-09 on April 01, 2016, 07:04:01 pm
Has anyone any tips when building the Scale Warships etch brass type 965 aerial array?
I have purchased two units to build a double array for a type 42 destroyer, just wondered if anyone has built them
and can offer any advice. I was considering soldering them together but now think cyano would be better.
Lovely etch worth building nice!
Thanks   17-09
Title: Re: Type 965 double bedstead radar array.
Post by: radiojoe on April 01, 2016, 08:43:54 pm
Yes I built one for my HMS Coventry, not easy at all, I used Cyano mostly and solder paste for the bits that hold the shaft. ;)
Title: Re: Type 965 double bedstead radar array.
Post by: 17-09 on April 02, 2016, 06:56:58 pm
Hi  Radiojoe,
 That looks really nice, I guess its just a case of taking time and not rushing it, did you make a jig up?
 The IFF oblong on top of the array, has it other parts as it's only a plate on the etch, I thought they were like an oblong box structure.
 Thanks for posting
 Regards  17-09
Title: Re: Type 965 double bedstead radar array.
Post by: radiojoe on April 02, 2016, 07:50:33 pm
Didn't use a jig, just put each front plate face down and added each section one at a time with thin Cyanoacrylate then added the cross pieces, whether it is technically right is doubtful but it suits me. %%
Title: Re: Type 965 double bedstead radar array.
Post by: 17-09 on April 05, 2016, 09:53:26 am
Has anyone got a picture of a  944/1010 IFF interrogator aerial please

Thanks 17-09
Title: Re: Type 965 double bedstead radar array.
Post by: Capt Podge on April 05, 2016, 11:35:00 pm
Quote from: 17-09 on April 05, 2016, 09:53:26 am
Has anyone got a picture of a  944/1010 IFF interrogator aerial please

Thanks 17-09

I'm not certain but I think this link might get you started. :-)

Regards,

Ray.
Title: Re: Type 965 double bedstead radar array.
Post by: Capt Podge on April 05, 2016, 11:36:42 pm
...and it would help if I actually pasted the link in :embarrassed: {-)  www.ipernity.com/doc/594807/37078900/in/keyword/514250/self

Regards,

Ray.
Title: Re: Type 965 double bedstead radar array.
Post by: 17-09 on April 06, 2016, 06:30:41 pm
Hi there Captain(Ray)
 Thanks for the photo,s, from them I can certainly see the IFF aerial and it's construction. It does have a width and a shape that I can replicate, lovely shots of Glasgow on the Thursday War, I had a mate on her during the Falklands war in 82. This aerial is apparently the same on the 1022 and the 965 air warning arrays
All I have to do now is build the complicated little thing!
 Thanks  17-09 (Alan)