dodgem37 Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 Love what you're doing. Sincerely, Mark crobinsonh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandiego Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 Cockpit looks super. Filling in all of the rivets is a lot of work, good luck with that. Dan crobinsonh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breaker Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 Just started one of these myself. Testfit the aires cockpit now you've got the side panel in place, some of the ammo panel is visible in the corner. Looks good so far, I'm getting rid of some of the rivets as well. crobinsonh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crobinsonh Posted November 26, 2017 Author Share Posted November 26, 2017 (edited) Tackled two steps - one the fit of the Aires main U/C bay. As is more the norm with Aires the bay is slightly too small and the curves do not fit as well as you would perhaps expect. The answer here is superglue and filer. The second step was to replace the kit internal airbrake detail with that provided by Eduard PE in their Big Ed set. Next I need to tackle the airbrake door itself - also provided in PE by Aires. To fit the U/C bay and the airbrake I decided to use white tac and superglue to hold in position. As usual with Trumpy kits the fit is more like a 70's Airfix kit IMO and therefore I decided to add some additional plastic card tabs. I now need to start looking at fitting the nose wheel bay and anything else before the fuselage halves can be closed. Edited November 26, 2017 by crobinsonh sandokan, KiwiZac, A-10LOADER and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 Sharp! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emilio Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 Looking great! Emil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crobinsonh Posted December 9, 2017 Author Share Posted December 9, 2017 A few more updates on the "engineering side" First off as I was fitted the Zacto replacement nose with the requisite surgery to the Trumpeter nose causing a few issues. As I need to ensure the minimum amount of fit issues and sanding I cut the end off a micro brush and inserted it to keep things in place. After doing this I continued with the nose U/C bay area. Again after removing the Trumpeter part that is moulded into the jet intakes there where potential issues with structural rigidity and most importantly fit. I did not want a situation with awkward gaps needing to be filled when the fuselage halves are finally assembled or even worse the Aires nose U/C part coming free and rattling around inside the model. Its not like I have had that happen before when modelling sandokan and johncrow 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crobinsonh Posted December 9, 2017 Author Share Posted December 9, 2017 I am pretty pleased with how that all worked out as the Aires nose U/C bay seems to fit pretty well. I decided to replace the Trumpeter airbrake with the Eduard PE part. I am not always convinced with the 2D nature of PE but in this case there was a big improvement in detail. After this I moved to add more engineering support both with plastic card tabs and lots of white tac and super glue to hold everything. johncrow, sandokan and Seversky 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crobinsonh Posted December 9, 2017 Author Share Posted December 9, 2017 I now needed to complete some more work on the bulkhead behind the cockpit. This left two issues to resolve 1) the Aires part was too short and secondly even with hot water the part was somewhat curved. Hopefully some more progress later this weekend. MikeMaben, Seversky, LSP_Kevin and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 Wow - great work, Colin! Kev crobinsonh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aircommando130 Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 Great work! I have that same kit and sadly it's back in the box but maybe watching you build yours will motivate me to get mine going again. crobinsonh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dandiego Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 Great work so far! I built this kit a few years back and really enjoyed it. I wasn't convinced that the small tabs on the wings would hold up over time and add a metal spar that ran from wing to wing. Have you looked at this part of construction yet? Dan crobinsonh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrDave Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 Lovely job. I've just got the thunderbirds one as some light relief from rigging and lozenge. Have you chosen a scheme? crobinsonh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Breaker Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 What are you planning to do with the intake now you've chopped the portion out for the wheelwell mate? crobinsonh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted December 9, 2017 Share Posted December 9, 2017 All of those details look great! crobinsonh 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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