patricksparks Posted June 24, 2022 Author Share Posted June 24, 2022 A little more progress today, I have the forward section of the rear fuselage almost finished and assembled it with the waist section to see how they fit, pretty happy with it so far.. Pat sandokan, GMK, brahman104 and 10 others 12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 Impressive CAD work, Patrick! Kev patricksparks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brahman104 Posted June 24, 2022 Share Posted June 24, 2022 That is absolutely gorgeous Pat! I wish I'd been able to subcontract you ages ago . Very impressive set of drawings, looks like you've been able to interpret how it all fits in there very well indeed. Can't wait to see some of this printed! Have you had a look at the cockpit/nose section yet? P.S. probably don't open the bomb bay....... not sure if it's worth the hurt I'm going though!!!!!! Craig patricksparks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patricksparks Posted June 25, 2022 Author Share Posted June 25, 2022 1 hour ago, brahman104 said: That is absolutely gorgeous Pat! I wish I'd been able to subcontract you ages ago . Very impressive set of drawings, looks like you've been able to interpret how it all fits in there very well indeed. Can't wait to see some of this printed! Have you had a look at the cockpit/nose section yet? P.S. probably don't open the bomb bay....... not sure if it's worth the hurt I'm going though!!!!!! Craig Thanks Craig !!! Your Fort is coming along amazing !!! As for the forward portion of the fuselage I will be using it as the kit came along with the mods that I already made with shortening the overall length and rebuilding the flight deck, flattening the area in front of the windscreen, etc, etc....The bombay was already pretty much done from the kit with some Eduard details added. Still along way to go... Thanks again, Pat brahman104 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patricksparks Posted June 29, 2022 Author Share Posted June 29, 2022 Almost done drawing the fuselage, alot of going forward and backing up... fun though figuring out what I can do with this software. Pat Rockie Yarwood, KiwiZac, Antonio Argudo and 13 others 15 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandokan Posted June 29, 2022 Share Posted June 29, 2022 What awesome project and job!!!! Following your superwip!! patricksparks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted June 29, 2022 Share Posted June 29, 2022 Fascinating stuff, Patrick. How do you plan to print the parts? Kev patricksparks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brahman104 Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 Absolutely incredible Pat! You'll have the whole plane drawn within a week at this rate! Simply amazing stuff. As Kevin said, do all the pieces come apart to get printed individually? What skin thickness did you end up with? Great job! Craig patricksparks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patricksparks Posted June 30, 2022 Author Share Posted June 30, 2022 5 hours ago, LSP_Kevin said: Fascinating stuff, Patrick. How do you plan to print the parts? Kev Thank you Kevin, I'm hoping to print(resin) this in a few days from now, I have ordered a new printer, an ANYCUBIC PHOTON MONO. Hope than the resolution on my STL files will be fine enough to get the facets out of the resin prints .... Thanks again, Pat LSP_Kevin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patricksparks Posted June 30, 2022 Author Share Posted June 30, 2022 (edited) 2 hours ago, brahman104 said: Absolutely incredible Pat! You'll have the whole plane drawn within a week at this rate! Simply amazing stuff. As Kevin said, do all the pieces come apart to get printed individually? What skin thickness did you end up with? Great job! Craig Thank you Craig, I have drawn all parts with basically about .025" thickness for the outer skin and .010/.015 for the internal framing, I wanted to keep it fairly thin to keep the parts from shrinking a little bit less. It's pretty much a guess on my part based on parts I printed in the past. As for the parts break down here is an attached photo of how I hope to do it, I didn't want to split the model down the centerline figuring that it would probably be difficult to get it glued up evenly. Instead I thought I would try to put it together like the real thing in sections at the breaks like the real fuselage and maintain the perfectly round cross sections...(hopefully) and I think that the section are short enough to allow painting and detailing without a problem(I hope)...I also made fit rings on the bulkheads on the end of each section to go into the bulkhead of the next in line... Thanks again, Pat Edited June 30, 2022 by patricksparks scvrobeson, GMK, chukw and 9 others 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brahman104 Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 Nice! Sounds like a solid plan for the printing Pat; hope it works out okay. I'm still blown away by your CAD work; you certainly seem to have made short work of elements that took me months/years to work out! As far as the panel line details in the skin are concerned, how deep did you go with them? Sorry for all the questions, just a massive fan of your work! Can't wait to see this printed. Craig patricksparks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scvrobeson Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 Awesome progress Patrick. Really looking forward to seeing how it looks printed. Between your build and Craig's, it's cool to see two different early Forts on the board. Matt patricksparks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oldbaldguy Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 Amazing how so many of these airplanes - like the B-17 - evolved so quickly once the war started. Comparing this early version to a G- model is like looking at two different airplanes. patricksparks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GMK Posted June 30, 2022 Share Posted June 30, 2022 Great design work, Patrick! Really enjoying this one. patricksparks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patricksparks Posted July 1, 2022 Author Share Posted July 1, 2022 20 hours ago, brahman104 said: Nice! Sounds like a solid plan for the printing Pat; hope it works out okay. I'm still blown away by your CAD work; you certainly seem to have made short work of elements that took me months/years to work out! As far as the panel line details in the skin are concerned, how deep did you go with them? Sorry for all the questions, just a massive fan of your work! Can't wait to see this printed. Craig Thanks Craig, the panel lines are drawn at .005" wide and a little deeper than .005", I decided on these dimensions based on parts that I printed about 2 1/2 years ago, I remember trying to print really fine lines and they wouldn't print good, so I made them larger and it seemed to work well, seems that the smaller drawn lines were there but they lost definition at the smaller size and also increasing the depth seemed to help to maintain them. We'll give it a go and see what happens, the beauty of computer drawings is being able to go back and change details like this easily. Right now my new printer is in transit... Thanks, Pat brahman104 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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