Gazzas Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 Wow! That's just too good! thierry laurent 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greif8 Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 Thierry, your work is awe inspiring my friend! Do you hand drill everything, or do you have a mini press? Ernest thierry laurent 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thierry laurent Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 Hi Ernest, Everything is hand made. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thierry laurent Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 And here's the final mast assembly. The reference pictures are showing that the section of the mast inside the fuselage is not streamlined, nor painted. It is just raw cut wood, very probably mahogany! The plate with the two notches in front of the mast was actually intended to secure the tension wires of the Sutton harnest system. Pete Roberts, BradG, Alain Gadbois and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thierry laurent Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 Just to go back to the minidrill question, I do not think it would be possible to use it. The holes are so small and the plastic so thin that there is a high probability it would melt because of the motordrill speed. Gazzas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RLWP Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 I'll let you know when I have completed making mine Richard thierry laurent 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greif8 Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 4 hours ago, thierry laurent said: Hi Ernest, Everything is hand made. That is some great drilling free handed, just awesome. Ernest thierry laurent 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 Great work. Sincerely, Mark thierry laurent 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Troy Molitor Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 A really great build going on here. Thanks for showing your work with us. thierry laurent 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMaben Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 thierry laurent 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thierry laurent Posted July 19, 2020 Author Share Posted July 19, 2020 Hi guys, Having an appropriate seat is good but finding a way to put it in the cockpit is better! The Aires set is again showing its drawbacks. First, the seat support structure is far too simplified and second, it is not fully correct because of the too large resin seat. The use of the Barracuda seat was solving the dimension problem but this also meant I was forced to rebuild the structure... Again, finding the relevant pictures was not that easy as either the seat is in the cockpit and you cannot seen the support structure, either it is removed but typically wihout that structure that is rarely shot in pictures! So, I had to reconstruct the full pictures from bits visible here and there and TM views! Finally, I used a combination of the initial resin part, Evergreen rod, the small bars cut out of the Barracuda seat and some very fine Albion tubes. I had a lot of difficulties to position correctly the latter but this was very important to get a correct seat angle. I tried to glue them correctly at least ten times without success... Finally, I used slow setting CA gel and I think I got it at last correctly! And while I was ending that seat, I also looked at the armor. The Barracuda seat I had had no armor plate. The Aires one was too large and cast with the seat. The kit one was far too thick and thinning it was not a solution as the dimensions are alas incorrect. I also had a leftover photoetched one but the holes were not correctly aligned with my scratchbuilt seat supporting structure! In the end, I copied a Barracuda one and enlarged a little bit the holes to mate correctly the seat, armor plate and supporting structure. Finally, the only component I will use from the original seat is the heigth adjusting lever as it will be barely visible on the seat side. So, I simply saw it and reworked it a little bit. Considering what will be finally visible, this will be more than sufficient! Another item removed from the list! Wackyracer, MikeMaben, Pete Roberts and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thierry laurent Posted July 19, 2020 Author Share Posted July 19, 2020 Hi guys, I still played a little bit with thin plastic card and Slater's strips... AND I also drilled more holes! However, to be totally frank, I only did it for the ones that will possibly be visible as close to all the damned beams used in the Spitfire fuselage had holes! One of the last major internal items to add was the radio system. It will barely be visible but I wanted the shapes to be there. Finally, I should have pushed the limits a little bit further to open the radio hatch. Oh, well, this will be for another kit! Here's the radio transmitter box. I just built a very basic box as only the shapes will be visible and finally such radios were without many features and painted black. So, there is no need to go mad with details. Then, I had a look at the radio tray. Again, the main challenge was linked to the need to assess more or less correctly the shapes while being sure this will be correctly positioned when the fuselage halves will be closed! I simplified a little bit the parts as some features will not be visible. Last, here is the smaller support the was located behing station 12. I detailed it a little bit further as this area will be more visible. And this final picture shows how all the items should look together when the fuselage will be closed. I think I can consider that the area will be sufficiently busy with all that stuff. The next step will be the Sutton belts and a final check to assess if I still need to allocate time to other interior elements! I think I can again remove one item from my tweak list! dodgem37, Landrotten Highlander, LSP_Kevin and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_K2 Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 I think this is the first time I've seen you work on a kit, and your results look very impressive to me. I'll look forward to seeing more, for sure. thierry laurent 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thierry laurent Posted July 19, 2020 Author Share Posted July 19, 2020 Actually I'm terribly slow and have no problem to put a project aside for months or even years if I consider I need more data or a technical solution to solve a problem. This explains why I did not publish many WIPs. There are possibly four or five of them on LSP whereas I've been amongst the first batch of members! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 Good show. Nice detailing. Sincerely, Mark thierry laurent 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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