The hangar

[Guest]

Is a good idea.....I think O_o

[rickoshea52]

Back to plan A - I'm going with the Will's concrete sheets. I don't have enough so I dropped by Alton Model Centre to get some more and extra plasticard sheets only to find they aren't open on Sunday's anymore.


The back wall is brick embossed sheet, when done there will be H section girder to section it up. The side wall on the left will be a hangar door made from plasticard.


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[Guest]

Looking good!

[Guest]

Think I will pull up a chair, this is going to be great.

[rickoshea52]

I picked up some more Will's concrete sheets and plasticard this week, I have one strip of concrete left to make. The plasticard was used to make the hangar doors at the left hand side, these doors run on rails and open across each other on an overlap. The hangars that I have most experience of have six doors at each end in two sets of three so with only one and a bit of another I hope that there is an impression of size created here.


The door closest to the back wall is double skinned, I glued a sheet of plasticard along the whole left hand side the using H section girder to create the cross members I glued a smaller sheet to them to create the sandwich effect.


To check that a 1/72 scale aircraft looks okay in this setting I had a play around with a Cold War jet, a WW2 fighter and a helicopter, I think it will look about right.


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[yak face]

Looking good Rick , cheers tony

[Guest]

Just caught up with this very cool idea.


scott

[Guest]

Great, the size looks perfect!


With many possibilities!

[rickoshea52]

I've added the brick embossed sheet to the back wall and glued H section styrene, truss and rod to look like down pipes from the hangar roof. I also added 0.035" rod bent and glued to the wall as electrical conduit with a cut off of square section rod for a light switch. The square panel is a mock up of a door but I'm not convinced by it yet. In the right hand corner there is a strip of plasticard, this serves two purposes; the first is to act as a fire point and the second is to hide a short section of girder!


The hangar doors have been painted too but I still have more to do with them and the floor has had filler applied to the gaps.


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[papa 695]

Great work Rick

[ojays]

Looking good.


Hope these pics may be of help as well.


RAF Binbrook Last Great Lightning Show 1987


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Gregg

[rickoshea52]

Looking good.
Hope these pics may be of help as well.


RAF Binbrook Last Great Lightning Show 1987


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Gregg

Great pictures Gregg, thanks. I must stress that this hangar is not going to be specifically for Lightnings but more as a generic backdrop for 1/72 scale aircraft. It's just coincidental that the picture that inspires me features Lightnings.


There is still a lot to find helpful in these photo's and who knows, maybe another Lightning could be knocked together!

[monica]

looking great Rick,very nicely coming along,

[flyjoe180]

Great work so far Rick, looking more like a hangar each time.

[rickoshea52]

I bought this resin 1/72 scale engine by CMK for the new Airfix Lightning and it got me thinking, there are very few post war/Cold War engines in this scale to super detail your models so I had a go at scratch building one - here is my progress.


I used the fan blade face from a Nimrod kit and glued it onto a section of 9.7mm tube with strip styrene built up around the back of it to bring the dimension up. With other various bit of styrene, brass rod and lead wire I have created some of the fuel and hydraulic lines seen around gas turbines. There are representations of fuel and oil filters, electrical junction boxes, actuators and an oil tank. There is much left to do but I'm happy with it so far despite it looking a bit scruffy due to the glue - a lick of paint will solve that.


Only half of the engine will be fully detailed so that I can model it installed so I had a play around with it in the engine bay of a Nimrod I have had parked for a while.


What could I do with this resin Lightning engine!!!?


Enjoy.


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