Christoffer Lindelav

Here is a pic of my pit I started years ago for the Hasegawa kit. I stopped when Avionix/BB and Verinden introduced theirs. The seat on the right is one I am working on for this kit. I widened it to be a better fit..(and closer to actual scale as well)

Here it is in progress. I added the kits hose attachments points so you can use the hoses from the kit.

Still very crude, I will be doing both headrest versions and add the belts as well. Be patient, I just received a large re-stock order, so I will be tinkering with it in between pouring resin. I have no plans on a full pit replacement set right now, I think some "big boys" will be on this one soon enough. I just want to do a better looking seat for the kit's shallow tub. 

My comments were directed at the 'Mericans who refer to the J.35 as the drayken.
They make a lovely rum called Kraken, after the mythical sea beast, which they call krayken.
Best rum in the world - the Tamiya of tipples, although my real faves are Bulleit Bourbon and Maker's Mark ditto, plus Islay single malts.
 
If it's a pure fantasy wish list then I'd like Tamiya to release a Draken, Beaufighter VI.f, Su-15 Flagon and EE Lightning F.2A/F.6 in 1/32
 
Realistically, a Tomcat or Griffon Spitty
 
Tony

Well I can certainly pronounce Draken with a thick Swedish accent...
 
/Stoffe

Tamiya will do what Tamiya does.
 
Even so, somebody please do the Swedish Saabs... anyone, anyone, Bueller, anyone?
 
Tnarg

Well I can certainly pronounce Draken with a thick Swedish accent...
 
/Stoffe

Well I can certainly pronounce Draken with a thick Swedish accent...
 
/Stoffe

Yes J.35 Draken (pronounced as drarken, not draykon) from ANYBODY. Maybe from the Czech guys, after the J.29 and Su-7.
 
Tamiya? I have a hunch we'll get some variations on the existing range, like an NF Mossie, but a new tool 1/32 Kitty would be great.
 
The 1/48 stuff seems to be Tamiya's priority, focusing on WW2 era props and tracks.
 
Tony

Oh boy, here we go again, but seriously, these would be my choices....... :
 
Gripen, Viggen, Draken......all spoken out with a heavy scandinavian accent.......
 
Oh, and also "seriously" i know i will be waiting for these untill my face turns blue.....!!!

Moving right along. Had my first struggles with this kit getting the front fork components together but I suspect, as is the case with most modern Tamiya kits, it was primarily operator error. Once I got that sorted out, the rest just fell together with next to no effort.
 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 
 
 

 
Testing out the future home...
 

 
Cheers,
Ben

Hey Guys, here are a couple of spreads from the book. Texts are being edited, so there is only a dummy text in the captions. The editors had a really great team of photographers with access to just about everything. There are great shots of the ejection seat mechanism and 14 pages of maintenance details. Even air-to-air shots made especially for the book (how cool is that?) The book is 95% on active Fulcrums from the Polish version to the K, SMT and even an introduction to the MiG-35.
 

 
Nasalised version of the Fulcrum:
 

 
Cockpit in very-very close-up!
 

 
Airframe, landing gear, ...
 

 
And the maintenance:
 

 
Release is for around June 15 and the books can be found at many shops in Europe, and in the US through Stevens International. 
 
3 more books are coming this year, but the editors are always open to suggestions. And what is nice; any benefit (if there is), goes to preserving or restoring aircraft or aviation history. That one of the reasons I wanted to help them!
 
Hope you like! And Tom, I really hope to start soon on the kit, although I first have a very complicated F-16 to build! And I really should send you a PM soon, it's been too long.
 
Nic 

What a day to watch that film , 75 years ago to-night , 617 took off from Scampton for their date with immortality , 
 
Oh sod it , I'm getting the Lanc when it finally comes out , I don't care how much it costs , or where the hell I'm going to put it  when its done , these something about a Lancaster that's part of the DNA of people of my age..
 
