airscale Posted December 21, 2013 Author Share Posted December 21, 2013 Insane, did you get the timing right for the ignition? Cees ..bit peeved actually as the the ignition leads I made don't fit Cees and not only that, they are buried under and behind the exhaust pipes... so, never mind I can either rob the bits back, or use them in other places around the engine.. anyways ladies.. ..bit more done before we leave for the US for Christmas.. ..I started by making the ignition conduit and just added the ignition leads to this... carefully drilled the holes at an angle & threaded lead wire into them... ..also cast all the exhaust pipes for one side of the merlin, and the same side for the nacelle that won't have an exposed engine...these were sprayed with alclad and then a mix made up to discolour the pipe tips.. ..a bit of sooty weathering and I dry fitted them to the cylinder head - as you can see the ignition wires are now barely visible... ..the weld beads became visible with some careful painting... ..and dry fitted to the engine... ..pretty happy how they turned out, but then they do represent about 8 hours at the bench... ..just need to repeat the whole process to make the pipes for the other cylinder bank - jeesh will do that when I am back after New Year thats it for now my friends.. TTFN Peter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators JeroenPeters Posted December 22, 2013 Administrators Share Posted December 22, 2013 Those exhaust stubs look the part! Really cool... Can't wait to see this build in the flesh at Telford 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingco57 Posted December 22, 2013 Share Posted December 22, 2013 Peter, Nice solution though, you give the idea that the ignition leads are correctly fitted. Looks great. Have fun in the US during Christmas and new Years Eve, See you back on this in 2014 Cees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miracle Paint Masks Posted December 25, 2013 Share Posted December 25, 2013 Stunning work do you have a scheme in mind for this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave J Posted December 28, 2013 Share Posted December 28, 2013 Insane!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airscale Posted January 14, 2014 Author Share Posted January 14, 2014 evening all and Happy New Year so... it's been a good 3 weeks away from the bench what with spending the holidays in the US - wild weather too, 80 degrees one day 40 degrees the next...still a great time had by all but now I am back I need to re-orientate myself with what I was doing on the Hornet.... ..I was trying to work out how to do the cockpit as HpH have not chosen the traditional route - you have to assemble the fuselage sides, put the cockpit in from the top and slide the wings through the slot in the middle... ..this doesn't suit what I want to do as I have lots of detail to add to the cockpit so want full and easy access to it in both fuselage halves before assembly - I needed to work out if I can insert the wings afterwards from each side and whether the geometry stacks up.. ..first a look at the wings taped up with the spar parts - these ensure correct dihedral so I will have to watch out in the future when I get to that.. ...this is how it should be assembled... ..the spar position is where it should be in real life when slipped through the fuselage... ..I mocked up where the headrest goes - this is not a full bulkhead, it is half the depth of the fuselage and sort of hangs in the air so the cockpit is all pretty open around the seat... (this is not how HpH have it though...) ...I added a floor and now I can see how it all goes together I will probably put false walls on the fuselage halves covering the front of the wing slots so I can assemble the fuselage in two halves - then I can insert the wings separately later...(much later...) ...I see lots of complicated cockpit scratchbuilding in my future and apologise in advance to anyone tuning in for an HpH Hornet build all the best everyone.. TTFN Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airscale Posted January 14, 2014 Author Share Posted January 14, 2014 Stunning work do you have a scheme in mind for this? Hi Mal - thanks for stopping by yes - have chosen TT202 I chose this one as there are a series of colour pictures taken on an air-to-air sortie on the South Coast with de Havilland test pilot Pat Fillingham at the controls. I like the simplicity of the scheme and the fact that the surface finish even on an all silver aircraft has many hues and tones. will be needing roundels & serial masks in about two years time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators James H Posted January 14, 2014 Administrators Share Posted January 14, 2014 I'm loving this. How is that wing to fuse joint? Does it run gapless all the way around? With that construction sequence they suggest, I can't see how it would? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airscale Posted January 17, 2014 Author Share Posted January 17, 2014 I'm loving this. How is that wing to fuse joint? Does it run gapless all the way around? With that construction sequence they suggest, I can't see how it would? Hi Jim - I have only roughly cut out the parts so it wouldn't be fair to say its crap, but at the mo it looks like it will need a bit (lot?) of work... it's going to be a long while before I find out... >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ..been enjoying myself with a dremel and bits of plastic card lately - I needed to add cockpit walls, so thinned all the interior walls with a burr and sandpaper and marked out where the floor sits against the fuselage halves... ...then I was ready to separate the fuselage halves after earlier adding the rear cockpit area to correct the kit shape - used one of Radu's micro saws for a super clean cut.. ..soon I had the two halves again and was checking how thick the canopy sills would be after adding the skin of the walls. I found the answer was too thick... While I was checking reference pictures, I also found the cockpit sill is actually outside the fuselage on the the canopy rails that run all the way along the outside edges of the cockpit and down the fuselage ..this meant the cockpit sills needed lowering so I chopped out a bit more of the fuselage... ..here a brass strip shows how the rail is on the outside of the fuselage, and how the internal sill is lowered to the bottom of the rail as on the real aircraft... ...after a few hours of fiddling about with templates, and a failed attempt to make the walls by plunge moulding, I finally had the shapes I wanted. I am in huge debt to David Collins again for help figuring out the shapes & proportions - particularly the curved spar cover area.. ..they were CA'd to the fuselage, very carefully so as not to crack or distort the top of the fuselage halves which by now were pretty thin... ..lots of dry fitting to make sure everything checks out... ..here you can see how the side walls run up to the spar and how much they cover the hole where the kit wing would slot through... ..I am hoping I can just slot the wings in later on - will have to figure out how... ..lastly, I made a template to start making the rear deck that covers the spar - this will later have the ammo bins etc.. ..essentially this is the layout of the internal structure of a Hornet cockpit - the kit has a full bulkhead where the seat goes which is not right so I would have had to change this area anyway... ..it's now a blank canvas where I expect to spend may happy months fiddling about - tune in if you can stay awake... ..until next time folks TTFN Peter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingco57 Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Great work Peter, So now you have a blank canvas you can go to town on with the details. Cees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonathanReed Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Incredible build. I need to learn some of those techniques for moulding. Thnak you VERY much for sharing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkranias Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 really nice scratch work on this. learning, learning.