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10-11-2009, 02:22 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Canberra
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| That’s a nice little machine your putting together there parsifal, I love the scratch built detail. 
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10-11-2009, 05:28 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Adelaide Sth. Aust.
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|  doin' great so far!
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10-11-2009, 07:07 AM
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| Minister of Whoopass   Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Long Island Native in Mississippi
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| Hell yea, he's doin great so far....
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10-11-2009, 06:44 PM
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| aka Dickcheese  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| Sure is. I hope you are only staging your landing gear and props. Those are some fragile bits to have hanging around at this stage. Love your aft cabin work!!!! Note you can also drill out your side cooling venturies for the radar electronics. Easy to do and a nice touch.
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10-11-2009, 07:38 PM
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10-11-2009, 08:56 PM
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| well, I am heading into unknown territory now. I have cut the rear hatchway and fabricated a replacement hatch. Seems to fit okay. I needed to undertake some puttying behind the door, to fill some gaps in the sctrachbuilt decking and firewall that have put in. This cutting open of the hatch will be necessary if any level of visibility is to be achieved. Matt is right....it will otherwise be a total waste of time because of the limited visibility from the cockpit glazing The question for me now is is there any way to swing this hatch on some sort of hinge system, to make it adjustable, or do I just glue it open and be done with it. Anyone got any suggestions of opinions. Or have I just ruined $30 worth of kit???? Anyway here are the shots
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10-11-2009, 09:08 PM
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| aka Dickcheese Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| You haven't ruined it whatsoever. But a hinge mechanism is likely never to look right to scale. Open her up and glue 'er in place. Well done.
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10-12-2009, 12:45 AM
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| Yeah thats the logical thing to do i think. You mentioned something about the radar array, wich i did not quite follow. Any chance of a clarification. Also, I am still unsure about whether the Aussie E/G models carried the aradar above the cockpit. I still have not been able to confirm. Does anyone know if the E/G models actually carried this array??? It does appear in any of the photos i have located. i cannot recall it ever being visible. A simplified schematic might help solve the issue....... I am going to have another go at the control sticks tonite. I am still not happy with the result i am achieving...
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10-12-2009, 11:59 AM
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| aka Dickcheese Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| Right here...
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10-13-2009, 09:08 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008
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| some further progress shots. Have been busy for the last couple of days, so not a lot to report. I have just about finished the cockpit detail and the underside dome array. I have finished the shaping of the control columns, and the stinger array, but I havent painted it just yet. Received the decal sheets. I have put the interior furniture in for the last time, and started to putty around the engine cowlings. I did a really poor job on the turbinlite ....had some glue on my fingers that I didnt know was there, and messed things up in a big way as a result....best left to the imagination how i reacted to this... I am just about ready to join the two halves before painting the underside. Visibility of the interior is still very limited, and one thing I am considering is to put a small fibreoptic light up through the display case to the interior to the model. This will light up the interior and make it easier to see things in the interior. The light needs to be ultra small, I am currently sussing out availability. Hopefully I will find something suitable. Generally happy with progress, though my skills are still below par. I am achieving all that I set out to do, but the final product is still not as good as I hoped Anyway, here are some progress shots....
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10-13-2009, 09:09 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008
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| some further progress shots
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10-13-2009, 09:13 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: South Carolina
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10-14-2009, 03:39 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Queensland
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| Coming along nicely mate
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10-14-2009, 12:08 PM
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| aka Dickcheese Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Washington State
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| Did you join the fuselage halves yet? If not be sure and put a weight in the nose if you want it to sit nose down. I used a .45ACP slug (230gr). That did it nicely, but it was a tight fit (efter shaping with a vice & hammer) and barely enough weight. You will also likely conclude as I did the following. The aft tail strike wheel extended virtually makes the model sit on all four strut/wheel assemblies. If you retract the tail strike wheel you will definitely need some nose weight. The tail strike wheel strut is too long (at on mine it was) and you will have to remove a small portion of the hydraulic extention to slightly retract the strut to make it sit right. Otherwise the model sits nose wheel - to - tail wheel and wobbles side-to-side.
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10-19-2009, 09:44 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2008
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| well have only made a small amount of progress over the last 4 days or so. I am not entirely happy with the finish, but I have learnt a lot. The Paintwork is better than my A-4, and I am pleased with the way the scratchbuilt interior and stinger worked out. Using the airbrush gave me a better overall finish But I still suck at getting neat lines, and my overall work on the body was poor. If the A-4 was anything to go by, the decals and final protective semi gloss should improve the look of the thing quite a bit. Anyway here are the progress shot. Please note I still have a bit to do with this model
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