Derek B Posted December 27, 2020 Share Posted December 27, 2020 (edited) Peter, I am so pleased that you have had a really restful Christmas (I hope that you will have a great new year as well). Fantastic progress with your Fury and I am so pleased that Tigger has been able to assist you with your project - he is a top guy! As for the wing tips, as you already have the ribs in place, perhaps filling the voids with dense blue foam type material and the then (after shaping) cover each individual rib position with strips of thin plastic sheet; hopefully, that will get you around the double curvature issue without adding additional weight to the wing tips? Alternatively, to keep it simple, you could fill the tip rib gaps with foam, shape it, then heat a thin sheet of plastic card and simply pull it over the wing tip - it can then be trimmed and glued to the tip (i use latex based contact adhesive for this purpose, as it does not affect the plastic - I use this to attach plastic sheet to balsa cores for wings or fuselage). For foam filler. I use 'Oasis' type flower arranging foam, which seems pretty impervious to any solvents. Good luck. Cheers Derek Edited December 27, 2020 by Derek B daHeld, Alain Gadbois and airscale 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigger Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 Glad that I could be of service to you Peter. airscale, daHeld, Out2gtcha and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alaninaustria Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 Wow! What a build! And nice to see the cooperation amongst members! Cheers Alan airscale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crobinsonh Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 Superb work and illustration of your methods airscale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcin_Matejko Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 Very good Peter That's how I make hulls, it's the best method airscale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomprobert Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 This project just continues to amaze - it’s good to see your woodworking skills are on a par with your metal work... is there anything you cannot do..? Tom Derek B, daHeld and airscale 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 Simply astounding work! airscale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cati888 Posted December 28, 2020 Share Posted December 28, 2020 Long time lurker.. wondered If you had considered some of the very light hearshrink used for free flight scale models. You can use small slithers for wing tape etc lifespan was most commonly used but getting in short supply https://solarfilm.co.uk/products/litespan airscale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeMaben Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Looking great , have a good new year Pete Hi Cati airscale and Derek B 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockie Yarwood Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 Spectacular! Derek B and airscale 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockie Yarwood Posted December 29, 2020 Share Posted December 29, 2020 (edited) Don't know what happened with the multiple posts, but I like your work very much! Thanks and best wishes for a wonderful new year! Edited December 29, 2020 by Rockie Yarwood Derek B and airscale 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airscale Posted January 6, 2021 Author Share Posted January 6, 2021 evening folks Happy New Year folks and thanks for all your kind comments ..thought I would drop in with a little update.. ..I started to work on the vacformed fuselage, with the first thing to do being to cut holes where the inner brass framework that supports the cabane struts and the inner fuselage structure & wing spars goes to see if it all fits inside - thankfully it does.. after that, I laid the halves onto plans to transfer the positions of panel lines and the definition between the metal and stringer areas and added the rear section as that was not part of the vacform structure out of plastic card.. ..I found it easier to prime the parts so I could see what I was doing - the areas where the gun troughs sit are marked on the upper forward fuselage.. ..the gun troughs were created first by making some handed masters and vacforming them, later fitting them into the troughs.. ..after filling and working in properly.. ..stringer positions were marked and you can also use the strips of litho I use to get parallel lines against the datum - here also are printed strips I make that define equal spacing between two points. In this case a strip of tape is used to measure the top of the turtledeck and that distance divided by 12 for the equally spaced stringers that sit in this area.. ..all the stringers are now marked out.. ..lastly, the internal brass framework can be seen enclosed - largely things are where they should be, certainly the spars and box section tubular structure, but I may need to work on the strut mount positions.. so next I need to work out how to represent the stringers as all the work really needs to be done whaile the halves are just that - halves. my ideal of sliding the internals into the nose wouldn't work as the structure is too wide so I need to make all the internals and enclose them as you would a kit. I really didn't want to do that as it means lots of fragile stuff inside the fuselage while lots of handling is needed in skinning where panels need to be almost beaten into shape.. still lots to do and having to think three processes ahead of where I am so I don't screw things up TTFN Peter R Palimaka, Landrotten Highlander, Paulpk and 25 others 28 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 Wow!! Very neat to watch all this come together airscale and Derek B 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 Brilliant work, Peter! Kev airscale and Derek B 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brahman104 Posted January 7, 2021 Share Posted January 7, 2021 Love the way you just totally nailed vacuum forming. Hand carved master and everything just lines up!!!! Hahaha, well done again my friend. Top effort!!! Craig daHeld and airscale 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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