dodgem37 Posted May 6, 2019 Share Posted May 6, 2019 Good show, Peter. Sincerely, Mark airscale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TorbenD Posted May 6, 2019 Share Posted May 6, 2019 Shaping up wonderfully to my eye. Looks like you’ve caught just the right amount of detail and texture across the whole wing. Lovely stuff! Torben airscale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baffozac Posted May 6, 2019 Share Posted May 6, 2019 Hi Peter, it's time to tell us the truth, you're restoring a real P-51 C ? Alain airscale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomaszhajzler Posted May 6, 2019 Share Posted May 6, 2019 Hi Peter! Will you have to mask the wings with tape? If so, first I would try a new primer on a piece of aluminum foil, stick masking tape and check if the primer does not break away from the surface, and only then I would paint wings. I had this problem with my Boeing, so I used metal primer first, I can't remember Gunze or Tamiya, then primer and final paint. Will Alclads not react with this new primer? I heard that they can with some. Good luck, nice work. Tomasz airscale and daHeld 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airscale Posted May 12, 2019 Author Share Posted May 12, 2019 evening folks - regular Sunday installment... On 5/5/2019 at 11:29 PM, brahman104 said: The primer looks great and the wingtips came out perfectly. Did you use pewter sheet for them? They look a little shinier than the rest. That lip for the front of the gear bay is very nice too... As always Peter, highly inspirational! Cheers, Craig Hi Craig - it is ali, but it's this strange almost thick foil like stuff - someone in the US sent me some they use in a lab for something or other & it's perfect for compound curves - I don't know what I will do when I run out of it... I want to get the tailfeathers skinned next, so I used the usual process and scaled a factory drawing to get the rivet pattern - this is the first step after sticking the drawing on litho and scoring & adding rivets.. ..after it has been burnished flat, there is an access hatch in each surface, upper and lower so I had already had these made in PE and I use a brand new scalpel blade to go around it, then drill the corners, make a hole in the middle & score into this so I can break away the waste.. ..then the rest of the waste around the panel is broken away and it's taped in position.. ..stuck down with the hatch added.. ..upper & lower.. ..the leading edge is done is softer, thick foil like ali that is taped down to a butting straight edge and worked over the leading edge - where it meets the panel on the other side it is pushed hard so there is a step where it laps over it and then stuck down & the step sanded away resulting in a perfect join.. ..guide tape is used to follow the rivet lines from the main tailplane panels to allow LE rivets to be added... ..same process for the fin - here you can see the leading edge folded back on itself ready for fixing and some rubber pipe protecting the trailing edges of the tailplanes.. ..and where the LE panel meets the main panel you can see the step that gets sanded away.. ..I actually later taped scaled drawings to the LE panel to get the rivet pattern right ..one of the two lower fuselage panels - this has a number of hatch cutouts in it and will set the datum for all panels to follow so needs to be right... ..with the hatches added - the bigger one with holes in needs domed rivets adding one by one when I can be bothered to drill all the holes.. and the rear is starting to take shape - unfortunately, again all this will be painted - in this case the whole empennage will be matt black... ..away for the week on business but hopefully have something done next weekend TTFN Peter MikeMaben, JayW, tomaszhajzler and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted May 12, 2019 Share Posted May 12, 2019 Good show. Nice work. I like the contrast between the skin and hatches. 'unfortunately, . . . all this will be painted' Maybe so, but this model is going to be an outstanding piece in the end. Sincerely, Mark KUROK, airscale and daHeld 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted May 12, 2019 Share Posted May 12, 2019 Brilliant as always my friend! airscale and KUROK 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brahman104 Posted May 12, 2019 Share Posted May 12, 2019 Looking great Peter! I wonder if the foil you're using is something similar to this? https://www.hobbytools.com.au/nutter-set-extra-foil-6-x-6/ It's very soft and cuts easily. If it is then it is readily accessible so you don't have to worry about running out of it! Great idea about overlapping the leading edges then sanding back...... I'd never thought of if, but it makes perfect sense and the results speak for themselves As Mark said, it'll still look ace under paint! Craig KUROK, airscale and daHeld 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shark64 Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 I love it, i love it. you are so talented. always a pleasure to discover the update on this build. daHeld, airscale and KUROK 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scvrobeson Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 Always incredible work. Almost a shame to see some of it covered up by paint, but I know it's accurate. Matt airscale, daHeld and KUROK 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fvdm Posted May 13, 2019 Share Posted May 13, 2019 Great progress. I don't think it's a shame all of this is going to be covered with paint. I think when it's painted you will still see it's a metal skin and that's very nice. daHeld, airscale and KUROK 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airscale Posted May 20, 2019 Author Share Posted May 20, 2019 howdy folks ..just a little update as not had much time this week.. you can see here that where the skin panels on the fin & stabilisers end, it drops down to the bare fuselage shape - this is a problem for adding all the fillets around this area as when you burnish soft metal to get the complex shapes of the fillets, if it stayed like this, the fillets would distort where the existing skin ends and would form ridges... ..that means all that area needs to be filled so the surface onto which the fillets are added is perfectly flat - even a seam line can show through.. ..the first step is to get a tape template of the missing area and cut a sheet of plain annealed litho to go there.. here this bit covers that area and the side of the tail fillet... ..then it is stuck & burnished and all the seams filled so it is one contiguous surface.. ...I also skinned underneath by the tailwheel well.. ..the fillets will come next and be quite involved - I only have drawings for the early P51B version without a tail fillet.. ..you can see how they sit on top of the aircraft skin.. ..and I have some good photo's of the fin fillet to work from.. - just need to unpick the order they go down - this fillet will be added later as it goes over panels I won't add until the cockpit is in place and the rear canopy are is built up.. ..back soon with more.. TTFN Peter Antonio Argudo, Learstang, kkarlsen and 18 others 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaxos345 Posted May 20, 2019 Share Posted May 20, 2019 Awesome Peter!!!!! airscale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fvdm Posted May 20, 2019 Share Posted May 20, 2019 Always nice to see how you skin the complex forms. Great work. daHeld and airscale 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted May 20, 2019 Share Posted May 20, 2019 Love it! airscale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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