Jim Barry Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 Yeah, baby! brahman104 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
easixpedro Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 That’s looking incredible! And what a journey it’s been! brahman104 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennismcc Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 Looking rather fantastic, definately plane shaped. Cheers Dennis brahman104 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayW Posted August 20, 2022 Share Posted August 20, 2022 Gonna be a show winner Craig. How much painting? Is it not going to be mostly NMF? brahman104 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brahman104 Posted August 21, 2022 Author Share Posted August 21, 2022 22 hours ago, Jim Barry said: Yeah, baby! Thanks Jim! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brahman104 Posted August 21, 2022 Author Share Posted August 21, 2022 19 hours ago, easixpedro said: That’s looking incredible! And what a journey it’s been! Thanks mate! It sure has, and it's not over yet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brahman104 Posted August 21, 2022 Author Share Posted August 21, 2022 18 hours ago, dennismcc said: Looking rather fantastic, definately plane shaped. Cheers Dennis Thanks Dennis! Hopefully it'll look even more plane shaped soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brahman104 Posted August 21, 2022 Author Share Posted August 21, 2022 12 hours ago, JayW said: Gonna be a show winner Craig. How much painting? Is it not going to be mostly NMF? As long as the show doesn't include either your Corsair or Peter's Kittyhawk ........ Yeah pretty simple on the painting front.... a few colours here and there, but hopefully enough to break up the shine a little....... pretty much what you see in my Avatar. Not strictly correct for a C but it looks too good not to do! JayW 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scvrobeson Posted August 21, 2022 Share Posted August 21, 2022 What a beauty Craig. She looks so elegant now with the fin and waist window attached. Don't know why, but I love the look of the early Forts over their later counterparts. Must be all that shiny silver. Matt brahman104 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brahman104 Posted August 21, 2022 Author Share Posted August 21, 2022 Thanks Matt! The fin really makes a difference doesn't it? I've got to agree with you; although for years I never liked the look of the early ones - Now I love them...... go figure!.... I think I've developed a love for a lot of pre-war/early war designs while doing this project, something about the clean lines, but the BMF definitely looks nice too! Craig scvrobeson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomprobert Posted August 22, 2022 Share Posted August 22, 2022 Wow… that is really taking shape nicely now and is seriously impressive. brahman104 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brahman104 Posted August 22, 2022 Author Share Posted August 22, 2022 Thanks Tom! Doing my best to take some decent photos of her, but she's so big! I think she'll really come alive once there's some colour on her Craig Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brahman104 Posted August 27, 2022 Author Share Posted August 27, 2022 (edited) Today's challenge? The tricky little fillet that goes around the vertical stab. As most of you would have seen on Peter's epic P40 build the other day, the process is pretty much the same, only a lot smaller. I totally get why he prefers 1/18! Roughing out the shape. It actually took me about 4 attempts to even determine the starting shape for marking out, actually much more of a V than you'd think.... Choosing the right start point to "flow" the metal out from is critical, and I failed in my first attempt. I ended up having too many folds that I sanded through the base metal trying to get rid of them.... back to the drawing board! Looking better second time around. Very hard to get the very small hammer that I was using into the lower forward edge, but I got there in the end. Now into the sanding to iron out the wrinkles. This is the part where you learn if you've pushed the material too far! Looks like I got away with it this time . Now just a case of trimming the edges. This is actually a fairly tricky operation, as the material is quite soft and doesn't snap quite as well as the unannealed stuff... Very delicate when removed in preparation for contact cement. I gently pried it apart so I could stick one side first without fear of inadvertently tacking the other side inthe wrong spot. And there she is! The "rivet" pattern is pure guesswork. I use inverted commas for rivet as I'd say in real life some or most or all of these could actually be screws for easy removal/access of the fin. I'm sure there's a drawing somewhere that'd tell me, but I'm going to move on . The lighting is brutal on photos of shiny surfaces and will show up every......single.......bump. It does look a little rough here, but it's actually pretty good. Especially when you remember that used to be a flat piece of litho! I'm trying to smooth out my 3D printed rudder now in preparation for finally getting some paint on it. Better not rush that step! I'd imagine that the horizontal stab fillets are going to be just as fun, perhaps even more so! Cheers, Craig Edited August 27, 2022 by brahman104 easixpedro, airscale, chukw and 13 others 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomprobert Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 What some of you can do with metal never ceases to amaze me. Brilliant stuff. brahman104 and scvrobeson 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayW Posted August 27, 2022 Share Posted August 27, 2022 Wow Craig - big challenge there and you got through it fine! I have one in my future too, and I prefer to not even think about it right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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