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Not another A4! (Blue Angel!)


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With the front uppers pulled in it was time to add some extra strip infront of the cockpit to level off ready for sheeting.

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This was all sanded down to leave a flat surface and the top sheet was added here and aft of the cockpit.

Unfortunately, I omitted to photograph of this part and the next part which compromised building up the nose!

Once this was done the nose was given a basic shape ready for further work!

A little more top decking was completed along the rear and the cutouts for the tail were done.

At the same time, the intake former's were glued into the pre-cut holes on the fuselage sides.

Now at this point I cut some length of sheet balsa and soaked them in warm water before wrapping them around a few spray laquer cans I had on a shelf and left them to dry ready for use for the intake ducting skins.

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I already knew that I wasn't going to enjoy this part due to the complex curves just rear of the cockpit and boy was I right!!!!!

Having made a complete hash of trying to cut to fit, I reverted to a more tried and tested method of planking!!

Only a few parts on up to now but so much easier (albeit a little more time consuming!)

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So that's where its currently at!

Once the paneling is done and sanded to shape, I will be fitting the snake outer and exhaust former at the rear!

Then it will be back to the air intakes and the lower rear sheeting before I start to big process of carving the beautiful curves of the fuselage!!

I will update as soon as able but please bear with me as its a busy time here!

Dave

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I'm Back!!!!

So with the exception of the F9 at the rear (as I havn't decided on a pipe yet!), I have completed all the sheeting for the fuselage and have moved my attention to the intakes!

Now the real things have the intakes set off from the fuselage and I wanted to partially model this on my airframe!

So after a little think, I have the following.....

Considering that the bottom of the intake section will be flush and touching the side of the fuselage as per the plan, I am not going to infill the gap left at the top.

Instead I have inserted a bit of balsa dowel which will be trimmed down a tad to a better shape to support the top front of the intake!

With me? No!! Not surprised.. So a picture or 2 paint a thousand words!

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This will mean that I will have to leave the intakes off the fuselage for the main shaping and then cover behind them a bit before attaching and final shaping for them! However, I think this will look really good!

Now I recently received quite a ribbing for not admitting to not owning a razor plane...

What I found I did own though is a small palm plane so it has had a clean and sharpen and is awaiting the mass of balsa removal that is immanent!

Also I have seen in action recently, atop the Orme, a Perma Grit sanding block. I was sold as soon as I saw how good they worked and the fact they don't wear out really is a huge bonus! So one was duly ordered and has now taken up residence in the workshop!!

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That's all for now..

Stay tuned!!

Dave

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