Lt. Biggles
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I’ve got a question for all you plane builders. is it frowned upon to glue the top sides of the wings to the fuselage first. then once on attach the underside and do whats needed to make them fit? Pros would be the best possible fit on the upper surface meaning much less filler on the part you can actually see. a con would be if the underside doesn’t fit with the top in correct place could be a disaster. otherwise instructions say join wing halves together then attach to fuselage which dry fitting shows an awful join. any one attempted something like this before? Any ideas? Am kinda leaning towards glueing the tops to fuselage first at the moment just for that amazing join
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Where I can been working on the wheel bay. Seems out of the factory they were painted in a silver coloured dope and then with maintenance and new paints the colour could end up the same as the underside. So that how mine will be, well used and had a few coats of paint. painted with 2 shades of grey and then darker grey for some highlights. there are a few few pics of the wheel bay about so just mixed and matched. This part is pretty much never seen anyway. ill match the rest of the undercarriage bays with what I’ve done so far.
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No need to send the critic!! 😅 You guys are right! I’ll leave her as is and add the flag and call it finished. Im really happy with how she came out. Ive ordered some flags and they will be here next year.
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Haha Gold!! That got a giggle out of me! These are unique, what will be their length once complete?
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Decided I would model the plane with no control lock in place (I assume that’s the reason) so took the elevators and did a million cuts to separate them, breaking 2 brand new blade tips in the process! took some patience but got there in the end. I think it will not be directly noticeable but adds just a nice extra touch to the over all look. half done Managed to snap off one of the horn balances and it flew across my room and went through a grill and ended up inside my computer. So glued it up and sanded it so hopefully I’ve fixed it good enough that once primed it will be totally unnoticeable.
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Hey Dan, yea I’ll be putting the footstep on. i had no idea the hand hold flap was connected to the footstep! Learnt something new!
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Wow there are a few little gadgets out there! Thanks for the links. Seems the technology isn’t quite ready for them to be used on a model plane... imagine it moving and snapping down on the base 😂 with all my projects so far I’ve tried to include something new, my ship I did the ocean base and a few years ago I built a uboat and put it in resin so that’s now my lamp. Thought it would be cool to try have an aircraft in flight for real! I cant do much on my hurricane until the seat belt arrives and then I can join the fuselage halves. i did cut out the hand grip though. its all I’ve done
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Thanks everyone for the kind words and more importantly for the tips and advice that’s been given! I’ve learnt way more than I ever wanted to know about this ship and the sea (in a good way though) I touched up the wake and for a few minutes thought she was finished!! Took some pics in the sun. Then I remembered about the ensign as I’d looked it up but had found no pics of her sailing with one flying until I did find some... so did more research and read the rules and etiquette of flags at sea and it says “an ensign must be flown when in foreign waters during daylight hours” so unless I’ve missed something that’s what I’ll now research and do. Is there any way to find out the correct halyard setup for flying flags and ensigns? All the official plans only have the main rigging but can’t find anything on all the small stuff. That pic shows the flag flying where there is no rope on any plans, drawings or pics I’ve ever seen.
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Another thing I’ve been thinking about. Has anyone tried using electromagnetic levitation devices inside a model to display it? Planes just look so much cooler in flight and gear up. Silly gravity
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With the new information about white water this is the result. hope it’s not over done. Just prop wash to finalise.
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Thanks all for the tips and sites! Looks like those 2 coffees really did their job this morning LandLubber Mike! seems I had the right rough idea! But now have some good places to start my searching! It’s abit like researching a build, looking for those gems in all sorts of places! Move got enough aftermarket for this Hurricane but wondering if my next build is as internal as external. No idea what a/c that will be though but I do like the WW2 era European theatre.
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I hope she is ready for trouble if it comes as I’ve put brass barrels on her! haha i had to fill in some gaps between ship and water so just did another thin round and tomorrow I’ll go over it and fit it to size with a coat of varnish. thanks again for the tips
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Too much of a good thing is an even better thing? Haha
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Thanks heaps for those. The only way I was finding aftermarket parts was by looking at build logs and hoping they said that upgrades they used then google and hunt them down. Not ideal!
