VACUFORM –Any Aircraft Subject (Starts 2/1/05 Ends 9/30/05)

Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, February 20, 2005 11:04 AM

Now for the BAD news....

The fuselage is not to shape...

The fin... I don't even dare to mention... I'll have to scratchbuild that one...

The wings are not wonderfull, but... will have to do.

It was fast, all that sanding. But since the tape I was using to secure the parts was not that good, I have a fingertip in blood.... the pros and cons of modeling...

Regards,

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, February 20, 2005 10:59 AM

Done!! Here are the pics...

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, February 20, 2005 8:25 AM

off to the kitchen... I'm about to start sanding!!!! YEPEEEEE....

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bstrump

Member since
March 2004
From: British Columbia,Canada

Posted by bstrump on Friday, February 18, 2005 11:17 PM

I still haven't started my project yet as there hasn't been much bench time in the last 2 weeks. However, I plan to get at least a few pieces cut out this weekend while at the same time work on my Mercedes 1853 heavy truck.

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Model Grandpa

Member since
July 2003
From: Keizer, Oregon

Posted by Model Grandpa on Friday, February 18, 2005 9:56 PM

Not a problem Joe, sorry you can't take part.

Regards, Dan Building Scale Models At The Speed Of Dark

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fightnjoe

Member since
September 2011

Posted by fightnjoe on Friday, February 18, 2005 8:50 PM

dan with no job and nothing promising yet i think i better remove the illusion. i wont be able to afford the kit i want for this build. therefore i am out. i hope the next time i will be better prepared.

joe

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bjohns5

Member since
January 2004
From: Monrovia, CA

Posted by bjohns5 on Thursday, February 17, 2005 7:56 PM

RemcoGrob: Yes, thank you very much for the link you posted.. But I have learned never to trust just one set of plans. I just got the MBI book on the Av.35/135 and compared the plans in the book with one ones I downloaded from the link . The MBI plans show a little more sweep to the wing leading edge which matches up exactly to the one good side of the kit wing. So I will work from the MBI plan so I only have to fix one wing. :) The book also has excellent detail photos of the 135 inside and out. I should be able to make good progress now that I know what the darned thing is supposed to look like.

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Model Grandpa

Member since
July 2003
From: Keizer, Oregon

Posted by Model Grandpa on Thursday, February 17, 2005 9:23 AM

Look like some good progress on the builds, good job all.

I hope to make the corrections to my not so round fuselage this weekend and start the process scratch building the cockpit. My kit gives you a floorboard, a not so accurate instrument panel with little detail and a poorly formed seat, none of which I will be using.

Regards, Dan Building Scale Models At The Speed Of Dark

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Borg R3-MC0

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September 2004
From: Utereg

Posted by Borg R3-MC0 on Thursday, February 17, 2005 3:11 AM

to bjohns5

was the link any good?

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Borg R3-MC0

Member since
September 2004
From: Utereg

Posted by Borg R3-MC0 on Thursday, February 17, 2005 3:10 AM

I hope to get some modelling done this weekend. I still need to prepare a lot of the pieces, sanding the vac parts and fillng the resin parts (those pesky airbubbles....)

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bjohns5

Member since
January 2004
From: Monrovia, CA

Posted by bjohns5 on Wednesday, February 16, 2005 8:06 PM

My Avia Av.135 is all cut out and sitting off to the side of my bench pending the arrival of the MBI book I ordered which I hope will have enough pictures to allow me to scratch build a reasonably accurate cockpit. In the interim I am working on scratchbuilding a new cockpit and wheel wells for the Fujimi Bf-110D-3 I have had in progress for awhile.

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 16, 2005 1:55 PM

Update: I had the airbrush out the other day (I do my airbrushing outside) and painted the cockpit green. Thats all for now. Next step: detaling cockpit, glueing cockpit in, building front landing gear bay, and glue/sand/fill fuselage halfs together.

