Derek B Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 (edited) Hi Guys, Just a bit of advanced info' for you. below are some photographs of what has been taking up too much of my time and effort for far too long - the newly completed master patterns for the forthcoming Heritage Aviation Models 1/48 Supermarine Type 224. This will be a full resin kit and shall be available later this year. Regards Derek Edited July 6, 2011 by Derek B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barry Posted July 6, 2011 Share Posted July 6, 2011 (edited) Derek, Though I know nothing about this aircraft; it's more work from one of the masters! Barry Edited July 6, 2011 by Barry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek B Posted July 7, 2011 Author Share Posted July 7, 2011 Derek, Though I know nothing about this aircraft; it's more work from one of the masters! Barry Thanks Barry It was pretty much the forerunner of the Spitfire, which flew a few years before the prototype Supermarine Type 300 Spitfire. It was built in response to an Air Ministry requirement to build a fighter to F7/30 specification, but fell short of the required peformance criteria. This was not really helped a great deal by having to use an underpowered steam (evapourative) cooled RR Goshawk engine either (the RR Kestral would have probably worked better, and had the RR PV 12 (Merlin) or Griffon had been available then (as opposed to the RR Type 'R' engine), who knows, it could have been a totally different story! Regards Derek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Ron Posted July 7, 2011 Share Posted July 7, 2011 Definately the wrong scale May I suggest you remove what I've shown circled in red and make this a separate part? a person cannot flat sand the fuse halves for a good fit with that projecting. A separate part would make assembly much, much easier. Ron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek B Posted July 7, 2011 Author Share Posted July 7, 2011 Definately the wrong scale May I suggest you remove what I've shown circled in red and make this a separate part? a person cannot flat sand the fuse halves for a good fit with that projecting. A separate part would make assembly much, much easier. Ron Fair point Ron, however, I no longer have the patterns! Hopefully - unless the resin halves are warped in some way, little or no sanding should be required. Even so, it would be possible to sand the majority of the fuselage half whilst avoiding the in-situ exhaust and rudder pedal mount - these areas can still be carefully scraped away with a knife if any material reduction is still deemed necessary. In any case, thank you for pointing this out. Regards Derek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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