AliGauld Posted April 14, 2021 Author Share Posted April 14, 2021 Next up, Hope to see you there. Cheers, Alistair 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbadbadge Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 Great work on the Sea Venom Alistair it certainly is gorgeous. Great work fella. Chris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliGauld Posted April 14, 2021 Author Share Posted April 14, 2021 2 minutes ago, bigbadbadge said: Great work on the Sea Venom Alistair it certainly is gorgeous. Great work fella. Chris Thanks so much Chris, It has been a nice distraction after the Mustang fiasco. Cheers, Alistair 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2996 Victor Posted April 14, 2021 Share Posted April 14, 2021 Great results, Alistair, you should be rightly proud of how this one has turned out! Heading over to the RFI now Cheers, Mark 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliGauld Posted April 16, 2021 Author Share Posted April 16, 2021 On 14/04/2021 at 22:10, 2996 Victor said: Great results, Alistair, you should be rightly proud of how this one has turned out! Heading over to the RFI now Cheers, Mark Thanks Mark, I'm fairly chuffed with the finished article. Looks good in the cabinet. Cheers, Alistair 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tailspin Turtle Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 On 4/13/2021 at 11:14 AM, Tailspin Turtle said: Back to the observation about wing span: I don’t have a dimensioned drawing for the FAW.21 but a pretty good reference gives the wing span as 42’ 11”. Measuring the kit parts, I get a wing span to the outboard side of the tip tanks of 42’ 9”” plus or minus about 2”. However, continuing on to tip of the fins on the tank, the span is 44’ 8”. Note that aerodynamicist will ignore the fin and maybe even the tip tank but the deckhands will want to know the actual width of the airplane. The tip tank width is a little under 2 feet, so it seems that the reduction in the kit’s wing span, if in fact there should be one (or a modeler would be inclined to make one), might be one tank width. Does anyone have a dimensioned drawing or butt line data for the span dimension? Thanks to a dimensioned drawing provided by Derek Bradshaw and a kit review written once upon a time by Dannielle Lang (aka Venom Vixen), I have established to my satisfaction that the kit wing, to be accurate, should be reduced in span by a full-scale 22 inches, which by happenstance is about the diameter of the tip tank give or take less than an actual inch, basically by cutting off each tip tank, cutting half that (4 mm) off each wing tip, and replacing the tip tanks. However, I personally wouldn’t bother, not after revisiting Dannielle’s excellent illustrated review of the kit’s accuracy here: https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234914662-dragon-sea-venom-faw-21-second-impressions/. Your tolerance for imperfection may be different. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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