I say my age because I mentioned to a young woman at work yesterday that her birthday , to-day, marked the anniversary of the Damms' raid , and she looked at me as though I'd grown 2 heads..
 
How in the name of all that's holy can you be born in Britain , grow up to be nearly 30 and never of even heard of the Dambusters.. AARGH...
 
ColinR - Reader of far too many Commando comics growing up!

Fuselage
 
Next it was time to print out all the paper cutting templates:
 
http://revenanteagle.org/checksix/lsp_1/cross_sections_page_0.pdf
http://revenanteagle.org/checksix/lsp_1/cross_sections_page_1.pdf
http://revenanteagle.org/checksix/lsp_1/cross_sections_page_2.pdf
http://revenanteagle.org/checksix/lsp_1/cross_sections_page_3.pdf
http://revenanteagle.org/checksix/lsp_1/cross_sections_page_4.pdf
http://revenanteagle.org/checksix/lsp_1/cross_sections_page_5.pdf
 
I sprayed the paper and wood surfaces with 3M 77 contact adhesive (rubber cement), allowed them to tack dry, and applied the paper to the wood sheets. This makes a secure bond, but the paper can easily be peeled off later after applying heat with a hair dryer or hot air gun.
 
A jig saw was used to cut out each slab:
 

 
Then the pieces were sanded to the line with a table top belt sander:
 

 
The sander was a cheapo $80 unit but worked great. It's quick, accurate, produces clean square edges, and turns an otherwise tedious hand operation into a fun job.
 
The moment of truth arrived. After all this image processing, scaling, cutting, and sanding, would the wood cross sections match the plans? Yup:
 

 
After this successful test fit, the slabs were glued together using slow cure laminating epoxy (1 hour pot life, overnight cure) to ensure plenty of time was available for careful positioning. Then a surface coat of epoxy was applied to stabilize and waterproof the wood grain.
 
Milliput was used to fill in the "staircase" and provide the initial base for subsequent smoothing. I found the best (albeit messy) way to apply Milliput is to push it around in small dabs using wet fingers:
 

 
Next, the fuselage halves were faced internally with .010" styrene sheet to give a clean separation plane and then mated together without glue, using internal metal dowel pins to maintain alignment and a single screw to apply pressure:
 

 
The plan was to fully shape and smooth the fuselage as a single piece, but allow the possibility to later cleanly pop it back apart into half-sections for use as vacuum form patterns.
 
Multiple rounds of priming, filling, and sanding ensued:
 

 
The only tool used was sandpaper strip backed with a 6" x 1/2" flexible steel ruler. 100 grit (dry) was used sparingly to knock off the initial roughness, followed by wet sanding with 320, 400, and 600 grits as the shape was refined with successive layers of primer and filler. Perhaps 10 or 12 layers were required.. A simple hot box (cardboard box with small space heater on one end) was used to speed things up, but even so, each layer required 2-3 hours to cure before the next round of sanding could begin.
 
Eventually, something resembling a Talon emerged:
 

 
More to follow...

My credit card is very grateful.....

Cross sections, cont'd
 
After a session with the razor saw I've sliced the model into 62 slabs:
 

 
The slabs were then arranged on the bed of my wife's HP printer/scanner and scanned into individual images. I wrote some c++ software to apply edge detection outlines and to mirror the half-sections into full sections. Here's a sample. You can see the cavity for the speed brakes and the stubs for the wing roots:
 

 
 
Some more c++ software was written to tweak the centerings and rotations to bring all the images into alignment:
 

 
Lastly, all the images were rescaled to 1/32 and printed out on paper, ready to be glued to the wood stock as cutting templates:
 

 
More to follow...

Made some good progress last night. Got the chain set put together which was very tedious but looks amazing! 
 
