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02-08-2016, 08:00 AM
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Hi Ricleite, beautiful result up so far. I hope the speed brakes will not get damaged during the assembly of the fuselage and the rest of the model. They look rather fragile. The way you make the wheels is a technique worth to keep in mind.
Regards, Erik 
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02-10-2016, 08:12 AM
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That’s a good point, Erik. It would have been wiser to keep the airbrake’s struts apart until much later in the assembly process. Well, it is at my own risk
 The nose gear has a lot more detail than the main gear. I didn’t car to extend the wire down to serve as the wheel axle. It will bear almost no weight, anyway…
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#43
02-10-2016, 02:39 PM
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Edited below.
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02-10-2016, 02:40 PM
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I remember Ric's formula  ... I went back to the stacked circles  .
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#45
02-15-2016, 07:46 AM
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@ Gerardo - these tires are of the "simple" variety, with a cropped circular section. Some tires, mainly on more recent jets, require more complex tires…
The front landing gear compartment is squeezed between the air intake ducts. So much that there a single wall, double-faced.
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#46
02-16-2016, 01:06 AM
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What a beautiful clean build up so far. How I envy you!!
Erik
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02-17-2016, 08:25 AM
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Thanks Erik
 Looking at your F-104, it is a safe bet to say that you know it all about clean assembly  As you can see in the pictures, I added a lot of tabs, both to fix the landing gear compartments and to get a large gluing surface between the wing skin and the structure. So, it is not necessary to apply pressure in order to get a proper link. As you know, it is all too easy to deform the paper while gluing and the shiny paper shows any problem. I didn't get a good curvature on the wing leading edge. The paper resists much more to be curved on one direction than on its perpendicular. Unfortunately, the wing skin parts are printed on the worse direction. The truth is that, on A4 format, it would not be possible to rotate them. Well, that's how life is...
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02-18-2016, 08:10 AM
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@ Yoav – Thanks
Most of the times, I use this sequence to glue the wing skin. There were exceptions, like Halinski’s Tornado and GPM’s A-7. In both cases, the landing gear doesn’t connect to the wings. So, it is possible to push the previously closed wing skin over the wing structure, as you suggest.I find the first method more comfortable to align and fix the landing gear compartment to the wing skin. It also allows me to fix the landing gear solidly to the wings, as you can see in today’s pictures. Sometimes, the upper wing surface doesn’t mate perfectly to the fuselage but the wing root fillet is usually enough to hide most of the misery Feel free to say that I’m just using the wrong type of glue but I always try to get a landing gear assembly where the (not so) weak element is a 1mm wire. If the wire that serves as the wheel axle can be curved to make an L inside the wing, properly fixed to the structure, fine! In this case, it was easy. Hopefully, the pictures are self-explanatory.
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02-19-2016, 02:08 AM
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Hi Ricleite, I have used the same wing assembly technique like you did a few times and came to the same conclusion: It provides you with a better span of control to install the wings with greater accuracy. It depends though on the "type of wing". In any case attaching wings to a model requires quite some planning upfront, dry-fitting and sometimes own improvements during the process to get the job done. Well, that's the charm of it all
.No doubt the landing gear will turn out great. Erik
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