Someone asked about scratchbuilding on the vacuform kits. On the FJ-1 Fury, all the landing gear hardware and bays need to be built.

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, February 16, 2005 11:58 AM

I've just finished a Dragon Ar.234B in 1/72 for a small contest this saturday at the local hobby club, and I'm in the middle of an Ardpol Hannover Cl.V. Quite busy at the moment, and with little time left...

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Model Grandpa

Member since
July 2003
From: Keizer, Oregon

Posted by Model Grandpa on Wednesday, February 16, 2005 9:15 AM

Me to Rafael, I’m switching back and forth between my vacuform and two (or is it three) injection kits. How’s everyone else doing on his or her kits?

Regards, Dan Building Scale Models At The Speed Of Dark

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, February 14, 2005 5:51 PM

You bet !!!!

Nevertheless, I was looking at a vac AEG G.IV I have in the pipeline, and asking to myself if I will enjoy cuting out that one as well... Way to many parts....... I'll have to jump between vac and "shake-n-bake", if I want to keep my sanity....

Regards,

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Model Grandpa

Member since
July 2003
From: Keizer, Oregon

Posted by Model Grandpa on Monday, February 14, 2005 11:08 AM

Good job Rafael, you’re off and running…or building anyways. Maybe it’s because we are first time vacuform builders that the cutting and sanding was kind of enjoyable.

Regards, Dan Building Scale Models At The Speed Of Dark

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, February 14, 2005 9:36 AM

Don't ask me how, but somehow I managed to cutout all the parts yesterday evening!!! Hey, it only took me one and a half hours!!!! And I actually enjoyed the process...

Now for the sanding...

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Model Grandpa

Member since
July 2003
From: Keizer, Oregon

Posted by Model Grandpa on Friday, February 11, 2005 9:43 AM

Wow is right I-beam; you’re making some progress. I have all my pieces cutout and sanded for the Fokker and am working on some fit challenges. Progress for me will slow now as I have to completely scratch build the interior, something I'm not that good at.

Regards, Dan Building Scale Models At The Speed Of Dark

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 11, 2005 9:23 AM

Wow, I-Beam... at the present speed you will be finishing yours before I even started mine..... Which, by the way, has to suffer new delay... off again, business travel for the next 2 weeks :-((((((

In the meanwhile, I've been in London this week and bought myself 2 more vac's (what for, you're wondering...): Rumpler C.I and AEG C.IV Joystick 1/72 vac's. Just in case I like doing this project.

Regards,

Rafael

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 10, 2005 10:31 PM

Thanks for the welcome. I watched people do these but this is my first vacuform kit. I started some today and just couldn't put it down. Here is some pictures:

The kit (person I bought from had already started cutting but no sanding):

Sanding

all the pieces:

head on view:

Where are those guide pins????
I went ahead and made some of my own Big Smile [:D]

This thing is lots of fun and it even fits better than MOST of the injection kits ive built.. Whodathunkit

One question, does anyone know if a Fury cockpit is green or gray or any good web references?

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Model Grandpa

Member since
July 2003
From: Keizer, Oregon

Posted by Model Grandpa on Thursday, February 10, 2005 4:13 PM

Sure you can join. The GB is just getting started, plenty of time left to get your Fury built. I'll add you officially to list after I get home tonight. Welcome to the Vacuform GB.

Regards, Dan Building Scale Models At The Speed Of Dark

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Anonymous

Member since
November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, February 10, 2005 3:37 PM

Is it too late to join this GB? Somebody was selling kits last night at my IPMS meeting
and I picked up a Vacuform 1/72 FJ-1 Fury for less than the price of a burger. I know I'm
gonna have some questions with this one.

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Model Grandpa

Member since
July 2003
From: Keizer, Oregon

Posted by Model Grandpa on Sunday, February 6, 2005 10:51 AM

Here are a couple of challenges I have run into on my build. I don’t know if it’s due to over zealous sanding or the molding being to shallow but the fuselage is not very round. See the dark gap between it and the circle template? This is going to require some shimming and putty.

