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Al, would you mind if I re-titled this topic to make it more apparent that it's a kit development thread?
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Any West Coast lumber schooner would be cool -- especially if it came from the Bendixsen yard.
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T-90 by Mikegr - FINISHED - AM - 1/72 - PLASTIC
ccoyle replied to mikegr's topic in Non-ship/categorised builds
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Oh, please please please say CA Thayer!!
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That is a lot of exposed timberheads! Have you hinted anywhere previously as to the identity of this new project?
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So, the outer structure of the cowl is done. The front of the crankcase should be flush with the cowl opening, so that will help me determine how to fit the rear part of the engine to the fuselage. Speaking of which . . . . . . it's a good thing I didn't fit any air intake pipes, because my initial measurements suggest that the entire portion of the molded block that includes the pipe stubs will need to be removed in order to allow the engine to fit properly. Fun!
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That's the plan.
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Well, the whole point of the resin engine was to make the 'joy' of building the paper engine unnecessary. Displaying the resin engine separately is no longer a viable option because I've already altered the cylinder heads. There's also a fair number of bits that the resin set doesn't include.
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Jerry, your project is coming along very nicely! The 3d-printed pieces look very neat and tidy.
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Hello, Wes! Very glad to have you aboard. One side of my 'kinfolk' originally hailed from the Ellijay area (Tickanetley) -- I don't think it gets much more rural than that. Fortunately for that AL Swift kit, it has been a very popular beginner subject over the years, so we have a lot of finished build logs for it on hand. You can find them in this list. Cheers!
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I have thought about that, but ultimately it would be an exercise of little value. If the kit engine does prove to be smaller and thus a better fit, that would suggest a wiser course would be to use the kit engine -- all 250+ parts of it. 🤮 And of course that would mean a not inconsiderable sum spent on after-market parts would be down the proverbial toilet with no return on the investment. No, I plan to start by finishing the cowling first and then calculating how much of the resin engine I will need to modify or remove in order to make it fit. As I said, the cowl opening is narrow, so it's possible that most or all of the surgically altered parts will not be visible. One step at a time!
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I'd be a little annoyed if that were to prove to be the case, since the part is marketed as being 1/33 scale.
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Trouble is brewing . . . First off, the resin engine is a very, very tight fit. This fact is made worse by the fact that the cowl's diameter decreases as successive rings are added. To get the engine to fit into the first three rings, I had to file off the top halves of the front cylinders' valve covers. But it gets worse . . . The engine itself is not the only thing that has to fit into the cowling. There's also the machine gun channels, and as you can see in that first picture, there's no room for them. In this next photo, you can see that cylinder heads more or less completely block the front openings for the guns -- and that's without the channels being installed. There's also an air duct that needs to fit in there as well -- don't ask me how. I'm quietly wondering whether this engine isn't actually a 1/32 scale engine rather than 1/33. It's not out of the realm of possibility.
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Purely coincidence! I just happened to be browsing through the card logs today and noticed a few that had been quiet. I have taken the liberty of marking this log 'terminated'. We do that rather than simply deleting logs, because even unfinished logs contain information that may be of use to someone.
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Good to hear, Jeff! My retirement is still a few years down the road -- but I can dream!
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Welcome aboard!
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Whatever became of this project? Did you finish it?
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Hey, Olli, how is this build coming along?
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