Basic model complete except for engines. Must admit I enjoy doing these - they serve a need, no one really makes them and I'm generally using materials that are lying around anyway - apart from the 70mm mdf circles for the bases, bought those to mount trees and will have to replace them!
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Wing assembly - cut out template from plan, draw across fuselage on wing section, then other wing mirror image of first. |
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Slot wings in fuselage - I'm surprised how close a fit I managed. For me. |
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Very surprised. |
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Tail assembly nearly finished. |
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And still looking fine. |
And... since writing this did some more work on it and may may as well add the extra pictures - though props still in an unfinished state.
One nice thing about this plane is the retractable undercarriage. That means I can 'slot in' a removable undercarriage, skis or floats.
It is coming along very nicely.
ReplyDeleteA lot better than I expected - done quite a bit of balsa carving in thepast on tank turrets - well, and Japanese tanks - but these ones are a bit more complicated.
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