interior
What
is exactly inside this interior is subject to caution, and as very few
things will be visible at the end, this is not that important.
In
the radio compartment, I have added a table and a map. Cockpit seats on
this photo are not drybrushed yet.
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Rear
floor is created with plastic card. A lot of tests are necessary to find the
proper dimension when fuselage is closed. |
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To
create the inside frames, I have used a "patafix" bullet to take a
print of the inside shape, and then I could draw and cut each frame on plastic
card or paper. Longitudinal stringers were simply realized with aluminium tape.
details
are added: 4 water bottles, emergency trouser behind, on its left 2
parachutes, behind a bag for the light rockets. |
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Last
photo before closure. I am not plenty satisfied of the paint work, but it
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Engines
Here
is the engine straight from the box, 18 cylinders to glue on each engine.
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To
detail the engine, 18 holes are drilled per engine, a wire cable is cut
and glued in each hole. It is not necessary to do this for the rear
cylinders, you won't see them. |
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After
this, 2 wires are necessary per cylinder, so 72 at the end. As before,
drill holes, and then glue inside a proper electric
On
this photo the alignment defaults are visible, but they won't appear when
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For
every wire pair, one must go to the spark plug, the other behind the
cylinder. To complete the engine, you must add :
· red arrow: a thicker wire
enrolled around a pen. It does make a complete revolution but start from
each rear bottom cylinder. Its extremities are curved so that a smaller
wire looks like exiting from them.
·Blue arrows: 2 cylinders
figurating the distributors.
·Yellow arrow: A
rectangular box for the magneto, a wire exiting from its right side.
·bellow:
2 cables. |
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The
engine is ready to be mounted, now we have to work on the radiators.
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Oil
radiator:
You
have to engrave a vertical line and a trap on the rear. Rivet and screw
holes are drilled. The front shape is reduced to lift of from the hood,
and a plastic card is used to fill the hole.
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Seen
from front, the shape is false, it should be much more triangular, but I
did not corrected it. You have to create with fin plastic card the face of
the radiator, glue on t in the bottom (on the picture) a piece of tissue
to figure the thin holes, and 3 pieces of plastic cards are used to figure
the separations. |
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It
seems the radiator has to be positioned like this, a structure line has
to be engraved (yellow line). A far as I know, the rear part should arrive
flush with the gear box, but that's not an important detail. |
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Engine
hood
This
is what it looks like straight from the box and what it should be according to
me.
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So
you have to:
· Erase
the rectangular shapes
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then engrave them back
·Drill
plenty of holes
· And
separate the flaps
The
air intake is done thanks to a piece of drape, but please don't say it to
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Exhaust
pipe.
2
kind of exhaust pipes are furnished, the one for the French version is
correct, but a little bit raw. |
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So
let's go. First I stole a paint tube to my wife (again) to form the proper metal
sheet. The hood has been hollowed and erased so that the metal sheet does
not make an over thickness.
The
exhaust pipe has simply been cut in a drinking straw.
Next Step : Assembling the aircraft and transparent parts ...........
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