TorbenD Posted September 11, 2021 Share Posted September 11, 2021 Totally top of the toppest notch Peter! Torben airscale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironwing Posted September 11, 2021 Share Posted September 11, 2021 Peter I come here to be amazed..and you never disappoint... Bravo Geoff airscale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brahman104 Posted September 11, 2021 Share Posted September 11, 2021 Nothing I can say that others already haven't Where do you find those silver electrical sockets though? Or are they made with your magic? Craig airscale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airscale Posted October 17, 2021 Author Share Posted October 17, 2021 Thanks everyone Can't believe it's been over a month since I last updated - life has got in the way, with a bit of returning to the office in London for the day job (sadly..) On 9/10/2021 at 5:17 PM, Oldbaldguy said: I’m sure you already have more source material than you can use, but you might want to take a minute to go to www.platinumfighters.com. They have a late Firefly for sale and the listing has several very clear photos of the airplane that you may find interesting. Well thansk OBG, they are really useful and high quality - much appreciated On 9/11/2021 at 8:19 PM, brahman104 said: Nothing I can say that others already haven't Where do you find those silver electrical sockets though? Or are they made with your magic? Craig Hi Craig - I wish I could make them! No, I get things like that from RB Motion - they are car bits and the site is worth a surf for bobbins like that So the build has lurched from highly precise focused detailing, to low end agrigultural heavy engineering.. I was getting carried away in the cockpit at a time when there is still loads of basic structural stuff to be done.. ..first up, there is nothing for the UC bays - these are unfortunately really complex so I am going to have to simplify when the time comes to detailing as otherwise I will be in there for months on end.. ..they don't look so bad here, but trust me there is a lot going on both structurally and in bits & bobs credit to the photographer shown ..I started by taking a slice of the plan drawing I have and drawing out the area I need to cut out that sits below the skin - also added ribbing locations as far as I could determine from photo's ..then cut into the balsa cores - you can see the brass reinforcement plates put in ages ago to hold the gear legs later.. ..you can also see how the wheel cut-out area eats right into the fuselage exposing the structure and lego blocks in there (!)... ..floors were marked out in card with the rib positions.. ..after the floors were added, walls were added and a few gaps & dinks filled in.. as the wings slide on and off the wheel bay area is fixed to the wing but slides out from the fuselage as one.. ..and with a shot of primer the basics are there to build on - I have a guy coming from Axminster lathes on friday to fix my little C2 (no power) so hope to start turning the legs and epoxy in the mounting stubs in the next few weeks ..the next bit I had been putting off are the mould bucks for the transparencies - if you see the shape of the main hood you can see why I was stalling.. ..I also found this drawing which I took as good enough to get some profiles.. ..first step was to get some outline boundaries from the plans and translate them to 3D so I can see basics like the angle of the windshield and the shapes generally.. ..I made up a plastic card frame with flat parts front and back so the blown bit starts at the right point - this is coloured black with a sharpie so I can see my sanding limit after I fill it - if you don't the card is white when you hit it and stays white while you sand right through the boundary (tell me how I know..).. ..filled with P38 and first pass sanded.. ..primered and nearly done - the blown bits look ok in the end.. ..same with the rear - balsa used to save on filler.. ..and this is where they are at.. ..anyone who has seen my build logs will know I HATE doing transparencies - they are my nemesis.. I spoke to John Wilkes (Tigger) and got some great advice on how to turn these masters into masters to actually get good pulls from. The main problem now is that these have a lot of filler & primer and the heat of the plastic causes that to melt, deform, delaminate onto your canopy etc. What he said was use them to get one good shape pull using PETG and the fill that pull with Filler like Herculite to make a better master that can take the punishment.. so that's where I am at - until next time Peter brahman104, Rocat, D.B. Andrus and 25 others 26 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brahman104 Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 Well that was definitely worth waiting for!!!!!!! It's amazing how a single post can belie the amount of work behind these photos, but that's just modelling to a tee isn't it? Fantastic to see some of the more "heavy handed" modelling elements. Fantastic base work for the sheer awesomeness to follow! Cheers, Craig airscale and daHeld 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nighthawk Calling 1 Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 Lost for words this is stunning. airscale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scvrobeson Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 The work already done on the masters for the clear parts is stunning, I'm sure they'll turn out great. The rear canopy on the Firefly is such an iconic part of it. Matt airscale and daHeld 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironwing Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 Peter, You never let us down. Your work can't really be commented on... seriously. Best Geoff airscale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 Amazing as always, Peter! Would it be possible to simply make copies of your existing canopy master in resin and use those for the pulls instead? Kev airscale, daHeld and Alain Gadbois 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenshb Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 Those wheelwells looks like a challenge for anyone Peter. Regarding the canopy, could you not make a silicone mould of your canopies and then cast a copy in resin? Or the Herculite filler? Alain Gadbois, daHeld and airscale 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayW Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 (edited) Author Are you kidding me????? What a fantastic IP Peter!! I don't know why I was not following this build continuation, but I am now! Edited October 18, 2021 by JayW Rocat, airscale, daHeld and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayW Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 If that's supposed to be a leather pad for the backrest - good god man. You have nailed it. I am not worthy. Scotsman, Starfighter, daHeld and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TorbenD Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 Wowsers! Shaping up very nicely Peter. Torben airscale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 Amazing! airscale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiwiZac Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 I realised I've only been commenting on this build at BM. Same situation here though - I'm utterly speechless at the quality of your work, Peter. airscale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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