A Gloster

[phantom II]

Well, let's kick this a bit further .

After finding out the intake engine issues , I decided to come up with a compromise and built some intakes for the MK 4 engines.

The plastic tubing was not the diameter but it was close enough that when I installed two liners of .010 sheet styrene it became a near perfect fit.
Notice the larger intake for the MK 8 meteor siting by itself .

The middle wing section is not yet assembled . I'm still wondering if I want to try mess with the speed boards.

Well , short answer is " No " . They don't even match . Would have been cool though :idonno
That was easy . Now I can move on .

Cheers, Christian B)

 

[moon puppy]

That's one funky motor.

 

[Rhino]

Of coarse you would make new intakes. I expected nothing less. I am surprised you aren't attacking the speed brake challenge.

 

[Heavens Eagle]

Interesting Christian! I don't know much about the early jets. I knew there were some odd jet engines out there in the early '50s and '60s and had seen the ones with the canisters but never realized what the deal was with them.

You caught my interest.

 

[phantom II]

Of coarse you would make new intakes. I expected nothing less. I am surprised you aren't attacking the speed brake challenge.

Dealing with the thickness of the plastic is a challenge .

Trying to fit a thin piece of that PE. that is wider than the given space ( plastic ) is a worthy fight , given the little it would add to the kit.

Multiply that times four adds up to a lot of work ... oh, did I mention building the cavities that they fit in ?
Complicated stuff.

Going to see what scribbing does for them .

Anyone out there have different view on this ?

Cheers, Christian B)

 

[moon puppy]

Press on...

 

[phantom II]

Press on I did

Installed PE in the wells and painted them and glue the engine faces together.

Wing halves were assemble and saded down. You know, not much is going to go willingly .

so , had to pull the intake back out and get some power tools

Never the less , we got there .6

 

[phantom II]

Not much was agreeable so we got the heavy duty stuff out

Finally got the intakes to fit as they should . But even so, they had to be tweaked to fit. Still needs to be rescribed.

Plenty of grinding and sanding to get it to be streamlined .

The other side tomorrow. Cheers, Christian B)

 

[lupanzer]

Dear Chris.

You're doing a great job!...Following

Luiz

 

[Iron Mike]

Gotta love the sanding drum!

 

[phantom II]

Dear Chris.

You're doing a great job!...Following

Luiz

Thanks Luiz . Sort of similar to being a sculptor . At least there is plenty of plastic to work with.

Cheers, C.

 

[phantom II]

Gotta love the sanding drum!

It made short work of the inside interference but I could not trust it on the outer cowls.

Still have plenty of those wonderful sanding sticks . Had to use the coarsest one last night .

Cheers, Christian B)

 

[Rhino]

 

[sharkman]

looking very good!!

 

[phantom II]

Thanks guys for your interest and comments

After spending so much energy on the end that sucks ( no pun here )

I'm gonna look at the end that blows ( still no pun ).

The real thing .

The kit parts.

Not exactly what I was hoping for . :coolio

Trip to hobby Lobby for tubing More latter.

Cheers, Christian B)

 

[Heavens Eagle]

Isn't that how it always goes Christian, the kit sucks so you go and blow more to make it right.

 

[phantom II]

Well, I think that's the idea . With a 40 % coupon though it only blows at 60 % .

Now I have enough tubing to do a whole fleet of these :facepalm at least I did not have to sing the metric/standard blues

Cheer, Christian B)

 

[moon puppy]

Punt?
Forget it, he's on a roll.

 

[phantom II]

Punt?
Forget it, he's on a roll.

Thanks Bob . The words were really meant to be pun . Sometimes the foreigner still to trips me up . Particularly if I'm tired. :laugh:

On the other hand I see people who are English speakers make glaring errors . Now that's even more funny

Cheers, C. B)

Ps. I'll punt when I get back to the house :drinks

 

[Iron Mike]

Latter?