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I’ve received some positive feedback from Helen (Mk1Nut) and need to do some minor tweaks. The plates above the exhausts and the positions for the cab periscopes.

I am quite pleased with my CAD and 3D printed Firestreak missiles. I have all the detail as taken from measuring real missiles and the fins are about as this as PE. The fuse ‘windows’ are transfers that I designed in CorelDraw and printed on white decal paper. This particular ‘print’ is of the ‘with noddy caps’ version.

Back at the workbench after a break in N. Wales. I’ve had to re-work my 3D printed fuel tanks as I found the dimensions and I had made mine too ‘fat’. Intriguingly the ‘after market set’ I had bought for this model are significantly shorter and fatter than my first effort. In addition to the re-sizing, I added 2 very fine lines either side, 20 deg below horizontal, to help with masking - the lines are almost imperceptible.

Bill, your extra parts will be printed and sent this week. Just be aware that, whilst I’ve both the FROG and Airfix kits, I don’t have a Matchbox kit so I’ve no idea how well the parts will match (no pun intended) so gingers crossed you can do something with the resin bits. I shall watch your construction of the tailplane conversion, for my own build and may have a go at producing a resin conversion part. PS, I can do a B2/B6 or PR3/PR7 forward fuselage for the FROG kit which includes a vac-form canopy. Just don’t tell anyone.

Once I am happy that these are OK, they will be made available to order.

I have just had a weeks holiday and took the opportunity, whilst away from home, to work on the parts for the Airfix Mk1 tank. The cab I pictured at the start of this thread ‘disappeared’ the file becoming corrupted somehow. I had to start all over again. With the exception of the towing extension the cab is finished and will be test printed this coming week. In addition I’ve created 3D printed link and length tracks (in the following photo the tracks can be seen fitted to a MasterBox Mk1).

I am willing to take a look although, like the Javelin tailplanes, they would require some hand finishing. If you have some data John ……. (But no promises).

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Not a worry Perdu, who knows, you might have stirred my ‘design juices’ into having a go. Depends on available data. PS - Did I mention that “I hate you”!!! Lol.

PM sent James

Perdu, this thread is discussing the issue with the tailplanes is it not? You have introduced the fin into the equation. Bottom line, my skill set and the limitations of the particular 3D software I use would make my effort relatively rudimentary and in need of finishing off by the modeller (the Canberra vertical stabiliser is quite a complex shape) - that also assumes I have sufficient data to even begin a basic design, which I don’t- sorry. I would need the profile (side elevation) plus the aerofoil sections through the fin at intervals etc, etc, etc. Even with all that it would require time spent at the PC creating the fin/rudder - but I don’t think there are enough modellers wanting an ‘improved vertical stabiliser that requires hand finishing’ to justify my time spent and final unit cost! As far as the FROG kit goes, in terms of dimensions, I cannot really advise, other than ‘my’ Canberra forward fuselage has to be printed 103.7% larger to match the fuselage diameter of the FROG kit.

I did suggest that I could have a go at producing the correction. However, I understand from one of the early posts that the old Airfix B(I)6 doesn’t have the problem - that is the model I make my corrections/enhancements for so I have no need for any corrections for my model(s).

No, you don’t need the ‘early wheels’ for your ‘7, ‘8 or ‘9. Those wheels were fitted to the earliest B2 and T4 aircraft. delighted to see you sorted the starter bullet/Inlet Guide Vanes unit into the intake, that intake piece for the FROG wings was purposely designed to take the starter bullet/IGV unit designed for the Airfix wing - please remember that these may not fit the much newer Airfix B(I)8 wing.

Just a brief ‘thread drift’, but in keeping with the thread. Canberra kid supplied me with photos and dimensions of the early style wheel because they are ‘a bit rare’. However, on a visit to Newark Air Museum, just as I was about to leave - I decided to take one more look at the Canberras they have, specifically the wheels; behold, what did I find:

If you want to make a Canberra with the early style wheels, I made some for Canberra kid in 1:48 but I can rescale them to 1:72. They will be a one piece item though. And the nose wheels I would say that, at 1:72 the ‘block tread’ on the nose wheel tyre may not be visible!