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NAA P51 D-5 NA-1/18 scale
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Hi James,
I Have no idea what kind of tape that is. It was left over from the Mrs.Xmas stuff. It seems to be some kind of pressure sensitive foil. It was the thinnest stuff I could find at .0015 thickness.I wanted to show the rib tapes but wanted the effect to be subtle.
I have some left over. If you need it, I'll send it over.
Cheers
Geoff
I Have no idea what kind of tape that is. It was left over from the Mrs.Xmas stuff. It seems to be some kind of pressure sensitive foil. It was the thinnest stuff I could find at .0015 thickness.I wanted to show the rib tapes but wanted the effect to be subtle.
I have some left over. If you need it, I'll send it over.
Cheers
Geoff
It comes and goes Geoff
Yeah, sort of like my memory.
Hi Paul...what did you say your name is?
HEY!! :smack Get back to work Mister! :tomato
Greetings All,
Ive made a bit more progress on the empennage, windscreen and canopy. I wont spend a lot of words. Rather, Ill just let the photos do the talking. Happy to answer any questions you might have...
EMPENNAGE:
This is becomming endless. Ive mounted the new fairings and begun the fastener details.The fairings on both the tail and the wing are held in place with counter sunk flat head screws. Scale diameter is .033". I used .030 Evergreen rod stock. I havent been able to find a drawing that defines the fastener pattern on the top surface of the tail fairing and I dont want to fake it so this op will stall for a bit.
WINDSCREEN:
I started shaping and fitting the IP shroud.Its made from a section of the wind screen. What remains unclear, is exactly what the D-5 shroud looked like. This shape is taken from the Neely drawings which differs from period photos of later versions of the Mustang.More research will be needed.
Ive made a bit more progress on the empennage, windscreen and canopy. I wont spend a lot of words. Rather, Ill just let the photos do the talking. Happy to answer any questions you might have...
EMPENNAGE:
This is becomming endless. Ive mounted the new fairings and begun the fastener details.The fairings on both the tail and the wing are held in place with counter sunk flat head screws. Scale diameter is .033". I used .030 Evergreen rod stock. I havent been able to find a drawing that defines the fastener pattern on the top surface of the tail fairing and I dont want to fake it so this op will stall for a bit.
WINDSCREEN:
I started shaping and fitting the IP shroud.Its made from a section of the wind screen. What remains unclear, is exactly what the D-5 shroud looked like. This shape is taken from the Neely drawings which differs from period photos of later versions of the Mustang.More research will be needed.
The mold was poured for the canopy. Once cured, the resin vac form plug was poured. I got all set up to pull copies of the canopy, and half way through the first heating cycle, the heat source went south. Just the same, heres the plug(big thing). It took two pounds of silicone to make the molds for the windscreen and the canopy. the progression: L to R:
original part..original after rework..plug
That about raps it up for this update. They will be slower coming now since everything will be new.
Hope everyone is well...
Best,
Geoff
original part..original after rework..plug
That about raps it up for this update. They will be slower coming now since everything will be new.
Hope everyone is well...
Best,
Geoff
About the shroud, gotta wonder if they were not interchangeable, that may explain why you see inconsistencies.
Moon
No doubt they were interchangeable. I just want to make sure what goes into this thing is correct. Glad you looked in...thanks.
Geoff
Greetings All,
My apologies for such a long absence. Being the dippy ole man I seem to be becoming, I lost the URL for the site and couldnt remember how to get back here...pretty scary. Gut, Ive managed to find the trail and have stuff to post.
Progress has been made. Last post, I was up to adding fitments to the empennage.That has all been redone since discovering the number of lower fairing hardware attachment points were too few. Hence,the holes were all plugged and redrilled. I stopped counting at eighty something holes.The alignment of the holes proved to be a real bugger and trying to do it with the fairings attached to the fuselage only added to the problem. The hole to hole alignment was just a nightmare. More than once i had to plug and redrill due to misaligment.
Enough whinning...heres where we are...
The elevators were detailed up using .0015 pressure sensitive foil.I dont know where it came from other than it was something the Mrs used for wrapping at Christmas last.
The elevators are made from the originals modified to fit the drawing.The trim tabs are made from folded aluminum litho plate.
The rudder received the same treatment. Pushrod fairing and control horn details are made from folded aluminum litho plate.
Anyway, long story short, heres where it all ended up...the pretty much finished empennage
The holes look big but are actually only .030" diameter.
My apologies for such a long absence. Being the dippy ole man I seem to be becoming, I lost the URL for the site and couldnt remember how to get back here...pretty scary. Gut, Ive managed to find the trail and have stuff to post.
Progress has been made. Last post, I was up to adding fitments to the empennage.That has all been redone since discovering the number of lower fairing hardware attachment points were too few. Hence,the holes were all plugged and redrilled. I stopped counting at eighty something holes.The alignment of the holes proved to be a real bugger and trying to do it with the fairings attached to the fuselage only added to the problem. The hole to hole alignment was just a nightmare. More than once i had to plug and redrill due to misaligment.
Enough whinning...heres where we are...
The elevators were detailed up using .0015 pressure sensitive foil.I dont know where it came from other than it was something the Mrs used for wrapping at Christmas last.
The elevators are made from the originals modified to fit the drawing.The trim tabs are made from folded aluminum litho plate.
The rudder received the same treatment. Pushrod fairing and control horn details are made from folded aluminum litho plate.
Anyway, long story short, heres where it all ended up...the pretty much finished empennage
The holes look big but are actually only .030" diameter.
