Serkan Sen Posted September 5, 2023 Author Posted September 5, 2023 On 9/5/2023 at 10:07 AM, TheBaron said: Exceptionally fine work Serkan - I've said it before but your control over surface detailing is exquisite. Many thanks Tony, but still my level of detailing skills much primitive compared to your ongoing work. Here are the model sent to printer: The alignment pin has been added to nose cone to position especially pitot tube correctly. Now I have to wait for the printing process to finish to see if the chine pieces fit nicely to the fuselage. Serkan 7 1
Serkan Sen Posted September 6, 2023 Author Posted September 6, 2023 The parts are ready for first check: The nose cone and randomly two fairings were removed from print base for fit test: The result is very impressive. The cone and fairings fit perfectly to the front fuselage part: Next step is to assemble all the parts and check how good will be a complete YF-12A model. Serkan 16
Screech Posted September 6, 2023 Posted September 6, 2023 Serkan, wow incredible work you have done! Much more precise looking, especially the different nose configurations. 1
Fritag Posted September 6, 2023 Posted September 6, 2023 And it’s a WOW from me too, Serkan. Those prints look just about perfect. And the design of the chine plugins is impressive. I don’t think I ever knew that the YF-12A was fitted with canards. Amazeballs 1
Neffan Posted September 13, 2023 Posted September 13, 2023 On 06/09/2023 at 10:53, Serkan Sen said: The parts are ready for first check: The nose cone and randomly two fairings were removed from print base for fit test: The result is very impressive. The cone and fairings fit perfectly to the front fuselage part: Next step is to assemble all the parts and check how good will be a complete YF-12A model. Serkan It’s really wonderful work, Serkan 😉 1
Serkan Sen Posted September 14, 2023 Author Posted September 14, 2023 After a several hours work, all YF-12A parts have been put together using printing resin and UV hand torch 🔦 which gives more control on aligning the parts before assembling together. The resin stays in liquid form until it is exposed to UV light and suddenly cures when it is. Also any small gaps and can be filled this resin and sanded down very quickly. Here are first few images of the entire model: More images will follow. Serkan 13
Neffan Posted September 14, 2023 Posted September 14, 2023 4 hours ago, Serkan Sen said: After a several hours work, all YF-12A parts have been put together using printing resin and UV hand torch 🔦 which gives more control on aligning the parts before assembling together. The resin stays in liquid form until it is exposed to UV light and suddenly cures when it is. Also any small gaps and can be filled this resin and sanded down very quickly. Here are first few images of the entire model: D'autres images suivront. Serkan Waouh !!!! stunning ! 1
Serkan Sen Posted September 15, 2023 Author Posted September 15, 2023 Here are more close view pictures: There are some areas to be improved but in overall the model seems fine. Serkan 11
Serkan Sen Posted September 15, 2023 Author Posted September 15, 2023 By the way, today I will receive my new pre-ordered Elegoo Saturn 3 Ultra 12K printer (although I have a brand new Saturn 2 8K unboxed still in basement) 🙂 (source Elegoo website) 1 1
Fritag Posted September 15, 2023 Posted September 15, 2023 Serkan - the laugh emoji was for the thought of you upgrading to the 12K before you'd got around to using the 8K The surface detail look exquisite. I'm not sure how useful such comparatively tiny canards would have been. But they look sort-of cute... 2 1
Back in the Saddle Posted September 15, 2023 Posted September 15, 2023 Incredible work going on here Serkan! 👍 1
Serkan Sen Posted September 15, 2023 Author Posted September 15, 2023 5 hours ago, Back in the Saddle said: Incredible work going on here Serkan! 👍 Thanks Matt, but still a lot to do. I haven't started modelling of the cockpit and missile bays which is a bit of work. 7 hours ago, Fritag said: Serkan - the laugh emoji was for the thought of you upgrading to the 12K before you'd got around to using the 8K The surface detail look exquisite. I'm not sure how useful such comparatively tiny canards would have been. But they look sort-of cute... Actually I was trying to select a proper emoji but my thick fingers didn't allow me to pickup the right one from my mobile phone's display. 😁 Yes I am also very happy with the print quality of my Mars 3 printer which has 33 micron xy resolution. But the new Saturn 3 should give much better results with its 19 micron resolution. This tiny oscillatory canard vanes mounted on YF-12A are from NASA/USAF test campaign to study dynamic behavior of the large flexible aircraft over a wide range of Mach numbers and flight conditions. They look very similar to B-1B canards. Serkan 2
Serkan Sen Posted September 16, 2023 Author Posted September 16, 2023 Here are the 3d printed A-12 and YF-12A together with A-12and M-21 models based on Italeri/Testors kit with self made casted resin parts; The outer wing has been modeled separately to allow adding the engine bay details in near future. Here are again only the printed aircrafts together: Serkan 7
Serkan Sen Posted September 17, 2023 Author Posted September 17, 2023 Little update on YF-12A model: The three missile bays were added to lower fuselage. I had to use my imagination and creativity to add the details due to lack of reference pictures. Next step is to add the missile bay doors. Serkan 8
Hook Posted September 17, 2023 Posted September 17, 2023 What is the sup[erlative to "jawdropping"..? Cheers, Andre 1 1
Neffan Posted September 19, 2023 Posted September 19, 2023 On 17/09/2023 at 12:06, Serkan Sen said: Little update on YF-12A model: The three missile bays were added to lower fuselage. I had to use my imagination and creativity to add the details due to lack of reference pictures. Next step is to add the missile bay doors. Serkan Incroyable ! 1
Serkan Sen Posted September 20, 2023 Author Posted September 20, 2023 6 hours ago, Pajarito said: Wow, Serkan... Impressive talent you've been endowed with, mate. Oh, incidentally, There's someone in Argieland still planning to buy these for his Italeri 1/48 SR-71 kit. Cheers, Igna Many thanks Igna. I am afraid that having only the outer wing will not help. You will have to replace both intake cowling/outer wing assembly as well as the spikes and engine/nozzle assemblies. You can identify these parts from below photos: 9
PeteH1969 Posted September 20, 2023 Posted September 20, 2023 That is so nice to see the detail and knowing the thousands of accumulative hours that the parts took to design for it to get to this stage. Very nice. Pete 1
Serkan Sen Posted September 22, 2023 Author Posted September 22, 2023 On 9/20/2023 at 9:51 AM, PeteH1969 said: That is so nice to see the detail and knowing the thousands of accumulative hours that the parts took to design for it to get to this stage. Very nice. Pete Absolutely agreed Pete! Here are the freshly printed parts including missile bays and AIM-47 Falcon missiles: There are few areas to be improved and some extra supports have to be added for better printouts but in general the bays look good. Next step is to add bay doors. Serkan 12
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