"Willie the Whale", FINISHED

[Guest Clunkmeister]

Brilliant!

[blackbetty]

i will construct the main parts first and then start detailing them

these are the walls of the pit

 

009 by karl holubar, auf Flickr

 

inserted into the fuselage they give the front part the needed strenght. lower part is the wheelwell/gun compartment

 

008 by karl holubar, auf Flickr

Edited July 13, 2018 by blackbetty

[BradG]

Wow, cool, never seen one of these built.

[blackbetty]

for finding the right spot to fix the wings i think i will construct a spar that also fixes the dihedral of the wings. so next i cut out the wings and the main wheel wells. the wells will be boxed in for strenght and to have a locating point for the spar

 

010 by karl holubar, auf Flickr

[blackbetty]

wings and fuselage temporarily joint. there is a locating spar inside and a bulkhead in the middle to keep everything square. glue is now drying overnight, then i will drill locating pins into the wings from the inside

 

011 by karl holubar, auf Flickr

 

012 by karl holubar, auf Flickr

[Out2gtcha]

Neat! This is looking super cool in LSP form

[blackbetty]

back to this one.

after figuring out how to join the main parts i will concentrate on scribing this thing. the outer wing profile has been altered with miliput to make it look more like the real thing

 

013 by karl holubar, auf Flickr

 

014 by karl holubar, auf Flickr

 

still have to work on the trailing edge

[Out2gtcha]

Excellent work on Willie Karl.  I still have to get the courage up to start my first vac.

[blackbetty]

its not  as complicated as you think, you just have to plan ahead and live with some shortcuts

 

boxing in the wheelwells

015 by karl holubar, auf Flickr

[blackbetty]

kicking around ideas how to scribe the fuselage, i decided to join the halves before scribing.

before i can do that i have to fabricate the intake trunking and engine faces. these are pretty much burried up way inside the fuselage and the intake has a noticeable bend upward

so i found some plastic pipe of the right size and epoxied it in, being careful not to cover up the little auxiliary intake on the inner side

017 by karl holubar, auf Flickr

[blackbetty]

the faces are mig 15 parts from the trumpy kit with a 125lb bomb as the inner nose and some sheet for the little wings

the pipe tapers downward for the engine to sit in the axis of the fuselage

 

016 by karl holubar, auf Flickr

Edited September 14, 2018 by blackbetty

[Shawn M]

nice work Karl!

[Out2gtcha]

12 minutes ago, Shawn M said:

nice work Karl!

 

 

+1!

[blackbetty]

upon looking at scribing options it dawned to me that the intakes of the vac are not even close to the shape of the real thing, so i broke out the miliput and tried to reshape them

first try

18 by karl holubar, auf Flickr

 

19 by karl holubar, auf Flickr

 

not satisfiying, second try, we will see how i can sand this to shape:

 

20 by karl holubar, auf Flickr

Edited September 20, 2018 by blackbetty

[LSP_Kevin]

Courageous and inspiring work, Karl!

 

Kev