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  1. By studying photo's of the real aircraft I then constructed all the other necessary parts for the cockpit using as usual plastic card and wire.......here is a terrible photo of the throttle quadrant before placing inside the cockpit.....
  2. The Rudder assembly were put together with bits of scrap plastic....
  3. With the seat now complete I had to make the frame work to take the seat and joy stick,this construction was mostly made from plastic card. see photo's for before and after painted....
  4. This is my way of making seat belts.Once again I use cheap material.....cut open beer can (after drinking contents!!!) and thin wire. The straps were simply cut out from the beer can and bent to shape with other parts cut to shape and super glued on.See photos.....
  5. The constructed seat was then painted..................
  6. The first picture shows how after I had drawn the actual seat frame onto a scrap of card I then proceeded to bend and pin the garden twine to my plan.The construction beside the pins in the picture is the bottom of the seat before it was super glued to the seat frame.....here they are glued together..... A piece of thin wire was then bent into shape to make the back of the seat and then glued into position.To replicate the leather back rest I first cut from paper the shape and then quite simply glued lengths of thin electric cable to the paper and then glued the whole thing to the seat.(For the observant amongst you the finished back rest I changed to strips of plastic card instead of wire....it looked more realistic in this scale!!!) The next two photo's show the pilots seat adjusting hand wheel and all the frame work which connects the seat to the cockpit floor......
  7. Hi everyone Ok, so this is the part of modeling I love.....detailing! I'm sure a lot of you are thinking why on earth would you scratch build anything?especially cockpits,what with so many after sales goodies one can buy nowadays,surely there's no point?...but for me I get 100% more satisfaction out of scratch building the necessary parts rather than having them all done for me by a manufacturer and having to shell out a load of money for the privilege!!! I suppose at the end of the day its all down to the individual how he or she models!!Is there anyone out there who feels the same?or am I alone on this one? Anyway I digress.............on with the build! Here are some pictures of the pilots office and navigators/gunners station ready to be detailed So I'm going to start with the pilots position....namely the pilots seat.The only materials I used were thin garden metal twine ,thin electric cable(again!!)plastic card and fuse wire
  8. Hi everyone So the wings have finally been constructed!!!! It took me longer than expected due to the shape of them but finally finished them yesterday 48 ribs had to be cut and shaped separately out of balsa wood.This is what took most of the time.When I was happy with the ribs I cut out of hard wood the 2 main Spars and placed them into position on the plans.The ribs were then placed and glued into position against the main spars. This was then left overnight to dry. The next day I took blocks of Balsa wood and glued them to the ribs and sanded them down to make the Leading and Trailing edges. Finally both of the wings were gently sanded down making sure that the shape stayed perfect. I only have one photo of the construction but here you see that the wings are complete. The next stage I am really looking forward to.....cockpit construction!!!!
  9. Hi guys Still working on wings at the moment so as soon as they are constructed I will post. I have to say that I am looking forward to the cockpit construction more than these blasted wings!!! cheers Fozzy
  10. So that's the undercarriage finished. The next episode will be the construction of the wings. happy modelling Cheers Fozzy
  11. The undercarriage probably took me about three days to complete and here are some photos of the undercarriage in a dry run fit to the fuselage.
  12. 8. Finally a hole had to be cut out of the bottom of each spat, deep enough to take the wheels. See photos.
  13. 7. The next photo shows the materials used to make the wheels and tyres. The wheels and tyres were made like so.... The wheel hub was cut out of balsa wood with a plastic card cut to shape showing the hub detail and glued in place. The tyre was replicated out of electrical cable. Note that in the photos I have only done the part of the wheel that will show out of the spats. See photos.
  14. 5. Panel lines were then dealt with. I found that gluing the panels into position rather than scribing them was easier because marking balsa wood is difficult and it looks untidy. The panels were made of thin plastic card. 6. To make the landing lights located at the front of the spats I first drilled a hole of the required size, sanded the hole smooth and then painted inside the hole matt black. A piece of sticky-back chrome silver paper was then placed at the back of the hole. The head of a plastic cocktail stick was then cut off and glued onto the chrome paper. With the black background the chrome paper shines through the clear plastic of the cocktail stick making it look like a real lamp. The last job is to simply cut out a circular lens glass out of the clear packaging and glue it over the hole with a rim of plastic card on the outer edge..... And that's the landing lights done! See photo.
  15. 4. The fairings were then glued to the wheel spats with wood glue by placing the leg fairing notch into a prepared slot on the spats (Try saying that when you have had one too many .........Any gaps at the join were then dealt with using filler and sanded down when dry.The whole assembly was then given the treatment of PVC glue diluted with water and Johnsons Klear. See photo's
  16. So this is how I put it all together........................ 1. With the use of the plan I first cut a block of Balsa wood and shaped with sand paper the wheel spats as usual constantly checking the shape of each spat with the plan.A bit of patience is required here as the shape is awkward!! 2.I measured the length of each undercarriage leg and by laminating pieces of hard wood together to just over the thickness required, I then started to sand the shape of the leg fairings. 3.Now the leg fairings had to have a notch cut out of the top and bottom so that it could be glued into a slot on the fuselage and wheel spats at a later stage. see photo 2.......
  17. For those of you who are still interested!!!!............. Hi guys I was going to continue to scratch build the cockpit interior but I thought I would first have a go at the awkward undercarriage. I have been putting it off because looking at the real aircraft the shape of the wheel spats are going to be difficult to shape!!.I decided the easiest way to shape the wheel spats was to use Balsa wood and the leg fairings have to be strong to take the weight of the model so I used hard wood. This first photo shows all the materials used to scratch build the undercarriage.............Plastic card,Balsa wood,hard wood,plastic cocktail stick,sticky back chrome silver paper and a piece of food packaging clear plastic!!
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