Alex Posted January 10, 2021 Author Share Posted January 10, 2021 (edited) This ignition harness is nowhere as detailed as Mark's, but it still took me two solid hours of squinting and cussing to make. My nanofabrication skills clearly leave much to be desired. The upside-down tape on the work surface trick is a great one though. It shifted the task of drilling 0.5 mm holes into 0.8 mm round styrene rod from impossible to merely maddening. Let's see if I can now paint and install this without breaking it. Then make the other one... Edited January 10, 2021 by Alex D.B. Andrus, Landrotten Highlander, Gazzas and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted January 10, 2021 Share Posted January 10, 2021 Harness looks great to me. Good work all-round. mpk and Alex 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted January 11, 2021 Author Share Posted January 11, 2021 Ignition harnesses and a few additional bits of plumbing added. Next up is to tackle at least some approximation of the air/fuel/boost control linkages that sit on the back of the carb+supercharger+intercooler section. Which is now permanently attached to the engine block. Did a quick paint-up of the upper firewall and oil tank. That's MRP Chromate Primer, in keeping with my plan to make this model my try-out for the new paint that everyone is raving about. So far I like it a lot. One thing I have not tried yet is to see if it's at all possible to brush paint details or small ding fixes with it, but given how thin it is, I'm not optimistic on that. So far the oil tank is not attached - it's just sitting there. I need to decide what other bits I may try to add. I think the oil foam separator lines at a minimum since they are so prominent on top of the tank. Once that's done then I'll see about joining this to the engine and running linkages and hoses between them per the shop manual reprint that should be on the way to me in the mail. I also need to dig out and start on the lower firewall, because (as Mark illustrated) there are a number of components that can be built there which plumb to the engine and may be visible. PLUS I need to clean up the fuselage halves and look at how the additional plumbing that Tamiya provides (the major oil and coolant hoses only) plays into all of this. It's a good thing this group build runs through May, seeing as I have not even laid eyes on the cockpit yet... dodgem37, Anthony in NZ, LSP_Kevin and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted January 14, 2021 Author Share Posted January 14, 2021 I built the control linkages on the back of the engine. Not as detailed as Mark's, again, I know my limits...but hopefully representative of something linkage-y being there. Then joined engine to firewall. Now I can proceed to install the plumbing and control linkages that pass between firewall and engine. But I'm going to wait a bit on that as I need a break from squinting at tiny things. So instead I've started painting up the central cockpit parts (floor, IP, stick, pilot's seat, radios, etc) that go into the next steps. Trak-Tor, LSP_Kevin, Out2gtcha and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 That's coming along very nicely, Alex! Kev Alex and Out2gtcha 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 Very sharp, sir. Alex and mpk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 On 1/13/2021 at 8:43 PM, LSP_Kevin said: That's coming along very nicely, Alex! +1!! Alex 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 On 1/6/2021 at 12:02 PM, dodgem37 said: Front of Firewall. I believe the Tamiya kit has the oil tank line going into the firewall above the location shown here. Back of Firewall. Nice pictures Mark! Alex and dodgem37 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgem37 Posted January 15, 2021 Share Posted January 15, 2021 Good show. Nice detailing. Sincerely, Mark Alex 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted January 15, 2021 Author Share Posted January 15, 2021 3 hours ago, dodgem37 said: Good show. Nice detailing. Sincerely, Mark I’m trying! Your work is a great guide to what’s possible. I just need to figure out what is consistent with a) my skill level and b) finishing this within the gb window... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennismcc Posted January 16, 2021 Share Posted January 16, 2021 This is looking great, that engine build must have taken up quite of a bit of your patience allowance for the week, I keep saying this but one day I must build one of these Tamiya "super" kits. Never mind I'm going to keep on with my current PCM kit. Cheers Dennis Alex 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Wimmer Posted January 16, 2021 Share Posted January 16, 2021 Superb work on the engine, I almost can smell the oil! Cheers Chris Alex 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted January 17, 2021 Author Share Posted January 17, 2021 13 hours ago, dennismcc said: This is looking great, that engine build must have taken up quite of a bit of your patience allowance for the week, I keep saying this but one day I must build one of these Tamiya "super" kits. Never mind I'm going to keep on with my current PCM kit. Cheers Dennis These Tamiya kits are incredibly impressive from an engineering standpoint, and definitely a nice counterpoint to the short-run oddballs I seem to keep buying. The experience can be a bit intimidating though, in that with this kind of material to start with, one had better come up with a stellar result. This is my second of these after the Zero, and I already have the Spitfire on the shelf for some future day. I'm sure I will buy a copy of their Corsair eventually. Too tempting just knowing it's out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted January 17, 2021 Author Share Posted January 17, 2021 After a frustrating week of being too busy with work to do much, I was able to put in some time today (and it's a long weekend in the States, in honor of Dr. King, so more time to work tomorrow and Monday). IP and gunsight. Most of the center part of the cockpit. It still needs to be flat-coated and hit with some additional weathering. But I want to wait to have the cockpit sides, which get built directly on the fuselage sides, completed first so I can be sure to get the level of weathering consistent. I used RB Productions seat belts - quite a nice accessory, and easy to build. The instructions had a useful suggestion to use a "glue stick" poster adhesive stick to glue them together rather than CA or PVA. Worked great. Gazzas, Dragon, dodgem37 and 12 others 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazzas Posted January 19, 2021 Share Posted January 19, 2021 Jeepers that looks nice! Alex 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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