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| Dale1416 | Todays Hobbies F-14a Tomcat | Parked | 08-Jan-15 18:00 |  | | Views : 2036 | | The copyright of this kit was 1981, but all the parts were there and the decals were still usable. Thanks again Poppy for this kit! |
| Dale1416 | Todays Hobbies F-14a Tomcat | Parked | 08-Jan-15 17:59 |  | | Views : 2039 | | Movable wing in sweptback position |
| Dale1416 | Todays Hobbies F-14a Tomcat | Parked | 08-Jan-15 17:58 |  | | Views : 2035 | | Lots of armament on this F14 |
| Dale1416 | Todays Hobbies F-14a Tomcat | Parked | 08-Jan-15 17:56 |  | | Views : 2097 | | My builds are primarily balsa and tissue models. Occastionally, I do plastic airplane kits, without posting on VA. Decided to share the results of this 1/48th scale Monogram F/14A Tomcat, a kit I received before Christmas, compliments of Poppy's generousity. |
| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Build | 08-Jan-15 17:17 |  | | Views : 1014 | | Starting to build the air inlet ducting. It is such a prominent feature that I felt that it had to be included. I spent several days re-learning the trig required to generate the patterns for the curved conical duct sections. Finally said the hell with it and cut and fir posterboard patterns until I wa satisfied with the shapes. There are three sections of inlet ducting per side. |
| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Build | 08-Jan-15 17:12 |  | | Views : 1129 | | About a week later: The fuse has been removed rom the jig, which was modified to be a building cradle. The vertical fin has been sealed with Cabots "Quick-Dry" lacquer basec spray sanding sealer. In our new Eco-Friendly world, these high VOC items are getting really hard to find. The fin has been primed with a high-fill automotive rattle can lacquer. |
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| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Build | 08-Jan-15 16:57 |  | | Views : 1014 | | This is the third attempt at constructing the vertical fin. It's been a long time since I built a balsa model (about 50 years), so I expect to have bad days. The ribs are 1/8" and the sheathing is hard 1/16" stuff. |
| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Build | 08-Jan-15 16:53 |  | | Views : 1014 | | Starting the process of planking. I had several bottles of CA glue from our local Hobby Lobby which I used to glue up the formers and longerons. When I took the clamps loose, everything fell apart! A two hour drive to Sioux Falls to the LHS to get some fresh CA solved the problem. I'm using 3/32" X 1/4" strips for planking. I plan on planking the entire upper half of the fuselage before removing teh assembly from the jig. |
| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Build | 08-Jan-15 16:45 |  | | Views : 978 | | Another view of the jig and clamps. My "other hobby" is woodworking and one of the truisms from that avocation is that you can never have enough clamps. |
| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Build | 08-Jan-15 16:43 |  | | Views : 1062 | | Longerons and formers mounted on the alignment jig. Got Clamps? |
| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Build | 08-Jan-15 16:41 |  | | Views : 996 | | THis is the jig that I made to insure the alignment of the longerons. The longerons actually change elevation from the main spar back to the final former by about 7/16", thsu the jig. |
| rayl | Scratch Built Consolidated XF-92A | Build | 08-Jan-15 16:38 |  | | Views : 984 | | It tool me a while to get the features on this site figured out and Jim had to change something for me to get in. That being said, I ve actually been working on this thing for about a month, so there will be lots of pictures intially. Here are all of the formers, of 1/8" ply except for the main wing spar which is 1/4' BAltic Birch ply. Cut them out on my bandsaw and sanded them round on my spindle sander. |
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