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  1. Hi Steve If you mean the actual cannon itself, then I believe it does send the empty casings and links out the other side - i.e. the rounds pass horizontally through the gun. I have diagrams at home, but am away for a couple of days. If you need anything drop me a line. Matt
  2. Smokinguns3 That's a very nice looking D-9, certainly worthy of this site. Whilst some of the panel line shading is a bit heavy for my taste, the overall effect gives a good feeling of a heavily used workhorse. Nice one. Matt
  3. Last one for now. This gives a good impression of the size of this beast - notice the 109G under the wing! Obviously the wings are currently just blocks of foamboard and will now require some pretty heavy duty sanding-shaping-checking-sanding......, especially around the complex contours of the radiator/wheelbay housing. Long way to go but all the basic shapes are now there. Thanks for looking Matt
  4. View along the top of the wing - she's a big girl!! Here you can see the radiator sidewalls projecting behind the trailing edge. This top area is faired into the upper wing, the underneath of this area comprises four large adjustable louvres controlling air flow through the radiator. The area in front of the radiator houses the mainwheels. I plan to cut out the wheel wells through the entire depth of the wing (- i.e. make a large hole) and then use plasticard to put a roof over the top (make sense?).
  5. Hello all Well the last week has been spent trying different way to do the wings and, more problematically, the large radiators. After several designs I've opted for what you see below. Pic isn't very good! But basically a solid wing with cutout for the radiator area. Sides of the radiator fairing visible below wing. Tape holding one of the sides has slipped a bit!
  6. Pete Jets aren't really my thing. But your work is beautiful. It'd be interesting to see some shots/text of the early stages. Something to aspire to!! Matt
  7. Chris Beautiful work as ever! Nice to see the Eagle Editions cockpit being built. It looks very good - I especially like the inclusion of the MK 108 ammo bin. Watching this all the way. Matt
  8. Hi Geoff At the moment pretty much all you see is foamboard. The stuff comes in 10, 5 and 3mm thicknesses which covers most of my needs. I have used plasticard for the area between the 'solid' tail and rudder to create the space that the rudder recesses into (if that makes sense). The wings will be made of.....yes foamboard! However, this stuff doesn't have the strength to hold the weight of the plane. My idea is to route a channel out of the solid wing and sink brass rod into this acting as a spar. Of course, I haven't actually got a router so it'll either be a bit more equipment to buy or some heath robinson set up. Matt
  9. Thank you all for words of encouragement. I've been gluing the pvc together with superglue - seems to work a treat. Havent tested it in terms of paint, though the grey primer I sprayed it in was a standard auto primer and it had no adverse effect on the pvc?? She will be a big bird, about 2 feet wide! Not as big as what I'm considering as my next project??? Matt
  10. Finally for tonight, view into cockpit area. The upper decking will come off (after shaping) to allow me to put in a cockpit. Thanks to Charles Metz I now have sufficient detail to have a stab at it. I haven't started on the wings yet - they're going to be a major challenge for me as they'll have to support quite a bit of weight - I do have a couple of ideas how to do them - more later. I can't claim to be as tidy as Radu (the whole crate's a bit scruffy at the moment) but I have to say its a great feeling taking lumps of plastic (mostly pvc) and actually creating a recognisable object out of them, especially as my major material is totally gratis
  11. Another shot of the rudder.
  12. Tailplane and rudder. These are still a bit 'blocky', especially tailplane, but give a good impression of the size of this assembly.
  13. Side view. Cockpit sidewalls built up from 3mm pvc foamboard. The depression below cockpit is recess for supercharger pipe.
  14. Hi all Have been slowly adding to the BV over the last few days. Basic shape of fuselage is now pretty much there and the tail area has recieved some attention.
