Harry Twist

Hi Phil, well done! Stunning effort for a first balsa bash and a fabulous job all round. You've produced an impressive model and also explained it all in an informative and detailed blog as you've moved the build along. Great work.

Thanks Phil for the organisation of what became a cracking weekend in great company. Steve - thanks for sharing your album, some great images in there!

Hi Cliff, great project, enjoyed the videos. Is there any easy link to find the FB page that the original card print is on? Many thanks. Edited By Harry Twist on 29/04/2020 16:22:46

Hi Dirk, brilliant work on your airbrakes and the "internals". They're a great scale feature to add.

Nice work on building up the canopy front and rear Phil. I like the homemade sanding tool!

Hi All, Ive been working on the wing to fuselage fit, as a result I've modified the wing mounted ply plate so that it sits within the belly pan area and basically forms part of the belly pan (the result is a plate that is a bit narrower than on the plan). In addition I've been pondering how to locate the front dowels accurately on the wing front ply plate. I came up with a little jig that helps locate the hole centre's prior to drilling the wing for the dowels. Basically you need: a couple of short scrap lengths of 6mm dowel, each at approx 10mm long, two panel pins and a small piece of very thin ply (1/64th inch or alternatively thin stiff card would do). Pictures hopefully explain! Tap the pins gently into the short dowel lengths, they need to exit at the dowel centre's ( may need a couple of goes to get right!). You only need two or three mm of the pin point to pass through. Mark up the ply plate (sit it in the fuselage and mark the fuselage dowel centres) then tap the pin head/dowel combination through the ply and superglue into location.   Locate the jig in the fuselage:   Introduce the wing towards its location, gently push it onto the jig and if careful you will get the pin heads to give you the dowel centre's for the intended dowel holes in the wing plate. On removal of the wing, the jig may even come away attached to the wing front.   Drill the wing and locate the dowels.   Modified wing bolt plate, to sit within the belly pan             Edited By Harry Twist on 14/04/2020 22:12:06

Very tidy Steve! I like the servo mounting frames.

Hi Steve, yes I've found the tail area a little tricky to shape! There's one detailed image of the tail area on the plastique fantastique website - F86 walkround which I studied for a long time. Here are three shots I took as I carved the tail away. its not finished yet and needs tidying and also its not quite the right shape but its on the way. The holes are weight saving holes (!) I had previously drilled in F10 during fuselage assembly, this will eventually have a blanking cover over it. I also looked at Phil C's tail shots which I think are very helpful with the shaping. I'm slightly worried about creating too thin a wall thickness for the tailpipe. Hey ho! Tail area before working on jetpipe Marked up for cutting and carving Partly completed, F10 visible with holes!