Ali62

We now have enough orders for the printing to start very soon, I shall be making through the list in the order that I received the orders. as each order is ready I shall email you and send a PayPal invoice.

Steve I am glad that you are pleased with the canopies. I am sure we are all looking forward to see you conversion/ kit bash in the future and hope that your Hobbycraft repair works out well.

Spey Phantom intake and exhaust parts for 1/32 scale Tamiya conversion I have been fortunate to be involved to a small extent and now to a much larger extent on making these parts available to modellers that either have the Cutting Edge conversion or who are prepared to do a fair bit of kit bashing them selves, to produce a BRITISH PHANTOM from the Tamiya F-4J Phantom kit. This project has mainly been driven by the talented modeller Anthony Galbraith, who is doing a mammoth build on Large Scale Planes, see the link here https://forum.largescaleplanes.com/index.php?/topic/86105-raf-fg1-xv571-wild-hare-phantom-conversion/ The next important person in the chain is the CAD designer Kerry Carlyle, who got on board as a favour to help Anthony out with some of the tricky parts and that would be impossible to design with this amount of detail by good ‘old’ modelling methods. The other important person who brought Anthony, Kerry and myself together is Rick Godden, so that completed the team. However as you will see on the LSP thread above there have been quite a few others guys that have chipped in with information and pictures to assist. At this point it has been handed to myself to see the interest and the viability of producing these sets for modellers. However as this is NOT a full complete conversion, I really feel that before I spend a lot of time settting up the optimum printing orientation, and taking firm orders, it would be beneficial to see the demand for this set. Kerry has invested a lot of hours in developing and reworking the set in conjunction with Anthony, and it is to that end that Kerry would also like to see some return financially for all his hard work. He and I have now struck a deal that providing we have enough interest will firstly benefit him and secondly if the interest is sufficient I will look at adding even more parts to enable the conversion from J to K/M Phantom that little bit easier, not promising any defined time line, or what I may offer. As many of you will know I was planning this conversion a few years ago, then we got promised a full kit, and although that may still happen……one day this may still work out the best way to get some of the best detailed parts for the Spey. Without trying to make comments on each photograph here is quite a few from my initial TEST PRINTS, and a few more lifted from the LSP BUILD tht is linked above that show the fit on the kit. The first picture shows what is included in the set, there is a total of 16 parts, the set will retail for £30.00 plus shipping. As a guide the shipping will be as follows £4.50 for the U.K., £8.00 for Europe, and £12.00 for the rest of the world, this will be standard airmail, tracked will be extra. To make this a worthwhile project we require an order book of at least 20 sets. All of these parts will be 3D printed resin as shown in the pictures. The only way that I can sort and arrange a list of interested customers is through my email address at aerocraftmodels@gmail.com Once the poll is complete, end date for initial interest, will be till the 12th September 2021, if sufficient numbers have been attained the set will go live on my website aerocraftmodels.com and each interested party will be emailed. The first sets will be mailed out around the beginning of October.

That is great news, I look forward to getting a Wapiti when it is available and ready thank you for producing it

Sorry if I am not understanding correctly, are you still doing a Wapiti, but are now designing it in CAD, or are doing a total new and different aircraft?

Thierry I agree with you, we are leaning towards FLAT as being correct, so may end up with flat ones only. Initially Tolga asked for curved ones, after looking at the pictures and references even more over that last while, I am more convinced all were flat. Thanks again for your input as discussion always prompts further thought and investigation

Once again not LSP but Jennings helped out and advised and I know that a lot of you do model other scales and especially Phantoms and Vulcans. https://aerocraftmodels.bigcartel.com/product/mcdonnell-phantom-f-4b-alternate-front-screen-for-tamiya https://aerocraftmodels.bigcartel.com/product/avro-vulcan-canopy-and-screen-wipers-for-the-new-airfix-kit

Hi Guys I have just seen this, Andrew Birnie, lent me a kit ages ago to have a look at this, do not worry it is still safe, as for the set, it is time that is against me more than anything else, I have promised quite a few things over the years and have failed to deliver, so do. It want to make more promises to get broken. HOWEVER AND BUT…….I will revisit and have a think over the next while. cheers Ali

Well there does seem to be a few variations to these as the following pictures supplied to me via Tolga Ülgür shows, there are definitely flat ones and ones that have a curved surface. Coincidence would have it that Tolga asked me to develop some a month or so back, so if you bear with me I will see what I can do over the next little while. At the moment we have the lenses at 7mm diameter do let me know if you have any other thoughts on size or need a different size. I will be producing these probably in batches of either 4 or 6 of each type in set, to try and make a viable product. This is what I have drawn at the moment, obviously the casting block and sprue will be cut away by the modeller, lenses will be about 1mm thick.

