**** DONE: Revell 1/48 P-40B RAF 112 Squadron in Egypt in 1941 MTO Group Build

[Wurger]

It is guite thick carton right? What about the room in the hole ?

 

[B-17engineer]

Carton, is not super thin, but not super thick. It was the angle I took it, that you see a gap. But it fits

 

[Wurger]

That's good info. Let's go farther.

You will need a few thin plastic strips. You can use the rest of the plastic card you have when these disks are cut off. Like in the pics below for instance. You need eight or nine of these strips . It depends on haw many lines you drew on these disks.For cutting these strips you should use a scalpel. If you can't make these long thin strips you can cut shorter one but their length has to be a littler bit over the disk diameter.

A few pics.

 

[B-17engineer]

OK, will these be cut in half so I have them for each wheel bay?

 

[Wurger]

Yes Harrison.You need them for both disks. But these longer ones are better in holding, right?

 

[muller]

I could have done with this advice on my P-40 Wojtek, my wheel wells are all wrong. But i'm not changing them now.

I'll know for the next time I build one.

 

[Wurger]

For putting these strips and disks together you need quite easy tool and some of flat surface.. Look at the pic below.
The horizontal strip of masking tape is with its adhesive side up. These short two strips stick it to the surface normally.

 

[B-17engineer]

Oh okay!

 

[Wurger]

I could have done with this advice on my P-40 Wojtek, my wheel wells are all wrong. But i'm not changing them now.

I'll know for the next time I build one.

I saw your P-40. Of course a such thing should be made when all halves of the wing were separate parts. But Harrison glued them togeter and now we have to go along the way.I think it is a good training for him as well.

 

[B-17engineer]

I am running real late!

So I need to sand these and get back with the other stuff later.

Many thanks Wojtek! Have a nice night!

 

[Wurger]

Here you are a way I set these strips with one of the disks.I set the central one as the first then added the rest of them.In order to get better setting I use scalpel to do it.When all were at correct positions I sticked their ends at the right side with a strip of masking tape.

 

[Wurger]

OK. Harrison , pleasant dreams.

Your disks .....humm the one on the right can be though these lines aren't parallel. The one of left is a scrap. You have to make a new one I think.

 

[Wurger]

The next pictures here. Having these strips sticked I could put up their right endings to apply the CA Superglue. I took a small drop of it on a needle and applied the glue at the bottom of each strip.The needle was moving left to right.The needle top has to be cleaned everytime for each applying of the CA glue.

 

[Wurger]

Having all strips glued I kept in place the disk with my left hand and unsticked the tape strip carefully.
Then I detached the whole element and cut off no longer needed pieces of strips. Notice the way I cut them off.

 

[Wurger]

Here is another way I used for attaching strips to the second disk. Because these strips were shorter then those before I applied the CA glue on them directly holding at one ending with tweezers. Later I cut off these unwanted parts of stripes like above.

 

[Wurger]

Finally I've gotten these parts.ALso I sanded again tops, bottoms and edges with the sandpaper to make them a little bit thinner.

 

[Wurger]

I hope these will be look similar to that bays when these parts are attached into the wheel bays .

 

[muller]

Lovely work Wojtek. That method is stored in my brain now!

 

[vikingBerserker]

Wow, the use of the tape is rather ingenious!

 

[B-17engineer]

I will do this tomorrow! Many thanks Wojtek!