dutik Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Every time I chack your thread I hear those voices in my head. They sing... Yes, they are singing! It's a kind of magic, one prize, one goal... Regards - dutik Piprm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Peterpools Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Phil Holy Cow. Magic for sure (Eric to the rescue) and looking simply tremendous. Keep 'em coming Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 What a project! master modelling at it's finest so far! Will be following this with great interest. Cheers Adam Piprm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piprm Posted December 20, 2015 Author Share Posted December 20, 2015 Every time I chack your thread I hear those voices in my head. They sing... Yes, they are singing! It's a kind of magic, one prize, one goal... Regards - dutik Hi Dutik! Many Thanks my friend... Yes!.....I hear that same song now..... But at the start... after consulting with various friends and modelling scholars ......all I heard in my head was... "I'm on the road to no-where..... Come on in inside ... I'm on the road to no-where... Let's take that ride" Cheers Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piprm Posted December 20, 2015 Author Share Posted December 20, 2015 Phil Holy Cow. Magic for sure (Eric to the rescue) and looking simply tremendous. Keep 'em coming Peter Hi Peter, Many thanks for your support and interest! Yes... like anything - with the right tools and Erics know-how...... you can do anything! Cheers Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piprm Posted December 20, 2015 Author Share Posted December 20, 2015 (edited) What a project! master modelling at it's finest so far! Will be following this with great interest. Cheers Adam Hi Adam, Thanks for your kind words!... I said at the start it will be challenging .. and it has thrown up a few curved balls at me from time to time... but I think I'm getting there! I am only 1/3 the way through and I can see already that this kit would challenge the best of us here! I am sure now - that once these parts are available to all skilled- level modellers... then, the difficulties of building this kit - will be minimised (to the most-part)! Merry Xmas! to all! Phil Edited December 20, 2015 by Piprm Lee White 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piprm Posted December 20, 2015 Author Share Posted December 20, 2015 (edited) Time to Check fitment of parts : Main Landing Gear Reference photos: (Study) Now to compare to master wheels- Metal landing gear and covers..... Me thinks I got it pretty close.... Edited December 28, 2017 by Piprm Mal_Belford, Lars Befring, dutik and 5 others 7 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony in NZ Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Wow! That is some serious scratchbuilding skills you have got there Very inspiring workmanship indeed Cheers Anthony Piprm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piprm Posted December 20, 2015 Author Share Posted December 20, 2015 (edited) Attachment of Metal landing Gear to wheel well.... The photo below show how the Landing gear is attached to the wheel well and what problems it causes me to duplicate this... This may be a pivot point to swing the landing gear up into the bay but...... It is a semi-open mounting point, mounted to the 'side' of the well - which causes me some difficulties... as far as attachment of gear, stress-points and rigidity is concerned. Check out the angles here The red dotted line (above) indicates the pivot-point and connecting point - which is an extension piece away from the landing gear upright by 90 degrees / right-angles ... (as does the stress points! - not straight up and down! ) The red vertical line ......is where the weight of the aircraft is transferred down to the ground... but the tyre 'contact point' is - stepped away 2-times from the mounting point! (the red line ideally, should be straight down to the ground). But - being as I am... I duplicated this landing gear as close to original design... ...all very well.. but how to secure this into the wheel well at the side - not up or top of the well - as usual designed aircraft? .... here, most of the 'forces' are 'up and at right-angles' .. and the top of undercarriage leg - tubular connecting point, is 'open'! The answer is to extend the connecting point further into the wheel well sides, to lessen the stress-forces on the gear and also make it stronger in the process (also out of sight too!) This is indicated by the purple dotted line on the metal tip extension that I designed into the metal landing gear master - which will be embedded into the side of the wheel-well wall ... to help carry the load! .. without this extension metal piece at the top of the leg, the small circular mounting collar would 'pop out' of the mount or at least be under some strain... i would envisage. Edited December 28, 2017 by Piprm AndersN, sandokan, Anthony in NZ and 1 other 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kagemusha Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Truly terrific work Phil. Piprm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Truly terrific work Phil. Yeah, this is awesome. Kev Piprm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piprm Posted December 30, 2015 Author Share Posted December 30, 2015 (edited) Accessory Wheel well - Doors: I wasn't going to do these up till recently - but since they are part of the wheel-wells .. I decided to include them in my resin-parts list. Reference : Main wing - Small Door ..... As you can see above......A secondary small well door - connected to the Engine nacelle that is obscure at first glance but since it is part of the well cover-doors ...I decided to master these little-uns! The small door master comparison to the photo of same part ... note the extender arms bracket that I duplicated (such a small thing that you hardly notice...) Edited December 27, 2017 by Piprm Kagemusha and sandokan 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piprm Posted December 30, 2015 Author Share Posted December 30, 2015 (edited) Front Wheel Well Doors Again... my initial plans didn't include these parts (as I thought i would leave that to the kit constructers to knock up).. but since my focus was to do most external parts... I had a change of mind... Photo/ Drawings Reference: Master Front Cover/Doors mounted on the resin casting Jig... Front Well Door masters ready for molding - not a good photo, but it does have rivet detail same as the wheel covers shown earlier ... to keep parts consistent in detail. Edited January 1, 2018 by Piprm Kagemusha, sandokan and Mal_Belford 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piprm Posted December 30, 2015 Author Share Posted December 30, 2015 (edited) Next Stop...... MAIN WING WHEEL - WELL! ... The part of the aircraft I have been dreading for some time ... If this is compared to climbing mountains ... This would be K2! ..... (The cockpit is Everest!) Still.... if ever there's a time to start , it's right now! I started with the wings and measured everything about it, to make sure everything goes together at the end of the process, without butchering things to make it FIT! ​So ! .. we start with the component wings: Important note!... ​when measuring and marking for parts placement (especially in concave and convex areas) the measurement should always be 'line-of sight' . ... let's say the wing above - for example... according to the plans - might be 5 centimetres from the leading edge to the start of the wheel well fixture OK... sounds good enough.....but this is a 2-dimensional drawing!... The trap can be ... if you really measure along the inside of the wing cavity - with it's curved surface ... the measuring distance would actually be 6 cms (to get to the same referred marking-point). If you measured the said 5cms along the 'inside' of the wing - you would measure - up short! (which effects the balance of the wheels /aircraft tipping point) ... as well as the wrong placement of the wheel-well! ​These are some of the things you have to think of, when building non - injected kits, as you don't have the real luxury of any 'alignment - pins' or cut-outs or pre-sunken drepressions to mark wheel-well/cockpits etc ..... to know where things go - with some confidence. ​As you can see by my markings... everything is Measured.... Very important in vac-building.... Edited January 4, 2018 by Piprm Kagemusha and sandokan 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Peterpools Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 Phil Geez .... Incredible work .. Brilliant and absorbing! Keep 'em coming Petet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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