  15. Dave, lovely work. I do like your approach to the canopy framing - I'll be watching this. I only hope my BV looks as good when its finished. You're right about the extreme pleasure you get when things come together and I have just had one of those (hopefully some more pics today/tomorrow). Cheers Matt Low
  16. Dave Looking really nice. Now I'm trying this for myself I appreciate what it takes - sort of case of 'the agony and the ecstacy'. I am currently going through an agonising stage. However this is an inspiration. Matt Low
  17. Finally, I've roughed out the wing centre section and a 'lump' of foamboard that will be carved into one of the wing mounted radiator/wheel well housings. The actual radiator sits below this 'lump' and makes the whole plane look like the wings would snap off under the weight! Rudder is also visible in this pic, again currently a chunk of PVC. The spinner is from Hasegawa 109 which will need a little re-profiling to make it more pointy. I'll need to use two spinners cut in half and joined to alow me to fit the four prop blades. To my relief I also found out that the wheels/tires of this bird are taken from the Me 262, so I'll need to get hold of a pair of Rutman ones with the smooth tread. Cheers Matt
  18. The cockpit area is currently a large hole. The idea here is to build up the sides and upper forward decking (with the cutout for the huge telescopic sight) of the fuselage then drop the cockpit in through the top, then attach the grey part visible (taped in position) below. If anyone can see a 'schoolboy error' in the making here, please speak up.
  19. The beauty of this stuff is that it sands down to a pretty fine finish and I reckon it'll take scribing and rivets - I really wasn't looking forward to plating the thing with thin plasticard or aluminium. Shot below shows an intermediate level of finish - way to go yet, but you get the idea.
  20. OK folks The 155 has taken one step backwards but is nearing a full step back forwards again ! All the balsa has been removed and replaced with the aforementioned PVC foamboard. It is like a cross between balsa and plasticard to work with - so its taking longer to shape than the balsa version. The stuff comes in 3, 5 and 10mm thicknesses and I've used a combination laminated to build up the fuselage. Start off carving and then heavy duty sandpaper (80 grit aluminium oxide).
  21. Well, I said I'd be making it up as I went along. Thanks to Radu's suggestion (see his earlier post to this thread), I am now a complete convert to PVC foamboard. I've found a local signmakers who'll supply me with all I need for next to no cost (their offcuts are pretty large). I'm so impressed with the stuff that I'm going to remove the balsa and go for this stuff - no need to plate the thing with plasticard. If you've never used it - give it a go its excellent - thank you Radu for putting me onto it. Hopefully I'll have some pics of the 155 with its new 'clothes' in a couple of days. Matt
  22. Sorry for poor quality pics...... Its been grey primered which has brought out the numerous (and expected) imperfections. Next stage is to permenantly attach the balsa sections (they're held in with PVA at the moment). Anyone got suggestion for a glue that'll bond balsa to plastic? Once I've done that I need to fill gaps, dings etc.. Anyone know of a filler that'll bond to plastic and wood? Cheers Matt Low
  23. Hi all Latest installment. Have been carving and sanding and arrived at basic smoothish shape.
  24. Thanks Hacker This is my major source of info, along with the website several of you pointed me towards. There is a real dearth of material on this plane (even though there's most of one sitting in a shed at Silver Hill). Progress on the Karawanken (this is the name given to the plane - named after a mountain range) is slow, but I hope to get some decent progress made next week. Matt Low
  25. Thanks guys Its good to get words of encouragement, it'll keep me going when things go wrong (as I don't doubt they will). Piet - thanks for putting a piccy up. I've looked at the two known photos of this machine for years - tend to forget some people haven't heard of it. Hacker - thanks for links hadn't seen the buildup before. Derek - I'm always open to suggestions - just throw them in. Radu - I'll see if I can track some of this down - sounds useful. Finally, Matt - The G-14 is a project on hold. It got hacked up just before Vincent did his DB engine. I have everything needed to do it except the enthusiasm at the moment. The fuselage structure is my own work using plastic, done way before the Aires set came out. I cut out all of the structure to join the front and rear fuselage parts. I don't like the Aires set because its too thick and doesn't continue around the fuselage - so you can see the edge of it through the open hatch. Mine continues around the bottom - if you see what I mean? I do like the radios etc.. Thanks to all Matt Low
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