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1/48th C.A. Supermarine Walrus * Completed *
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phantom II
Master at Arms
1/48th Classic Airframes Supermarine Walrus
Nice Phil. Hope you don't mind. I'm saving pictures for my references .
Cheers, Christian B)
Nice Phil. Hope you don't mind. I'm saving pictures for my references .
Cheers, Christian B)
1/48th Classic Airframes Supermarine Walrus
Take your last look at the interior! closed up now.
(( Click right mouse button and view pic for the full size ))
this was a tough nut to get right, kit gives you plastic pins on the gear legs, but straight pins, almost like fitting a square peg in a round hole.
I cut these off and inserted the larger spring steel rod into the pieces, they need bending almost 90 deg to work right.
where the red arrow is, needs a pin to strengthen the main gear leg. from what I've found a locking pin deployed on the real aircraft so this helped no end to stabilize this piece
trial and error, I ended up using a scrap piece of resin rod, drilled thru and inserted a piece of spring steel rod.
I think i could drop this baby on it now and it would survive!!!!
You can see the other rod on the supporting arm as well, this one is thin so be careful with the pair, i snapped one.
just finished the pins and test fitting of the elevators and rudder tonight.
Don't forget to stagger the pins on each one so they don't clash.
Take your last look at the interior! closed up now.
(( Click right mouse button and view pic for the full size ))
this was a tough nut to get right, kit gives you plastic pins on the gear legs, but straight pins, almost like fitting a square peg in a round hole.
I cut these off and inserted the larger spring steel rod into the pieces, they need bending almost 90 deg to work right.
where the red arrow is, needs a pin to strengthen the main gear leg. from what I've found a locking pin deployed on the real aircraft so this helped no end to stabilize this piece
trial and error, I ended up using a scrap piece of resin rod, drilled thru and inserted a piece of spring steel rod.
I think i could drop this baby on it now and it would survive!!!!
You can see the other rod on the supporting arm as well, this one is thin so be careful with the pair, i snapped one.
just finished the pins and test fitting of the elevators and rudder tonight.
Don't forget to stagger the pins on each one so they don't clash.
phantom II
Master at Arms
1/48th Classic Airframes Supermarine Walrus
Good thinking Phil .
Cheers, Christian B)
Good thinking Phil .
Cheers, Christian B)
1/48th Classic Airframes Supermarine Walrus
Such a shame to close it up Phil, mighty fine work inside and good job on pinning those gear in place.
Such a shame to close it up Phil, mighty fine work inside and good job on pinning those gear in place.
1/48th Classic Airframes Supermarine Walrus
here's the four wing struts pinned and glued into the top wing only, the front engine struts into the fuselage and applied the 5 degree offset (my best guess!!!) engine position, and aligned the top wing as best I could while the glue set on those tricky wing struts.
Two more inner struts have to be added but I think they won't need pins.
All the main struts have been drilled and pins inserted, I intend to paint the wings/engine separate with the shadow shaded camo then glue the top wing to the lower, engine to the support struts, then the small top of engine assembly struts to top wing.
Adding the pins to the struts helped out well, these held all the pieces in place as I fiddled around with positioning, this was a tricky process!
Hope I make sense as I quite feel like this :gogo at the moment!!!
prop spins nice and clears the top wing!!! :yahoo:
She may not be 100% perfect but I think pretty close - that top wing/strut and engine placement was the things that had me the most worried for this build.
here's the four wing struts pinned and glued into the top wing only, the front engine struts into the fuselage and applied the 5 degree offset (my best guess!!!) engine position, and aligned the top wing as best I could while the glue set on those tricky wing struts.
Two more inner struts have to be added but I think they won't need pins.
All the main struts have been drilled and pins inserted, I intend to paint the wings/engine separate with the shadow shaded camo then glue the top wing to the lower, engine to the support struts, then the small top of engine assembly struts to top wing.
Adding the pins to the struts helped out well, these held all the pieces in place as I fiddled around with positioning, this was a tricky process!
Hope I make sense as I quite feel like this :gogo at the moment!!!
prop spins nice and clears the top wing!!! :yahoo:
She may not be 100% perfect but I think pretty close - that top wing/strut and engine placement was the things that had me the most worried for this build.
1/48th Classic Airframes Supermarine Walrus
Man those wing assembly always gets me. Well done
Man those wing assembly always gets me. Well done
phantom II
Master at Arms
1/48th Classic Airframes Supermarine Walrus
Very nice assembly Phil. As I have stated before , awing assembly jig would be very helpful :fencing
Cheers, Christian B)
Very nice assembly Phil. As I have stated before , awing assembly jig would be very helpful :fencing
Cheers, Christian B)
sharkman
Master at Arms
1/48th Classic Airframes Supermarine Walrus
Looking really good so far Phil! I've used that pin method on the couple resin kits I've built so far. It works well.
These are good notes to keep!
Looking really good so far Phil! I've used that pin method on the couple resin kits I've built so far. It works well.
These are good notes to keep!
1/48th Classic Airframes Supermarine Walrus
finished pinning and getting the floats positioned, CA had the hole points wrong as the float supports align with the wing struts,
the spring steel rod works very well, also works well getting the claret flowing when you snag your fingers.......
As you can see the inner struts are far too short as were the tail struts, evergreen strips to the rescue
floats, tail struts just blu tacked on atm, top front engine support struts will need the pin treatment as well.
Two rear supports will have to be made as the kit ones are again short.
a little bit of info on this bird
http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/1998/01/stuff_eng_detail_walrus.htm
finished pinning and getting the floats positioned, CA had the hole points wrong as the float supports align with the wing struts,
the spring steel rod works very well, also works well getting the claret flowing when you snag your fingers.......
As you can see the inner struts are far too short as were the tail struts, evergreen strips to the rescue
floats, tail struts just blu tacked on atm, top front engine support struts will need the pin treatment as well.
Two rear supports will have to be made as the kit ones are again short.
a little bit of info on this bird
http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/1998/01/stuff_eng_detail_walrus.htm
1/48th Classic Airframes Supermarine Walrus
phantom II
Master at Arms
1/48th Classic Airframes Supermarine Walrus
If you havent painted this yet, the new Model Airplane International has a multi page colour plates with some nice schemes.
James
Agreed . I love that magazine.
Cheers, Christian B)
If you havent painted this yet, the new Model Airplane International has a multi page colour plates with some nice schemes.
James
Agreed . I love that magazine.
Cheers, Christian B)
1/48th Classic Airframes Supermarine Walrus
Thanks James DL a pdf now, will check the schemes out - but will be an Aussie camo for this one!
For those that didn't know,
this aircraft could be looped!!!
The prototype was first flown by "Mutt" Summers on 21 June 1933; five days later it made an appearance at the SBAC show at Hendon, where Summers startled the spectators (R. J. Mitchell among them) by looping the aircraft
!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks James DL a pdf now, will check the schemes out - but will be an Aussie camo for this one!
For those that didn't know,
this aircraft could be looped!!!
The prototype was first flown by "Mutt" Summers on 21 June 1933; five days later it made an appearance at the SBAC show at Hendon, where Summers startled the spectators (R. J. Mitchell among them) by looping the aircraft
!!!!!!!!!!!!