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With modelling standards/quality at this level I'm thinking of just giving up and taking up knitting instead!!

 

Stunning work (as us usual!) Peter.  :thumbsup:

 

Iain

 

Iain;

 

As a result of Peter's thread, the LSP Knitting support group is already active with many established members. Please feel free to join the knitting activities with complimentary tea, Rover biscuit selection and a group sobbing and comfort section induced by feelings of complete inadequacy.

 

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Best regards;

Steve

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Iain;

 

As a result of Peter's thread, the LSP Knitting support group is already active with many established members. Please feel free to join the knitting activities with complimentary tea, Rover biscuit selection and a group sobbing and comfort section induced by feelings of complete inadequacy.

 

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Best regards;

 

 

Count me in hahahahhahahaha

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chaps I can truly say I am blushing and humbled - those are some very nice things said about my efforts :)

 

I always hope whatever I post inspires people to try things - I would be mortified if it put anyone off or made them think they couldn't do it like that, or felt in any way intimidated or challenged by it - although I did wet myself laughing at the knitting club :rofl:  nice one Steve..

 

..I haven't had much time this week, but I did decide I had to get the exterior of the fuselage finished before I could get much more done in the cockpit. This is because I don't want to be doing any rough handling with all those little fiddly bits inside..

 

..that meant getting the tailskid area sorted out - the skid itself and the skinning around it..

 

..this is the skid - note the 'V' shaped frame and mounting bracket, the rounded skid/shoe part, and when I get to them the big domed rivets..

 

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..first step was to open out the floor area a little as I had made it too shallow - this was later lined with pre-rivetted litho..

 

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..for the 'T' shaped mounting bracket I started with a bit of brass stock (I seem to work a lot more with metal these days, not sure why..) where I drilled a hole and then used a dremel & grinding disc to grind away so as to leave what looks like the welded structure.. I always find it easier to form a part as much as possible while it is still attatched to the stock it is being made from, and then the final step is to remove it and clean up..

 

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..same with the skid shoe itself.. this started as abit of thick walled copper pipe..

 

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..I made up a variety of parts to construct the skid and it's mounting & brackets

 

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..starting to assemble the skid arm..

 

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..and with the mounting fixtures..

 

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..and this is where the assembly will sit in the airframe...

 

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...I need to do the exterior skinning still, but at least once this is done the skid assembly can just drop in when I need it to..

 

thanks for dropping by..

 

TTFN
Peter

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:blink: :o :mental:

 

Ok, I rather think that YOU should take up knitting, Peter (and we could thus let the knitting experts deal with you ;) )

 

Then the rest of the LSP community could come back to its normal  average-skilled modelling without any inferiority complex. How's that for a plan ? :)

 

Hubert

 

PS: outstanding (what a lame superlative in this case) job as usual !

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