Romeo Alpha Yankee Posted February 2, 2020 Author Share Posted February 2, 2020 Time for some boxing Looks very agricultural at his stage before removing the excess plastic After removing a lot of the excess plastic it was time to create new windows and fill those in the wrong locations. I ended up popping the existing clear parts out so I could remove the windows that will be filled and relocate them to the new locations. I am still short a couple that I will have to make from CD case clear plastic 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nimrod54 Posted February 2, 2020 Share Posted February 2, 2020 You're making a good job on the cut n shut fuse Ray. Keep it up bud. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zebra Posted February 2, 2020 Share Posted February 2, 2020 Outstanding work Ray! Nobody's going to be able to tell this wasn't a -200 kit in the first place. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickyrich Posted February 2, 2020 Share Posted February 2, 2020 nice work Ray, you know I think you may have a future is stretching Limo's!! A stretched Toyota Camry....now there's something to give you nightmares! 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zebra Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 2 hours ago, trickyrich said: nice work Ray, you know I think you may have a future is stretching Limo's!! A stretched Toyota Camry....now there's something to give you nightmares! And yet a stretched Camry would probably look a lot less silly than some of the stretched limos you see around here! 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickyrich Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 19 hours ago, zebra said: And yet a stretched Camry would probably look a lot less silly than some of the stretched limos you see around here! too true unfortunately! They're very popular out in the western suburbs up here!!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romeo Alpha Yankee Posted February 11, 2020 Author Share Posted February 11, 2020 The major fuselage sub assemblies are together and copious amounts of putty applied to the joins, and putty applied to the engines 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickyrich Posted February 11, 2020 Share Posted February 11, 2020 Frankenstein is looking much better after the surgery. Being that shape really help things, would have been much harder if it had been a tapered fuselage. Nice work, well done 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reini Posted February 12, 2020 Share Posted February 12, 2020 Little bit sanding to do - but I'm sure after that no one knows the plane used to be considerably shorter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romeo Alpha Yankee Posted February 13, 2020 Author Share Posted February 13, 2020 A little bit of sanding done ( twice) with another round to follow and with a guest correct length fuselage for comparison (picked it up last week from a friend, what to do with a kit that does not need mods?). Got the length pretty much spot on with the stretched -100 and another test fit of wings and engines 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickyrich Posted February 13, 2020 Share Posted February 13, 2020 that mod work is really tidy, well done. Should be all straightforward from now on. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CliffB Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 Fantastic work Ray. Congratulations on a very successful stretch! Cheers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zebra Posted February 14, 2020 Share Posted February 14, 2020 Really nicely done Ray. On 2/13/2020 at 9:45 PM, Romeo Alpha Yankee said: what to do with a kit that does not need mods? Shorten it to a -100 of course! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romeo Alpha Yankee Posted March 2, 2020 Author Share Posted March 2, 2020 I have been putting this on off for a while as I had a few easier builds to go on with. Now they are nearing completion I decided to get this one back on track. The main thing putting me off was making the search radar. I had been thinking about how I was going to make the shape up, initially I was going to use laminated plastic sheet then I recall picking up some green stuff some time ago. I dived into the supplies and found it. First I made base template out of sheet styrene and then mixed the 2 part putty together. I shaped to roughly what it should look like and then left it to set. At this time I also made up the two SLAR antennas Next the radome was sanded and filed down to refine the shape and SLAR also tidied up A test fit showed the radome was too deep so I removed the base plate template At this time I started to add the mounting fixtures for the SLAR and the turret mount that lives on one of the main landing gear sponsons And then time to a test fit is the parts, the search radar radome received a couple of more sanding sessions to reduce the depth again as I thought it was still too large I was glad to find the kit included some of the antennas I was planning to scratch build so that will speed things up. I need to putty in the windscreen and mask off the clear parts in prep for priming soon. That's all for now. 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vppelt68 Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 Looking very sharp, Ray! These fly from an airfield less than 10km from my home. V-P 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romeo Alpha Yankee Posted March 2, 2020 Author Share Posted March 2, 2020 If I had known that V-P I would have had you out hunting for reference pictures! The video is very good and showed me a few things I need to add 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabbit Leader Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 I've not viewed this thread in a while, but boy what great progress Ray. That's just looking fantastic and all the medications look very well done indeed. Cheers.. Dave 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Col. Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 Smart work on those additions Ray 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickyrich Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 really nice job Ray. 15 hours ago, Rabbit Leader said: I've not viewed this thread in a while, but boy what great progress Ray. That's just looking fantastic and all the medications look very well done indeed. Cheers.. Dave Arrr Dave I think you need to lay off the medications before you do any modifications......just saying! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabbit Leader Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 Ha! Don’t you just love predictive text and typing in a hurry? I think I might leave it, however am sure Ray knows what I’m trying to get at! Cheers.. Dave 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romeo Alpha Yankee Posted March 2, 2020 Author Share Posted March 2, 2020 49 minutes ago, Rabbit Leader said: Ha! Don’t you just love predictive text and typing in a hurry? I think I might leave it, however am sure Ray knows what I’m trying to get at! Cheers.. Dave That's fine Dave, I had yesterday off and got some modifications medications for a sinus infection. That is how I was able to progress the build. Not much to watch on TV/Netflix so I sat at the bench most of the day 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickyrich Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 10 minutes ago, Romeo Alpha Yankee said: Not much to watch on TV/Netflix so I sat at the bench most of the day or there is!!!! the second series of "Altered Carbon" (have started watching the first series again), that new series "The Stranger" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romeo Alpha Yankee Posted March 2, 2020 Author Share Posted March 2, 2020 59 minutes ago, trickyrich said: or there is!!!! the second series of "Altered Carbon" (have started watching the first series again), that new series "The Stranger" Started to watch Altered Carbon a while ago and could not get into it. Might have to revisit it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickyrich Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 it takes a bit, helps to if you've read the book....which is brilliant 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exdraken Posted March 3, 2020 Share Posted March 3, 2020 Very intetesting kit and build! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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