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• Aug 15, 2012

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• Aug 15, 2012

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It's not what you know, but WHO you know Andy!

 

• Aug 15, 2012

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Neatly done so far Wayne!

 

• Aug 15, 2012

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fantastic

 

• Aug 16, 2012

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That's the bit I missed from work days, the free lunches from time to time. Now I've got to buy my own.

 

• Aug 17, 2012

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Cheers guys,

Continuing on....Added the forward sections to the wing roots and assembled and fitted the tail wheel assembly.

 

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• Aug 17, 2012

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Good stuff Wayne. Does the engine go in before or after painting the model?

 

• Aug 17, 2012

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Working your magic as usual !

 

• Aug 17, 2012

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Neat work so far Wayne!

 

• Aug 17, 2012

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OK, now that's interesting. For my Mk VIII, I was trying to find photo evidence of the small hole on the right wing root but to no avail - until now. Is this the gun camera opening?

 

• Aug 18, 2012

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Seen here Andy, these are MkVIII's

 

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• Aug 18, 2012

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Airframes said:

Good stuff Wayne. Does the engine go in before or after painting the model?

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Seen some done without being in place and some with, will decide how I will do it soon...I will only be making the side panels detachable so may well fix everything else in place for the painting.

thanks for that confirmation picture Andy!

 

• Aug 18, 2012

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I am noticing something in the photo of the tail wheel. The panel lines don;t match up from the tail section to the fuselage, should they? And should that line around the tail section join show?

You must take great care in prepping for the photos, soooo clean. loveit.

 

• Aug 18, 2012

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While researching my Mk IX, I discovered that there were possible holes on both the wing roots, port side for a fuel cooler, and starboard for a gun camera. Now the truly strange part is, sometimes the cooler was removed and a camera was put in its place, and the other hole was faired over, so it comes down to research on that particular craft.

 

• Aug 18, 2012

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N4521U said:

I am noticing something in the photo of the tail wheel. The panel lines don;t match up from the tail section to the fuselage, should they? And should that line around the tail section join show?

You must take great care in prepping for the photos, soooo clean. loveit.

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Well the panel lines don't actually line up must be how they are as there is no way to misalign the parts and that line around the tail is just the angle of the photo, it's a nice clean join.

 

• Aug 18, 2012

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Forging ahead steadily Wayne, do you think you will make the deadline!

 

• Aug 18, 2012

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meatloaf109 said:

While researching my Mk IX, I discovered that there were possible holes on both the wing roots, port side for a fuel cooler, and starboard for a gun camera. Now the truly strange part is, sometimes the cooler was removed and a camera was put in its place, and the other hole was faired over, so it comes down to research on that particular craft.

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Yeah, I knew that about the IX but every picture I had seen of VIIIs had no opening in the port wing so I left it off both wing roots. Thanks, Andy, for that picture. I will now add the hole to my Mk VIII!

 

• Aug 19, 2012

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Vic Balshaw said:

Forging ahead steadily Wayne, do you think you will make the deadline!

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It's Possible I may not Vic...but will do my best......in the mean time the prop stuff is done.

 

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• Aug 19, 2012

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• Aug 19, 2012

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Gonna be tight Wayne but knowing you, you won't rush it. Too nice a model for that.