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruZz Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Really perfect! :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youngtiger1 Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Peter, your doing some great work on this kit. Of course, a brave man chopping up this expensive kit, but I know it will be even better looking with that sea hornet conversion. Keep up the good work. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThomasProbert Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 Loving this... Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingco57 Posted February 14, 2014 Share Posted February 14, 2014 Peter, What this all means is that you have that Sea Fury finished as fast as lightning and get on with the Sea Hornet. Cees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airscale Posted June 26, 2014 Author Share Posted June 26, 2014 six months! so it's been six months....I got all nostalgic recently and re-read my thread on this beautiful bird, remembering the effort & trials & tribulations of building & researching an aircraft that doesn't exist anymore.. and also the loooong wait to see such a superb subject in 1/32 finally being realised.. ..a crisis of conscience came over me - surely it must be possible to build more than one model at the same time (loosely)? Distractions like getting the 1/24 Typhoon set done (it's in the hands of the printers now..) and the World Cup are ebbing away following England's dismal exit, I now feel some Hornet mojo coming back... so, back in the saddle and straight into the action.. ..I started by building out the very basic floor structure and rear cockpit base - I added some temporary bracing so I can work this area without it collapsing.. ..this is just plastruct tacked with CA.. ..I now have a floor - I sketched out where the cockpit walls are and the rear canopy opening extends to.... ..you can see from this lovely image of TT202 the ammo bins behind the pilot - the lids look like wood so may do with some uschi decal when the time comes.. ..and a closer look from a still I screen grabbed off youtube.. ..the kit parts are these two resin boxes that are topped with some nice PE lids - I decided they needed replacing as they are not the right size or shape - the profiles are card walls I will use to build them up.. ..soon had the basic shapes - you can see the size difference... ..detailed them with brass - they are hoppers that go through the rear floor to the cannons, but we need only see this much of them.. ...and dry fitted in the airframe - will make the lids up next... ..good to be back on this one... TTFN Peter 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingco57 Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Good to see you back at work on this beauty Peter.Cees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airscale Posted June 29, 2014 Author Share Posted June 29, 2014 thanks Cees ..just a little bit done today either side of a lovely pub lunch in the sun... ..there is a hydraulic fluid tank behind the pilot that can just be seen here. This is not a pic from an armed Hornet, so the ammo boxes are missing, but gives some useful details.. ..the kit has it represented as a pressurised bottle with the fill & vent caps on the top... ..I decided to model it as per the references I have, which is a different size/shape, so got a bit of resin pouring stub and started to shape it... ..I then removed a section from the top and grafted in a little plunge moulded bowl to represent the depressed vent cap area - I like to have a handle to work things so started making the tank while still a part of the stub... ..started to add the weld seams for the pressed parts from plastic strip & fuse wire.. ..finished it with brass details & straps... ..and dry fitted in the airframe... ..still loads more to do, but getting there one part at a time! ...until next time my friends.. TTFNPeter 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wingco57 Posted June 30, 2014 Share Posted June 30, 2014 Peter, You make it look so easy. I hope a lot of people will be inspired to do some scratchbuilding themselves. It's very rewarding.Cees Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pg265 Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Hi, Amazing!!! Simply, just AMAZING detail and building job! Pascal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airscale Posted July 18, 2014 Author Share Posted July 18, 2014 thanks both & good evening ...so, first DH Hornet thing to talk about was meeting Eric 'Winkle' Brown the test pilot at Duxford Flying Legends last weekend..... yes, that 'Winkle' Brown the aviation great that has had such an amazing life - from test flying, first carrier landing in a jet, to interviewing all the Nuremberg Nazi's after the war for the FAA - I asked him what the Hornet was like to fly - he said 'massively over-powered, and an absolute joy to fly' - a moment I will never forget - words from the great man himself. ..back at the build, and newly inspired, I set about the canopy rails as the next thing to be done.. ..they are dead straight, run along the outside of the fuselage and are entirely parallel along their length, slotted at the top face...here are TT202's ..I had removed the kit rails to work on the nose, and wanted to make them more scale - I replaced with fine brass 'U' channel... ..there is a fairing at the front as they stand proud of the fuselage and need a rounded outer former I will add later... ..I got some white tack to hold the bits I have made so far loosely into place to see how and if it all hangs together.. ..and added a mock-up canopy - I was particularly interested to see how the modified nose profile was coming along... ...hopefully going the right way? ..until next time my friends.. Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony o Posted July 18, 2014 Share Posted July 18, 2014 Peter this is amazing so far and well up there with your Hawker Fury, keep up the good work, Cheers Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonathanReed Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 Nicely done. Keep it up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scanlon Posted July 19, 2014 Share Posted July 19, 2014 This is simply stunning work I am in awe with your skills, keep it coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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