Mark Kettle 1 Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 The other day when Steve entered into his build blog "might not finish on time last day 10th Oct" -next meeting on the 11th and 12th Oct - I personally message him and asked if any chance it would good because we could fly as a Gnat pair. Seeing his plan in the back ground within his balsa, blue foam and ply creation, these sneaky view's around the construction spurred me on. So here's the patterns and result. ...these patterns layout give me my basic shape that will need sanding when glued together.... ....fuselage section as drawing... ...wing platform and sections..... ...fin and sections for cutting it.... ...tailplane and elevator ...... after cutting parts out and gluing together with UHU glue, contact adhesive and a bit of sanding you get this...... ...ailerons hadn't been cut out at this stage, when cut out skimmed of 3 mm of the foam to put in the cross weave hinge in and the balsa firms up the control surface.... ...at this stage the fin was wrong and looked like a tornado fin, so study a few pictures ..... All is the gears in two small servo's in the wing and elevator servo and just needs covering in spackle, pva and brown paper and choose a colour scheme. ...old shot with wrong shaped fin. It is 37" wing span and 25 oz in weight with radio gear in decoration will add a little to that. Edited By Mark Kettle 1 on 23/09/2014 07:05:49 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Cooke Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 Great job Mark - 2 Gnats at the Orme!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Kettle 1 Posted September 23, 2014 Author Share Posted September 23, 2014 The anhedral was set in by glueing the wing up side down in it's foam wing beds in this frame work.... angle of ply support .... frame work.... ...to get this... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Kettle 1 Posted September 23, 2014 Author Share Posted September 23, 2014 Cheers Phil for your comments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Bennett Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 very nice and quick too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Kettle 1 Posted September 23, 2014 Author Share Posted September 23, 2014 It took a week Tony, I didn't want to put it on yet -not to crowd out Steve's build blog, but after chatting to him when he hit a sticky point with his engine pods he said I should put it on. What's all the block's in the TSR2? ....I'm going back to have a look. Edited By Mark Kettle 1 on 23/09/2014 08:43:39 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Kettle 1 Posted September 23, 2014 Author Share Posted September 23, 2014 Wing tip sections and finish. Happens there is a 30 mm thick foam on the wing tip hiding the spar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colin Leighfield Posted September 23, 2014 Share Posted September 23, 2014 You've certainly sussed out how to build with this stuff, amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Kettle 1 Posted September 23, 2014 Author Share Posted September 23, 2014 Thanks Colin for you comment's , however the turtle deck from behind the cockpit area to the fin needs altering on the second one it needs to narrower. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Kettle 1 Posted September 23, 2014 Author Share Posted September 23, 2014 Tailplane to Elevator / Wing to Aileron done with cross-weave glued inside foam hinge line shown here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve McLaren Posted September 25, 2014 Share Posted September 25, 2014 It's amazing how quickly you design and build these models in EPP Mark! It looks great and it makes my build look very slow. Are you planning to have it covered and painted by the 11th Oct? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Kettle 1 Posted September 25, 2014 Author Share Posted September 25, 2014 Yes Steve, however just kiting 4 Vulcan's over weekend, and will pva brown paper etc on Monday.Edited By Mark Kettle 1 on 25/09/2014 23:05:32Edited By Mark Kettle 1 on 25/09/2014 23:06:33 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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