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  1. Jolley Roger
    Interesting, I see it's got the buddy to buddy refueling pod on.
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    Apologies, might have caused some confusion here. The chap in the video is Ian Pringle, who is still alive and kicking and has now become an author Ian Pringle He used to own a Buc that was managed by Thunder City Mike Beachy Head was the owner of Thunder City and he passed away in 2017. A company called Hangar 51 has bought the Buccs and has moved them by road from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth for restoration. (Dec 2022 and Jan 2023)
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    Cape Town, South Africa based. Thunder City, the company that owned them, is defunct now after the owner died of a heart attack a couple of years ago. Some of the collection has been sold off, so we might see a Buc flying again soon...
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    A very much loved aircraft type in the SAAF as well, good old British engineering at its best!
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    Agreed!🙂
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    Hi Egilman, Your dolly sure looks the part! Is there any reason why you are not printing it instead of scratching it? Just curious as i'm no expert on 3d printing. One other thing, as per pic below, I notice there is a 'plate' between the compressor section and the combustion chambers, assume it was to mount the engine correctly in the fuselage?
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    I can smell Jet-A1 just by looking at that picture🙂
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    Brilliant!
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    Fascinating stuff EGM! Hats of to the engineers of the time that laid the foundation for the modern jet engine and to you for educating us. Just love it!
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    All the best with the upcoming procedure Egilman. Absolute stunning work, don't think I have ever seen anybody in the aircraft modelling community do something similar, so looking forward to the printed prototype. If you ever make this available to buy, i'm first in line🙂, i've got a Wolfpack F-86(basically a reboxed Kinetic) in the stash and a proper engine will make it so much better!
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    Negative sir, the SAAF purchased the Mk 6 after the Korean war, because of their experience with the F86 in Korea (i'm actually one of the 'historians' on the website you linked🙂) But, i'm not here to argue this minor detail with you, i'm here to see you build this wonderful model, 99%+ of Sabres would have had all black cockpits Would love to see you build the J-47 engine from scratch, lots to be learned
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    Just to throw a small spanner in the works😁 Below is a cockpit photo of SAAF F-86 616 with a grey interior taken by Lt G Thom. This aircraft was shot down on 21 July 1953 and Lt Thom became a POW for a short while. So there were some Sabres that already had grey interiors in the Korean theatre.
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    Following with interest, my favorite piece of military hardware!
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    Epic! Still in good nick too.
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    Finally! Looking good so far
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    You can also try Rarewoods USA, they sell Buxus Macowanii, aka Cape boxwood which is very similar to European boxwood.
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    I've seen similar white streaks in a wood that we call Meranti over here, a cheap wood mainly used in the construction industry. According to Wikipedia - They are sold under various trade names including "lauan", "lawaan", "meranti", "seraya", "balau", "bangkirai", and "Philippine mahogany". Genus - Shorea In my humble opinion it is not suitable for model ship building This is a sample i have in my wood pile with a bit of white streaking and some more from the same genus, but very different colors
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    There was a TV series as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornblower_(TV_series)
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    It is a pleasure to work with CNC parts, but it does come with its own challenges. I had a couple of sheets that was seemingly cut with a blunted CNC bit, that really roughed up some of the frames and it took a lot of extra effort to file/sand it back to a presentable form. Also reported by James H in his kit review here Alert Kit Review
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    Framing is now complete. Next up will be fairing the inside of the frames, which will take a couple of days. All in all i'm surprised at how quickly this build has progressed, a bit more than two months to get to this point.
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    There is a US company called the Small Shop that makes a couple of Photo Etch bending tools, mainly aimed at the plastic modelling community, but it should apply to any PE part Not so much a tutorial, but the link have a small video clip explaining how it works https://thesmallshop.com/collections/photo-etch-bending-tools/products/sms003-4-inch-hold-and-fold Application - from my experience, don't use a tweezer, it will launch a PE part into another dimension! I use a toothpick dipped in diluted PVA glue to move the parts around. Normally use CA glue to hold PE part in place.
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    Some progress pics
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    Here's the links to two other kit manufacturers for the Mayflower, hope it helps, as both have capstans in their plans. Model Shipways Mayflower plans Artesania Latina Mayflower
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    Billings have a manual available online with a rigging plan: Billing Boats Cutty Sark
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    The building frame completed - a little project on its own. Altogether everything fits very well, a bit of filing here and there and everything slots together. The kit provides a template for marking out the bearding line and placement of the rising wood at a later stage and the deadwood after bearding being done I then used an old utility knife blade to scrape the rabbet The keel in the template lying between two pieces of thick glass to keep it nice and straight and the finished product, all going fairly smoothly so far.

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