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1:32 Lockheed EC-121K Constellation/Warning Star


Iain

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Don't mean to be off topic on an awesome build thread, but why post this? It's offensive.

It's a pretty old standing joke that's been doing the rounds for many, many years.

 

It's the irony of asking for pictures of something as well documented and known about as the Bible, an extreme example of the belief that pictures are needed to prove anythings existence these days, in the age of the internet and ubiquitous camera phones.

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Flap areas opened up in wing-roots and wings now seat fully home on the fuselage.

 

I was going to add the nacelles to the wings, before fitting wings to fuselage - but now leaning towards adding wings to fuselage this weekend and blending root area before doing the nacelles.

 

I think this will make aligning the nacelles a lot easier - albeit with the downside that 'wings on' she's a BiG lump to handle...

 

All going very, very, well at the moment - perhaps too easy*...  :hmmm:

 

*expecting to have something go horribly wrong.

 

Iain

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Flap areas opened up in wing-roots and wings now seat fully home on the fuselage.

 

... now leaning towards adding wings to fuselage this weekend and blending root area before doing the nacelles.

 

I think this will make aligning the nacelles a lot easier ..

I have to say that's what I'd do Iain, for any large 4-engined a/c in any scale.

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More filling and sanding on fuselage - check.

 

Nose on and blended in - check.

 

More sanding...

 

Rear fuselage shapes corrected - ahead of tailplane and rear curve - check.

 

More sanding...

 

So - still motoring ahead - photos tomorrow - or it didn't happen eh?  :innocent:

 

Have fun!

 

Iain (covered in dust)  :blink:

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I did say I'd post some update images - poor quality - done in a hurry...

 

Doesn't look like a lot of progress - but there's a good 20+ hours of work between last week's photos and where we are now.

 

If I'm honest I'm a bit 'sanded out' just now - time for a break.

 

Nose being blended in - still a way to go - but getting there. Circle on top of nose was my pour hole for casting resin (the smaller a 'riser' the other side of an internal bulkhead). Nose was taped in position - adjusted for position/alignment - and then resin poured:

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Underneath you can see the area I had to fill as our puppy had made some 'field modifications' to the fuselage half:

 

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Rear fuselage getting there - some more surface imperfections to deal with:

 

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Curve of rear fuselage built up - needs further shaping once centre fin in place:

 

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Area ahead of tailplane - removed and rebuilt - again - getting there shape-wise (brown area is polyurethane foam core - soaked in Epoxy):

 

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Wings dry fitted. Gaps at root will either need plugging - or root re-shaping - depends on overall span when ready to be bonded - will make that call then:

 

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Young Cameron for a sense of scale!

 

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Have fun!

 

Iain

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