Loic Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 Pit looks great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Posted January 20, 2015 Author Share Posted January 20, 2015 things are coming together. I've got the fuselage together and am working on mounting the wings, then its on to plumbing the wheel wells. about the wings...I had to move the mounting holes for the drop tanks and this is how I did it. I made a template for moving the holes. I took a clear piece of plastic and glued it to a plane piece of styrene. I marked on the bottom of the wing, the centerline for the middle wing fence on the top of the wing. holding the template over the existing holes I marked their position in relation to the leading edge. On my template I marked the centerpoint between the two holes and drilled a small holes in my template. I slid the template along the bottom of the wing until my centerpoint on the template landed on the fence centerline mark then using my small drill bit thru the template holes, I marked the new location for the mounting brack for the drop tank. Drill the bottom of the wing with larger holes for the bracket and Voila!, the new location is done. now if I can just get the wings on straight ! Bruce Martinnfb, Iain, Girlscanplay2 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Posted January 25, 2015 Author Share Posted January 25, 2015 more progress...fuselage and wings are glued together. I had to add a ton of weight above the gun panel and drilled into the backside of the resin nose piece and added lead weight in order to get the thing to balance due to the resin tail and my PVC exhaust pipe. I had cut off the wing fences and cut slots in the wing for brass replacements and was going to to use them but decided it was going to be easier to use the brass ones as a template to make 10 thou plastic ones. I've decided to do a silver Mig of the 1972 time frame since my F-4E project F-4E was shot down by one. I've got to plumb the wheel wells and I'm ready for priming and paint. Bruce Bill Cross, Girlscanplay2, dutik and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Bruce, she is looking good !........Harv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dora9 Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 I second that! She is coming quite nicely! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marauderdriver Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Come -on Bruce! watch'in you jack Harold 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loic Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Nice progress Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 (edited) Bruce, I think this is shaping up to be the best ever build of this aircraft I've ever seen ! How much trouble was the tail to add ?.....Harv Edited January 29, 2015 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Posted January 29, 2015 Author Share Posted January 29, 2015 the tail wasn't that hard to add. I marked a line on each fuselage section that was close to where I thought the new tail would go and cut the old tail off above that line (its always easier to cut a little more off than add plastic back on). I glued the two fuselage sections together then started refining my cutout for the new tail. Bruce Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Posted January 31, 2015 Author Share Posted January 31, 2015 Well it won't get done by the close out of the build but hopefully I can get it done to take to Jacksonville, FL next weekend. Here is the latest update.... speed brake area and wheel wells are plumbed: I'll add a little more plumbing when the gear is in and well add some to the nose wheel well also Bruce Bill Cross, Martinnfb, Harold and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loic Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 Looks great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 31, 2015 Share Posted January 31, 2015 BEAUTIFUL !!..........Harv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Posted January 31, 2015 Author Share Posted January 31, 2015 (edited) I forgot, I got the speed brakes done too. I hate saying it but I wasn't happy with the Eduard update set for numerous reasons. i.e., I had to add lots of other detail in order for the photo etch to be used. You can't glue the stuff on the inside of the speed brake. Bruce Edited January 31, 2015 by Bruce EmperorKai, dora9, Dragon and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Girlscanplay2 Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 Bruce this is looking Amazing!! Keep up the great work and I will be following to the completion. Great job!! Teresa :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmperorKai Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 NICE job Bruce! The speed brakes look great Kai Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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