Tu-104AK cosmonaut training aircraft

[umtutsut]

Originally Posted by MacSongLi

Very nice work Les, I'm looking forward to this build.

Will you be submitting this back to Aaron for resale?

Thanks,
Gary

It's already available directly from Aaron.

Les (The Voice of Authority -- VoiceofAuthority.net - The Voice Stylings of Les Dorr, Jr.)

[Yale]

Originally Posted by sgoti

…(Sheesh… I feel like I'm back doing my high school reading assignments, learning how word placement and punctuation dramatically change a sentence… )

Such is life, not just high school. The phrase "large scale model" means a large model that has all its parts in the same proportions as the original item. But "large-scale model" means a model whose scale is large -- so the model itself would be small. That tiny little hyphen gives us the opposite meaning.

[umtutsut]

A quick update from the workbench. One wing down, one to go.

Lemme point out a couple things:

-- Modeler Papermate over in the Aviation builds glued a rim for support where the engine nacelle fairing meets the fuselage on Aaron's similar Xian HY-6 (Tu-16 variant), and I strongly recommend the same, at least at the top of the fairing. There just isn't a lot of gluing area otherwise. I'd give the fit a B+, especially where the fairing meets the nacelle. (The camera makes it look worse than it is for some reason.)

-- The instructions call for the engine fan to be place near the front of the nacelle, but at least on the Tu-16, it was much further back, behind the main wing spar with a duct leading from the inlet. I made a duct from rolled paper, blanked off at the wing support.

More to come. Stay tooned!

Les (The Voice of Authority -- VoiceofAuthority.net - The Voice Stylings of Les Dorr, Jr.)

[MacSongLi]

It still looks great Les. Thanks for re-enforcing papermate's recommendation.

Gary

[parviz]

quick update plz

[eagleclaw4935]

I love this.Now we need the "Vomit Comet".

[umtutsut]

::grumble grumble:: Project is going on hiatus for awhile due to off-scale-high level of frustration. I totally botched the landing gear pods despite help from Papermate and Aaron, and now I gotta rebuild both wings.

It'll be back after I do a couple other projects. Look for Mariner 9 flying over an actual piece of mars soon!

Les (The Voice of Authority -- VoiceofAuthority.net - The Voice Stylings of Les Dorr, Jr.)

[murphyaa]

I might change the engine facings. Most of the pictures of Tu-104's I found had a red plug just inside the intake (to keep small rodents and other things (children) out of the engines. I just put it where I figured it needed the support most.