Tomasz Hajzler

Hi Peter Exellent work. I could say as always. But this project is on higher level then earlier. It's true, big step forward. Tomasz

Hi New update. Continuation of work on side walls. The fasteners of the geodetic structure elements and those with longerons have been photoetched because hundreds of them are needed. Thanks a lot to Part company and my colleague Marcin Kuźniar for help. I made the stringers of soft steel wire, which is used for making bracelets and similar jewelry. It is very plastic, at first it seemed too soft to me, so I originally tried with the wire intended for binding the reinforcements. However, too stiff wire caused the structure to be pulled down and limited the possibility of giving the wall an appropriate shape in accordance with the outline of the hull. I already use four Airfix kits to build this model. One of them will serve as the hull standard. I shaped stringers on the hull moldings. Then I cut off only the upper part of the wall from unnecessary remnants and proceeded to glue it with the longeron. The lower part was left uncut to keep the wall in the correct shape. The same process was repeated with the lower longeron. Connecting walls with stringers is significantly strengthened by photo-etched connectors. All elements are glued with CA glue in this process. Based on the hull molding, the wall can be inspected and given its final shape. If I had cut off the remains of the fuselage at the top and bottom from the walls before gluing the stringers, they would become flaccid and would not keep the shape of the hull. Finally, a set of almost finished walls. Regards Tomasz

Hi Today I would like to describe the way I created geodetic structure of the fuselage side walls, maybe someone will take advantage of my comments on some of their projects. People who know the Airfix model know that it has a geodetic structure recreated from the inside. I used it as a template to roughly cut it out, but it required strong thinning later, because on the moldings, the ribs were 0.9 mm wide, and I had to achieve 0.25-0.3 mm. First, however, I sanded the inner side of the fuselage to obtain a smooth surface and filled and completed the missing parts of the surface, e.g. in places where frames or fins were to be glued into the fuselage. At the same time, I sanded the outer surface to pre-thin the walls. I cut the lattice in a generally known manner, drilling a place next to the place with a 0.4-0.5mm drill, and then with an Olfa knife, avoiding too much pressure, cutting out fragment by fragment. Here is an example. After cutting out, I initially sawed the ribs by thinning elements. In the next stage, I started the final sanding of the ribs to the desired size of 0.25-0.3 mm. I did this in small areas with the remainder of the fuselage taped with Tamiya tape for reinforcement. As I wrote in an earlier update, such a sawn rib was to be glued on both sides with 0.4-0.45mm wide and 0.2mm thick strips to give the appearance of original structural elements. When I had ribs sanded to the desired size in some area, I glued them from the inside with these strips to strengthen them and continued with the sawing. Diamond files worked best in filing, some also filed on a grinder to reduce their size, were used in the tail part, because the distances between the ribs were reduced there. Having already the entire wall with ribs of the appropriate width and glued on the inside, I taped the entire inner surface with tape for reinforcement and proceeded to thinning the ribs by grinding their outer surface. The thickness of the finished wall with glued ribs should be 0.8mm, as this should be the diameter of the longerons running at the top and bottom. Therefore, with a strip thickness of 0.2mm, the thickness of the rib with the strip glued on the inside should be 0.6mm. Therefore, I had to sand the surface of the ribs from the outside to this dimension. In order to control the thickness, I made a suitable template from the plate, which I used to control it. In the next stage, I glued the ribs on the outside. It is no secret that it was a tedious job. So as not to be boring for today end. Next, I will describe the assembly of the rib connectors and the manufacture of the longerons. Regards Tomasz

Hi Gents! I almost finished front FN5 turret. This is of course all scratch. I'm disappointed with such low level of detail from Airfix kit and I have to make them myself. First pictures from the begining of work. Few weeks later after adding some details and starting painting. And now almost finished, with pipes, guns, gunsight etc., some small details to add. Vacuformed new glass cupola, not finished yet. Nice watching Tomasz

Hi My last update, oh, it was long time ago, a year. This project is still alive, but I have no time for updates. Left side wall is ready. Longerons made from soft steel wire, fasteners are photo etched, thank's PART company. Regards Tomasz

Hi! Could you tell something more about Jan Maes, I was wondering who the founder was.

Hi! I visited SMW 2019 at Telford last weekend. I showed my Boeing in the contest. Model received special price, Jan Maes Trophy for the best biplane. Unfortunatly an unpleasant surprise came to me from the judges superdetailed class disqualifying my model. They claimed that it was diorama, not superdetailed model. Sad and terrifying in all this was that, despite the differing opinions of other judges, they did not change their mind. See you on next competition. I invite on model shows to Poland. Regards Tomasz

Hi I'd like to explain how I plan to build fuselage. I saw film on youtube about Wellington. It shows the construction process at the factory. I have to do the same, separatly both side walls, bottom and upper construction and two fragments with complete fuselage. Tube longerons will stiffen side walls. Geodetic structure will be attachted to the frames and floor. Main problem is the shape of geodetic members, this is sigma shaped section. I had to invite how to imitate this shape and I decided to cut structure from fuselage halves. The maximum width is 0.3 mm. Then I will fix a little bit wider polystyren stripes (0.4-.45mm) from the inside. Thickness of this stripes is about 0.2 mm. I will sand off the structure from outside to receive aproxx 0.6mm and fixing outside stripes will be the last step. In this way I will receive geodetic condtruction with thickness of 0.8 mm, this is diameter of longerons. This is theory. First steps Regards Tomasz

Hi After the construction of the Boeing F4b-4 I was wondering what to choose as a new project. My choice fell on Wellington from the Brooklands Museum. I thought about it ever since I saw the picture on the cover of the aviation magazine and read the article about this particular aircraft few years ago. I want to do it exactly as it looks in a museum. That's why I flew from Poland to the museum to make my own photographic documentation. I also made contact with the museum, which promised to help in the project. I will use Airfix kit for construction, at least three. My monster in the original. First cut Regards Tomasz Hajzler

Hi All! This is my first thread in this forum. Some of you may know me from LSP. I would like to show a model that I finished earlier this year after 8 years and over 2000 hours of work. I never expected that this project can take me eight years. I thought about three or four years. Of course I had breakes, holidays etc. As base I used old Hasegawa kit, but it was only excuse to start this project, the rest is scratchbuilding. Main assumption was to cut all structure of fuselage from kit’s moldings. I showed this model at a competition in Madrid where it won the best aircraft and special price from IPMS Portugal and in Italy first place. This is link to WIP on LSP for those who would like to see my battle with this project. https://forum.largescaleplanes.com/index.php?/topic/45212-132-boeing-f4b4-almost-naked/&tab=comments#comment-474471 Regards Tomasz Hajzler