AIR RACER GROUP BUILD BECAUSE WE FEEL THE NEED FOR SPEED

One more air racer, this one a little older..........Rich

OK well I know this is past time for this but what the heck......Just finished Excalibur III and thought I would post a few pics of her. Like Miss America it's a paper (cardstock) model, downloaded and printed, it's 1/24 scale and like MA i got it from Ecardmodels.com, they are both from Dave Winfield.....Rich

Just found  this forum....Wish I had found it sooner, This is my build of Miss America, she is 1/24 scale and made of paper. Hope you guys don't mind some paper around here. There are some FANTASTIC build it this group!! Love air racers hope to see more.........Rich

Why does this old thread need a "bumb???" Its over man...

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Very cool , Daddy 1 racing made the online gallery . Little Miss Magic made the August gallery.

Thanks Randy. Glad to be part of them . Now if "life" would just slow down enough to give me more build time. LOL 

Like we said in the comments Daddy1 Tantrum should have been an article in the magazine man !!!! There is just so much that all could benefit from in your scratch building efforts.

It is a pleasure having you in my groups and watching you turn not so good kits into show stoppers.

I'm so pumped!!! Didn't realize Tantrum made the online gallery till just now. Excuse me while I pat myself on the back LOL.

Seriously though, it's a great feeling to see your work in the gallery . Makes the passion and work that goes into something like this seem even more worth while . 

Thanks to all my fellow forum members and especially the participants in this GB. Your kind and encouraging words have helped inspire me to raise the bar for myself in this as well as all my recent builds.  You guys are great.

Now to get one published in print gallery.

Howard

Tantrum does look pretty wicked . Those five blade scimitar props add just the right super exotic touch. 

Thanks

Howard

WOWSERS!!!! Howard that looks every bit as fast and good as I expected it to!!!!!!! WELL DONE MATE!!!

Quite nice, Howard.  I'll expect it to be on the line next year at Reno 2011!

Daddy1 what can I say about Tantrum, to be honest I am left speechless. Man I will tell you this build has been one very much worth the wait Tantrum is no less than STUNNING !!!!!!!!!!! Beautiful graphics and mods that were pulled off to perfection. If I can build my Hobby Craft F-82 a tenth as well as yours came out I will be a happy camper. Now I will go and say it, Daddy1 Racing belongs in the readers gallery, it really does, and I hope that you will submit them, I mean it sincerely sir. 

Howard thank you for sharing this build with us.

Well guys I think this closes the group, if anyone wants to join up for round 2 Scorpiomikey has kindly started it. I will also be showing off all the builds in the aircraft section. I am honored to have had such a fun and talented group of builders join my group. And ya know the best part of hosting a group like this one  I have pictures of all the fine builds on my hard drive 

TA,DAAAAAA!!! Tantrum is complete! 

 Hope she's worth the wait. So without further ado, here's the pics.

 Presenting,The Daddy 1 race team.

This was a fun yet challenging build. I'm with Randy , what ifs are a lot of fun. Really tested and pushed the imagination and my scratch building skills. Those prop blades were tedious trying to get them to look accurately possible, and I had to make two sets of five . Each set going in the opposite directions. I like how it turned out. 

Now on to the other GBs im involved in. 

Howard

To be honest, with all the scratch building I've been up the past couple years between Tantrum and my Witchcraft build, I needed a little OOB break. 

So part of the delay was an online contest at uberhobby.com, where I built up AM's 1/48th P-400. Was just the change of pace I needed to get back on track with the prop blades.

BTW - Emma gets a kick out of making the props spin but she hasn't quite got the proper blowing technique down. Comes out more like a pppppppt .... She's a trip!

Howard

Daddy1 no apologies are necessary, this build has been has been more that worth waiting for. The props came out great they really make the nose of Tantrum live up to her name. Mean, fast, with the teeth for a big knarly bite.

Many apologies for the lateness of the completion of Tantrum, but she's almost there.

After some extended developmental delays , close work between Daddy1 racing and Hamilton Sundstrand LOL the props are installed . Here's the pics.

Notice my jig for spacing and setting angle , just printer paper slid between fuse. and spinner.  

These things were very tedious getting ten of them to look alike with five rotating in the opposite direction. Worth the effort though, they look wicked and they do spin.

All that's left is some clean up work on the blades and reattach the gear doors and canopy . 

Howard

Had some remodeling work going on the house plus a heavy work load at the job so modeling time or forum time ,for that matter has been a tad harder to come by past couple weeks. Things are settling down though so I can get Tantrum finished.

 I was looking at the prop blades dry fitted and felt they looked a touch short . I've lengthened them about 3/16 inch by overlaying them with strips of  printer paper super glued to the core blades. Then trimmed to the same profile only longer. I'll give them a coat of super glue to  stiffen the paper to a sand-able strength. 

After sanding , paint them aluminum with a chrome silver leading edge and mount them. And then Tantrum will be complete. 

Howard

A few more update pics of the props . Got on a roll with them today will home tending a sick spouse. She spent most of the day in bed, and I needed to stay close by. So, after dropping the little princess off at school. I had some free model time ,YEAAAAA.

