Hey All,

Here is the first set of bomb bay door locking assemblies. Trust me, it is a nerve-racking experience to make these things. I'm still shaking They're a little bright in color right now but I'll weather them when I do the fuselage.

Hope you have a couple spare, murphys law states once you start weather, one will break.

I still have the pattern. I suppose I could make another one but I'll need to do it in a rubber room...

Bockscar

For Ken:

Thank you Dom!  Great big C-5 Galaxy!  I still can't believe they are going to put one of those in the new wing of the U.S. National Air Force Museum!

Ken

jimbot58

Well, this is turning out to be one helluva year: just got off the phone with a friend of mine. His mom is in the ICU and it may be that she has liver cancer. It doesn't look too good.

On the bright side, I also found out that the tyrant I work with has been let go. Seems she suffered from brown bottle flu once too often. Couldn't make it to work the Friday before Labor day as she got picked up for a DUI and was in detox... I can't feel sorry about that as she did it to herself.

Hi Jim,

I am really sorry to hear about your friend's Mom.  I know you don't want to relive that memory so soon.

That woman from where you work, I seem to remember you talking about her last year.  She really made your life a living hell.  Mean people suck!  Good riddance!  I don't feel sorry for her one little bit!  It is great to hear that finally someone gets what they deserve!  I hope that this means things will start getting better for you at least at work.

Ken

Striker8241

Hey All,

Here is the first set of bomb bay door locking assemblies. Trust me, it is a nerve-racking experience to make these things. I'm still shaking They're a little bright in color right now but I'll weather them when I do the fuselage.

 

Nice work there Russ!  I will have to say this is some great detail work you are doing.  And I am still enjoying all of the interesting details about the B-52 like the different load outs.  Very cool.   

Ken

Russ:

Your years of accumulated technical skills are being translated into tiny bits of styrene!

You and Ken could have been watch-makers!

Dom

Hi Everyone,

I found out some good news!  It seems that the back pain my Mom was having was a herniated disc and not the cancer coming back.  I know that a herniated disc is not good, but it is much better than cancer!

Well yesterday I had to work (on a Sunday!) from 1:00 PM to midnight!  Then get up and go in at my regular time at 8:00 AM and work a full 8 hour day.  While I was at work yesterday I was so busy I completely forgot about an item I had bid on eBay.  Today I remembered it and much to my surprise I had won it!  Here are the pictures of it:

Here is the description:

NO RESERVE on this  great color litho of the famous VooDoo Fighter Jet  that was produced by McDonnell Aircraft Corporation  . The color litho was produced in  the early 1960's. The litho is very clean, great bright color and ready  to be framed.  This litho measures 25 inches  long by 19  inches wide.   This litho is very clean and has been rooled up in a tube for over 50  years. The color is great and the litho has a nice clean white border .  The litho was produced in the early 1960's  for the  McDonnell Aircraft Company of St. Louis Mo. The litho predates 1969 when McDonnell Aircraft Co. became McDonnell Douglas in 1969 

I won this for $5.99!  Happy, happy!  Joy, joy!

Ken

BEEEE U TEEE!!!!

Thanks, Ken!

Wow, very nice, Ken! The 101 really was a beautiful airplane and that is an outstanding litho of it. Congratulations on winning the auction!

Also, great news about your mom!

Russ

Bockscar

Russ:

Your years of accumulated technical skills are being translated into tiny bits of styrene!

You and Ken could have been watch-makers!

Dom

Lol, thanks Dom! Ken for sure as a watch-maker, but I don't think I have that kind of patience. I might have been ok as a watch repairman .

Yeah Russ,

We need a bit of that 'good news' stuff around here!

By the way Russ, how did you hold the little pieces in place while

you cemented them?

Dom

Bockscar

Russ:

Your years of accumulated technical skills are being translated into tiny bits of styrene!

You and Ken could have been watch-makers!

Dom

Thanks for the compliment Dom!  I also knew you would like that litho of the RF-101C!  I know how much you like collecting the box art.

Ken

Don't tell the artist Ken, I

collect stuff on this thread too.......

Thanks for sharing.

Striker8241

Bockscar

Russ:

Your years of accumulated technical skills are being translated into tiny bits of styrene!

You and Ken could have been watch-makers!

Dom

 

Lol, thanks Dom! Ken for sure as a watch-maker, but I don't think I have that kind of patience. I might have been ok as a watch repairman .

 

Russ

Thank you Russ for the compliment!   

Ken

Bockscar

Don't tell the artist Ken, I

collect stuff on this thread too.......

Thanks for sharing.

No problem friend!

Ken

Bockscar

By the way Russ, how did you hold the little pieces in place while

you cemented them?

Dom

Striker8241

Bockscar

By the way Russ, how did you hold the little pieces in place while

you cemented them?

Dom

 

Not very professionally, I'm afraid. First, I glued the two bomb bay doors together at the angle I figured looked about right, then I traced the end of the door assembly onto a piece of paper. I used that as my reference for cutting and laying out the pieces. Once I completed the first assembly, I drew an outline around it to use as a pattern.

 

While I was piecing together the first assembly, I discovered the pieces were sticking to the paper. I was about to correct this when it occurred to my dull senses that this might be a good thing, if I didn't overdo it, so I let a bit of glue hold the already completed parts while I glued on the next ones. Once the assembly was finished and the glue dry, I inserted a sharp knife between the paper and the part and carefully cut it from the paper.

 

What would be nice would be a clear material that super glue wouldn't stick to that you could lay over a pattern and build the assembly on top of.

