USS Langley: Breakthrough

DUSTER

Don

Not sure how close you are to one of their stores but Harbor Freight  has a 9 piece punch set:

  PITTSBURGH  Hollow Punch Set, 9 Pc.Punch holes with precision ground flutes and cutting edges ^$9⁹⁹

and a more pricie

LIFETIME CARBIDE Punch And Die Set, 9 Pc. $3499

 both sets include a 3/8 punch

Just a thought to help ease the process a bit.

 

Yep, I have a Harbor Freight about 20 minutes away.  I'll take a run over there tomorrow and see if I can pick up a set.

Thanks for the tip.

yer welcome    hope it helps out

You are doing a suyper Job Don. As for working with P/E, I have been using it for over 20 Years and I still make mistakes, some minor andd some major. You just keep learning with the stuff.....Cheers mark

Here are the first two level bombers (Martin BM-2).These are a nightmare!  The landing gear is terrible.  Sometimes it breaks with the first bend.  It just doesn't want to stay in place when it is bent.  It has taken four days to get these two planes finished.  I have learned some tricks- two jigs, a PE bending jig fastened to the top of the block, and an assembly jig for holding the rest of the plane steady while I install the top wing.

BTW, wingspan is about one inch.

Oh my 

They look great

Those look fantastic.

WOW !!!!!!!!

Beautiful work on the Aircraft.....Cheers Mark

 fantastic work. I'm just glad it's you not me, I'd had small piles of smi-identifiable bits laying about. 

for a nightmare , you've turned them into a dream .

I finished the bombers!  Here they are on the flight deck (not glued in place).  I just need to put the kit props on four of them, will have one with engine turning decal.

Also, I mentioned earlier that one of the torpedo bomers was so bad I had it in maintanence on the hanger deck.

BTW, I found, before I drove to the store, that I had a set of the punches.  Tried them on the two sheets of plastic I have- A brittle sheet cracked, a softer sheet distorted badly.  I guess I will go back to cutting them with scissors.

That looks fantastic. You have done a great job on that.

I finally finished the last aircraft (at least for now, until I break ones putting them on the deck.

I have begun gluing them to the deck.

looks very good 

I am declaring it finished- on the way to Nordiccon in a couple of minutes.  Still have some PE crew left, but ran out of time.  I can add them later.

Photos some time this weekend.