A few pictures of the construction process:

 

 

 

 

 
The finished product compared with kit offering:
 

Hello all,
 
Its been a while since I updated this build. Definitely been making progress but most of that has been priming and painting of smaller parts that come together for the larger sub-assemblies. The build sequence for the wheels on this beast really is ingenious - I remember thinking on multiple occasions "there's no way this is going to come together" but of course, I'm always proved wrong.
 
Anyway, hope you guys enjoy the pics!
 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 

 

 

 
Thats it for now! Have a great weekend all.
 
Cheers.

Good Morning.
 
Follows images of this excellent ICM model.
 
The painting was made with Mr. Color from Gunze Sangyo and some small parts with Vallejo and Alclad.
 
To improve the model I used Eduard's interior set and seatbelts.
 
I hope you like it.
 
Cherrs.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks everyone.  I have always used the little tube of Iwata Super Lube than came with an airbrush years ago, but it's finally running out.
 
I have an Iwata Eclipse CS that likes to continue spraying air once you release the trigger.  It has to do with the air pressure valve under the trigger sticking open.
Iwata's own recommended fix is to use the back of the needle with some lube on it, and push it down in the valve a few times to lube it up.  
It works like a charm for a month or so until it's time for another treatment.
 
My other airbrushes have never had the same problem.
I also don't think I have ever used needle lubricant as it is intended...to lube the needle.  Don't think that's really necessary.
 
My favorite online hobby supply store stocks the Needle Juice but not Iwata lube so that's why I ask.  I'll buy a big bottle of it and be good to go for years to come.
 

Found the instructions.
 
Embarrassing. Somehow, they had managed to stash themselves in my old F4U-1A box. How they got there, only the Carpet Monster knows. I had turned the shop upside down looking for the sheet, and I was looking in the old box for that kit's sheet, just to see what it looked like. There was the new sheet, right on top.

More stuff coming out of the JB parts factory:
 
Today I thought I'd do some tests vacuforming the canopy. Super pleased that it just took two trials to get it right and right enough for it to probably be final. Good news. Credit to advice here about putting the form up on a block of sorts. Key here.  The Fury's center fuselage was vacuformed so this is my second time at this. Classic scratch build stuff. I love it. Lots more detailing to do so I'll try not to get too excited. 
 

 
 

 

thanks Gents & good evening
 
my hand is healing so all should be well - at least I got some fabrication done so it can't be too bad
 
best part of a day session at the bench for most of one part...
 
started by sticking a scale printout of the plan view of the part - it's a complex structure with more going on the more you look at it..
 

 
..then a coarse cutting disc to get the worst of the waste off..
 

 
..a bit of a clean up and the profiling at the top..
 

 
..once the height was filed I added the holes for the seat supports..
 

 
..and then a diamond burr to do some more refined shaping - I drilled the mounting holes before I rounded the face..... note also how it is left attached to it's host bar stock so it can be more easily worked..
 

 
..then finally it is removed and cleaned up..
 

 
..and a check if it fits and is proportionally about right - it is not super accurate, but is the best I can do... it still needs two angled mounting lugs to be added to the top which I will probably braze solder, but that is tomorrows problem..
 

 

 
until next time..
 
TTFN
Peter

Some pats of cockpit finished so far

Well........that was fun! NOT! I went to post an update and lost the whole damn thing somehow so here's my second attempt, LOL!
 
I've almost finished the cockpit for the Corsair. I still have a few items to scratch build like the cockpit lights and their two forward mounts.There's also the plumbing that goes between the various different cockpit components and the linkage rods that go from the instrument panel to the throttle quadrant. They should be interesting to align when fitting the assembled cockpit module.
 
The extra detail added to the rudder pedals is hard to see once in place but visible enough to make filling the void well worth the effort.
 
Comments and critique always welcome and there's some close up pics as requested by Misha71.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
Cheers,
Wolf

Only Dave and Kyle are helping along on this build. They're the only two who wash their hands after eating. Kevin gets too sick after eating too much dried paint.........he always leaves early. 
Cheers,
Wolf