JeroenPeters

Forum member Towerpower gifted me a set of Moskit metal exhausts. These come on a square tube. To install them on a bare engine they need to be seperately sawn off. Looks like i can make it work. Thnx!!

The tolerances on this kittle kit are tiny. There’s a lot of cleanup and dry fitting. I clean up about 3 or 4 parts every session and see this engine block slowly growing.

Adding lead wire. There was a day when i didnt need magnifying glasses.

Really not a set for the novice. Lots of parts missing, broken or short shot. The size between the RR Peregrine and the Napier isnt even as different than i expected.

It’s becoming one big chunk of resin.

Another sub assembly done. And i fixed one of the misalligned parts with light curing putty.

A bit frustrated with the Special Hobby engine which turns out to be special indeed. In the sense that the back of the replaced engine block is completely misformed and also a little misalligned. I have decided to even use the original block which i had replaced. A lot of careful filling and shaping will need to be done. Also: some small parts are missing of the casting blocks. I will have to scratch those. Pretty dissatisfied with this expensive set. I’ll fix it but it will take a lot of time.

Lots of tiny parts. A real gem. I hope 😬

Just visited Cees Broere and was treated to a few great reference books. Almost ready to go full speed on this build. Which is snail pace in my world.

The signed photo arrived. Now to think of a base to hold this.

Engine bearers now properly alligned.

Started with the engine bearers. You need to be very careful in lining these up properly

More serious clamping going on..

A whole lot of fitting. Took some sanding and elbow grease to fit the nose guns. And took some more persuasion to fit the first gondola!

Cleaned up all the parts for the first few steps. Then i discovered some misaligned casting on the engine block. Wrote and email to Special Hobby. They replied swiftly and sent me a replacement straight away. Great customer service!

In the order of things i should first polish, rescribe and re-rivet the wings before i install the gondola’s.

Fitted the firewalls. The new 3D prints are perfect.

Wasn’t happy with the firewalls. The shape is perfect, but they were just too pronounced and thick. Just printed some new ones. Curing in UV light now. IMG_7237.mov

Fit looks fine. I’ll sand the spar thinner, but not too thin, since it will carry the weight of the engine

First test print

Working on the spar that holds the engine mounts. This will close up the front in this area.

Started cleaning up the first parts. Very time consuming and delicate work. The firewall already has 16 parts attached to it. This will take some time!

First part is cleaned. Beware: if you’re planning on using the nose fuel tank set AND the engine set. Be sure to use the firewall from the nose fuel set and not the one provided in the engine set. The latter only has detail on the front.

So i spent an afternoon searching the net for Leonard H Bartlett’s plane but couldn’t make sense of it. Serial number P7111, but i saw this plane was either 137th squadron’s SF-E or belonged to 263 squadron. Asked Gunnar and both are correct. Just found this profile in a book i have explaining it. So. This will be the plane I’m making. Bartlett’s plane, along with his signed photograph.

Got more goodies. almost ready to start!