1/32 Boeing F4b4 - almost naked

[Bil]

Looks amazing!  Great job on the painting.

 

Bil

[Guest Peterpools]

Tomasz

Amazing - how you were able to repaint all the ribs replicating the wood material in such a short time is mind boggling

Keep 'em comin

Peter

[Shawn M]

WOW

[Spirit of Santos Dumont]

WOW, simply great !

Just a dream to read this thread from begining to end.

Thank's for sharing with us this project.

[themongoose]

There's enough kit in there to really fly this thing, truly amazing work. It's like you were building the real thing. â€

[tomaszhajzler]

Hi All

Thank's for comments, fine you like her.

Last update this year. I hope next year will be the last of this project.

Two small subassemblies.

Arrested hook first.

 

 

 

Tail wheel is the second one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Happy New Year, awesome projects.

See you next year

Tomasz

[Gazzas]

Tomasz,

   So many great things about this build!  It's interesting to see all of the parts that go into the tailwheel.

 

Happy New Year!!

 

Gaz

[scvrobeson]

Every update is just better and better.  Slap some fabric on the exposed areas, and it'd probably fly if you fueled it up

 

 

 

 

 

 

Matt 

[Bil]

I've been wondering how you are doing on this project.  That tail wheel does look terrific. 

[Hubert Boillot]

If it were a 1/12 scale model, the tail wheel would be terrific already ... But this is 1/32, and I know how small this actually is

 

Absolutely gobsmacking modelling, Tomasz

 

Hubert

Edited February 24, 2018 by MostlyRacers

[tomaszhajzler]

Hi

Time for update. First, thank's all of you for comments, this is fuel for my project.

Target for today (tonight) is tail part.

Some components for beginning: rudder, port side elevator, struts and fin sealing plate.

 

 

Some views from port side:

tailplane and fin

 

 

With fin sealing

 

 

Pair of wires

 

 

Wires, struts on place.

 

 

Port side elevator with cables and rudder.

 

 

 

Nice watching

Regards

Tomasz

Edited February 26, 2018 by tomaszhajzler

[LSP_Kevin]

That really is some incredible modelling!

 

Kev

[Bil]

Yes that is really coming along, you are doing an amazing job really... however.. I think you knew there was going to be a however didn't you?     

 

I apologize ahead of time for the following...

 

If the construction is similar to the Stearman, designed around the same time by the same company, then the aileron and the horizontal and vertical tail surfaces should be of metal construction.

 

Not sure if you have seen the images on this site:  Boeing Image Archive I think maybe you have... some of the images show the horizontal stab and rudder without the covering.. zooming into these images clearly shows metal construction for the F4B series of fighters.  The aileron images aren't as clear, but I think are pretty definitive as well.

 

Now I am prepared to eat crow if I am incorrect, but I don't think so.  

 

Bil

[tomaszhajzler]

Hi Gents!

Small update. Some photos of the tail from starboard side (dark side of the moon).

 

 

 

 

 

Regards

Tomasz

Edited November 17, 2018 by tomaszhajzler

[airscale]

Tomasz - as usual that is staggeringly good..

 

..the fit, finish and sheer ambition of a project like this is just incredible - where will you display it once it is finished, surely a museum somewhere? It deserves an audience

 

..quite sublime..

 

Peter