Stripped down Mosquito MK IV 1/32

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Due to the exceptionally nice weather of last weekend I didn't build much but drove around looking for a replacement for my old Harley, well, plenty of choice, if you have a well-filled wallet, but for a poor working student like me it is different. So I'm looking for an old one again, because they have the best engines without injection. Yep, injection is very handy, I believe that immediately, but I miss the engine character, I also have that with Japanese people. Anyway, old american shit is nice, but now back to the old british shit

So I was working on the rear wheel, I had to sand it again to get it to fit, because the model was good, only more suitable for a 1/24 scale.
I wrote that I would build it and I quote from my own work

"I thought about making it movable as well, but I'm afraid I won't get the pivot pin holes right in BH7 without wrecking other things, but..........I never say never"

So pay particular attention to the last 4 words ................. and yes, I made it moving anyway, including the hydraulic jack that brings about the retraction or extension

the OFF position



And the retracted position



Okay, I thought the photo would be sharper, the photo below is sharp and there you can see that I still have some sanding to do

the jack is just in front of the master cylinder and also rotates to feed, hopefully it is clearly visible in the next photo



The pins still have to be shortened, but so far I still want to disassemble it, the brackets for the jack are quite heavy, they will be touched up a bit but I have to make a bottom strip for truss 6 to get everything solid for the construction of the fuselage, that will become clearer later, somewhere in May 2023 I think.

But because the rudder surfaces will make the stick and foot rudder move, I also have to make something with which I can lower the tailwheel from the cockpit, so I connected some bayonet couplings, filled some oil and tested it.

So that didn't go well, luckily I had put a protective sheet over my cutting mat




Well, those bayonet connections are probably a bit too old
 
More thinking than pasting this weekend. I sat for a while with the rear wing construction in my hands, with the frames 5 and 4. Now a lot of things can still be glued there, but I had to come up with something for the main construction. I wanted to build from tail to nose at first, but that is somehow not practical also due to the fact that the main wing will be a big part of the construction strength anyway, at least in my model. So I was contemplating what my next step should be. Again it's not a kit and because of the openwork character you have to solve some constructions in a model construction way, so you really have to think 20 steps ahead (and otherwise just build everything again ) So decided to make the wing anyway .First the main shapes



Yep, I could also have built from 1 piece, but what's funny about that, way too easy
No, nonsense of course, but in order to be able to safely transport this model, with a wingspan of about 50 cm, I want to make the wings a kind of dismountable (just think about how to do that with the various pipes, so from radiators, motors and flap controls)
So first going to make the two visible middle parts, there is also a lot of work



I have now put them together and clamped them so that I can work as parallel as possible
It is now filling of the ribs and then sanding everything in 1 go into model, after which each rib must be further built up separately. In the real one there are welds in the wing booms, but I have decided to make this one in 1 piece and to fix it to the middle piece with dowel pins
 
It was another reasonably productive weekend, although of course there were a few hickups in it
I had closed with the wings in initial condition, now there is some more plastic in them



By clamping them together you can work just that little bit better aligned (although that is not a 100% guarantee)
And once the structural work is done, it can dry for a while and sanding can be done, yay



Well, and then a few come loose, or are not really nice, so replace and then sand again, huh?



Anyway, that also worked, always nice if you still have muscle pain from the gym, but well, for some result you have to have something to spare (I'm talking about sanding right now)

The nose ribs are open, I thought for a moment to take the printer down, but with two kittens in the house it seemed really optimal to me and it's too cold upstairs, so I cut strips, immediately took the front frames as well



The nose lists have already been mounted, albeit with closed nose ribs, but that is technically better



Well, and then start making the open nose ribs, gosh, how difficult it is to align those thin black strips properly and you really have to give it some time to harden. There will also be a nose rig between the ribs, so you have to make a double number, so I started with 1 wing first



But, that black was just a bit too much, it didn't work well, so I removed everything again and cut thinner white strips and of course glued a few.





Miss that I have a few hours left this week to do a few every time, otherwise it will be a long exercise I'm afraid
 
Monday, update day, right?

I left you with a wing with a number of glued pieces on it, that has now grown a bit further



The port side flap already gets a nice nose, just mount a cross piece at each nose rib and sand everything neatly, at the rear the 1st 2 tail ribs are already mounted, the airlerons will come up against this, further towards the fuselage the flaps must come.

Although I have to come up with quite a bit for controlling the airlerons and flaps, I'll make the basic wing first, because I don't know exactly how or what yet.

In the meantime also started with the starboard wing



Strangely enough, this is much neater than with the port side

And then we put the two wings together, the tail ribs on both are now complete and on the starboard wing the ribs have been given a nasal rib, now for the intermediate ribs.



I have also started with the radiators, here the nose ribs with platform for the various cooling elements, namely seen from the fuselage, a cabin cooler, then the engine coolers and finally the oil cooler. Just doubting whether I will print this or also make it out of styrene, where mesh must be placed on the front and back

 
Thansk guys

Good, short construction weekend because of the model construction fair, but still able to do something.
I moved on to the radiators, how surprising

First made the two end strips and the partition



Then the cooling elements
So I have to make a lot of normal exploded views and photos, so it's sometimes a bit of guess work



The coolers themselves are made up of a few strips of Evergreen with a kind of roof so that they look like separate elements, from left to right it is the cooler for the cockpit, then 2 pieces of water coolers and on the right is the oil cooler

And we fit it into the frame, you get something like this



I was a bit worried about the mesh for the coolers, but then realized that the packaging of the scalpels actually has a pretty nice relief, so I stuck those on too

Then the intermediate beams had to be made, so that was a lot of fitting and measuring before they fit well in the frame



At this point I was wondering why I was so busy, I could also have used the time to digitally draw this thing and then print it out, then it would be straight and no sloppiness to see, but yes, then the printer down again because it was too cold upstairs, but downstairs a running printer and 2 young cats, I think the combination could not turn out well, but ............... ...it is possible that at some point I am not satisfied with my work and will still start printing and drawing.......although the order might be smarter the other way around

Just a little test fit on the wing, well that should be possible, now it's still a bit slumped, but once glued it should be fine

With the intermediate pieces in it and sanded nicely, it looks good, at least I think so, the other one is a bit crooked, so I won't show it



To be able to connect the various pipes, connection points and coupling pieces had to be installed, so with this one



And glued it becomes something like that



Once in color it will look much better I think
 
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