LSP_Kevin Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 Excellent work, Rob! How did you get the extra strip inside the template so neatly? And using CA, too! I'd have simply glued it to my thumb and the workbench simultaneously. Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob1970 Posted January 26, 2016 Author Share Posted January 26, 2016 Excellent work, Rob! How did you get the extra strip inside the template so neatly? And using CA, too! I'd have simply glued it to my thumb and the workbench simultaneously. Kev I put the template flat on a bathroom tile I have just for this kind of job, then first pressed the strip into the top of the template and flowed thin CA into the seam with a micro-brush. Hit it with another microbrush loaded with zipkicker and worked my way around the template like that. CA doesn't adhere all that well to the glaze of a tile, so it didn't stick. Rob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted January 26, 2016 Share Posted January 26, 2016 What a great build. Sincerely, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radders Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Fantastic build, very neat!! Subscribing for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erwin Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 Stunning work so far ! I can't figure out what the use of such a plane would be. Still a slow moving target.And the Germans would simply have attacked from the front to avoid the turret. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted January 27, 2016 Share Posted January 27, 2016 I put the template flat on a bathroom tile I have just for this kind of job, then first pressed the strip into the top of the template and flowed thin CA into the seam with a micro-brush. Hit it with another microbrush loaded with zipkicker and worked my way around the template like that. CA doesn't adhere all that well to the glaze of a tile, so it didn't stick. Rob Thanks for the explanation, Rob. Good work! Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob1970 Posted January 28, 2016 Author Share Posted January 28, 2016 Stunning work so far ! I can't figure out what the use of such a plane would be. Still a slow moving target.And the Germans would simply have attacked from the front to avoid the turret. Well, it was meant as a beach strafer... fly along the beach and pepper the invading army from that rear turret... But it is probably a good thing they never needed them... Now... Onwards!!! Drilled all the holes with a Dremel in a drill stand, which made quick work of this job... A rare action shot, courtesy of SWMBO (aka The Shaker of Heads When The Postman Cometh...). Sawing out each space between the frame means threading the saw blade through one of the holes and fastening it again. Is there anything like a quick-release jigsaw? Because I will buy two! Yeah, it looks pretty rough... That's where the files come in... Before and after, from left to right... And when it's all square, these guys come in. Inherited from my mate Jack when he passed away... ...and we start turning it all round again! All the bits of the frame are now tubular, as they should be. I left the top runner of the lower half square on top, and I will trim the outsides when I am done making the fittings at each intersection of tube. One done, one to go... More soooon!! Rob sandokan, Out2gtcha, Hubert Boillot and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hubert Boillot Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Excellent work using "basic" modelling skills Hubert Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn M Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 very nice solution! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Damn good show! Sincerely, Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClumsyDude Posted January 28, 2016 Share Posted January 28, 2016 Rob, that's a brilliant bit of work on the framing. Wow! Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob1970 Posted January 30, 2016 Author Share Posted January 30, 2016 (edited) A couple of days of sawing, filing and sanding and I have two complete side frames. With all the tubes rounded I used my fretsaw to saw them out and then filed the outsides straight. And now the mancave looks like Tony Montana used it as his office... Next I made a jig so I could get the angle of the top half of the new frame right, using the old frame as a guide.I used a razor saw to cut a wedge out of the uprights of my lovely new frames, then widened the slot with a thin file.My CA-glue setup; Brown for cheap poundstore CA, white for zip-kicker, Microbrushes for applicatiion. Just don't mix up your brushes... I put some tape in the jig to stop the CA-glue from sticking my frames to my jig, then put in my frame. A dab of CA, then a dab of zip-kicker on each joint fixed them in place at the right angle.The styrene cracked on the outside of the bends, but I hit those with some CA and kicker too.Old and new frame. Just need to sand the glued joints free of excess CA-glue, then start working on the cross-braces.More sooooon!!Rob Edited January 30, 2016 by Rob1970 Hubert Boillot, sandokan, BiggTim and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loic Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 :popcorn: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petrov27 Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 Fantastic scratch building and what a cool subject! I would buy a conversion kit for this a/c in a heartbeat... following along - cant wait to see it finished! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 30, 2016 Share Posted January 30, 2016 So thats what all the "white stuff" is on the work bench ! Great work.....Harv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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