Borez Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 Interesting build. You could always try scratch building the turbine blades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arni Posted December 30, 2016 Author Share Posted December 30, 2016 1 minute ago, Borez said: Interesting build. You could always try scratch building the turbine blades. They are in the kit,just have not got round to building it to that stage.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arni Posted December 30, 2016 Author Share Posted December 30, 2016 7 minutes ago, richellis said: I could give it a good home! Want a dismantled harrier for a truck I'm building Well......I am disabled and house bound but you are in cannock and I am in chester - tattenhall,so if you want to collect it then it is yours. P M Me if interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richellis Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 i may pass as Im a truck driver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arni Posted December 31, 2016 Author Share Posted December 31, 2016 First of all here are the rest of the engine components. Here are the wheel parts,the wheel centres have  been sprayed with black primer. She is on her wheels for the first time,found some checker plate that may be used.... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arni Posted January 1, 2017 Author Share Posted January 1, 2017 Started on the engine mounts/cradle,it is sprayed flat black because it is red plastic and I dont want it to bleed through! Working on the engine too,doing a few electric bits and pipework plus adding a couple of mini thrusters from I think....a DC9. The business end of the engine... The kit that the engines were half inched from,it was a thing from last year that went wrong decal and paintwise... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilc69 Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 Looking good so far. There is another jet truck about in America called Shockwave. It is based on an older Peterbilt and has three Pratt & Whitney jet engines fitted to it. I did build a 1/24th scale model of it that was scaled up from an old 1/32nd scale AMT (I think) kit. If you want any photos etc. of what I did, let me know and I will send you some. Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arni Posted January 1, 2017 Author Share Posted January 1, 2017 1 hour ago, neilc69 said: Looking good so far. There is another jet truck about in America called Shockwave. It is based on an older Peterbilt and has three Pratt & Whitney jet engines fitted to it. I did build a 1/24th scale model of it that was scaled up from an old 1/32nd scale AMT (I think) kit. If you want any photos etc. of what I did, let me know and I will send you some. Neil That would be great Neil,stick them in this thread please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arni Posted January 1, 2017 Author Share Posted January 1, 2017 Just checked out Shockwave,damm! it smokes more than me... Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilc69 Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 Here you go Arni. I'll not put too many to clutter up the thread but these should give you an idea. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The tyres are the old Italeri hard plastic ones from the accessories kit that I sanded down smooth. Apparently the real one runs on slicks that have been "sanded down" to leave the bare minimum of rubber on them as it has a tendency to depart from the canvas at those high speeds. The engines are scratch built from various pieces of plastic pipe with a bit of copper added for rigidity. The frame is just made from various Evergreen strips. As I said before, I scaled it up from an old 1/32nd scale kit so it probably isn't 100% accurate but it was fun to make. Hope this helps. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arni Posted January 1, 2017 Author Share Posted January 1, 2017 Thanks a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arni Posted January 2, 2017 Author Share Posted January 2, 2017 Got the engine sprayed today,a combination of magnesium,light burnt metal,jet exhaust with the turbine blades in stainless steel.Made a tail pipe and added two extra mini motors to it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xffw45343tg Posted January 3, 2017 Share Posted January 3, 2017 Them's the fan blades - turbines are in the hot bit.  Kirk PS/ Airfix didn't detail the fan hub (it is hidden by the intake) but the real one has some fixings to make sure the fan blades don't go awol. Plenty of pictures online. Gubbins on top of the fan casing is mostly the accessory gearbox (middle) alternators (front with the pipework attached), fuel metering unit (poorly represented on the right hand side) and the starter/APU (back end with the prominent intake and blanked off exhaust). You probably don't need the alternators in your model since you're not powering an aircraft's electrical systems but I s'pose they keep it all looking busy. The "mini motors" are plausible fuel tanks. Don't leave off the fan nozzles (2 outlets on the side) though; I'd imagine the real engine would lunch itself pretty quickly if nearly half the thrust had nowhere to go... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arni Posted January 3, 2017 Author Share Posted January 3, 2017 Point taken Kirk. Â Starting on the bodywork as I want it to be streamlined. Going to have a bit of ''whatiffery'' here,so the cab and bodywork are fibreglass and tilt up hotrod style! It is only a mockup here so we shall see.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xffw45343tg Posted January 3, 2017 Share Posted January 3, 2017 (edited) Had an idea bout the fan nozzles: you could angle them up to the sky slightly to give your truck some (adjustable) downforce. This was actually how they did some of the engine test runs at Bristol. Â K PS/ Engine mounting trunnions are just aft of the nozzles. Just had brain fade so can't remember whether they are forward or aft of the firewall. Probably forward makes more sense. In conjunction with a mounting at the rear (the shape of which also eludes me at the mo) that's all you need to hold the Pegasus on to your chassis. Edited January 3, 2017 by Kirk Coz I forgot about the engine mounts. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arni Posted January 4, 2017 Author Share Posted January 4, 2017 Got the checker plate trimmed to suite. Looking more like it! I had to section the floor in order to fit the side skirts,just a case of plating it to refit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arni Posted January 4, 2017 Author Share Posted January 4, 2017 Been thinking about this re colours and am thinking jag puple/yellow or corvette yellllaghhhhhhhhh instead.... Lots of zero paint colours to choose from.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arni Posted January 5, 2017 Author Share Posted January 5, 2017 Decided on the wheel colour and it is Ford daytona yellow,my dad has a mk3 Cortina in his colour and it was rather nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xffw45343tg Posted January 6, 2017 Share Posted January 6, 2017 On ‎28‎/‎12‎/‎2016 at 8:25 PM, Kirk said: I seem to recall that Bristol had a design sketch for a VTOL military vehicle that used the Pegasus. Might be in my library - I'll have a rummage. It was kind of a wingless Harrier that could hop over rivers and the like.  Yep, almost. See Andrew Dow's book page 160-161. Nicknamed "The Flying Pig" the idea was "to provide vertical lift for battlefield materials". Incidentally the book is ridiculously good value on Amazon (much as I hate advertising for them) at the mo.  Kirk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arni Posted January 6, 2017 Author Share Posted January 6, 2017 Someone mentioned to me wheelie bars,well my take on his is a h-d slide plate. Will probably fit a pair of hydraulic dampers here to keep the plate downwards in use.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arni Posted January 7, 2017 Author Share Posted January 7, 2017 Finished the skid plate. And got the chassis painted. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arni Posted January 8, 2017 Author Share Posted January 8, 2017 The axles and mudguards have been done in gloss black. The wheels have been redone to match the chassis too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arni Posted January 10, 2017 Author Share Posted January 10, 2017 Got the wheel centres fitted to the alloy rims - just a dab of c.a. They are now secured to the chassis. Been working on the air intake for the engine,it is a duct from a Supermarine Spitfire. (1:24) It will take a bit of work but hey-ho! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpnuts Posted January 11, 2017 Share Posted January 11, 2017 Thats looking very impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arni Posted January 11, 2017 Author Share Posted January 11, 2017 Cheers Ken. Been working in the air intake,the cab roof has had a duct let into it and the cab top has had a roof fitted too. The air intake has been somewhat cut down. How it looks now.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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