Hello PM's, thank you once more for your kind words! More and more the Hurricane takes shape....
Next is the main landing gear. The struts are pretty straight forward and consist of a 0.5mm steel wire core with paper tightly wrapped around it. The paper is too thick to properly wrap (a common problem....) and when rolling it as tight as possible it started to delaminate by itself, making it easier to completely separate the two layers. I wrapped both layers around the steel wire to obtain the strut diameter as intended. Worth the extra effort.
The wheels consist of 6 layers of 1mm cardboard each, one more than Orlik's design but this would have resulted in a wheel too narrow, so I added one layer.
Procedure as usual to sand the edges with my makeshift work bench. On my to do pile is also the Kartonowa Kolekcja Hurricane, for which I bought the plastic wheels (beautifully detailed) and by using these wheels as an example I could sand the cardboard wheels as precise as possible. Note that the KK wheels are 6.5mm wide, the main reason why I added another circle.
Used diluted paper glue as coating for the tires and painted them rubber black (Tamiya). Furthermore I detailed the wheel covers - thanks to the inspirational KK plastic wheels
- to make them look more realistic. UHU Hart is very useful here to glue the wheels to the struts as it dries very quickly.
You may have noticed that the wheels are not perpendicular to the struts but that's intentional.
All in all a lot of work!
Cheers,
Erik