dutik 4,442 Posted February 11 Author Share Posted February 11 Decided to go around with the strenghtening ribs first. I use evensided triangular 2mm profiles. Maybe 1,5mm size would be fine too. Still one side left, but it looks more and more like the real deal: To get the bends of the ribs right I simply made a cut from below at every bend with a razor saw. Say for 2/3rd of the profiles height. This removed enough material to snug-fit them down onto the surface. Regards - dutik Landrotten Highlander, LSP_Kevin, BradG and 3 others 6 Link to post Share on other sites
dutik 4,442 Posted February 15 Author Share Posted February 15 Not much response here. Just feel encouraged to leave a comment! Profiles are in place. And I have got a second wing. Dryfit: It resembles an aircraft. Somehow. Maybe something from a japanese anime movie...? Watch these stub wings! Now you know why it took a fully grown fighter like the Mig-15 to tow this aerial target! Regards - dutik mgbooyv8, MARU5137, LSP_Kevin and 5 others 8 Link to post Share on other sites
LSP_Kevin 32,441 Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 Don't be disheartened by a lack of comments, dutik - I'm watching every post! It's just a weird subject and weird kit, but you're doing an excellent job. I would have walked away from all that PE! Kev dutik 1 Link to post Share on other sites
BradG 4,705 Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 Yeh mate I'm always watching too. dutik 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Landrotten Highlander 791 Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 I have been lurking since the beginning. just picking up ideas and techniques as I go along if you don't mind. dutik 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Rockie Yarwood 445 Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 Great work taming all that photo etch, Dutik. What a beast! dutik and MARU5137 2 Link to post Share on other sites
RLWP 3,950 Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 What fun this is! Stick at it Dutik, and thank you for sharing an unusual project Richard dutik 1 Link to post Share on other sites
dutik 4,442 Posted February 16 Author Share Posted February 16 Thank you all! This helps a lot struggling this beast While cleaning up the new wing I am on the way to make a template to get the dihydral angle right. Also pondring the next steps. This kit is simplified in a number of places. Profimodeller wants you to glue the rim arund the fuselage edges parallel to the upper and lower side, while in fact it is angled at 45 degrees. There are also no positive rivets at the upper side of the rim parts, and no rivets at all at the lower sides. I consider to make my own lines of rivettet metal strip using some copper sheet and a rivetter, and to stick two strips back to back together to have positive rivets at both faces. We shall see. The very next step is to finish the wings, install them at the fuselage and to add the wingstruts at both sides (and the wing struts are a multipiece affair each). Regards - dutik Rainer Hoffmann, Landrotten Highlander, MARU5137 and 1 other 4 Link to post Share on other sites
dutik 4,442 Posted February 22 Author Share Posted February 22 The wings are fixed in place and got leading edge caps. I am on the way to add the underwing struts, one per side. One attachment point is that U-shaped part on the lower wing side. The fuselage attachment point will be somewhere where I made the black pencil marking (close to the edge). Instructions are not very clear about this. Profimodellers parts are also very different from to the real thing, and they ask you to use strip styrene for the strut, while the real thing looks more like a tube... They ask you also to build up a hexnut at the upper wing side from PE (not show here). I simply replaced this with a resin hexnut. And they want you to make screws or bolts for the attachment of the struts from wire and PE hex end pieces. No, thanks! I will go for some resin or styrene bolts to do this. Enjoy! - dutik BradG, MARU5137, LSP_Kevin and 4 others 7 Link to post Share on other sites
RLWP 3,950 Posted February 22 Share Posted February 22 PART of Poland do that quite a bit, making up round control columns out of flat etches. It does work, there are easier ways! Richard Link to post Share on other sites
dutik 4,442 Posted February 23 Author Share Posted February 23 One more photo of the real thing: Air museum at Praha-Kbely, if you want to see it live. Regards - dutik MARU5137, Landrotten Highlander, scvrobeson and 2 others 5 Link to post Share on other sites
mgbooyv8 1,092 Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 You're taming the beast! Are you going to do the color scheme of the picture as well? Keep up the good work! Cheers, Peter Link to post Share on other sites
dutik 4,442 Posted February 26 Author Share Posted February 26 I think so. They were all grey with yellow and a large number. One strut in place, parts for the second ready: These are only the parts of the fuselage-to-strut joint. Not in the photo are two more hexnuts and more wire for the joint between wing and strut. Going on and on... Guess I will not make it until the deadline, but this will be finished now. No mercy! Regards - dutik LSP_Kevin, MARU5137, Landrotten Highlander and 3 others 6 Link to post Share on other sites
LSP_Kevin 32,441 Posted February 26 Share Posted February 26 No mercy indeed! I'm dying to see what this will look like with a coat of primer on it. Kev dutik 1 Link to post Share on other sites
dutik 4,442 Posted February 27 Author Share Posted February 27 I am afraid it might be look just like a mess of dents and scratches... Meanwhile: Ooops I did it again! Thats the other side. Now the wings are ready Next step: Some bits and pieces at the lowes side. Landing skids and some bumpers. And the parachute compartment at the rear. Then the rivettet lines along the edges. After a lot of pondering I will try some strip styrene with Archer 3D rivet lines. We shall see. BTW: Nice movie - "The Dig". With Ralph Fiennes (known as Voldemort). Nice story about the uncovering of the largest iron age grave ever in Great Britain just at the beginning of WW2. Good movie - and you get som Spitfires flying past - and going down - too. Regards - dutik Landrotten Highlander, MARU5137 and LSP_Kevin 3 Link to post Share on other sites
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