"Willie the Whale", FINISHED

[blackbetty]

Never going to finish this one in time for the deadline, but i think its the right place to start, so here goes:

waiting for some parts for my corsair, so i put it on hold.

i have been reseraching the F3D for quite a while and got the tigger vac, so no turning back now. this is what you get:

001 by karl holubar, auf Flickr

 

Edited March 11, 2019 by blackbetty

[blackbetty]

i have all kinds of enlarged plans, all of them are different in the details, but thats the fun, isnt it?

003 by karl holubar, auf Flickr

 

[blackbetty]

...and some "aftermarket": a 1:72 resin pit to get an idea of the pit arrangement in 3D

 

002 by karl holubar, auf Flickr

[blackbetty]

last, but not least the references. i collected a lot of pics, but wartime photos are scarce. the restos of the doorguards and museum planes have to be used with a grain of salt, most are later electronic warfare aircraft just painted black.

the books (all very necessairy):

 

004 by karl holubar, auf Flickr

 

havent built a full airplane vac in large scale (only 72 and armor), so this will be quite a challenge

[blackbetty]

i want to do WF-17, because it has mission marks and was used on a Mig 15 kill. i dont know the number of the aircraft, as its very hard to find these out. i made an excel sheet with all known planes, their names, mission marks and stars as well as numbers if they are availible. here is the pic:

 

6083_Night_Wings_USMC_Night_Fighters_1942-1953 by karl holubar, auf Flickr

 

can anyone read the names? these are not the pilot names (these are known - no pilot names were painted on the aircraft), they seem the be the crewchiefs

Edited July 10, 2018 by blackbetty

[blackbetty]

started to fit the engine nacelles

 

005 by karl holubar, auf Flickr

[Out2gtcha]

Nice! Will be watching this one Karl. 

[Kagemusha]

Go Karl! Very much looking forward to following along. 

[Shawn M]

cool, its a neat airframe

[Gazzas]

Wow, what a project!  Looking forward to watching.

[blackbetty]

the fuselage is a circle, so i searched for round plastic parts for spars and locating tabs

 

007 by karl holubar, auf Flickr

[blackbetty]

i want to locate the wings and the cockpit next and make the cutouts for these

 

006 by karl holubar, auf Flickr

[alaninaustria]

Great work so far Karl - nice subject too!

Cheers

Alan

[Out2gtcha]

Good stuff Karl, Im taking notes................

[Gazzas]

Very nice work!  I can't imagine how you add surface detail to vacform.  Hoping to learn something here.

 

Gaz