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2 minutes ago, STRAT'71 said:

Can’t find ‘embed’

 Have you selected more than one photo? You have to do them one at a time. 

Just now, Bertie Psmith said:

 Have you selected more than one photo? You have to do them one at a time. 

It helps me be selective about which pictures I post!

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22 minutes ago, STRAT'71 said:

I have selected only one.

It shows a tick, so what do I look for now?

 

 

Left click on the picture and a menu appears with embed on it. Theres also an embed button on the top of the screen toolbar. 

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1 hour ago, Terry1954 said:

i must say thus U/C bays look superb Matt.

Thanks Terry.👍 A bit more work required on the bays (and a lot more on the intakes…!) then the wing top will be glued into position.

 

Not much progress this week; I will get back to this one soon🙂

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12 minutes ago, STRAT'71 said:

Is it missing the two struts(shock absorbers) holding the door? I see no parts or references to them.

If you mean the upper leg fairing doors (the trapezoidal ones) then yes.  Funnily enough @avro683 were looking at XM594’s yesterday and, to be perfectly honest, it appears to.be a relatively easy job to add your own.  I know we expect the kit manufacturers to do this for us these days but sometimes these things fail the bean counters’ cost/benefit calculations.

 

Incidentally they’re not in the old kit either......

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7 minutes ago, STRAT'71 said:

Probably missed in the scan.

Funny how all the detail you can’t see is present. 

Part present in the old kit, so I have four spare.

Rather crude though. Probably scratch build better ones.

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11 minutes ago, stever219 said:

If you mean the upper leg fairing doors (the trapezoidal ones) then yes.  Funnily enough @avro683 were looking at XM594’s yesterday and, to be perfectly honest, it appears to.be a relatively easy job to add your own.  I know we expect the kit manufacturers to do this for us these days but sometimes these things fail the bean counters’ cost/benefit calculations.

  No, the access door.

I hadn’t noticed that omission.

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On 7/2/2021 at 10:48 AM, Adam Poultney said:

 

It's at Newark Air Museum, you can get right around it and up close underneath. It's supposed to be having some new paintwork done at some point soon iirc

 

Work has already started Adam.

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1 hour ago, STRAT'71 said:

  No, the access door.

I hadn’t noticed that omission.

The doors are there, they need to be fitted before the undercarriage legs. What’s missing are the rods connecting the doors to the legs. There’s one either side of each leg.

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1 hour ago, avro683 said:

The doors are there, they need to be fitted before the undercarriage legs. What’s missing are the rods connecting the doors to the legs. There’s one either side of each leg.

The door.  The thing the crew climb in.

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20 minutes ago, STRAT'71 said:

The door.  The thing the crew climb in.

Got you! Neither kit supplies retraction jacks for the crew access door, which is odd as they are rather substantial. Unfortunately when @stever219 and I were there yesterday the crew access door was shut so I couldn’t take any pictures. The museum are hoping to start aircraft cockpit tours soon.

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15 hours ago, avro683 said:

Got you! Neither kit supplies retraction jacks for the crew access door, which is odd as they are rather substantial. Unfortunately when @stever219 and I were there yesterday the crew access door was shut so I couldn’t take any pictures. The museum are hoping to start aircraft cockpit tours soon.

Fortunately easy to make, but from the photographs I have found I cannot determine the attachment points inside the entry.

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Funnily enough, those struts were included in the old tool version of the kit! At least they are easy to add on, but should really have been included...

 

I'm still working on the intakes, which have now had a couple of hours of filling and sanding. They need yet more work!

 

As promised on @Andy350's thread, I mentioned making some templates for the upper surface camouflage. Here they are - help yourself to a download if they help. They should all be A4 sized and ready to use; just right click on any link and save it to your computer, then print it out and cut as required.

 

Here are the thumbnails showing the templates, with the links underneath:

 

scans.jpgFuselage sides and tail fin templates

 

http://www.matthamptonphotography.com/bm/avulc/temp1.jpg

http://www.matthamptonphotography.com/bm/avulc/temp2.jpg

http://www.matthamptonphotography.com/bm/avulc/temp3.jpg

 

Wing upper surface templates:

 

http://www.matthamptonphotography.com/bm/avulc/temp4.jpg

http://www.matthamptonphotography.com/bm/avulc/temp5.jpg

http://www.matthamptonphotography.com/bm/avulc/temp6.jpg

 

Nose upper surface:

 

http://www.matthamptonphotography.com/bm/avulc/temp7.jpg

 

I have printed a couple as a test and compared them with the model to check the dimensions. Here's the tail fin:

 

tt.jpg

 

And the right hand wing:

 

wt.jpg

 

If you notice any errors, please let me know. Hopefully these will be useful to you.👍

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