shark64 Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 Following your build for sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leoasman Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 Ben, you'll have to do a complete carrier deck to accomodate all your Navy birds... Question: Were the C-2s assigned to specific carrier air wings?? Cheers Rainer Each squadron (VRC-30 and VRC-40) send detachments with the carrier air wings when the deploy. VRC-30 has a permanent det based with the air wing at Atsugi, but technically still fall under the squadron umbrella at North Island NAS. Each detachment typically consists of two aircraft and around 60 personnel. Rainer Hoffmann 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radders Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 Wish I could design CAD stuff, I would love to get something like this going. I am planning a scratch build, not the Savage (on hold until I get better drawings), something a bit easier..Russian. Can't wait to see this progress! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alaninaustria Posted March 4, 2017 Share Posted March 4, 2017 Ingenious!! Can't wait to see it all come together!! Cheers Alan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starfighter Posted March 8, 2017 Author Share Posted March 8, 2017 (edited) Sorry for replying so late, folks - I am a bit sick since a few days and had loads of other things to do. Great to have you here, I'll do my best not to disappoint you. I have made entirely new drawings in the meantime as I have received Grumman factory drawings which should help me to build a more accurate replica. The parts will be lasercut and should be available within the next few days. I'll assemble the new skeleton right away and show you a comparison with the first version - I hope it'll be worth the extra work and money. Edited March 8, 2017 by Starfighter HerculesPA_2, allthumbs and stusbke 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
allthumbs Posted March 8, 2017 Share Posted March 8, 2017 Looking forward to this one! Rich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel_W Posted March 8, 2017 Share Posted March 8, 2017 Ben I'm looking forward to seeing your improvements in the 2nd set. While I'll never have the skills needed for scratch building or even a major conversion, just following along is experience that is most rewarding. Joel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee White Posted March 8, 2017 Share Posted March 8, 2017 While I'll never have the skills needed for scratch building or even a major conversion, Respectfully disagree with this statement. Your F4F build shows that you are already halfway there. Joel_W 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel_W Posted March 8, 2017 Share Posted March 8, 2017 Respectfully disagree with this statement. Your F4F build shows that you are already halfway there. Lee, Thanks so much for that ego building compliment, but it's the other half that seems next to impossible to attain. Joel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starfighter Posted March 9, 2017 Author Share Posted March 9, 2017 There is absolutely no doubt you can scratchbuild, Joel - just give it a try. You'll see, it's fun! Here is a quick look at the new skeleton by the way: The new parts will be available within next week. Pretty curious to see how they'll turn out! Lee White, Lars Befring, Scotsman and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainer Hoffmann Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 There is absolutely no doubt you can scratchbuild, Joel - just give it a try. You'll see, it's fun! Here is a quick look at the new skeleton by the way: The new parts will be available within next week. Pretty curious to see how they'll turn out! Pity, that all those glorious colors will be lost under the skin... ;-) Cheers Rainer stusbke, Lee White and Starfighter 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel_W Posted March 9, 2017 Share Posted March 9, 2017 Ben, Maybe one day I'll give it a try, especailly if I want to correct the Trumpeter P-51B wings if the HK model never makes it to the hobby shop shelves. Joel Starfighter and Lee White 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Starfighter Posted March 15, 2017 Author Share Posted March 15, 2017 Joel, please do so - i'd love to see the result! I have received the new lasercut parts yesterday - here's a crappy pic showing the difference between the new skeleton in front of the old one. The screenshot illustrates some of the shape differences between the new skeleton based on Grumman drawings and the old one based on the Kinetic kit. The length is identical, I just didn't align them properly. All I need is some bench time now! Derek B, tucohoward, Lars Befring and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel_W Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Ben, What a huge difference. I'm going to assume that the wing spar shape in the Grumman based skeleton is how they actually constructed the aircraft, while the kinetic one is because the wing is a completely separate assembly. Joel Out2gtcha 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted March 15, 2017 Share Posted March 15, 2017 Well wont THIS be a little gem! blackbetty and Joel_W 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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