Me262A-2a/U2

[Greif8]

Continued awesome 3D design and printing Jeroen.  This is going to be a great looking vignette.

 

Ernest

[jeroenpeters]

after getting really frustrated with the canopy 3d model for not being solid and therefor not printing, I re-drew the whole damn thing in a different way.

I think the open access hatch gave access to the canopy lock. So one could open it from the outside. I'll fashion a similar kind of lock as was present in the pilot's canopy.

 

[jeroenpeters]

IP 

[jeroenpeters]

Reprinting the canopy tomorrow, together with a positive vacform shape to fashion the glass. The canopy needed to be 1mm longer.

Adding tubular framing to the inside of the canopy hood and need to add the lock and handhold. 

Also having to 3d model the gunsight bracket. Seriously every single MDC part is bend, foggy, shrunken, etc. 
 

[jeroenpeters]

Drew the bracket and started adding the wiring and bomb release 'remote'.

Already printed the Lofte bombsight a few times, but I'm siure the new printer gives better detail. 

[jeroenpeters]

Lofte bombsight with bracket printed. Huge improvement over MDC

 

[alaninaustria]

Amazing skills Jeroen! 

I am looking very much forward to seeing this build done!

Cheers

Alan

[jeroenpeters]

In this photo you can see the extractable chart... extracted from the metal case at the head of the bombsight.

 

[jeroenpeters]

printing the vacform shapes to make the glass. Also polishing the hell out of the MDC glass, since i dont know what route is best. I’ll try both and go with the best.

 

[jeroenpeters]

Finally after 20 tries i think i’m pleased. I made a ‘step’ in the upper canopy so that the transparent part becomes flush with the rear. If that makes sense. Need to cut and sand it so size, but this will work.

Also made a few new nose glazing parts. This will be tricky-er.

 

[jeroenpeters]

Perfect fit

 

[Gazzas]

How do you get such clear pulls?  They look fabulous.  PetG?

[jeroenpeters]

2 hours ago, Gazzas said:

How do you get such clear pulls?  They look fabulous.  PetG?

Indeed. PetG. I wasted about 20 sheets. The shape i use as a positive had to be 100% smooth so polishing had to be repeated numerous times. And the heat has to be just perfect.

too much and the plastic turns white. Still not happy with the nose cone so not sure what my next step is there.

[nmayhew]

Another Jeroen masterclass! 😎

[jeroenpeters]

The bombsight is coming along and spent some time in the spares box looking for some instruments inside the glass nose to replace the messed up ones from MDC. These coming from an Eduard bf108 panel i had left.