Oldbaldguy Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 Hmmmm. You may be right about the fuselage cross section. It looks like in the photo above you are missing the flat-bottomed, squashed egg shape so characteristic of these airplanes. The center section looks too svelte and E-2ish when it should look more like me without a shirt. Starfighter and themongoose 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stusbke Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 5 hours ago, Derek B said: Wow, this is some project Ben...is there no stopping you? Derek Sure Derek when he needs to do DIY or when he is out of resin....LOL Nice work buddy keep m coming Cheers Frederick Jacobs Starfighter and Derek B 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvwse4 Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 Wow this is great! Starfighter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starfighter Posted November 19, 2020 Author Share Posted November 19, 2020 21 hours ago, Derek B said: Wow, this is some project Ben...is there no stopping you? Derek There are two things which regularly stop me - my wallet and my schedule... Oh, and the fact that I don't have enough space for all the silly things I'd like to build! 18 hours ago, Oldbaldguy said: Hmmmm. You may be right about the fuselage cross section. It looks like in the photo above you are missing the flat-bottomed, squashed egg shape so characteristic of these airplanes. The center section looks too svelte and E-2ish when it should look more like me without a shirt. You are right. And the transitions between the different shapes are not right. I do of course have the fuselage cross sections; I will use them to check the shapes of the printed model. If it'll turn out to be too difficult to correct, I will use my handmade fuselage. Derek B and stusbke 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scvrobeson Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 You really are moving into the new frontier of model building with your work. It's going to be exceptional, and moving from old plastic and filler scratch work to 3D printing has to make it easier. Matt Starfighter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misha71 Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 very interesting ben good luck Starfighter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airscale Posted November 19, 2020 Share Posted November 19, 2020 quite amazing - it's like watching a magician Ben even if the parts don't work out, the learning will apply for next time and the boundless realisation of your imagination it is so cool to see this kind of thing Peter misha71, Derek B and Starfighter 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starfighter Posted May 20, 2022 Author Share Posted May 20, 2022 This one is not forgotten either. I have put quite some effort into the previously printed fuselage - i.e. hours of sanding to tweak the shape - but I decided it would make much more sense to redo the entire aircraft from scratch. As you may remember, I was lucky to get my hands on drawings use by the Grumman model shop to build their own in-house Greyhound scale models which I will be using for my model. Those probably the most accurate references one can obtain at the moment as the factory drawings of the real thing are still pretty much secret as the Greyhound is still in active service. The aim is to obtain surfaces as close to perfection as possible. This requires many individual sketches and a lot of tweaking. The Greyhound fuselage is defined by many characteristic curves which need to be spot on to capture the look of the real a/c. The experience gained with the Vigi (which will be finished as well!) has helped a lot. The engine nacelles will be fun as well - but they will come in handy for my Hawkeye (which is still sitting on the shelf of doom as well...). blackbetty, themongoose, Dandiego and 17 others 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derek B Posted May 20, 2022 Share Posted May 20, 2022 Good work Ben, I love it! (and very much the way to go). I found the similar Boeing 707 drawings accurate as well. Keep up the good work Ben. Cheers Derek Starfighter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starfighter Posted June 3, 2022 Author Share Posted June 3, 2022 Almost no progress at the moment due to a severe lack of time... the rear of the fuselage requires a bit more attention, but we're getting there. The transition between fuselage and wings was pretty complex to design but I think I finally got ir more or less right. johncrow, Scotsman, MDuv and 17 others 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shark64 Posted June 4, 2022 Share Posted June 4, 2022 Such a cool plane Starfighter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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