B25 Construction 1/8 Scale

[Guest]

looking great Andy.What are you using for the windows?

Tom

Hi Tom,

Luckily the windows come in the kit. i might modify slightly as i did with the thunderbolt.

Cheers

Andy

[Guest]

Well gang, we move on. The tail section is now complete as far as shapeing and sanding goes. When the fuse is ready i will assembe and firbreglass the tail section. Also at the riviting stage i will add the trim tab mechanisms, rib formers along with the rivits.

Next is the fuse, i cant wait to start this, this is where the fun begins, loads more to photograph and tons of interior detail and painting to do.

Cheers

Andy

















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[Guest]

Looks superb Andy. I'm looking forward to seeing the fine detailing im sure you will achieve. If this is any better than the jug it deserves to be in a museum.

Tom.

[Guest]

Looks superb Andy. I'm looking forward to seeing the fine detailing im sure you will achieve. If this is any better than the jug it deserves to be in a museum.Tom.

You are too kind Tom. The only thing that bothers me is running out of room for all of these projects. I would like to keep them all but if i did i could never build ant more as i wont have the room to keep them.

Thanks for the comments mate

Andy

[Guest]

Hi again gang,

Well this one is proving to be a hard one, i thought the Thunderbolt was tricky but now it turns out to be a walk in the park. The problem is that the instructions to build this kit is all writern on 4 peices of A4 paper. The Thunderbolt was a book of about 60 pages and with pictures. I started the fuse tonight and spent 30 minutes looking for 2 parts that i couldnt find. The drawing plan shows 2 part, a left and a right fuse stringer, for those in the dark this is the outer skin for the top sides of the fuse, i will show this in the next post in a few mins. Anyway after searching for ages i sat and thought a little and found that these 2 parts are actually 4 parts Zapped together and not 1 part as shown on the drawing. You can make this out if you look at the very top left of the plan. I think this is going to be a nightmare from start to finish. I suppose for a kit that is over 20 years old it was the norm at the time. You will see what i mean from the pics below.

Andy









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[Guest]

Me again,

Here you can see the start of the fuse constuction. These are the fuse doubler, the isdes of the top half of the fuse along with the fuse formers. It really is a strange way to build a plane. We will master it in the end but it is going to be a very cautious build, check, check and double check every single piece before it is glued into place. A single mistake can be fatal.

Thanks

Andy





















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[Guest]

Hi Gang,

I put in a little extra time tonight as Ting Ting will shove me up the loft tomorrow to carry on with the conversion. I will sneak down if she goes out and get in the workshop.

Here is the makings of the fuse, still hard going as there are very little instruction, guidance and diagrams. It looks prety ugly at the moment and its hard to believe that it will turn out good. The parts look very minimal also, the P47 fuse was made up of about 60 parts and this has less than a dozen.

Cheers

Andy





























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[Guest]

Looking great Andy. Cant wait to see it finished.

What are the overall dimensions of the thing itself, or will you have to wait till its done to answer that?

Cheers,

Tom.

[Centurion3RTR]

Looking good Andy, you're making your heels crack matey.

[yak face]

hi andy ,this is really going together quickly!looking good too. ting tings never going to get the loft done!!!! regards tony

[Guest]

Looking great Andy. Cant wait to see it finished.What are the overall dimensions of the thing itself, or will you have to wait till its done to answer that?

Cheers,

Tom.

Hi Tom,

Havent checked the overall size yet, i think it is 1/8 th scale. As you can see she is quite small, i thought it would be as big as the P47 but in comparison it is dwarfed by it. The original itself was never big though. Ill try and check the dimensions. The problem with it being this small is the internal detail will be realy fiddley to do. I thought she was bigger than she is. Never mind, i will complete her.

Cheers

Andy

[Guest]

Looking good Andy, you're making your heels crack matey.

Thanks mate, this one is moving quite quickly, you put together a handful of parts and before you know it it is done. Still not happy with the instructions...looked today for the info on the linkages and there isnt a mention in there on the mechanics.

Thanks

Andy

[Guest]

hi andy ,this is really going together quickly!looking good too. ting tings never going to get the loft done!!!! regards tony

Hi Tony,

Didnt get up the loft today in the end. I had a cunning plan. I had to go to the gun shop and was there ages, i then came back and said the lawn needed doing...she likes to see the lawn all neat and cut so i knew that would work. I did that and said it was too late to start up in the loft today and sneaked into the workshop.

Here is todays progress.

Thanks mate

Andy

























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[Guest]

Hi gang,

Here is the latest progress. Most of the fuse parts are now fitted, this thing is going together real fast , a lot faster than i thought. Things will slow up when i start on the interior sections when the fuse is complete. This seems to be a very primative construction. I have now started to form the shape of the fuse. There is a lot of planeing and sanding to get the shape, you can see the effect looks real good.

Cheers

Andy





















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[Guest]

Hi gang,Here is the latest progress. Most of the fuse parts are now fitted, this thing is going together real fast , a lot faster than i thought. Things will slow up when i start on the interior sections when the fuse is complete. This seems to be a very primative construction. I have now started to form the shape of the fuse. There is a lot of planeing and sanding to get the shape, you can see the effect looks real good.

Cheers

Andy

wow...u doing a gud job on it....u are clever!!!! so did u do it on yr own or somebody help u with it?it going to be bigger than thunderbolt......

are u able to put dummy figures inside the cockpit andy?