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1/18 P51C Mustang "Lopes Hope the 3rd"


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19 hours ago, airscale said:

.I have started to tap in the indentation with the ball end of my ball pein hammer..

 

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TTFN

Peter

 

Ok, I don't see how in the blazes of creation you made this part so perfect. I am dumbfounded even after seeing the steps behind it.

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evening ladies & thank you :)

 

have been sorting out more of the basic structural elements so ultimately I have the airframe ready to skin in one (long) go, rather then the Spitfire where I did it bits at a time and had trouble protecting finished work as I did some pretty violent things like those I am doing now...

 

starting with the tailwheel well - I started byu cutting just the doors out, but soon realised I could not detail the inside through the small aperture - I won't go mad in here, but I will replicate most of what I can see - here is the real (current) Lopes Hope..

 

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..I started by cutting out the section between two fuselage stations in between the whole structure and getting rid of all the solid foam inside - painted it black so none of this is seen...

 

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..then from many scaled plan parts I assembled the main structure from litho, with brass strengthening where the wheel leg will mount...

 

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..added some details and skinned the sides of it so it can drop in as a complete pod...

 

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..this was then added and CA'd into position ready for the fuselage section to be added back & filling..

 

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..and after cleaning up, the basics are in there I can come back to later..

 

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..I also added the airscoop and got the shapes in this area where I was happy with them..

 

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..the next bit of surgery was around the wing fillets - they seem quite complex on a P51 with the top edge sitting over the flaps and a lower fairing cut away right back to the fuselage wall..

 

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..the moulded fillet is a bit ugly and will need quite a bit of work..

 

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..I made a slit in the fuselage and added a brass template from a scaled plan - I also faked a flap from bent litho so I could get the dimensions right...

 

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..then lots of filling & shaping and trying hard to work around and not damage the skinned part of the airscoop...

 

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..and finally after a shot of primer to see whats what, the basics seem to be coming together...

 

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..the skin panels that have to go over that lot are quite distinctive so looking forward to that when the time comes :)

 

TTFN

 

Peter

 

 

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