 

Russ 

 

You've managed to re-invent the wheel, your precision looked too good to be a random

glu-it-together.

Wide tape works, like a masking tape with thick stick-um.

Even if you do get some CA on the tape, it doesn't soak through the stick-um on the

tape so you can separate it, at worst, with a bit of varsol or lighter fluid.

a very fine point X-Acto or riffler to clean up the excess CA.

Also you are using patterns, a technique, don't laugh, I learned from my mom when she used to buy

them to cut and sew her own clothes back in 1962, also the cereal boxes used to have cut out rocket ships and planes, and my dad gave me an old acetate drafting guide to trace curves and circles.

My first real job was as a draftsman, go figure. I ended that gig cutting circuit boards on Compaq computers back in the early 80's......

I swear by patterns to this day, especially for guaging the inside of kit parts that need spars.

That is a very good process you have going, time tested and sound.

I can still smell the ammonia from the big blue print machine......lol

Incoming!!!

Don't see planes like this anymore:

Russ: Those look great though I'd agree with Mike that if I were building them I'd do a spare or to since it's a certainly with me that one will break or vanish. I've used wax paper as something to lay superglue items down on. If it sticks you can usually cut it away without too many problems.

Ken: Good to hear about your mom. As you said the disk is no laughing matter but it's way better than cancer. And good score on the lithograph. Beautiful plane and great piece of history there!

Bockscar

Striker8241

Bockscar

By the way Russ, how did you hold the little pieces in place while

you cemented them?

Dom

 

Not very professionally, I'm afraid. First, I glued the two bomb bay doors together at the angle I figured looked about right, then I traced the end of the door assembly onto a piece of paper. I used that as my reference for cutting and laying out the pieces. Once I completed the first assembly, I drew an outline around it to use as a pattern.

 

While I was piecing together the first assembly, I discovered the pieces were sticking to the paper. I was about to correct this when it occurred to my dull senses that this might be a good thing, if I didn't overdo it, so I let a bit of glue hold the already completed parts while I glued on the next ones. Once the assembly was finished and the glue dry, I inserted a sharp knife between the paper and the part and carefully cut it from the paper.

 

What would be nice would be a clear material that super glue wouldn't stick to that you could lay over a pattern and build the assembly on top of.

 

Russ 

 

Russ:

You've managed to re-invent the wheel, your precision looked too good to be a random

glu-it-together.

Wide tape works, like a masking tape with thick stick-um.

Even if you do get some CA on the tape, it doesn't soak through the stick-um on the

tape so you can separate it, at worst, with a bit of varsol or lighter fluid.

a very fine point X-Acto or riffler to clean up the excess CA.

Also you are using patterns, a technique, don't laugh, I learned from my mom when she used to buy

them to cut and sew her own clothes back in 1962, also the cereal boxes used to have cut out rocket ships and planes, and my dad gave me an old acetate drafting guide to trace curves and circles.

My first real job was as a draftsman, go figure. I ended that gig cutting circuit boards on Compaq computers back in the early 80's......

I swear by patterns to this day, especially for guaging the inside of kit parts that need spars.

That is a very good process you have going, time tested and sound.

I can still smell the ammonia from the big blue print machine......lol

I took some drafting classes when I was in high school. In fact, I still have my old Post drafting set. It was for a different reason though - I wanted to be a cartographer. But the Viet Nam war caught up with me and I went into the Air Force instead. After I retired, I worked for Harris Corp. here in Melbourne, and they had a large drafting and printing facility with one or more blueprint machines. I remember going in there and smelling that ammonia .

Russ, I sometimes use Glue Sticks to hold pieces lightly for stuff like that.  Get a piece of wax paper, put a light coat of glue stick on a sufficiently large area of it to hold the pieces together.  Then lightly press the pieces down into the glue-sticked area in the correct order, then just apply the CA and carefully peel off when dry.  The advantage is the glue stick is a weaker hold than masking tape, so it's less likely for the pieces to fall apart when you are removing the dry piece, while also making the pieces have a good tight fit for the CA.  Just remember, a very light coat on the wax paper.

Rich

Hey thanks, Rich. That sounds like a good idea. I'll give it a try as well.

Thanks again,

Russ

Yeah, wax paper sure beats using warm pizza anyday!

Bockscar

 

Hi Dom,

I actually recently scored this book on eBay for $14.50!  It has another picture of a Voodoo from the "Cotton Pickers" 15th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron that my Dad was in.  The text is all in Japanese is the only drawback, but it is full of pictures of Voodoos from different squadrons.

Ken

Ken:

Any more around?

I have more pics in my picture pool, but it would be nice to have the book.

Dom

PS: I read Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Russian, Swahili, Hebrew, Spanish, and Italian.

Funny thing is, I can't read a word of French.

Ken:

I forgot to ask;

Have you heard anything about a 1/32 Voodoo, other than the Vac-Pac?

Bockscar

Ken:

Any more around?

I have more pics in my picture pool, but it would be nice to have the book.

Dom

PS: I read Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Russian, Swahili, Hebrew, Spanish, and Italian.

Funny thing is, I can't read a word of French.

Too funny Dom!

Here is a link to Hobby Link Japan that sells it:

http://www.hlj.com/product/BUNFA101 

No, I have never found a 1/32 Voodoo other than the one you found in vac.  I keep hoping!

Ken

Many thanks Ken:

There's another 30 buck$ out'a pocket with priority shipping.

I gotta have one.