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Is there a special site that has all the aftermarket parts for each model? Landlubber Mike has got me wondering what bits are available even not for this build but for a possible next... Id like to have an open cockpit for this build but the kit one is too thick and cast closed. But any google searches just brings drips and drabs of available parts and for all the hurricanes not just my particular brand. Maybe there is a one stop info page with what’s out there that I’ve been kept in the dark about. I see Aires talked about a lot.
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Looks great! And all the open panels and having all the internals to fit looks like a huge job! Good work
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Thanks for the input. You have changed my mind on what to do. I’ll fix up the boundary layer wake that has some gaps and also touch up the prop wash area but I’ll not add white water to the “bow ripple” haha. I’ll keep the white water down to a minimum. After seeing pictures of ships going fast and the whole rooster tail wash it’s a mess and would be very hard to replicate well without heaps of practice which is why I went for the cruise look. My intention was having her cruising about quietly confident while looking for trouble type impression.
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This is good stuff thanks mate. I’m more than happy to get this right and I’m no expert in the field so please don’t hold back this very useful information I really appreciate it. so maybe I’ve not quite got the sea base correct as I did add a bow wave to it. Here are some pic that make the wave stand out so you can see. I measured angles and all sorts using all the bow wave formulas I could find online. Should that bow wave not exist for a speed of no more than 12 kts? or would it be there just with no white water on it? Its about 5mm high so head on it hardly sticks up. but it is there and shaded to show the light passing through. perhaps the wave is ok and I shouldn’t add white water or it’s too big and has to go. From what you have said so far I’m happy with just the boundary layer and wake having the white water. I’d always thought the bow wave was related to the ships speed as the water the ship is displacing has to go somewhere... so it went sideways. please keep the info coming
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Thanks, and spot on. I did the workings out for a bow wave height at 10 kts and her size and for the scale would be 5-9mm high. Which is what I made on the sea base. I agree there isn’t too much white water and am not planning to add much more but would like alittle on the first few Cm of the bow wave that kinda just stops and has abit of residual white just outside the boundary layer white water. A bit like this shot of an American BB (I think) this next shot shows it well but want a much reduced version of this. but you can see the two two different layers of wake well here. I’d like to have about 20% of what’s here. I like how the bow wave white water seems to run out of energy and then gets left behind as it slowly dissipates.
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Thanks, I think if it was a full aftermarket cockpit the detail would be crazy! Might have learnt enough for the ground work side of a type rating to be complete! Learnt enough just doing this stock one! It’s a shame everything then gets closed up and almost becomes invisible. So here are the two side walls seeing they will be pretty much lost. Also on the rudder added a rod for the actuators rather than the solid block. subtle changes
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All those little things make all the difference it’s crazy! I’ve been looking at so many pics and videos about the movement of water that when I’m at the beach I look out over the ocean and the first thing I think is “that looks fake” then I laugh at myself and wonder if I’ve gone abit crazy 😂
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Hey, just a quick update. All the crew are painted and on. thought that they would improve as I got more practice but no stayed pretty consistent but got faster as efficiency increased. They were far too small that any increase in painting quality would mean I would have painted about 5 by now! Which means I’m sorting out the white water and she is complete! Its the most challenging part and am not rushing it, lots of tests and I work on it when in the right mindset as I feel it will make or break the final look of it. I didn’t like the fluffy look the cotton made along the ships side so brushed on a gloss varnish to remove that look so will add another layer as it really changed it.
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On my ship build I’ve finished painting all the crew and the last bit left is finishing off the white water which seems to be the hardest part for me to get looking right but as I experiment with that I’ve been chipping away on the cockpit. Everything is stock out of the box and I’m just waiting on the seatbelt to finish it off. I’ve pushed the control column forward abit as from pics it seems the elevators hang down... I’m assuming whenever the control lock hasn’t been put in. Not sure how the Hurricane worked in this way. But I’ll droop the elevators just a bit as it’s about 50/50 straight or not. Just more work for me haha
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Found a few hours this morning and the cockpit is coming along. Ended up cutting out an instrument from the decal and using it as the compass that hangs below the panel
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Yea I noticed it needed a heap more thinner and the pigment seemed really chunky! Didn’t take long to switch to different shades of greys. I never even thought to see if there was a flat steel haha. Been working on the instrument panel. There is a decal but the panel has raised details so I think you ether sand it flat and add the decal or hand paint the details. Can’t see a decal over raised details working very well at all from past experiences even with the decal solution that helps it melt to the shape so I’ll give hand painting a go
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