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Old 03-09-2010, 07:25 PM
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Looks like a B-24 nose to me Kevin. Good start man, can't wait to see the rest. Seeing all these great FG build has me tempted to throw my hat in the ring.

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Old 03-09-2010, 10:31 PM
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Looks very neat and precise to me. You'd never know the nose glass caused you any problems at all.
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Old 03-09-2010, 10:45 PM
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I understand Chips philosophy about keeping his models simple and easy to build, that's fine for the smaller birds, but on a larger model like this I think formers would actually help make it even easier to build.
I agree with you, with some models a couple of formers are in order for example in the me-323 the used a box inside the wings to keep them straigt, it's easier and keeps better the shape just a couple of formers.

Your build looks very nice. Keep it up.
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Old 03-10-2010, 08:44 AM
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A little more progress...

Yesterday I added the center section of the fuselage with the wing support going through it. I beefed up the wing spar with some foam core.

If you haven't used foam core yet in your paper models, I highly reccomend it...you'll find a million uses for it....It cuts very easy, glues well, and is very strong and light weight.

Last night I tried to add the inside wing sections...but ran into big problems.
The one thing that I really wanted to do on this model was to recess the landing gear wells into the wings. That is where all my troubles began...Forming and mounting the wing with the well cut out just did not work. Maybe after I get more experience in modeling aircraft it's something I'd try again, but for this build I'm going back to the original design.


This morning I printed out a new wing section and went to town cutting forming and gluing. This was not as easy as one might first think. However, the result turned out ok (not up to my usual standards) but I can live with it. On the bottom side of the wing there ended up being a gap between the wing and fuselage that's about 3/16" wide. To fix it, I cut a filler strip form my failed first attempt and covered it up. It doesn't look too bad.

One more comment....If I would not have reinforced the wing spar I think I probably would have been starting this project over again or giving up all together. Once the wing is formed and slid over the spar there is very little contact between the two surfaces...It's very difficult to figure out where you can apply the glue so that it will not distort the shape of the wing. The additional foam reinforcing that I added gave me the gluing surface that I needed.

Hopefully, later today I can finish up the other side, then move onto the back half of the airplane.
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Old 03-10-2010, 08:50 AM
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Coming along really nice, Kevin.
Foam-Cor is a wonderful thing for models.
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Old 03-10-2010, 09:50 AM
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I have built all of these. two cents should work.
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Old 03-10-2010, 11:18 AM
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Kevin - It looks great. I've been building Armor & Helo's for so long I too had some trouble remebering how a fixed wing goes together. I have tried the FG Waco CG-4 twice and ran into the problems of gap & mis-alignment. Keep after it - you're doing great.
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Old 03-10-2010, 11:54 AM
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This is looking really good so far, can't wait to see it finished .
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Old 03-11-2010, 03:35 PM
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Moving right along....

She's getting a bit longer. Next, I will work on the rear control surfaces.
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Old 03-11-2010, 03:49 PM
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Looking pretty sweet there Kevin
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