John R
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Nicely done. I have two of these, so that I can do the straight tail as well as the swept tail version. In broad terms what did you do about the mismatch - just line it up at the bottom and file / sand away at the top? Any other tips before I get stuck in?
I lined up the front and back of the wing stubs so that they matched the profile of the wings. I then used Milliput to give a fuselage profile based on that in Barrie Hygate's book. It's relatively flat on top with a rounded tummy. You will need to build up the underside of the wing stubs as they flare into the fuselage as even if you take up Ian's offer of replacements I don't think this bit will be correct. Compare the picture of the fuselage halves with this
One vital tip is to get as much weight out of the fuselage behind the wheels as you can before joining the halves. I anticipated trouble and drilled out the jetpipe but I didn't remove nearly enough. Also to either make provision for nose weight before you start or add weight before painting. There is very little room in the nose for weight.
A lot of the other stuff, canopy shape, decals & wing /te depends on how picky you are.
One thing that will need doing is shortening the piece of the u/c leg where the wheel is attached. I think that the bit that arches over the wheel is too long and looks silly. I simply cut a bit out and used superglue to join it. The u/c cover can be used add a bit of strength as it covers the join. Let me know if you don't follow this as I can probably get a picture. If you look at the picture it appears that the a/c leg isn't actually like the one in the kit as it doesn't have the arch.
You will probably also need to lengthen the rear strut on the mainwheels. I cut it off and replaced it with a piece of plastic rod. Note also That the main u/c doors are curved and not flat - this implies that the fuselage has a a slight concave aspect to it.
Hope this helps
John
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OOps! It ain't finished. I was so relieved to get the u/c doors on and have it standing on its wheels that I forgot the aerial on the top of the fuselage. I also need to provide some indication (decals probably) of the exits for the boundary layer air above and below the intakes.
John
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For those interested there is a picture of the real thing here
http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=79954
Taken at Duxford on its first display outing
John
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hi there, nice effort, am aware of the mismatch, had a bad batch (mould was moving) if you'd shouted i'd have replaced the offending parts....wasnt aware of the rest of the issues, but she is an old kit in our range and is due a revamp in the near future, problem is sales wouldn't match the cost ...so may well drop her as decals run out
regards ian
Ian, I did shout, and to your credit you sent a replacement immediately but the replacement didn't match either so in view of this and the other faults with the fuselage shape it seemed best to get on with what I had. Perhaps I should have mentioned this in the original post.
I did hope to bring it to Telford but rectifying the 'tail sitting' made that out of the question
John
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MPM had them on sale at SMW for £29 reduced from £32.
I was sorely tempted but at that price I decided to wait until someone has reviewed one. I have seen too many duff kits from that part on the world to take a flier on anything new.
John
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Some time ago I started a Maintrack vacform of the P1052 and ran into a number of problems.
One item particularly bothered me and that was the landing gear and the shape of the underside of the centre section.The only solution seemed to be to wait until the reserve collection at Yeovilton was open and I could go and look at the actual a/c.
In the meantime I decided to have a go at the Heritage version of the P1081 but it turned out to have a different set of problems.
First of all the front and rear halves of the fuselage did match.
I then decided that the underside of the fuselage was all wrong and required lots of filler (no pix I'm afraid)
There were other issues with the wings and tail - blunt trailing edges, wrong thickness etc but I didn't dare to do too much in case pinholes started to make an entrance.
Then followed numerous problems with the canopy (wrong shape), u/c legs ( too long), decals (wrong size letters)
and finally just as it all came together I found that despite my efforts at hollowing out the rear fuselage it turned out to be a tail sitter. This meant making lots of holes in the underside of the front fuselage to put in weights and repainting.
In many ways it felt like making making one of the old balsa 'solids' where you had to carve a blank form to shape.
Finish is Revell 'Sky'. Matt with Klear to give the gloss finish.
Was it worth it?
It's now one of a growing family.
John
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Well done - it can't have been easy. I really must get to work on mine
John
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I don't see anything
John
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I'll endorse all the previous comments. Lovely job
John
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Great! and thank you.
Is it too late for a supplementary request? Namely a photo showing the rear of the jetpipes and the fuselage/nacelle blending on the topside if it's not too much trouble.
Regards
John
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Being unable to find out what I wanted about the configuration of the u/c this project was put on hold until I could get a look at the actual a/c at Yeovilton.
This was not easy as it is held in the reserve collection which is only opened to visitors a couple of times a year - unless you are prepared to make a private visit where you get an hour of the curator's time for £50! Anyway the Open Day was on Oct 27 and off I went only to find when I got there that the bit I wanted to see was off limits. Visitors had to stay behind the barrier and from there you could not see the underside or rear. The curator was most apologetic but 'if I let you through everyone else will want to go as well'. He did say that he would try to send me the pictures I needed so watch this space.
