1:1 SCALE HURRICANE PROJECT

[Wurger]

 

[le_steph40]

great work !

 

[jeffreyjay]

Thank you, I've got more room to do it now. So I can get on with it

 

[Airframes]

Brilliant !
Great to see the progress, and you must be pleased with the work so far.

 

[jeffreyjay]

yes without a doubt, its coming along nicely now

 

[T Bolt]

Wonderful looking panel there and the fuselage is coming along great

 

[vikingBerserker]

Well done sir!

 

[Crimea_River]

Great stuff. Here's a pic of the real thing. If you find this useful, you can go to this thread for more. I will be posting another quarterly update there soon: http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/warbird-displays/calgarys-hurricane-move-34551.html

 

[jeffreyjay]

That's great, thanks. Il have a look through the post shortly

 

[jeffreyjay]

Small update as I haven't been on for a while

The panel gets ever closer

Ive also built some of the front 'engine compartment' This is the main framework, there will also be wood formers added to this, the same as the rear as I don't have a merlin to pop in lol. Note the wing curve which will be filled in by the fillet

Ive also built half the wing centre section, this will be the top half, the bottom will have the undercarriage cut outs. ive got to basically build this twice and weld them one above the other approx. 10 inches apart. Im not quite sure whether to attach the undercarriage legs and wheels then slide it under the fuselage or not. Theres quite a bit of weight and im doing most of this on my own.

pic is on its side

 

[Airframes]

Great stuff !
Why not bung a lawn mower or small motorbike engine up front, as they did with the BoB movie replicas? The prop blades would have to be really secure on the hub though !
Might be better to have the undercart attached if possible - probably make assembly, and any future dis-assembly/re-assembly easier, and, if done properly, would probably also make the overall assembly stronger. Just a thought.

 

[Gnomey]

Looking good so far!

 

[jeffreyjay]

Hi airframes, yes I think that's the best idea. Going to be too hard to mount it all afterwards I think. As for the engine, ive had a few ideas. Im going to wait until ive got a prop sorted first and go from there, ideally after a fibreglass one to keep weight down

 

[vikingBerserker]

Man, that looks so fricken cool!

 

[T Bolt]

Very cool!

 

[Airframes]

Now if Jan had that, he'd be sitting in it, calling out "Repeat please?" and making machine-gun noises !

 

[jeffreyjay]

it wont be long until im doing that myself

 

[jeffreyjay]

A couple of pics of a crude compass mount ive made, im going to have a few goes until I perfect it but you get the general idea

 

[Gnomey]

Nicely done!

 

[T Bolt]

That should work