Darius at home Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 (edited) Finished the port wing flap well structure today - used plastic card stock and plenty of liquid polystyrene cement. One moment of horror though as I knocked a practically full bottle of liquid poly all over the workbench. Fortunately nothing valuable was melted!! :blink: I used the offcult flap sections from the lower wing half as the basis for the new flaps uinsg more plastic card sheet. Darius Edited August 20, 2006 by Darius at home Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jester292 Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 Darius I love this build, but I have to make a suggestion. It would be a lot easier to follow if you had one thread we could track or subscribe to. Then we can see the progress from start to finish so much easier. Awesome work so far! Aaron Quote Link to post Share on other sites
norbert Posted August 19, 2006 Share Posted August 19, 2006 Darius wow I'm always amazed to see what people, aned you Darius, can do with vac kits. It does not only look good. there is something more I cannot describe keep us updated Norbert Quote Link to post Share on other sites
David Walker Posted August 20, 2006 Share Posted August 20, 2006 What you've done with that flap well is just amazing. That's some incredible detail work. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
iaf-man Posted August 20, 2006 Share Posted August 20, 2006 Darius, Many people wrote about your build,so I won't repeat them <_< I've started a couple of vac projects myself,still going. About the flap wells-do you have any photos(how did you "filled" them up?) or plans?Any ribs' dimentions, or you just let your imagination go wild?Do you have any photos of those ribs in preparation? You wrote about your A-3 build-any tips? Thanks Isaac Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Darius at home Posted August 20, 2006 Author Share Posted August 20, 2006 Darius,Many people wrote about your build,so I won't repeat them I've started a couple of vac projects myself,still going. About the flap wells-do you have any photos(how did you "filled" them up?) or plans?Any ribs' dimentions, or you just let your imagination go wild?Do you have any photos of those ribs in preparation? You wrote about your A-3 build-any tips? Thanks Isaac Isaac I did not take any photos of the B-47 flapwell ribs "under construction" but will do when I build the starboard wing. I used photos and drawings in the book "Boeing's B-47 Stratojet" by Alwyn T Lloyd as reference for construction the ribs so they do have a basis in fact rather than being imaginary. With regards to the A-3, the tips that I would give would apply to any vac-form build, namely treat each component as a mini build project and think ahead to how they will be assembled together into the completed aircraft. Darius Quote Link to post Share on other sites
iaf-man Posted August 20, 2006 Share Posted August 20, 2006 Thanks. I'm waiting with the others Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gary West Posted August 20, 2006 Share Posted August 20, 2006 Nice work Darius Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chappie Posted August 24, 2006 Share Posted August 24, 2006 Trying to keep this on the first few pages. How's it coming, Darius? Chappie Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Darius at home Posted August 25, 2006 Author Share Posted August 25, 2006 Trying to keep this on the first few pages. How's it coming, Darius?Chappie I am over in Belfast visiting my Mum this week-end so no further progress I am afraid. As requested, all further progress updates will be on this specific page. Darius Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Colin W Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 Looking good. As you said its a lot of work though! Cheers Colin W Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chappie Posted August 25, 2006 Share Posted August 25, 2006 I am over in Belfast visiting my Mum this week-end so no further progress I am afraid.As requested, all further progress updates will be on this specific page. Darius At least your mum has Internet access!! :D Chappie Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Darius at home Posted August 26, 2006 Author Share Posted August 26, 2006 At least your mum has Internet access!! Chappie Yes...but its dial-up. Had to wait 5 minutes for the pictiure of Kate Beckinsale on the Tora Tora Tora thread to upload. Still, worth the wait I think. Darius Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Darius at home Posted February 24, 2007 Author Share Posted February 24, 2007 (edited) After an absence of several months, this beast is back on the bench. I started with the starboard mainwing sanding and re-scribing the vac-form halves before cementing them together. Having committed myself to this with the port wing, I removed the flaps from the lower wing half. The photos I took last year helped to remind me what to do!!! I sanded the fuselage halves and removed the main gear doors and cockpit aperture from each half. Sanger provide vac-formed main gear wells and gear door inner surfaces. The latter were cut from the backing sheet and skinned with thin plastic card. The gearwells were detailed with additional ribbing/stiffeners cut from scrap parts of the vac-form backing. Thats it for today. The next stage is to replicate the flap well detail on the starboard wing. <_< Darius Edited February 24, 2007 by Darius at home Quote Link to post Share on other sites
J.C. Bahr Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 Looking sweet Darius! Keep posting up the great work! :) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kaburaya Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 Nice work Darius, she's going to be a big model when finished. Any Idea on the scheme/unit yet? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Darius at home Posted February 25, 2007 Author Share Posted February 25, 2007 (edited) After a 7am 16 mile bike ride up into the South Downs and back to the sea, a hot bath and a breakfast of bacon and eggs, it was back to the bench. Sanger provide a set of fuselage bulkheads which are very useful. I swapped bulkheads A and F from their instructed positions as their shapes were better suited to the tail and nose respectively. The bulkheads were super-glued into the port fuselage halves along with the gear wells. I cemented strips of plastic card to the fuleage edges between the bulkheads to serve as attachment points for when I glue the fuselage halves together. Lengths of old kit sprue were cemented between these strips to maintain the fuselage profile between the bulkheads. The cockpit floor is provided as a vac formed piece with some interesting lumps formed within it. I am not sure if these relate to anything in particular as the cockpit seats will sit along the centre line (unlike these lumps) and will be at a higher level than this floor. I will use the kit floor as a platform upon which to scratch build the cockpit. All in all a quite satisfying morning. Darius PS. kaburaya, the model will represent a B-47E with the partial white underbelly scheme. No particular unit selected yet. I am open to suggestions... Edited February 25, 2007 by Darius at home Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Darius at home Posted February 25, 2007 Author Share Posted February 25, 2007 Made a start on the cockpit today using plastic card and bits of sprue. The seats and instrument panels will be next. :) Darius Quote Link to post Share on other sites
davetur Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 I wish I could be as precise and clean with injected models as you are with vacforms, Darius. Just a silly question: are you sure about only four throttle levers on a 6 engine aeroplane? Regards Davide Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Darius at home Posted February 25, 2007 Author Share Posted February 25, 2007 I wish I could be as precise and clean with injected models as you are with vacforms, Darius.Just a silly question: are you sure about only four throttle levers on a 6 engine aeroplane? Regards Davide Doh, quite right - just about enough space for two more levers on each!!! Darius Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Aggressor Supporter Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 I like this. Nice work so far. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gambler Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 Darius, this is going to be a very impressive model when done!...........i can't wait to see how it turns out. Brilliant work, Jeff. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Chappie Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 I love what your doing Darius, but I also hate it....mine will not look this good!! Keep it up! I've just about settled on building my B-47 in "1,000th Stratojet" markings. I've got a scan of the 1/72 scale sheet, now I just have to find somebody to scale it up and print them. Keep up the incredible work! Chappie Quote Link to post Share on other sites
David Walker Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Amazing work on the cockpit. I'm glad you've gotten back to it again as I can't wait to watch this one progress. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DAR Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Once again, excellent work Darius Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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