alaninaustria Posted April 29, 2005 Share Posted April 29, 2005 Wow Gene! That looks good... nice and sturdy to support itself well! Good job! Cheers Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impatient Pete Posted May 1, 2005 Share Posted May 1, 2005 Awesome skeleton idea! And some nice work gettin it done too. This is just what vac forms call out for. A central skeleton for rigidity and feature indexing. Great work, Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Posted May 1, 2005 Author Share Posted May 1, 2005 Thanks Pete! Thought you might enjoy how I first came across this for vacs. It was out of necessity, because I had to chop up the original vac so much to bring it into scale that I needed something to hold it together - in this case the jet duct was perfect running from nose to tail! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impatient Pete Posted May 1, 2005 Share Posted May 1, 2005 Holy Crap!!! Thanks for posting the pics. I had seen a pic of that kit in the D&S book on the F-8 and it looked really bad. That is why I decided to bite the bullet and do mine. Did you finish that project? It looks like a nightmare. I bought some of the Roberts Model parts for it and they were just as bad. So hence the project you have seen on these boards. Thanks again for posting the pics. Pete Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Posted May 10, 2005 Author Share Posted May 10, 2005 Lately been feeling more like an archaeologist piecing together the history of an entire ancient civilization with only a few words and sentence fragments! Most of what I’ve gleaned about the camera bay comes from one photo published of Ar 234 V5 that had an unfortunate landing experience with a Fw 190 on the same runway; the tail was broken away between the two camera bays to reveal one side of an Rb75/30 camera and some misc. structure! The rest of my ref are conflicting ‘cutaway views’ and Hasegawa’s excellent 1:48 kit of the Ar 234B-2 and some great but fuzzy pics of one of the Rb’s being prepared for a Bf 110. The camera bay has been brought along, first by adding fuselage structural elements, then fabricating hatch covers with a sandwich of aluminum and Milliput and then forming wafer thin Milliput hatch openings to be cut into the vac pieces later. All of this was done against a small negative cast of the fuselage in plaster. The primary goal here was to have a thin lip around the hatch opening for securing the hatches. The camera has been brought along using the Hase for size reference and picking elements from all the refs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Posted May 10, 2005 Author Share Posted May 10, 2005 It is not finished, but complete enough for me to prepare its mounting cradle and to test fit the camera in both bays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LSP_Jay L Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 Damn Gene...Superb mate. That is some very clean work. If I were to try that it would look decidedly different. And by the sounds of it you are thoroughly enjoying researching and performing this build. I'll enjoy this. Brilliant work with the Alu and the Milliput. Cheers mate, Jay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Hannover - Germany Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 Gene, you do a very nice job there! It´s amazing to see how the a/c grows up step by step. I really like it. Good work! Cheers Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlos Palma Posted May 10, 2005 Share Posted May 10, 2005 WOW...that's scratch man!!! Excellent work mate. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Mike Posted May 11, 2005 Share Posted May 11, 2005 Gene, What I really like is that you are making all of this out of plastic and seemingly without a ton of after market stuff. That camers would look nice in just about any Luft bird! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alaninaustria Posted November 16, 2005 Share Posted November 16, 2005 Gene! Any news to report on this great build? Would love to see some more of your work! (As I am sure others would too!!) Cheers Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HL-10 Posted November 16, 2005 Share Posted November 16, 2005 ...............................................Speechless!............................................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HL-10 Posted November 16, 2005 Share Posted November 16, 2005 Gene that is some incredible work. Fantastic, can not wait to see that one finished. Some of the best work I have seen. Well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris/Germany Posted November 16, 2005 Share Posted November 16, 2005 Holy moly, Gene, this is.......awesome! Absolutely stunning work! Brings me in the mood to start mine, but after I have finished my late-war-Navy-project I´m still in the planning stages for my next project which will really be a "long-time-project" depicting german-nightfighters and will include 2 Me 110´s, 2 Me 262 Nightfighters, a He 219 Uhu and , for sure, the famous Arado 234 nightfighter flown by kurt Bonow. To get familiar with the whole project I´ll start with the 262´s but ´till I start with the Arado I´ll keep watching your thread with eagles eyes....really inspiring! Congrats Sir, keep on postin´! cheers Chris "the ripper" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gene Posted November 17, 2005 Author Share Posted November 17, 2005 Thanks Alan, Angelo, and Chris, Sorry to say I'm cauught in between places and have not been able to work on the 234 - and I was really enjoying how it was coming along! Anyway, maybe after the first of the year I'll be able to get back into it. Thanks for the your encouraging words in the past and just here recently. When one invests a certain amount of time in an off-beat kit, isn't someone suppose to come out with a brand new elaborate injection kit? Guess I didn't get to that threshold!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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