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Matchbox Tempest II with enhancements
TeeELL replied to TeeELL's topic in Work in Progress - Aircraft
Thanks Beard, your comment is much appreciated. Elsewhere, I am being encouraged to go ahead with my planned ‘cockpit opening’ and surround modification (similar to that of the Airfix Tempest) as well as full replacement main U/C bays. My concern remains that the number of modellers out there, with the Matchbox kit AND a desire to enhance it don’t really justify the time it will take?- 263 replies
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I’ve got to say that you are really going to town with these 2 kits. I feel a bit of a sham with mine! Nevertheless, I may well look at what you are creating with thoughts of making 3D versions so that SMER kits don’t have to be sacrificed. I see no point in doing any more work to the Centaurus or gearbox as they can barely be seen. I am thinking about enhancing the U/C bays - if you've other suggestions I am open to consideration for design. I am inclined to wonder it creating some fine ‘stretch sprue’ glued into the panel line trenches might be a better option for sorting the wings etc?
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Matchbox Tempest II with enhancements
TeeELL replied to TeeELL's topic in Work in Progress - Aircraft
Unfortunately the sunshine we had over the past couple of days has vanished and gloom has returned. As a consequence the photos are not the best as I was reliant on artificial light.- 263 replies
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Matchbox Tempest II with enhancements
TeeELL replied to TeeELL's topic in Work in Progress - Aircraft
The Tempest is now sitting on its U/C. Items that I still need to complete: paint the exhaust plate on the side of the forward fuselage paint and fit the exhausts fit the tail wheel doors fit the oxy bottle retainers behind the seat trim, paint and fit the vac-form canopy- 263 replies
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Matchbox Tempest II with enhancements
TeeELL replied to TeeELL's topic in Work in Progress - Aircraft
By putting the reinforcement pins into the holes they settled into the correct position and a tiny drop of cyno secured them. By not having the legs attached the result was satisfactory and the legs slipped over the pins.- 263 replies
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TeeELL replied to TeeELL's topic in Work in Progress - Aircraft
UPDATE: my grand idea fell flat on its face - the jig is designed to fit the upper wing halves so it is of no use when the lower wing half has been attached.- 263 replies
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Matchbox Tempest II with enhancements
TeeELL replied to TeeELL's topic in Work in Progress - Aircraft
I’ve been busy building a PM Models AT-11 ‘KANSAN’ with the rear twin Browning turret so the Tempest has been set aside. I have started to progress the Tempest build once more. Yesterday I applied the top coat of varnish and today I am starting to add the U/C parts. When I dry fitted the main U/C legs (with their steel reinforcement pins) I found that there was still some ‘wiggle’. You will recall that I used jigs to drill the receiving holes at the correct angles, well it has occurred to me that those same jigs can be used to hold the steel reinforcement pins in the correct position before applying some cyno to hold them. After removing the jig the U/C leg can be slid down the pin and secured with cyno or exopy. After a thorough search I realised I had thrown the original jigs away so I am printing replacements.- 263 replies
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Oh my Heather, that is really sad news.
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Oh my! Now you are asking, I left the Vulcan in 1978. I suggest a quick search on Google for ‘Vulcan take-off’ images, there is one which will give you an indication of position as the aircraft is airborne at just about the place you are choosing to model. Be cautious of using images of ‘558 at airshows, the aircraft was much lighter so didn’t require as much control deflection.
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You need to deflect all 8 Elevons to the same angle somewhere between half and 3/4 deflection, nearer to half for your display I would suggest as, at that point I would be easing the control column forward to hold the climb attitude.
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Be aware that we normally wore the Mk 1 flying helmet - in fact we would only wear the olive green cloth inner, the outer hard shell (silver/grey) would be attached to the ‘hand holds’ behind the ejection seats. our flying suits would be green (Tamiya XF58), gloves off white, boots black or medium brown for ‘light weight’ boots, the Mk1 inner was green (Hu116 with a touch of black), LSJ (Hu116), the oxygen mask ‘nearly black’.
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The artist of the box art clearly has no idea about Vulcan flying control surfaces. The positions are impossible as the ‘ailerons’ (outboard elevons) and ‘elevators’ (inboard elevons) are deflected in opposite directions.
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I remember seeing the ground crew scrubbing away with stiff bristle brooms to remove the sand/brown camouflage, it took quite a long time as I recall. I never participated in Red Flag during my 5 years flying Vulcans, but I do recall a tale where a Vulcan released chaff and the pursuing F15 was next seen screaming away vertically.
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Heartiest congratulations on your completed model, it looks really excellent. The work you put in to creating the 3D components is truly inspirational and I confess to starting to use some of your techniques myself - so thank you for that.
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