XP-67 Moonbat - Page 2

**Willja67** · #11 10-31-2008, 10:13 PM

I'm consistently amazed by the quality of your work. It looks so clean I can hardly believe it. I'm very releived that everything seems to be fitting correctly as I made no attempt to see if rhino wasn't hiccupping as it unrolled it. Of course a good builder can hide a multitude of sins.

You will have to tell me if you think that the aft top and bottom fuselage pieces should either be joined on one side have tabs added or left as is.

The engine nacelles are almost ready. Most of the skin is layed out I'm just trying to figure out the best configuration for the frame. Again very excellent work!

**shrike** · #12 11-01-2008, 03:21 AM

Next batch of pictures.

No worries aside from the lack of a notch in 13t, but I think you had already mentioned that.

I would definitely not use any joining strips or tabs on the trailing edges of the chine. By just joining the edges you can trim them afterward in case of any misalignment that creeps in.

Only thing left now is the rudder, then I'm out of parts (hint hint)

**Willja67** · #13 11-01-2008, 08:14 AM

I'll do my best to have the next set to you sometime today but don't count on it.

**Texman** · #14 11-01-2008, 11:33 AM

Well, I posted earlier and it appears to have gone into the vacuum of cyberspace.
But, I am far behind you Shrike! Your doing an excellent job. I can say that even
with the medical and pre-retirement issues I'm working, I did have a little time. The parts scale down well, except for the slot portion of the parts. It becomes nearly invisible to see. From early parts, it does seem to be fitting well, even at small scale.

Ray

**Willja67** · #15 11-01-2008, 03:42 PM

Okay guys the engine frames are in your inboxes without very much instruction but as I have used most of my Saturday on this I'm going to go have some fun now so I hope you like puzzles:D

btw Texman,

What scale are you building this in? Looking forward to some pics.

**Texman** · #16 11-01-2008, 04:32 PM

1/144, if I can get the frames to cooperate. Like I said, the lines tend
to disappear for me.

Ray

**Willja67** · #17 11-01-2008, 09:02 PM

1/144 are you nuts? After taking a look at what i just sent I bet I had you really shaking your head. I've never even tried building that small let alone designing that small. As it is I could probably lose a fair number of the frame pieces I have and still be okay.

**shrike** · #18 11-03-2008, 12:06 AM

1/144 is certifiably insane.

Here is the port wing structure. Once I got to dry-fitting the parts it was easy to get carried away gluing things together, so there aren't any in-between shot's. There's another one to do so there should be another opportunity for photography.

The white on white confuses the camera. I need to take some more with the flash off and a side light for contrast.

**Willja67** · #19 11-03-2008, 08:41 AM

The way I chose to mate the engine frames to the fuselage was improvised after you already had it built as I'm sure you could tell, do you think I ought to rework it for the final design or does this way work okay in your opinion?

Just a random thought; I think this thing is going to be pretty tail heavy and if anyone ever builds it with landing gear extended they are going to have to add a fair amount of nose weight to get it to stay on its nose wheel.

btw Do you think I over did it on the frames complexity? Most of the complexity stemmed from a desire to improve rigidity.

**Texman** · #20 11-03-2008, 07:53 PM

Well, I do think there are alot of frames. But the odd curves of this airframe
do require certain allowances be made to get alot of the subtle curves to work
properly.

Ray