Kaireckstadt Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 3 hours ago, Trigger said: Hello Guy's, Here's an update on the Catalina, placed a bulkhead and glued it with epoxy for the necessary strength, see or yourself... prepared the fuselage for epoxy and glued in, next step was the cockpit area, fitted the windshield after numerous fitting and sanding, first had to cut the windshield in half, Went pretty good, then the roof of the cockpit , I placed the part on a "sausage " of blue tack, in order not to break the part while I was cutting, lined it all out with a piece of dymo tape, and voila..... a nice clean cut, and straight Put the cooking plates between the two bulkheads Then a lot of sanding and fitting for the windshield..... This was by no means an easy task, this was still a test fit, had to do al lot more sanding.... Also sanded the complete fuselage, all the detail suddenly popped up, didn't ruin to much detail with the windshield, can easily be rescribed, glued the windshield with epoxy glue. some overall shots after sanding Couldn't resist to put the wing on it, (just test fitted ), to get an idea of the complete model, that's it for now, until the next update...... cheers, Frank Like Rob said, this is an awesome build Frank. And it will be a stunner in the end! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peterpools Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 Frank Right with Rob but your build is beyond epic if that’s possible Keep ‘em comin Peter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Fran Posted October 10, 2022 Administrators Share Posted October 10, 2022 On 4/11/2021 at 5:56 PM, Trigger said: Hello Guy's, Here's an update on the Catalina, placed a bulkhead and glued it with epoxy for the necessary strength, see or yourself... prepared the fuselage for epoxy and glued in, next step was the cockpit area, fitted the windshield after numerous fitting and sanding, first had to cut the windshield in half, Went pretty good, then the roof of the cockpit , I placed the part on a "sausage " of blue tack, in order not to break the part while I was cutting, lined it all out with a piece of dymo tape, and voila..... a nice clean cut, and straight Put the cooking plates between the two bulkheads Then a lot of sanding and fitting for the windshield..... This was by no means an easy task, this was still a test fit, had to do al lot more sanding.... Also sanded the complete fuselage, all the detail suddenly popped up, didn't ruin to much detail with the windshield, can easily be rescribed, glued the windshield with epoxy glue. some overall shots after sanding Couldn't resist to put the wing on it, (just test fitted ), to get an idea of the complete model, that's it for now, until the next update...... cheers, Frank How is this going? have you finish it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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