 Anyway, I couldn't resist mocking up one of the props.

These are going to look wicked.

One blade is well underway to being finished. I used some Testors liquid cement to soften up the edges to pinch them down a bit.

It worked , but upon sanding down this first blade discovered it to still be a tad too soft along the edges.

 Let them dry till tomorrow and work more om them then.

Had to remove the gear doors ,kept getting in the way and I didn't want to damage them. just tacked on with super glue . They popped off easy enough without harm.

 TTFN ,Howard

I used 1/16th x .045 RD brass tubing with the inside diameter reamed out a skosh for the exhaust stacks.

I read an article recently why the racers had gone back to the Merlin over the trend toward the bigger Griffon in the 70s and 80s. Seems the engine builders had figured out how to get more power out of the lighter weight Merlin .

My thought is , what if someone applied the technology and skill in todays race Merlins and came up with a lighter, more powerful Griffon. Sort of like todays NASCAR 358 cu.in. race engines. Can you imagine applying the same tecnology to the big 427s and 429s of the early 1970s?. And, of course, Tantrum would have nitrous injection. Probably have to be very accurate with the delivery system to boost both engines at about the same rate. Wouldn't want assemetrical thrust pushing you into the ground. I do think ( if somebody really built something like this ) it could give Rare Bears speed record a run for its money.

 Now for another build -a - prop installment.

In this first pic ,I've marked the center of each blade.

Then I cut out the patterns and using Elmers , glued them to the blanks making sure my centerlines were good to go.

After the Elmers had dried, I've cut off the excess blade material. Currently fine tuning the shape of the edges so all five on each side are the same.

 These are going to be so cool if they turn out. So far, so good.

Howard

Daddy1 the exhaust stacks couldn't look any better, I think all that effort really paid off big time. What size tubing did you use ?  In your first set of pictures I have to complain a bit about them. Couldnt see the nose art all that well, now in the second picture of your last post I can see it very well. And I gotta tell ya ITS FANTASTIC !!!!!!!!!!!! I couldnt see the Tantrum kid in the first pictures. Talk about a racer with attitude, Tantrum has a bunch of it and more.

Now I have been looking at Tantrum and have been thinking about how fast she might be. Maybe 1.75 times the parasite drag of Strega and a bit less than that of Rare Bear, but twice the HP of Strega, and half again as much more than Rare bear.  And if shes a bottle baby a bit more than that.   A course or lap speed of maybe 512 mph to 518 mph ya think ???? An interesting thought aint it.

A few pics of the weathered exhaust and current stage of the prop blades.

Weathered with succeding washes of water based acrylics starting with thalo blue , then adding red to the blue wash for the purple tones . Finally adding yellow to create some straw and brown tones on the stacks. I may still very lightly dry brush the stacks with MM jet exhaust .

You may want to go back and review how I made the blade blanks earlier in this build. Now for next step in 'how to sctratch prop blades'(I hope).

Notice my notes and markings on the blades to keep things right and left .

The starboard side blades have already been filed and sanded to a crude airfoil, the port blade with the pencil markings has also had the first shaping.

 I've printed copies of the Taichi drawings of Tsunami's head on view, flipping the copy for the starboard side props. I'll cut out the scimitar blades and use them as patterns to cut the profile of the blades, then work on refining the airfoil shape till I have ten finished prop blades. I hope they turn out ,because these props will really give Tantrum extra attitude.

Howard

Thanks for feeling that way fella's . Actually , you guys deserve some of the credit . You've helped inspire and build my confidence in my skills to even attempt some of the things I've done with Tantrum or even my B-24. ( Got to get around to finishing that one off too. Soon!)

Fermis- It was studying your Modelcraft F-82 build that first gave me the idea of building this one as a racer. Although, I have carried it a bit farther than my original thought.

V-man- Your original post asking about interest in an air racer GB , I thought "Why not? Lets go with it." I knew just what I wanted to attempt, and Tantrum was born.

Got the exhaust stacks in . Just need to weather them a little with washes of blue, purple, and some yellow to heat discolor them. Also the surrounding bare metal will get a touch of discoloring.

 Here's pics of the stacks.

 Back to the bench,

Howard

fermis

But I think bigDaddy's got us all beat!!!!   AWESOME!!!

Fermis I must agree with you 110 percent, Tantrum is an outstanding build indeed.

The 5 looks outstanding V-man!!!

But I think bigDaddy's got us all beat!!!!   AWESOME!!!

Daddy1 now THAT IS an air racer !!!!!!!!!!! Tantrum is over the top Howard. cant wait to see her all finished up, Little Miss Magic and Tantrum will be show winners to be sure.

Thanks for the kind words guys It was a fun build after coming up with the theme I built it too. *** Dastardly and Muttley seemed to go along with it perfectly and he was one of my favorite cartoon villians .

Howard Kenny is really proud of the Mustang, he even took it to his daycare the day after he, errr we finished it. I have been thinking of going back to Michaels and picking up the Testors Apache for him. Maybe next summer he will be ready for a few snap together kits.

WOW, she's on her feet!!!! WOOHOO!! Howard she looks amazing!!!