Typhoon TK-17 based on Engel's Kit

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Hello,

So, modifications of conning tower are almost done, some details still to be add but no big deal.

I need to add some material for windows glass, the are not totally done.

Althought, front label was prepare, I still need to improve the look of it.



A big session of sanding waiting for me now to prepair primer arrival !



I like very much this view, Aft of conning tower show a realistic shapes



Still missing some grids, they will addd later



In contrary of my first thought, faces of conning tower are not symetrical !

I wasted some time to fix my wrong modification :smile11:

Red circle show the correction...



On this view, we can see the missing small grids who need to be fix in front of small holes



That all for today

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While the workmanship of the plate ends gently, I started putting in place the various elements in order to see changes / adjustments that I will make the hull watertight.

Here we have a vision of the current state of the aluminium plate, it remains to practise the openning, to resize to right dimension make some screw holes.



Detail of aluminium plate



That was roughly what will be assembly of thickness aluminum plate and plate lexan. To limit height, I will be lowered to watertight container to avoid to add more foam or lead more!



We see that I can get off the hull 5mm thick without problems.

Engel had around her window walnut metal bars in the resin + microballon, I'll be able to smoothly reduce the thickness of the resin on these remaining places.



New support plate in aluminium



I need a lot of work to improve the aft section. All this work left depend of quality and assembly of watertight container!

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Thank you for the tip Ramesh

I will do a piece like this drawing to support propeller shafts



Today I'm working on dry container !

I need to sanding a little the edge to smooth aspect



Could be worse... but... still work to do



A small global view of aluminium plate



that all for today

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Well, today I worked on my project. since a pretty long time (two weeks) I was stop building because I need to make a point. Now, all future process is clear to me and I can work with serenity and patience. I started cutting the handling plate for the propeller shaft like I drawn sometimes ago...



Now, she is in place and get positionize but she wasn't fixe yet. I still have a lot of work to do on them. I don't now yet if I will drill more holes to get a lighter structure of this support plate. I need to adjust some shape but ideas is set



Because thie plate positionize on a very tiny area, I need to adjust the final shape, now I need to reconsider position of some drinlling arc.



Finally, I will sanding this piece then fixe her properly. I think about some extra fixation but I still not sureabout advantage. Propeller shaft will be changed, there are too short



So tha was the work of the day, I will be please to answer your question :P

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Hi Wis

Where did you got the brass grills?

Rgds

Heiko

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here : Scale Link Ltd Meshes / Mailles

Hello everyones !

Well, some times passe since the last post, and I was not inactive. I prefer to take my time (and take it easy) to planify correctly the rest of steps and process to do !

This time, it is the bow dive planes with retract mechanism who be the center of the work today. I haven't finish yet the WTC and I prefer to put retract mecanism before completion of WTC. I used Ramesh's method and made an helper to fix properly the system. However building process was much easier than I feared. Now I need to fix definitively the system and sand properly the PVC before painting (process will be done... later...when WTC finish ! so.... laaaaateeer ^^).

Post with all photo since that day and here will follow

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