Second one is the gap between the wing and the fuselage, I put blue tape on the top of the bottom half of the wing to help show the gap. Some of the gap will go away when I get the fuselage a little more round. I also have a little more sanding to do to the wing, which will shorting it slightly, then it will have to be filled with some shims and putty I’m sure.

BTW this is how I ended up scribing the wing, rough cut it first, laid some dymo tape and scribed it from the inside. Left a little more material to sand but seemed to work fine.

Regards, Dan Building Scale Models At The Speed Of Dark

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bstrump

Member since
March 2004
From: British Columbia,Canada

Posted by bstrump on Saturday, February 5, 2005 11:07 PM

As I'm going to be delayed a bit in starting my project, I thought I'd post some pics of the kit I'm doing. It's the Maintrack Project- X XF-91 Thunderceptor.

Hopefully, I can get going in the next five days and I look forward to posting updates.

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Model Grandpa

Member since
July 2003
From: Keizer, Oregon

Posted by Model Grandpa on Saturday, February 5, 2005 10:13 AM

Just wondering how much detailing the rest of you plan to put into your build? Since I will have a lot of scratch building to do I’m thinking of dropping the flaps and moving the control surfaces. I wish there was some aftermarket stuff the Fokker.

Anyhow been scribing and sanding away, finding more challenges along the way. I will report on those after I help my daughter move…again…today.

Regards, Dan Building Scale Models At The Speed Of Dark

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Borg R3-MC0

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September 2004
From: Utereg

Posted by Borg R3-MC0 on Friday, February 4, 2005 9:06 AM

bjohns5

I think I found what you needed at

http://www.airwar.ru/other/draw/av135.html

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Borg R3-MC0

Member since
September 2004
From: Utereg

Posted by Borg R3-MC0 on Friday, February 4, 2005 8:23 AM

bjohns5

I have build the mpm b.35. The wing shape of the b.35 is totally different from the b.135.
The b.35 has an elleptical wing, while the b.135 has a more straigth edge. I will try to scan some pictures soon, though it will take me some time to figure out how to scan and post images.

I found that the b.35 was a good kit for a first attempt at vacbuilding. MPM uses nice thick plastic and injection molding for the tricky parts such as wheels and propellor.

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Model Grandpa

Member since
July 2003
From: Keizer, Oregon

Posted by Model Grandpa on Thursday, February 3, 2005 6:19 PM

Your right...on both counts. Smile [:)]

Regards, Dan Building Scale Models At The Speed Of Dark

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DanCooper

Member since
March 2004
From: Belgium

Posted by DanCooper on Thursday, February 3, 2005 4:07 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by Model Grandpa

[b] At this pace I’ll have all the parts all cut out and sanded in a month or so….yipeeeeee….then I can start scratch building…weeeeeeeeeeeeeee…who’s idea for a group build was this anyways?

Gee, I'm not sure some old fa.... oh, wasn't it you ??? Big Smile [:D]

On the bench : Revell's 1/125 RV Calypso

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Model Grandpa

Member since
July 2003
From: Keizer, Oregon

Posted by Model Grandpa on Thursday, February 3, 2005 12:17 AM

SUCCESS!!! I’ve finished………..cutting out and sanding half the fuselage! Now I need to cut the bump out of the bottom where the wing fits, and the area for the canopy, boy that’s going to be fun. At this pace I’ll have all the parts all cut out and sanded in a month or so….yipeeeeee….then I can start scratch building…weeeeeeeeeeeeeee…who’s idea for a group build was this anyways?

Just kidding, all seems good so far and the sanding went faster then I expected. I’m really going to enjoy the build. I think it will help my modeling skills. And besides, being the son of a carpenter I’m use to lots of sanding.