ccheese
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It's been awhile since I heard it too, Bill. But only about 42 years. I hope your decals arrive.
Charles
Charles
**** DONE: 1/48 SH-3A HS-4 - Carrier Aircraft GB
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B-17engineer
Colonel
Looks really good so far bill!
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N4521U
Colonel
Thanks guys......
Saturday today and have spent the morning doing other stuff, and the last couple hours doing a roof inside. Seems there is nothing between crew and engines and transmission. SO I is installin a roof!
Just using styrene card and 1/2mm is not enough to glue at the edge. The first pic shows some styrene rectangle for something to glue to. The half on the right is the sticks roughed in, the half on the right is shaped to the contour for the card to stick to. The second picture is the port side half with the card in place.
Now I can start laying out the ribbing, like I said I was agonna do!
I sailor on......
Saturday today and have spent the morning doing other stuff, and the last couple hours doing a roof inside. Seems there is nothing between crew and engines and transmission. SO I is installin a roof!
Just using styrene card and 1/2mm is not enough to glue at the edge. The first pic shows some styrene rectangle for something to glue to. The half on the right is the sticks roughed in, the half on the right is shaped to the contour for the card to stick to. The second picture is the port side half with the card in place.
Now I can start laying out the ribbing, like I said I was agonna do!
I sailor on......
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ccheese
Member In Perpetuity
It's coming.... Don't stop now.
Charles
Charles
Aaron Brooks Wolters
Brigadier General
If it's anything like your last builds, it'll be spot on sir! Do keep up the excellent work.
meatloaf109
1st Lieutenant
A little something to stop the oil from dripping on the crew's heads, very nice!
Airframes
Benevolens Magister
Goo d stuff Bill. I'm wanting to get back to work on my Wessex, having seen your builds, but got too much to finish on the Halifax and other projects first.
Vic Balshaw
Major General
Sailor on old chap, sailor on!!
Crimea_River
Marshal
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N4521U
Colonel
I'm paddlin.
Appreciate the votes of confidence guys.....
I've started the ribbing.
Now I had trouble trying to form the .03 x .06 styrene along the widest part. So I had to think a bit outside the box. When forming sheet metal, to shorten the length of one side of a sheet, they Crimp it. When a solid is Piched, it lengthens. So if you strike one side of a solid with a cold chisel it will try and stretch. So having said that, I used a pair of scissors to Pinch one side of the styrene, this caused it to stretch and therefor create a curve. It's just a touch of a cut, not thru. The smaller the radius, the closer you pinch, on the long curve it was just a couple of pinches much farther apart.
Takes about 5-8 minutes each. I figure in a month I should have all the ribs in!!!!!
*Oh, I made a square out of thin styrene sheet to mark the rib lines. Thin sheet so it would bend on the curve of the side.
Appreciate the votes of confidence guys.....
I've started the ribbing.
Now I had trouble trying to form the .03 x .06 styrene along the widest part. So I had to think a bit outside the box. When forming sheet metal, to shorten the length of one side of a sheet, they Crimp it. When a solid is Piched, it lengthens. So if you strike one side of a solid with a cold chisel it will try and stretch. So having said that, I used a pair of scissors to Pinch one side of the styrene, this caused it to stretch and therefor create a curve. It's just a touch of a cut, not thru. The smaller the radius, the closer you pinch, on the long curve it was just a couple of pinches much farther apart.
Takes about 5-8 minutes each. I figure in a month I should have all the ribs in!!!!!
*Oh, I made a square out of thin styrene sheet to mark the rib lines. Thin sheet so it would bend on the curve of the side.
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Benevolens Magister
Good stuff Bill - bit like 'slotting' timber to get it to bend around a curve.
Oh! What fun that looks to be....
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N4521U
Colonel
Laff-a-minute matey!
ccheese
Member In Perpetuity
meatloaf109
1st Lieutenant
Clever! I will remember that.
Crimea_River
Marshal
Bill, your ingenuity continues to amaze. Well done mate!
well done Bill
Vic Balshaw
Major General
Nice one Bill, could have done with that idea when building the Cat early last year.
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N4521U
Colonel
Thanks, I didn't think it was That clever, but if someone can use it, more the better.
BTW Vic, you did good on the Cat mate.
Thanks Andy, Paul and Karl.
I finished the verticals on one side, have run out of 3 x 6. Cut out the door for the resin door. The bluddy door came today, but still no decals!!!!!!!! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh. On the bulkhead at the rear of the cabin I'm gonna use some alfoil for the zippered curtain. When I get some more styrene I'll do the horizontals on the walls.
I sailor on.
BTW Vic, you did good on the Cat mate.
Thanks Andy, Paul and Karl.
I finished the verticals on one side, have run out of 3 x 6. Cut out the door for the resin door. The bluddy door came today, but still no decals!!!!!!!! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh. On the bulkhead at the rear of the cabin I'm gonna use some alfoil for the zippered curtain. When I get some more styrene I'll do the horizontals on the walls.
I sailor on.
