cesare Posted May 21, 2020 Share Posted May 21, 2020 i have this kit and your work is very inspiring ! thank you Wolf Buddee and Out2gtcha 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayW Posted May 27, 2020 Share Posted May 27, 2020 Wolf - maybe you can help me here. Do you know the cross section diameter of the Tamiya ignition wiring harness on your R-2800 1/32? My guess is about .045 to .050 inch (maybe 1.5 inch dia full scale). I am trying to decide on a material for my own harness in 1/18 scale, and have had to resort to scaling pictures to try to arrive at a good diameter. I cannot find any drawings or diagrams that clearly tell me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf Buddee Posted May 28, 2020 Author Share Posted May 28, 2020 13 hours ago, JayW said: Wolf - maybe you can help me here. Do you know the cross section diameter of the Tamiya ignition wiring harness on your R-2800 1/32? My guess is about .045 to .050 inch (maybe 1.5 inch dia full scale). I am trying to decide on a material for my own harness in 1/18 scale, and have had to resort to scaling pictures to try to arrive at a good diameter. I cannot find any drawings or diagrams that clearly tell me. Hi Jay, Are you referring to the actual ignition wire or the conduit the ignition wire comes out of? The size of the lead wire I used for the leads was .015. Cheers, Wolf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayW Posted May 28, 2020 Share Posted May 28, 2020 8 hours ago, Wolf Buddee said: Are you referring to the actual ignition wire or the conduit the ignition wire comes out of? The size of the lead wire I used for the leads was .015. The conduit. The horse collar shaped conduit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf Buddee Posted May 28, 2020 Author Share Posted May 28, 2020 Just measured the conduit from BarracudaCast. The kit part I can’t measure anymore. BarracudaCast’s part is 0.0395 so you could easily call it 0.040 inches to round it up. I hope that helps Jay. Cheers, Wolf JayW 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayW Posted May 29, 2020 Share Posted May 29, 2020 Thanks Wolf - actually a bit smaller than I thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf Buddee Posted May 31, 2020 Author Share Posted May 31, 2020 (edited) As my time being laid off of work comes to an end I needed to get as much done on the Corsair as I could. With the engine, cockpit, and fuselage complete I had to get cracking at the centre section of the wing including the main landing gear and wheel bays. I had some excellent photos of the wheel bays that I found on line so I decided to add the hydraulic lines that run through the wheel bays. These hydraulic lines operate the flaps, wing folds, landing gear, and gear bay doors. I had originally planned on using lead wire but went with copper wire instead. The copper wire was much easier to keep straight and lead wire is too soft so kinks easily and looks a mess for this application. The copper wire, however, was more of a pain to work with given the number of bends I needed to make to run the lines as per my photos. I found that if I glued the wheel bays together except for the upper forward section, which the MLG fits in to, I could slip the gear bays off and on the main spar without any trouble. If the front upper section had been glued on the bays wouldn't have had enough flexibility to slide on and off. That made the initial copper wire runs and painting of the canvas covers much easier to accomplish. I added brass 0.5 mm nuts to detail the hydraulic manifold and hydraulic sequencing valve for the MLG and MLG bay doors as well as scratch built the small angled fittings at the top of the hydraulic manifold that run to the top of each hydraulic cylinder for the main gear doors. Hopefully the following photos will show well enough what I've tried to accomplish. Cheers, Wolf Edited May 31, 2020 by Wolf Buddee JayW, dodgem37, Martinnfb and 8 others 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony in NZ Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 Wolf...no photo's showing mate...tease Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf Buddee Posted May 31, 2020 Author Share Posted May 31, 2020 (edited) Thanks Anthony, I can't seem to get photo bucket to cooperate! I'm going to switch to another program. I'm soooooo done with PB. Wolf Edited May 31, 2020 by Wolf Buddee Anthony in NZ and LSP_Kevin 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony in NZ Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 I know mate, I was the same up until about 6 weeks ago and shifter to Imageshack, so much easier to use and super fast to upload. Cheaper than PB too. LSP Kev here and several others use it too. I have no complaints anyway Cheers Anthony LSP_Kevin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf Buddee Posted May 31, 2020 Author Share Posted May 31, 2020 One last pic! Cheers, Wolf Landrotten Highlander, TAG, Lothar and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony in NZ Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 WOW, that's spectacular! I just love seeing your lovely work and photography Wolf....you have not disappointed. Just beautiful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 That is nice. I could use a mm ruler. Why cut the line? Could you not go around as the other? What gauge is the copper? Is it annealed? Great show, Wolf. Thank you. Sincerely, Mark Rocat, Martinnfb, Michael931080 and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FunkyZeit Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 Awesome work! justin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hartmann52 Posted May 31, 2020 Share Posted May 31, 2020 It's just something inconceivable! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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