B-17engineer
Colonel
Sweet work W!
Airfix 1/24 scale Bf109E.....or a bed of thorns
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Lucky13
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Most impressive young man!
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Benevolens Magister
Excellent work my friend. That was some warping in the wing, and a great solution to straighten it !
lesofprimus
Brigadier General
Great work Wojtek, very informative...
T Bolt
Colonel
Great fix Wojtek
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THX Mates.... 
But It wasn't the finish. The joint of the previous stringer hardened. So the next step was to make another iron-stringer.But this time it had to go from the root of the wing half to its tip. Of course I have had to remove some plastic from a few areas. The wooden bar was replaced by a piece of a wooden slat. The slat was moved a little bit back to keep the wing line straight. All parts were immobilized with pegs, a clip and rubber bands.
But It wasn't the finish. The joint of the previous stringer hardened. So the next step was to make another iron-stringer.But this time it had to go from the root of the wing half to its tip. Of course I have had to remove some plastic from a few areas. The wooden bar was replaced by a piece of a wooden slat. The slat was moved a little bit back to keep the wing line straight. All parts were immobilized with pegs, a clip and rubber bands.
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Maximowitz
Tech Sergeant
Bloody marvellous.
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Benevolens Magister
Certainly is ! Those spars are so neatly cut, they could be mistaken for machined, kit parts !
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vikingBerserker
Lieutenant General
Impressive!
Heinz
Captain
Great stuff Wojtek!
Some major construction work going on here....
Crimea_River
Marshal
Dr. Wojtek, you're wanted in surgery...
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Vic Balshaw
Major General
A major fault sorted and a brilliantly executed solution. The master at work.
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THX Vic.
When the third stringer has been attached the half of the wing , it started to be straight. But a day later I noticed it had a tendency to be bended crosswise. It means the tip of the wing half tried to get down looking at the part from back or its front. That's why the central stringer got two horizontal styrene strips making its cross-section like "T" letter. It has stopped curving. Of course I had fixed the wing half to the flat surface before I applied the Gunze Lemon glue. The effect below....
When the third stringer has been attached the half of the wing , it started to be straight. But a day later I noticed it had a tendency to be bended crosswise. It means the tip of the wing half tried to get down looking at the part from back or its front. That's why the central stringer got two horizontal styrene strips making its cross-section like "T" letter. It has stopped curving. Of course I had fixed the wing half to the flat surface before I applied the Gunze Lemon glue. The effect below....
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Maximowitz
Tech Sergeant
Meanwhile, in aviation heaven, Kurt Tank remonstrates with Herr M.
"You see Willi? If you had built zem like zat zey vould never have fallen apart!"
"You see Willi? If you had built zem like zat zey vould never have fallen apart!"
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Waiting for hardening of the glue applied to the "T" stringer, I started working on the wheel bays. Fist of all I cut out a plastic circle from a thin styrene plate. The circle diameter was a little bit bigger than the one ofthe rivet circle on the top half of the wing. Then I fixed it with the yellow tape and set a new diameter for the compass that was smaller at about 0.8mm than the previous one. Then I cut out another smaller circle. In that way I obtained a thin plastic ring . I did it twice as there are two bays....
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Crimea_River
Marshal
Good tools make all the difference.
T Bolt
Colonel
Amazing work!
