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2 minutes ago, harv said:
86 ?
A hint. It's an uneven number
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A second hint : you have the kit, Harv.
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1 minute ago, harv said:
F4 ?......harv
F : yes
4 : no ...
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Some teeny weeny parts to improve a resin cockpit ... The small switches rack in the middle on the extreme right was my fifth attempt and took me some 8 hours overall before I called myself happy
. It's made of 14 components overall ... and I confirmed I have to improve my soldering skills 
And to think nobody will ever notice...
Hubert
PS: A special salute to the first who guesses which cockpit this is from
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There is only one OV-10 IMHO, the A. Good that you found one, Harv.
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15 hours ago, BlrwestSiR said:
Not by a long shot. My bench "area" pretty much looks like that. I'm in the middle of trying to make room on my bench for my boys but I'm failing miserably.
Anything not on a shelf is technically a work in progress. I don't even know what everything is. So I'm definitely not as organized as CAT is.
My plan for the new year is to try and get through at least one pile of started kits...
I admire that you work in this area, Carl. If I had a work area and workbench like this one, I’d probably tackle it with a fork, or more likely a D-12 dozer, followed by a high-pressure rinsing. But then, it’s just me
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Each to his own, as they say.
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6 hours ago, Clunkmeister said:
The nose weights are two very substantial pieces of very heavy metal.
I have no clue if they will be sufficient to hold the nose down, as HPH saw fit to give us a horizontal stabilizer, elevators, and rudder in solid resin.....
Hey I did not know you were doing a NB-36 H. Looks like the bulkheads are from it
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5 hours ago, Pardelhas said:
Last year, in Telford (2018), Hph had the Sm-79 mock up in display.
Now On plastic probably will be less expensive.
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Well, I had to go back to work and switch-on the PC on which I do Solidworks' designs, but I recovered some screen captures of what I did 4 years ago. The cylinder design is not complete (and has some bugs) and you will notice that I even "assembled" one cylinder in a reverse way
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That gives you an idea of what I had achieved so far. The design is in 1/32 scale.
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They do, and despite their typically British ungainly design, they somehow looked cool (at least until they got pregnant - and useful at last - with the big tank).
As for the kit:
1) This is life when you have young children at home
2) I should have stored them better if I wanted to keep them longer
3) it was just an advanced call on their ultimate fate. Until recently, and my new wife, I was binning the finished kits after some time. It was a way of keeping some free shelf space, and also a reflection that I was more interested in the building process than the finished kit
Nice work again on that icon of Britishness.
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On the contrary, Blender is very good and very capable. It just requires a mind frame I have not. But if you are in organic design or 3D animation, you can produce wonders with Blender. Check it online to see what you can do.
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Blender is a free -yet very sophisticated - 3D design software. Never could even get started on it
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38 minutes ago, Clunkmeister said:
Hmmm. I can see the advantage from a sales perspective no doubt. But will the extra sales offset the much larger development costs?
The technology involved is short-run molds. They can be developed from the traditional masters HpH used for their resin kits. And selling 1000 units is no doubt better than selling 100 to 300. Especially as the cost of silicone molds is repeated as these molds wear out quickly ...
27 minutes ago, TJTX said:I will buy the C-47 if it comes out plastic in a heart beat. I've wanted that kit so much but I can't reason spending the money on the resin version.
I am with you Tony. I wanted a DC-3. I might even have bought a C-47 kit to make it into a DC-3, but not at 700 € (European price including VAT)
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If you are an old drawing board draughtsman, then you are an in-born parametric designer. You thinks 2D dimensions and angles before thinking 3D ... Don’t even think about using Blender. Designing a shape without entering dimensions seems .... very very very alien to me
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I like the idea of them moving to short-run IM kits. And I have seen some great news in the list, like the Wyvern or the SM 79.
One little more effort, and release the C-47 as an injection-molded DC-3, cheaper than the resin kit, please Infinity Models
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Very nice result, with a not-so-easy kit
Hubert
PS: you know there is one remaining survivor in the Krakow Aeronautics Museum (at least that is my memory)
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Go for it Dale !
Keep the tempo, mate
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Cool. I remember building a 1/48 Lightning F1a ... some 25 years ago. It was an ID model vac-form. I was very proud of it, and then my children thought it was a cool toy too, to go flying around the house 'Whoooooooooooooshhhhh !"
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Sorry for you. Had you asked before you bought them, I, and probably others, would have told you to pass and avoid. The E & T « engines » are competing with SAC « metal » landing gears for the title of « worst way to waste money on AM stuff ».
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29 minutes ago, Jeff said:
And NOW 'Electric' airplanes.............
I can't agree MORE, Rog................................
Given that a battery has only 20% of the energy capacity of the same weight of kerosene, and that, AFAIK, chasing unnecessary weight is still the ABOLUTE #1 rule in aircraft-design-dos-and-don'ts, the time when we see an all-electric passenger plane is still very very very very far in the future ...
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Have you started yet ? Stop procrastinating, and get to some serious modelling, mate
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Agreed, Ernie. Great list ! (And can you please update my donation in the front page list ?)
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Very impressive detailing work
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As for the white, a small touch of ochre would probably break-off the coldness of the base color(yeah, I know, white is not a color
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If you focus on the cylinders, I have done the design for the crankcase and accessories. I should actually resume work on the cylinder-and-head design ....
Hunert
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What is on your bench right now ? Share a picture :)
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