Hacker Posted January 10, 2007 Author Share Posted January 10, 2007 The next morning before l went out l traced the shape of the radiator from a template l made onto the styrene block and roughly cut it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hacker Posted January 10, 2007 Author Share Posted January 10, 2007 l then filed it to shape and wet sand it until l got the shape right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hacker Posted January 10, 2007 Author Share Posted January 10, 2007 l then wrapped it with thin styrene l found in my plastic storage box. This basically gives me the radiator that l wanted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hacker Posted January 10, 2007 Author Share Posted January 10, 2007 l then wrapped two 1mm square strips of plastic aournd the radiator and detailed the front with PE screen, the air intake and a couple peices of plastic . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hacker Posted January 10, 2007 Author Share Posted January 10, 2007 The back l detailed with some corrugated plastic roofing from a N scale kit ( just to have the back different) and the duct work for the intake. The intake l am not sure l want to use yet so its not glued on. Its just held in place the tight fit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hacker Posted January 10, 2007 Author Share Posted January 10, 2007 l sprayed the radiator only with primer to see what my mistake are and as you can see l have a few l have to fix yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hacker Posted January 10, 2007 Author Share Posted January 10, 2007 Now my next thing on my list of things to do here is the tail planes. Now all RAF and RCAF Typhoons received the new tempest tail planes either in factory or as a field modification. Seeing that l wanted a fully modified RCAF aircraft l would have to put these on. The debate going on in my mind (yes l do have one but severely over taxed here) whether l wanted to go through the afford and what method. l settled on doing it and the method after consulting the gurus of plastic hacking ( thanks for the advice Derek and Radub). So here we go first off l glued the kit tail planes together then cut off the elevators. l then glued plastic to the cut faces so the parts will hold their shape during the surgery. l then filed the plastic down to conform to the pieces Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hacker Posted January 10, 2007 Author Share Posted January 10, 2007 Now l wanted to keep the location taps in place where they go into the fuselage but still enlarge the unit. So taking a page from the book of Radub l cut the tail plane up in a fashion that would give me the results l needed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hacker Posted January 10, 2007 Author Share Posted January 10, 2007 l had to stretch the tailplanes by 3mm so l superglued a 3mm pieces of stryene plastic on the ends and a piece of very thin pastic to fill in the gap at the top Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hacker Posted January 10, 2007 Author Share Posted January 10, 2007 The elevators have to be extended too by 3mm so l superglued a peice of 3mm plastic on the end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hacker Posted January 10, 2007 Author Share Posted January 10, 2007 here is the units filed and sanded to shape. still more to do yet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hacker Posted January 10, 2007 Author Share Posted January 10, 2007 l took the elevator and glued a 3 mm peice on from as a start of rounding the front edge Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hacker Posted January 10, 2007 Author Share Posted January 10, 2007 once the superglue cured l filed and wet sanded it to shape Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hacker Posted January 10, 2007 Author Share Posted January 10, 2007 back to the tailplane. l glued two thin strips on the trailing edge on the top and bottom where the evelator fits in. l then sanded both the outside and inside to shape. l then primed both peices to check for defects Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hacker Posted January 10, 2007 Author Share Posted January 10, 2007 both units primed and showing defects which l am working on at this time will post that at a later date Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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