pheonix Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 Blimey Adrian, you have built half of your scratch build in the time that I have made the wing blanks and radiators for mine! I must get a move on or the GB will be over before I am halfway through mine and you will have made two more! P 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeroenS Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 Brilliant stuff Adrian! And all in good time as well! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mjwomack Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 Having had.my daily dose of snargasher, I find it.mentioned on page 26 of aeroplane magazine for may. Freaky 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Spadgent Posted April 8, 2021 Share Posted April 8, 2021 Bloody hell!!!! This is astounding. I’m totally gob smacked at what you are doing here. I’m sitting, watching and learning. Wonderful and inspiring stuff. 👏👏👏👏 Johnny. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray S Posted April 9, 2021 Share Posted April 9, 2021 This is going very well indeed. I just wish they had named it something different; I keep reading it as 'STARGNASHER'! Looking forward to seeing more of this, Ray 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted April 10, 2021 Author Share Posted April 10, 2021 Woo-hoo! Saturday again - what a week... Back to the bench, tailplane stuck on and Milliput at the ready for joint filling, extending the cowling and making the upper wing nacelle fairings: Now that the Milliput is half set I've been able to cut a nice clean edge at the back of the cowling and peel the excess off. 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted April 10, 2021 Author Share Posted April 10, 2021 On 08/04/2021 at 21:07, Mjwomack said: Having had.my daily dose of snargasher, I find it.mentioned on page 26 of aeroplane magazine for may. Freaky Well, if they published a full-colour cutaway detail diagram of the cockpit showing three seats, radios, gun mountings and a teapot stand, please don’t post it here! Adrian 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 (edited) Adrian, you have got wind in sails! Brilliant work! I never heard about this machine, but I am not surprised, there are many prototypes I am not familiar with. This one is in class of French Hanriot 232 and also very (surprisingly!) close in shapes to Polish PWS 33 Wyżeł (which was , More on this type here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PWS-33_Wyżeł. BTW - there is an article (in Polish, unfortunately) about the Polish prototypes in Le Bourget salon in late 1938 http://samolotypolskie.blogspot.com/2012/09/samoloty-polskie-w-prasie-brytyjskiej.html . All photos are from Flight magazine, so perhaps it cane be found However there are kits for Wyżeł (resin by Ardpol, vacu by Broplan), so it looks like a bad news... I will watch this with interest... Regards J-W Edited April 10, 2021 by JWM 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted April 10, 2021 Author Share Posted April 10, 2021 9 minutes ago, JWM said: Polish PWS 33 Wyżeł That was called out by the Aeromodeller article as a design for comparison, and was apparently even smaller than the Snargasher (which was about 24ft/7.3m long). It is spookily similar! Regards, Adrian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 The similarity is striking indeed! Like Su 24 and F 111 I am glad to hear that in Aeromodeller they recognize Polish pre-war prototype machine. BTW - "wyżeł" is in English "pointer"... (for trainer???). Cheers J-W Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 On 3/27/2021 at 8:19 PM, Paul821 said: Is that a Spruce shot I see there? Another not important comment from me. Do you know that word "spruce" is a very rare case of Polish root world in English language? In Polish "z Prus" what you will hear like "spruce" means "from Prussia". The spruce wood was in XVI century exported from primeval forests of Prussia (which belonged those time to Poland) via Gdańsk port to England and was considered a good quality wood... It is not a joke! Cheers J-W 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted April 10, 2021 Author Share Posted April 10, 2021 The cowling is wider than the back of the nacelle to allow cooling air to escape. In the first pass, I stopped the cowling edge at the bulkhead, but now I’ve been able to add the bit where it carries on in a curve underneath: I wish my eyesight was as good as my camera phone! I think I’ve got rid of all the rough bits now... Tailplane has been faired in, upper nacelle fillets need to set fully before sanding, and the wing undersides have received a shim of acrylic putty to fix all the dings that they seem to have acquired: I will resume tomorrow when all this is properly dry. 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pheonix Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 Lots of filer means lots of progress.... Looking good Adrian - just hope mine does not need as much filler! P 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted April 10, 2021 Author Share Posted April 10, 2021 3 hours ago, pheonix said: Lots of filler I seem to be doing nothing but adding filler and sanding it off again on this one! I should learn from your organised and neat approach. At least I don’t have any rigging to do on mine... Regards, Adrian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LorenSharp Posted April 10, 2021 Share Posted April 10, 2021 Just remember Adrian, Bondo filler makes the world go around, especially if you forget open a window. 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinK Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 10 hours ago, pheonix said: Looking good Adrian - just hope mine does not need as much filler! What next - a Snargasher STGB? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CliffB Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 Fantastic work as always Adrian. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted April 11, 2021 Author Share Posted April 11, 2021 Well, one nacelle fairing down, one to go: 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted April 11, 2021 Author Share Posted April 11, 2021 Second one finished: That didn’t go so well but I’m calling it done. Not so much a case of “quit while you’re ahead” as “quit while you still have the bus fare home”! 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted April 11, 2021 Author Share Posted April 11, 2021 The next step is to introduce a gull wing effect at the tips, which drop about 1mm. I scored the top surface and bent the wing gently over the edge of some 40 thou card. To fix it, I ran a thin bead of thick superglue along the join, rubbed it in with a fingertip and added some accelerator to set it. Should get away with a touch of acrylic filler: 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted April 11, 2021 Author Share Posted April 11, 2021 This was going to show the four canopies that I made, but I’ve already dipped the two best ones in Future and hidden them away to dry. So here’s the one I made from some plastic that’s started to yellow, and the one that folded up on me (but the back end could be useful so I kept it: 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdrianMF Posted April 11, 2021 Author Share Posted April 11, 2021 Nacelles almost completed and assembled to the wing: With a first round of filling and some grey paint to find the booboos, I give you that rarest variant, the Coastal Command Snargasher 1C: 17 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matford Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 Some nice clear photos on the IWM site https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205443486 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205443481 https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/205443483 plus these might be handy link to the above plan from Control Column: https://www.scalemates.com/albums/img/0/2/8/980028-17841-63-1440.jpg 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul821 Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 According to g-info g-aeoo is a AERONCA C3, which is high sing sports plane. You can actually get a card kit of it. http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/models/aircraft/Aeronca-FlyingBathtub.html Ideal for this GB. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malpaso Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 17 minutes ago, Paul821 said: According to g-info g-aeoo is a AERONCA C3, which is high sing sports plane. You can actually get a card kit of it. http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/models/aircraft/Aeronca-FlyingBathtub.html Ideal for this GB. Nice Aeronca. But the Snargasher is G-AEOD... This model is a nice combination of older modelling techniques; looking forward to the finished result. Will you finish it in its racy pre-war scheme or impressed (?) Camo. Assuming it was impressed rather than a remaining a company aircraft on vital war work? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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