Bobs Buckles 397 Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 I'm in for the ride! Excellent start Cheers, Bob airscale 1 Link to post Share on other sites
MARU5137 16,167 Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 Hello Peter, Wonderful to see you commence another Epic build. Having followed your Tigercat build, I know this one will be absolutely STUPENDOUS! SUPERB start Peter. Comfy hammock found! and following with much enthusiasm! airscale 1 Link to post Share on other sites
scvrobeson 3,786 Posted October 18, 2020 Share Posted October 18, 2020 Excellent start! Always down to follow one of Peter's builds. How did you secure the CF rod though? Is it just super glued, or is there a way to really secure it together? Matt airscale 1 Link to post Share on other sites
airscale 12,074 Posted October 21, 2020 Author Share Posted October 21, 2020 evening folks Thank you for all your kind comments – I will try and live up to them! On 10/17/2020 at 6:54 PM, jumpjack said: And there was me hoping for a Wyvern TF1! Should it come to making brass look like steel/aluminium, I guess you know about 'immerse tin powder@ used for cold tinning? Les Thanks Les - I don't know about this process, I guess I am going to need to get on google as I would love to be able to make brass look like any silver metal as will be seen later.. thanks for the tip On 10/17/2020 at 8:27 PM, Fvdm said: Great subject Peter, have fun building it. I see you using carbon fibre rod. Do you glue this with regular CA? Or are you using something else? Yep - just regular CA - I cut it with a slitting disc and wear a mask as I expect the dust is bad for you, but for assembly & shaping it's a lot like very hard plastic On 10/17/2020 at 8:42 PM, brahman104 said: For someone that lost their modelling mojo for a few months, you seem to have half a plane built already!!!!!!! Great start on the project so far Peter! I love all the little gusset plates as well, how do you do all the little internal cuts in the litho, is it just scribing with a pin then snapping out like normal? LOVE all the brass work too, you'll definitely need it for this one! Craig Hi Craig - love what you are doing on the B17 - that is next level wizardry to get proud rivets into metal panels yes, it's just run around the shapes with a scalpel and breaking the waste away while holding the part in a hold'n'fold tool On 10/17/2020 at 9:10 PM, dodgem37 said: Nice start. Great show. Wonderful book. Excellent reference. What scale? Thank you. Sincerely, Mark Hi Mark, thanks for stopping by - it's 1/18 so it can sit with my Spitfire one day On 10/18/2020 at 4:13 PM, Bobs Buckles said: I'm in for the ride! Excellent start Cheers, Bob Thanks Bob - may be dropping you line one day to talk rigging - it's all wichcraft to me ..got a little bit done since last time – added the seat height adjuster – an industrial sized lever indeed.. ..also used this and one other photo to try and make up the control column assembly in which the control stick itself goes through a casting which is itself mounted on a rod going fore & aft.. ..you can see the stick as the grey vertical rod in front of the seat, and the transverse black rod below it ..I made the parts from brass and these were just CA’d rather than soldered.. ..and with the torque tubes for the aileron controls (I think..).. whatever it is it mounts to brackets on the fuselage side frames to secure the whole thing.. ..for the control grip, I found a picture of a Fury one in the RAF archive, scaled it and traced it into coreldraw to get an idea of construction.. By this point I had added two small brass ferrules to a bit of thick wire and wrapped it in cotton.. I think it looks a bit overscale, but there were no better options I could think of.. ..the final part has quite a few tiny bits, which I hope captures it.. ..and in place – it still needs the cables from those two thumb controls.. ..and that’s it – still struggling with references so just seeing what I can do while I wait to see if I can climb all over a real one TTFN Peter Out2gtcha, easixpedro, Alain Gadbois and 20 others 23 Link to post Share on other sites
Rainer Hoffmann 1,710 Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Brilliant stuff Peter, but I don't expect anything else. Where did you get those tiny brass nuts? Please don't tell me you did them yourself. Cheers Rainer airscale 1 Link to post Share on other sites
dodgem37 8,599 Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Nice. 'Where did you get those tiny brass nuts?' Model Motorcars: https://model-motorcars.myshopify.com/collections/small-parts-hardware Sincerely, Mark airscale and Rainer Hoffmann 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Starfighter 5,057 Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Another upcoming thread full of awesomeness - glad to see you're back, Peter! airscale 1 Link to post Share on other sites
RadBaron 1,053 Posted October 22, 2020 Share Posted October 22, 2020 Peter, that is absolutely astounding. Truly remarkable!! airscale 1 Link to post Share on other sites
airscale 12,074 Posted October 23, 2020 Author Share Posted October 23, 2020 Thank you ..after posting the pics of the control grip I was really bothered by how crap the cotton wrap looked..so I stripped it off.. ..then I painted it in maskol masking rubber & painted that instead... ..I am happier with how this looks on another note, on Monday I am going up near Duxford to meet with someone who has nearly 2,000 factory drawings of the Fury which I am allowed to access and photograph - really thrilled about that as it is becoming a problem having no references TTFN Peter nicolas96, R Palimaka, MARU5137 and 14 others 17 Link to post Share on other sites
Alain Gadbois 2,320 Posted October 23, 2020 Share Posted October 23, 2020 Simply amazing Peter! And very good choice of subject! I'm sure Monday's visit will be highly instructive with many additional days of digesting that mass of material. Alain airscale and MARU5137 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Daniel460 980 Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 I wish you would have told us on Patreon that you were going to lose your Mojo on the 190 build Peter. Good luck..... Dan airscale 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Simmo.b 1,161 Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 Lovely work, I will enjoy following!! airscale 1 Link to post Share on other sites
airscale 12,074 Posted October 24, 2020 Author Share Posted October 24, 2020 3 hours ago, Daniel460 said: I wish you would have told us on Patreon that you were going to lose your Mojo on the 190 build Peter. Good luck..... Dan Hi Dan - I am a bit confused - I did post an 11 minute video on Patreon before posting this WIP talking about Mojo and past & present experiences, have you not seen it yet? It's here While I hope folks stay to enjoy the show, I also talk about freedom to leave if it's not your bag I thought I did the right thing by everyone Peter MARU5137 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Anthony in NZ 6,420 Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 Pure Artistry Peter....I look forward to each update, your work is an inspiration! There are few with the skill set you have Cheers Anthony MARU5137 and airscale 2 Link to post Share on other sites
dodgem37 8,599 Posted October 24, 2020 Share Posted October 24, 2020 As well you should be. Sincerely, Mark airscale 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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