Jim Barry Posted April 28, 2018 Author Share Posted April 28, 2018 Good progress today. Patched up some missing surfaces around the tail with Magic Sculpt, Carved the canopy mold and got a coat of primer on it. Added spark plug wires to the engine. Iain, LSP_Kevin, Gazzas and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayW Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 Hey get going with the LG!! My favorite thing to do. Great progress Jim. Jim Barry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iain Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 Love projects like this - awesome work! Iain Jim Barry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Barry Posted May 1, 2018 Author Share Posted May 1, 2018 (edited) Hi Jay. Hi Iain, Thanks! Shapeways tells me my LG prints are in the mail. It's like Christmas when the parts come back. In the meantime I sand and prime or in the case of yesterday, I redo all the push rods I pulled out of the engine when trying remove the crankcase that I wanted to reglue. That's the second accident with the engine. It's possessed! Edited May 1, 2018 by Jim Barry JayW 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Maxim Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 Speaking of Bearcat landing gear seen this on you tube yesterday: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmc Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 Gotta love a Bearcat. I enlisted in LSP after stumbling onto your build. I usually hang out over on Britmodeler and am redoing an old Testors F8F (amoung others). Looking forward to seeing the rest of this build. Cheers Dennis Derek B, LSP_Kevin and MikeMaben 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Barry Posted May 1, 2018 Author Share Posted May 1, 2018 (edited) Glad you found this, Dennis. Good luck with your Bearcat work. I'll go check it out. (edit: I'm back from Britmodeller....Wow! Great work!!!) You are really honoring the plane, perhaps more than me and hats off for all of it in 1/48. That where I had done much of my plane modeling back in the 2000s. P-43. A-36, Bf-109 C and F, F7F and a Buffalo. I retired from that scale with a Finnish Hurricane but have a Ryan Fireball on the Shelf of Doom . Edited May 1, 2018 by Jim Barry Derek B 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMaben Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 Gotta love a Bearcat. I enlisted in LSP after stumbling onto your build. I usually hang out over on Britmodeler and am redoing an old Testors F8F (amoung others). Looking forward to seeing the rest of this build. Cheers Dennis Hey Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Barry Posted May 2, 2018 Author Share Posted May 2, 2018 Now this kitty can Roar!!! Sadly this all pretty well hidden behind the cowling. I just felt I owed a good effort at an engine since I got a pass with the Fury. I am officially sick of spark plug wires for the record. There are 36 of them! Paul in Napier, Hubert Boillot, Uncarina and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richdlc Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 lovely work Jim Barry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayW Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 what an engine!!!!!! You know what I'm talking about. Jim Barry 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Barry Posted May 3, 2018 Author Share Posted May 3, 2018 Thanks Jay. It's very reproducible too. Next project has two Wright R-1820s engines and have no fear of the work at all. The landing gear came back from Shapeways.com yesterday. Here's one fitted to a wheel. dmc, LSP_Kevin, JayW and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 NOICE !!....Harv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmc Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 Hi Jim, Tried to give a couple of “likes†on the engine and LG but no luck. I'm guessing I need to have a few more posts before I can do that. Cheers Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Barry Posted May 4, 2018 Author Share Posted May 4, 2018 Thanks Dennis and Harvey. The engine is "pretty good" and very attractive, but I've just started another radial engine project (after many many more hours learning CAD) and now look at this one's shortcoming and go "shucks". It might redo it! We'll see. As you know the limits of accuracy are not exactly bounded but at some point you have to call things "good" or you'll find yourself in a rubber room. This is especially true in CAD because you can draft anything down to the mircon. As for likes, make sure you are logged in (maybe)? Cheers, Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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