This is all I got plus a few from different angles but it does show the existence of a rear strut
John
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Interesting as I ran into this problem myself only this evening.
I thought I would try Halfords clear acrylic over matt humbrol to get a glossy finish.
I started by spraying some into a small bottle a then using that in an airbrush. A test piece worked fine so I tried it on the model. This gave a semi gloss finish so I tried spraying from the aerosol to give a thicker coat. Disaster! The paint wrinkled and I had to strip the whole model.
John
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Yes, the lighting was difficult to say the least. I did wonder if I would be better off further down the field, which is where I assume you were but I got my shot of the Meteor which was what I went for so I ended up reasonably happy.
I liked the angle on JE-J, nice picture but do you know about the shadows/highlights feature of photoshop?
I tried on JE-J and got this
I like your pictures and you have given helpful advice to us in the past so I hope I can return the favours
John
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Nice pictures. I particularly liked the second one.
With the difficult lighting B&W might have been the best option.
Must go and try that with mine
John
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Air Atlantique's recently restored Meteor T7.
The F16 ejecting flares. Tricky shot as he was nearly in the sun.
Spitfire and Mustang
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Air Enthusiast 42 has a description and cutaway
John
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Oi! I saw the Polikarpov 'placard' first - back in May.
Seriously, those are nice pictures and do justice to a great day but where did you get all that light for the Blackburn, Triplane and especially the Cygnet?
Do you have an F2.8 lens or a very steady hand?
Houston - Shuttleworth is open all year but save your trip for a flying day. There are several between May and October. The evening ones can be especially good
John
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Blackburn 1912 Monoplane rounds off the Autumn display
The rest of my pictures are here
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=112350
John
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What's the difference between a PT20 and a PT22?
It looks like they have different engines.
There are a couple of PT22s in the country. One is '001' which has a shiny polished fuselage and the other is '854' which looks like it has silver paint. I believe '854' now lives at Goodwood so you may see it around Sussex
John
PS. Nice build and keep going
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The wingspan for the YF 100 is given as 36ft 7in which translates to 6.1in at 1/72 so I shortened the wings to this.
The only data I could find about the fin was this photo from X-fighters by Steve Pace.
I also used it to make the YF 100 decal
What I found was that all I needed to do was remove the rudder of the F100D and carve the fin to make it an aerodynamic section.
I think the height needed adjustment and the 'thing' ( fuel vent?) on top needed adding.
The length of the nose probe was estimated from another photo
The final result is here
http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=78710
Hope this helps and let me know if you need more. Have fun!
John
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It's a bit early for the rest of us as there are still Shuttleworth and Duxford shows to come and last year the Duxford show provided my best pictures.
Still here's a couple that I think will make the final list - From Shoreham
John
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Barrie Hygates book of British Experimental Jet a/c has a drawing showing the lettering.
You would need to scan this into photoshop making the letters white ( or cream) surrounded by magenta then print it on to white decal film. The problem, after tidying up the lettering, would be matching the photoshop magenta to your paint.
I have done this on US Navy a/c where I wanted white letters on blue
John
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This represents the YF100 at the time of its first flight
For those who want the background see this WIP thread
http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=77256
I had been thinking about doing this for some time but didn't want to ruin a new kit if it went wrong.
I thrn got this as a partially completed piece of scrap at the model club.
I tried to finish it in Alclad polished aluminium but got into all sorts of trouble and settled for
stainless steel instead. The lighter bits are Alclad dark aluminium over the stainless steel.
I started to use the decals supplied with the kit but these broke up and I then realised that the USAF
letters needed a different font anyway. I then made some of my own by copying from the
'Detail and Scale' book of the F100 but then realised that these were not correct either.
Fortunately CTmodeller (expert modeller, painter and all-round good guy) had a suitable set.
I had to make the YF100 logo and tail numbers.
The most fun(?) was the shroud around the jetpipe which seemed to be different to any other of the variants.
This was made out of sheet after I had dusted off my engineering drawing memories to
produce a cone. This was painted with Alclad jet exhaust and the segments were represented by decals.
John
PS. That nose probe is removable
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Great shots and a nice variety but what is that strange blue background you have over there?
John
Edward's Hunter
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I have to confess he wasn't left to do the canopy alone but he was pretty good about getting the brush into the place I told him to put it.
He was offered the option to paint but getting the 'stickers' on was his first priority.
It was a trip down memory lane for me as the Frog Hunter was my first plastic model and I couldn't wait (or afford) to paint it either.
After it was finished I compared it with my Revell Hunter and shapewise it's pretty close.
John