DBMK 1/32 Sea Fury FB.11

[RCPlym]

2 hours ago, JayW said:

  I find that when working with a particularly difficult and finicky part of a build, to just stop and take a deep breath

 

to enable the explosive issuing of the crudest profanities in the vocabulary...🤣🤣🤣😂🤣🤣 

[scvrobeson]

I think that DBMK just announced that someone is going to make a 3D printed center wall of the wheel well with the wiring done.

 

 

 

Matt 

[LSP_Kevin]

22 minutes ago, scvrobeson said:

I think that DBMK just announced that someone is going to make a 3D printed center wall of the wheel well with the wiring done.

 

 

 

Matt 

 

Yep - in an earlier post in this thread! It's being done by Chris Sargant, via his new Skunk Worx Model Makers brand:

 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/930927433099077

 

And it looks so much better than the ugly mess I'm currently creating:

 

 

Kev

[LSP_Kevin]

OK, I've finally finished wiring one side of the wheel bay central divider:

 

 

 

 

This has taken me several days, and I didn't even do them all! (And I still have to do the other side.) So make sure you grab the new 3D-printed replacement from Skunk Worx when it's available.

 

Oh, and it turns out that assembling the gear bay walls to the wrong wing piece (lower instead of upper, due to not having the instructions at the time) will come back to haunt me shortly, as most of the remaining detail and structural elements attach to the ... upper piece. Sigh.

 

Kev

[geedubelyer]

Keep at it Kev. 

It's looking really 

[AngryJazz_Models]

Looking good Kev! Can really see how much work you put into this one! 😄

[Greif8]

VERY nice scratchbuilding Kev!  It looks great and accuarate as well.

 

Ernest

[LSP_Kevin]

5 minutes ago, Greif8 said:

VERY nice scratchbuilding Kev!  It looks great and accuarate as well.

 

Ernest

 

Thanks, Ernest. But to be clear, I've only added the wires here. All the little boxes, connectors and other gubbins are supplied in the kit - and I figured the detail was too good to leave the wiring out. I only wish I'd known about all this in advance, as I would have drilled out all the connecting points prior to installation, and then added the wires before installing the complete part into the wing assembly! I've ended up doing it just about the most difficult way possible. Of course!

 

Kev

[RCPlym]

8 hours ago, LSP_Kevin said:

And it looks so much better than the ugly mess I'm currently creating

 

Actually, it doesn't. Yours has the 'organic' look of the original that would have been hand bent, threaded and affixed.

[Uncarina]

Kevin,

 

That gear bay looks like the real thing!

 

Cheers,  Tom

[RCPlym]

5 hours ago, LSP_Kevin said:

I've ended up doing it just about the most difficult way possible.

 

A man after my own heart! 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂 

[scvrobeson]

I think it looks good Kev!  Great job powering through all the wiring.

 

 

Matt 

[LSP_Kevin]

Thanks for your comments, everyone. I'm pleased to say that I've finally finished all the plumbing on the wheel bay divider, having now completed the other side.

 

 

 

I left out a couple, and routed a couple of others incorrectly, but I won't tell anyone if you don't. Hopefully this is as fiddly as this build will get!

 

Kev

[Uncarina]

Looks great Kev!

 

Cheers,  Tom

[Jim Barry]

Embrace the fiddly