Cool I shall send some when I send the parts I am making for your Spitfire, did not start at the weekend but promise to do them soon:)

Two alternative corrected cowlings are available for the Special Hobby and Eduard offerings of the same kit. Once again the kit manufacturers have not got the detail proportions correct of the Centaurus engine cowling, I have drawn up a new cowling one a complete cowling the other as a half to enable the exposed resin engine option included in the Special Hobby boxing to be used. https://aerocraftmodels.bigcartel.com/product/hawker-tempest-mk-ii-corrected-cowling-full-for-special-hobby-and-eduard-kits https://aerocraftmodels.bigcartel.com/product/hawker-tempest-mk-ii-corrected-cowling-cut-for-special-hobby-and-eduard-kits

To assist with the tricky method of assembly and potential weak points of the kit parts I have designed some new brass parts that should assist https://aerocraftmodels.bigcartel.com/product/westland-whirlwind-brass-undercarriage-for-special-hobby-kit

With the help of Ralph Atallah, who provided the CAD file I now have a set of 3D exhausts to improve the Trumpeter kits https://aerocraftmodels.bigcartel.com/product/p-51-b-mustang-exhausts-for-the-trumpter-kits

Thank you for the shout out Mark, it is appreciated, here is a direct link https://aerocraftmodels.bigcartel.com/product/phantom-undercarriage-set-for-revell-phantom

Hi Dennis thank you for the heads up, the instructions will be up on the website soon, apologies for the delay, but most customers elsewhere in the world will not have to wait as the mail will take longer than me to get the instructions up

Peter that is absolutely fabulous, it makes me and I am sure many others feel like total armatures that knock around a few bits of plastic out of a box, with maybe a few odds and sods of aftermarket bits. well done it is a fantastic model.

Fantastic work Anthony, been catching up over the last little while, it sure is a ONE OF KIND, super detailed project. Thank you for the kind words on the canopies, hope that they work out well for you, also thank you to Rick for sending them to you. If you do not mind here is a direct link to the canopy set https://aerocraftmodels.bigcartel.com/product/mcdonnell-douglas-phantom-replacement-canopy-set-for-tamiya-kits cheers Ali

Well I hope all these work out for you guys, I would be interested to hear how they work on the models when you get them. I think they should fit the Revell P-51B kit with a little bit of work, the centre section MALCOLM hood, should work but the rear and screen would need to be worked in a little I feel. Not sure where you will end up ironman1945 as you have already done a fair bit of work……. As for the shipping to the U.S. apologies for that but I think some of it was driven by hikes in the US Mail system, the reason I say that, is that the USA used to be the cheapest country to ship items to out side of the EU, it is now the most expensive place in the world to ship to from the U.K. It is cheaper (not by much) to send to Peru, Australia etc, that are further away……the mind boggles. Ali

All of the sections will glue together with very little or no problems, obviously you will not require the hydraulic / pneumatic canopy openers, you may need to trim the canopy insert framing a little on the hinge points, but I do not think you will need to. I would suggest dry fitting all of the sections together and then to possibly glue them altogether and once they are nicely aligned then attach the whole canopy section as one, JUST an idea. some have asked if I could cast the canopy sections all as a one piece, well this could be done, not impossible but it would make the casting very tricky as well as de-moulding and lots of bubbles would be potentially trapped. hope this helps, cheers Ali

Thank you guys for the orders so far, always appreciated. Thank you Tolga. I have looked at the cowling as a whole unit, some changes are needed, to improve the look, but I think I will post some pictures and ideas that guys can use, as to make a new resin part will just involve tricky cutting and further work, but some careful re-scribing and small changes will help the look a lot. From your comments above would you just like to see some replacement exhaust stacks? If so perhaps I will look at those when I get a chance. cheers Ali

Thank you, I appreciate it

Have a look at the new post these are now available, you will see the various options, if you need any other alternatives let me know and I will see if I can tailor your needs for these sets. cheers Ali

Hi Guys At long last these are available to order, see the links below https://aerocraftmodels.bigcartel.com/product/p-51b-mustang-replacement-malcolm-hood-closed-position https://aerocraftmodels.bigcartel.com/product/p-51b-mustang-replacement-malcolm-hood-open-position https://aerocraftmodels.bigcartel.com/product/p-51-screen-and-rear-doghouse-section-for-trumpeter-1-32-kit cheers Ali

Great I am glad that you like them

Why? On the other hand I do not even have the new Tamiya kit?