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Thanks Gentlemen. Lots of info here to keep me busy. I haven't picked a particular airframe but do like the night/day underwing scheme. Tim you should be hearing from me soon.
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Hi All I'm currently nearing completion of a Pegasus MK1 Hurricane kit and my thoughts are now on reproducing a proper colour match, or at least as near as possible. Having looked around at other models of the 1939-41 Dark Green - Dark Earth era of RAF camouflage I have witnessed both good and bad examples! Can anyone suggest a good RAL colour code to the above requirements. Currently I'm edging towards RAL 6031 Bronze Green. A thread on the Brit modeller site suggests RAL 7006 Beige Grey but surely that would be post 1941 When the RAF changed to Dark Grey. So is RAL 8028 a better representation of Dark Earth. My local paint store can mix 250cl tester pots which was a pleasant surprise. I'm guessing they could also mix BS numbers if someone has had experience of a good match using that scheme. Thanks Mk
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Ditto. Your Sea Vixen looks totally extreme in all senses of the word. Kudos. Matt would you bother with brown paper on a build like this? I'm edging towards some scraps of solarfilm covered with brown paper for the upper deck but not sure about the rest of the fuse. My feeling is that I'm not going to go into too fine a detail regarding panels etc just want to take the grain away. Thanks Mark
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I'm fairly happy with the shaping, fairing at the tail. Only a very keen Hurricane addict would really notice that it's not strictly to scale, but lets be fair at the end of the day this is just a very good value for money kit and therefore isn't designed for the purist! The under wing fairing is also coming along. Here I'm deliberating the best way to go about this challenge. And here is a photo of a silly, stupid mistake!!!! In fact it's two mistakes really. They came about as I deviated from the original plan but that is no excuse. I decided a while ago to use the original aileron torque rods to power the additional flaps and then add a couple of wing servo's to power the ailerons. I hope that makes sense, in essence I've added flaps! However, when I designed and made the wing retaining nut bracket which slide in a groove to allow a little movement pending a bad arrival I only went and fixed it too close to the upper wing surface. This leaves only a very small gap for the flap control rods to pass through. I will probably be cutting some notches. The other mistake which is even more stupid is that I have aligned the wing retaining nut brackets with the top surface of the wing and not the bottom. What a plonker! Basically, I should cut the whole assembly out and start again. But I'm too stubborn for that and will make do and mend It looked right when I glued it in place. The grooves in the ply take two small ply plates which the wing retaining nuts are fastened to. This should allow the wing to twist slightly on a harsh landing, so taking a little strain off the plastic bolts. You can just make out one plate in the top of the groove.
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Facebook page for slope soaring in Wales
FWAL replied to Phil May's topic in Slope Soaring and Dynamic Soaring
Hi Phil I'm not sure if it's just me but when I searched for SSW group on Facebook it wasn't found. Is it a private or public group? -
I've made another small change to the wing LE. If I had gone with the kit I felt that the LE was going to be to blunt so I added another 2.5mm width strip of balsa just to give it a better profile. I have also introduced a ply plate to help reinforce the area around the wing locating dowel which will be fitted later. I've also cut and fixed the upper deck longerons which certainly help give the model a real Hurricane feel And now a view of the tradesman entrance! The plastic tube in the fire wall projects to and is glued to the front of the GRP cowl. This tube will be loaded with balancing lead and the battery pack. Then the receiver will be fitted to the ply plate on the left, The servo and switch apertures have also been formed. The switch will be able to be turned on/off from outside the fuse when completed. And on to the tail. Sticking to the plan but I feel I will be doing some fettling in order to improve the aesthetics in this area. It's time to find some real pic's of how the tail blends into the fuse As one can see at the moment the stab fixing looks like an after thought!
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Hi Monz I feel sorry for the people who wouldn't and haven't thrown their handywork off a hill. More details of a RG 65: **LINK** And my 'South Gower Soaring-Sailing Blog' showing how I go about hand drawing the design and build method: **LINK**
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Here are some recent photo's of the progress. This Pegasus kit is proving quite an easy build and to date there have only been two small niggles which needed a bit of extra work so to speak. The first was the geometry of the trailing edges didn't match up with each other when the roots were joined together. Additional sheeting on opposite surfaces and a fair bit of sanding was required to bring them symmetrical. The other was the EPP turtle decking matched the the fuse sides at the front and rear positions but was too narrow in the middle. In the end a decided to cut and glue the EPP to the required shape.
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Here's a Bwlch apetiser. My 1st venture into PSS a 56" ME 109 on the Ice Cream slope and in the background is the Crest, Wrecker and VR98 slopes. Myself Mark and Marcel had a very good mornings flying once the wind settled in a favourable direction.
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The Cobra bites back!
