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Old 12-08-2017, 04:07 AM
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The build begins

Thank you all for your kind encouragement ! With so many parts this indeed almost becomes a science project. Thanks Isaac for offering to take pictures at the museum. I checked out their website and the displays are very impressive. If I need anything I can’t find on the internet I may accept your kind offer.

Sorry Ricardo, the toss didn’t result into the Dauntless, sometimes plans change… but the SBD-3 is certainly high on my wish list. Such wonderful cockpit details and my favorite childhood WW2 Pacific theatre plane.
Ok, after finishing a stroopwafel (thanks Dan) the build starts with the central fuselage section (part 1) that will hold the wing spars later on. So the internal structure has been well reinforced by the designers and the slots for the spars are clearly visible in the pictures.

I’m using the laser cut set but also laminate the laser cuts with the original (thin) paper parts. The laser cuts come in thicknesses of 1.0 and 0.5mm. The building instructions say that parts indicated with a * need to be pasted on 0.5mm thick board and parts with ** on 1.0mm, so for this reason I glued the original paper parts (0.1mm thickness) on the laser cuts. If it’s really required or not, I don’t know, somehow it seems neater to do so and all internal structure parts came together very well. So far so good.

The internal skin has to be wrapped around the formers very tightly and then both ends mate just fine. As it is “one time right gluing” I glued the skin bit by bit to the former edges, thereby continuously checking its alignment at the seam.

In fact the central section is only fully finished once the outside skin is in place as well, but this part needs to be wrapped around the internal skin even tighter and at this point I haven’t dared yet to do so. Don’t want my first Halinski to become my last Halinski already, ha, ha.

Cheers,
Erik
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